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When The Seaside Came

14 Sunday Oct 2018

Posted by laurencereade in P

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Athletic, Cornelly United, Football, GroundhopUK, Locks Lane, Non League, Porthcawl Town, South Wales Alliance, Wales

Sunday 29th August 2018 ko 14.00

South Wales Alliance Division One

PORTHCAWL TOWN 4 (Davis 8 Crofts 17 90 Comley 90)

CORNELLY UNITED 0

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Programme £1

We’d got thoroughly soaked at Vale United, and there was little time between there and our middle game at Porthcawl to dry off. The coaches picked their way along Porthcawl seafront, and the rain lashed over the pier, arcades, and the beach. As the rivulets streamed down my coach’s windscreen it seemed barely plausible that this could be during the height of the holiday season. Continue reading →

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Gareth

14 Wednesday Sep 2016

Posted by laurencereade in C

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Athletic, Cornelly United, GroundhopUK, Meadow Street, Porthcawl, South Wales Alliance, Town, Welsh hop

Sunday 28th August 2016 ko 18.00

South Wales Alliance Division One

CORNELLY UNITED 2 (Richards 19 Roche 81)

PORTHCAWL TOWN ATHLETIC 1 (Fisher 12)

Att 351

Entry £3

Programme £1

Badge £3

The final game of the day was just what I fancied, a thoroughly working class local derby with the 150-or-so hoppers augmented by as many locals as possible. Cornelly managed all that and more, but the fact that they even took a hop game, let alone made a success of it was all the more remarkable. Continue reading →

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