2.30pm 2 May 2026
North Wales Coast West League, Division One
Caernarfon Borough 3 Cefni 2 (att 32)
Caernarfon Borough made a welcome return to senior football at the start of this season. However, not unexpectedly for a reformed club, they've found it tough.
They went into their penultimate fixture knowing there was no escape from finishing bottom, but by the final whistle they'd at least managed to get just their second win of the campaign.
They were aided by Cefni's ill-discipline, as the visitors finished the match with just nine men, although their second red card was in stoppage time.
Cefni, with little to play for, scored the first half's only goal, after 15 minutes. At that stage it looked like being a routine away win, but Borough had earlier hit the post and were determined to make a game of it.
The turning point was after an hour when the home side were awarded what looked to me like a very soft penalty. The Cefni keeper argued about the decision, and got a second yellow card for his protests.
Borough scored the spot kick, although soon afterwards it was the 10 men from Anglesey who scored next to go back in front.
But being a man down, and with an outfield player in goal, Cefni couldn't hold onto their advantage.
With 15 minutes to go, and just after the stand-in keeper had made a fine save, the home side levelled with a perfectly-struck shot from distance. Then after 85 minutes they scored the winner.
Borough, like other Caernarfon-based clubs before them, play at Cae Dros yr Aber. It's a playing field in a park just a short distance from the castle and town centre.
It lacks spectator facilities, but there's a fine view and on a warm and sunny afternoon it's a lovely place to watch football.
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