Newport & District League
Premier X Division
Tuesday 2nd September 2025
Kick Off 18.00 Actual 18.04
Llanyrafon A.F.C. 0 Spencer Boys Club 4, attendance 52
10’ 0-1
23’ 0-2
54’ 0-3
89’ 0-4
@ Afon Park
Llanfrechfa Way
Llanyrafon
NP44 8HT
No Admission or Programme.
Two weeks ago I turned up here for a game, only to find out it had been postponed, but no such problem tonight. There’s a small car park, with a changing room building adjacent. A path leads round the back, between the allotments, which opens out into a large grassed area. The pitch is at the far end, about 200 yards away, with the pitch fully railed and having the framework of a dugout on each side, neither having either cover or seating.
The match was 4th versus 1st in the league table. I’d seen Spencer on the night I’d failed here at Llanyrafon and they looked really good in thrashing bottom of the table Afon Valley 14-0. It’s certainly hard to judge them against such poor opposition, but tonight was a much sterner test and they came through it with another impressive win. They were ahead after just ten minutes, when a through ball was lobbed over the ‘keeper from the edge of the box. Midway through the half they doubled their lead, when a cross wasn’t cleared and a shot was squeezed in off the inside of the far post. Nine minutes into the second half it was 0-3, courtesy of a superb lob over the ‘keeper from just inside the halfway line. They rounded off the scoring with a minute left, when a shot from the edge of the box was deflected into the bottom corner.
The game kicked off four minutes late, as the Referee only arrived at six o’clock, as he was under the impression it was an 18.30 kick off. No problem with the light though, as everyone stayed on the pitch at halftime and even with six minutes stoppage time at the end of the game, it was still finished by 19.47. Amazingly, no traffic problems whatsoever on the way down to Wales, helped by the seemingly never ending J10 roadworks finally gone (it’s only taken them 12 years). Trouble free journey home too, although they were getting ready to close three of the four lanes at J9 on the M25, although no idea what for.
