Central Wales League

Southern Division

Monday 7th April 2025

Kick Off 18.15 Actual 18.16

Ffostrasol Wanderers 4 Aberystwyth University 0, attendance 39

15’ 1-0

34’ 2-0

78’ 3-0

89’ 4-0

@ Troed-y-Rhiw Parc

A486 North

Ffostrasol

SA44 4TQ

£3 Admission

No Programme.

So, the start of a new week and another trip to Wales, hopefully for games at two of the three grounds I’ve yet to visit in this league. The village of Ffostrasol is about six miles north of Newcastle Emlyn, with the ground on the right hand side of the A486 as you head north towards New Quay and Aberaeron. Entering behind the goal, there is a small car park, with the changing rooms/clubhouse/tea bar in the corner. The pitch is railed at this end and along the right hand touchline down as far as the seated stand, which has four rows of bench seating and is flanked by a pair of dugouts. There is spectator access allowed on all four sides and it is when looking across towards the stand, that you realise just how much the pitch slopes, from the car park end down to the far goal.

Ffostrasol came into this sitting second in the league table, a massive 25 points behind leaders Knighton Town, who are still unbeaten after 29 games, winning 25 of them and scoring 144 goals in the process. Ffostrasol have only lost three games themselves and are in a battle with the next five or six clubs in the table who are vying for the runners up place. Aberystwyth University are thirteenth, five places off the bottom and safe from relegation

Ffostrasol easily saw off a limited University side, who although they battled right to the end, lacked any potency and only created a couple of chances in the entire game. The hosts opened the scoring after fifteen minutes, breaking quickly down the left before finishing with an angled shot into the far corner. They doubled their lead ten minutes before halftime, shooting first time from the angle of the 18 yard box, which gave the ‘keeper no chance as it found the far corner. It took them until twelve minutes from the end to make it 3-0, cutting in from the right before curling a left footed shot into the far corner, which the ‘keeper got a hand to, but couldn’t keep out and they rounded off the scoring a minute from time, when a cut back from the right was volleyed into the far corner from six yards.

There was certainly no problem with getting this finished in daylight and visibility was still good when I arrived back at my overnight base in Newcastle Emlyn.