South Wales Alliance League

Premier Division

Friday 22nd October 2021

Kick Off 19.00 Actual 19.03

Llanrumney United 2 Blaenrhondda 1, attendance 94 (official 125)

24’ 1-0

59’ 2-0

90’+ 4, 2-1

@ Cardiff University Sports Field, 3G Pitch

Mendip Road

Llanrumney

CF3 4JN

No Admission or Programme.

I had visited Llanrumney United on 17th August 2017, when they beat Cardiff Cosmopolitan 3-1 in a South Wales Alliance League Division 2 match. That game was played at Riverside Park, but this season they have moved to the 3G Pitch at the Cardiff University Sports Field, over the hedge from their previous ground and where the visitors that day also play their matches.

I’d been to the university ground before, having seen Newport County U18 lose 1-2 to Plymouth Argyle U18 in a Football League Youth Alliance match on 29th January 2005, but that was played on a grass pitch, parallel to the 3G cage, but separated by a rugby pitch and still in use for football. Tonight’s match was brought forward to Friday night to enable a number of the back room team at Llanrumney to attend a scattering of ashes ceremony tomorrow afternoon.

The match was a mid table clash, with 10th hosting 8th. Llanrumney led 1-0 at the break, a cross from the left headed in from 6 yards. Just short of the hour mark it was 2-0. The winger turned the right back inside out, before rifling a left foot shot high into the net at the near post. The visitors scrambled one in from close range, to make it 2-1, but it was too late, the Referee blowing the full time whistle as soon as the game restarted.