F.A. Wales Trophy

1st Round

Friday 16th July 2021

Kick Off 18.00 Actual 18.03

Trinant 0 Treowen Stars 7, attendance 98

6’ 0-1

35’ 0-2

61’ 0-3

74’ 0-4

83’ 0-5

84’ 0-6

85’ 0-7

@ Trinant Recreation Ground

Llanerch Lane

Trinant

NP11 3LH

No Admission

£1 Programme, 8 pages.

This was my only option for a competitive match tonight, which meant taking a gamble that it would go ahead. Games in Wales have been called off at a high rate in the last week, due to players/officials having to self isolate, (the ‘guilty’ clubs then forfeit the tie) having been contacted by the N.H.S. Track and Trace COVID-19 app. With this in mind, I decided to travel on my own, rather than have the hassle of having to cancel or abort the trip at short notice. As it turned out, if I had taken passengers, then I wouldn’t have made it to the game anyway. The M25 was queuing from Junction 9 clockwise and even by taking the short cut via the M3 didn’t help, as it took me an hour and a half just to get to Bracknell. The M4 was then closed between Junction 14 and 15, due to a lorry fire, so I only arrived 23 minutes before kick off, with the 155 mile journey taking 4 hours 47 minutes! The return journey was only two and a half hours.

The game itself was a local derby, the two clubs being just three miles apart. On the field there was a three level gap, with Trinant being in the Gwent Premier League Division 2,(Tier 6 in Wales) whilst Treowen Stars are in Ardal League South East (Tier 3). The early goal for the visitors set the tone, but they only managed to add one more goal before halftime, to take a 0-2 lead into the break. They comfortably doubled their lead in the second half, before a three goal burst late on gave a final score of 0-7, which was a bit harsh on Trinant. For some reason, both the new Cymru App and All Wales Sport have the score as 0-8, but it was definitely only seven!