Saturday 16th August 2025 ko 13:45

North East Wales Senior Challenge Cup 2nd Round

CPD YR WYDDGRUG 2 (Summer 25 North 33)

RHYDYMWYN FC 3 (Whelan 59p 80 Farron 83)

Att 20 at Gwernymynydd Village Centre

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One of the great joys of a day out with Chris Garner is that he shares my liking for making the game as random as possible. Where doesn’t matter too much, or at what level, in fact if it’s in a league we don’t know- all the better. Here though the idea was straightforward- we picked the most unpronounceable game (to English ears!) we could find!

The irony was that I found myself back in Mold; I’d visited the area a couple of weeks earlier for Mynydd Isa even down to filling up at the same petrol station! The name Yr Wyddgrug or “Prominent Mound” is the Welsh name for Mold and the club a means of promoting the Welsh Language. The club plays in the North East Wales League Division Two.

The club play a mile-and-a-half south-west at Gwernymynydd Village Centre, which does add to the unprounouncable theme, and Rhydymwyn is a village around a mile-and-a-half north-west of Mold. Unwittingly we’d stumbled across the unpronouncable derby!

The ground is as basic as you’d expect from a club at the 5th tier of Welsh football, but the views of North Wales and the Wirral are spectacular, and on a warm sunny day what more do you need? The only thing that was a little odd was that that we didn’t hear a word of Welsh spoken- perhaps we were a little too close to the border with England?

What we got was an excellent game where for an hour the hosts belied their status one division lower than their visitors but gradually ran out of steam and eventually fell agonisingly short. It was on reflection, a wonderful game for the neutral- less so if you happen to follow Yr Wyddgrug!