2pm 14 December 2024
Ardal League, South West
Clydach 1 Ynyshir Albions 1 (att 60)
Clydach is a village just north of Swansea, and its football team has made rapid progress in recent years, climbing from the Neath League up to the third tier of the Welsh pyramid.
Their first season at that level, in the Ardal League South West, is likely to be one of consolidation, and so a point against higher-placed Ynyshir is will probably go down as a decent result.
But Clydach will have been frustrated as this was a game they could have won. They scored early and, despite coming under plenty of pressure, maintained a slender lead into half time.
Ynyshir equalised just a minute or so after the break. But five minutes after that they were down to 10 men, a player receiving two yellow cards just seconds apart.
You wouldn't have known Clydach had a numerical advantage for what remained of the game. Both sides looked for a winner, and the visitors created good chances, but in the end it finished level.
Clydach are based at Coed Gwilym Park, a public park that also caters for bowls and tennis. They have turned it into a neat football venue. The pitch is fully railed off and has a seated stand, although dugouts in front of it obscure views of the action.
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