2pm 15 December 2024
Ardal League, South East
Canton 0 Caldicot Town 2 (att 80)
Fixtures on Sundays used to be common in South Wales, especially in the old Welsh League, but these days they're a rarity.
Canton have been bucking the trend in recent weeks, with a series of home games on Sundays. I'm unsure why the matches have been switched from Saturdays, but it's a bonus from a groundhopping perspective.
They're based at the Cardiff International Sports Campus, literally across the road from the Cardiff City stadium. The main feature is an athletics stadium, where I watched a game in 2013, but there are several other pitches, including the one used by Canton.
Club signage suggests it's their regular home. It's listed as the SIS pitch, which apparently means it's some sort hybrid between grass and artificial. To my untrained eye it looked like regular grass.
For spectators it's three sided, with no access to the far side where the dugouts are situated. Most of those watching lined the near side, which has a pair of seated stands.
Two first half goals settled the game. A penalty put Caldicot on their way to victory after 20 minutes, and they doubled their advantage 10 minutes later.
In the second half there was plenty of attacking effort from Canton but the visitors' lead was never under real threat. If anything Caldicot looked more to score on their less frequent forways forward.
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