South Wales Alliance League

Division 2

Saturday 24th August 2019

Kick Off 14.30 Actual 14.39

St. Albans 1 Canton Rangers 4, attendance 10

27’ 0-1

47’ 0-2

66’ 1-2

83’ 1-3

85’ 1-4 (pen)

@ Tremorfa Park

Kenyon Road

Tremorfa

Cardiff

CF24 2RN

No Admission or Programme.

Thankfully, I only needed the morning ground on the organised ‘hop, so decided to visit a club that was not visited by Groundhop U.K. when they had the South Wales Alliance League under their spell. St. Albans, along with Cardiff Cosmopolitan and STM Sports Old Boys were left as the three clubs that missed out on being visited, despite at least one other club in the league getting two matches during this time. Anyway, today was a perfect time to tick off one of the ‘missing three’…….

Tremorfa Park is shared with St. Albans R.U.F.C. with the pitches being side by side, but some 200 yards from the clubhouse/changing room building. There is certainly no question as to which is the most popular sport in this area, with the crowd at the football just hitting double figures, whilst there were over a hundred watching the egg chasers!

St. Albans came into this seventh in the league table, with Canton Rangers in fifth place, although they are now second following this win. The match kicked off nine minutes late, as the Referee realised he had forgotten his whistle as the handshakes were taking place, so had to make the long trek back to the changing rooms. He didn’t move much during the game though, as he never strayed more than five yards outside the centre circle unless he really had to!

It was far too hot for watching football, so it must have been dreadful playing in such heat. A pretty drab first half saw Canton lead 0-1 at the break and they doubled their lead two minutes into the second half with a deflected shot. St. Albans pulled one back when a right wing corner was headed in off a post, but two more goals in the last seven minutes by the visitors rounded off a good win for them.