Cardiff Combination League
Premier Division
Thursday 10th September 2026
Kick Off 18.00 On Time!
Pontprennau Pumas 7 Caerau Ely Community 2, attendance 11
2’ 0-1
21’ 0-2
41’ 1-2
47’ 2-2
54’ 3-2
63’ 4-2
67’ 5-2
75’ 6-2
78’ 7-2
@ Heol Pontprennau
Pontprennau
CF23 8LL
No Admission or Programme.
To round off my final non floodlit midweek game for the early part of this season, I headed once more to Wales. Pontprennau is to the north east of Cardiff, exiting the M4 at J30, with the ground on the right as you head along Heol Pontprennau. It’s got a very small car park, with loads of double yellow lines on the surrounding roads. I managed to park in one of the new housing estates about five minutes walk away. The players get changed next to the primary school, then access the pitch up some steps at the rear. It’s fenced in with mesh fencing, making it feel enclosed. There are three wooden structures on the near touchline, two used as dugouts and the middle of the three given over to spectators.
It was 2nd versus 3rd in the league table, both on six points, along with leaders K & H Forever Young, who’ve got a game in hand on the chasers. It was Caerau who took the lead after just two minutes, beating the ‘keeper high at the near post and they doubled their lead after twenty one minutes, chasing down a through ball where a challenge on the edge of the box saw the ball loop up and over the ‘keeper. Pumas pulled one back just before halftime, scrambling in after a couple of blocked attempts following a corner. Caerau had a man sin binned right at the end of the first half and just two minutes after the restart they conceded an equaliser. Just as they were about to get back to the full compliment Pumas scored again, heading in from a corner to make it 3-2. Just after the hour mark Pumas made it 4-2, before another header from a corner saw them increase the lead to 5-2 four minutes later. With fifteen minutes left they added a sixth and rounded off the scoring a few minutes later, when a shot from the edge of the box went straight through the ‘keeper’s legs.
It had rained non stop throughout the game and despite a prompt kick off, along with a halftime interval taken pitch side, it was getting very gloomy when the final whistle sounded at 19.38. The journey down had been fine until just past Leigh Delamere Services on the M4, where the motorway was down to two lanes, meaning a SatNav diversion getting off at J18 and back on at the M32 intersection. Even the diversion was bumper to bumper, so probably didn’t save much time. The return journey was totally clear, with arrival home just after ten o’clock, which was an hour and a half quicker than going!
