Just before the match began the players and crowd offered a minute of applause to celebrate the life of Dan Shooman. Dan, one of our founding members, sadly passed away last week. Our thoughts are with his family and friends at this sad time.

The match began with a decent opening ten minutes for 1876. In the seventh minute a nice through ball allowed Gethin Thomas to apply confident finishing touches around the Aberffraw keeper. In the ninth minute Tom Clarke scored the second blue goal when his back post shot crossed the line.

Whilst 1876 enjoyed a healthy two goal lead that didn’t mean an easy ride for the hosts. By the time the first half drinks break arrived Aberffraw had enjoyed a lot of possession and some of their midfielders had started to show an assured touch on the ball.

In the ten minutes before half time 1876 created several dangerous opportunities, one attack was repelled by another brilliant save from the Aberffraw keeper, then a goalmouth scramble saw the ball cleared off the Aberffraw goalline. Gethin Thomas bought an end to the first half action with a near miss from a long range shot.

By the end of the first half in this entertaining match on the lush fields of Treborth 1876 held a two goal lead.

Half Time – Bangor 1876 2 Aberffraw 0

1876 began the second half with an enthused air and forced Caron Hughes to make yet another excellent save. They scored their third goal of the match when Chris Jones turned smartly enough to open space for a smart finish in the fifty-first minute.

For the next ten minutes the match had an even pattern as both teams attacked with purpose. From 1876’s perspective Les Davies went on an exciting dribble into the area but his near post shot was saved. It was also an attack that eventually lead to a couple of corners and a through ball that nearly reached the impressive Gethin Thomas.

From Aberffraw’s perspective they applied some good attacking pressure of their own, they won some corners, took a long shot that hit the cross bar and a volleyed shot that was cleared off the line.

The blues’ fourth goal arrived in the sixty-eighth minute when Les Davies found enough time and space to chest trap a cross from the left wing and apply a calm finish. He almost added a fifth goal with a pass from a free kick, but his low shot missed.

1876 scored their fifth goal when Sam Roberts capped his first full match of the season with a goal; Sam scored with a powerful shot into the roof of the net from the edge of the eighteen-yard area.

The home side continued press after this, one example being Ben Owen’s tenacious work in midfield as he continued both to press and to create forward movement.

In the eightieth minute Les Davies brought an end to the goalscoring when he smashed home a penalty, and by this point 1876 enjoyed a six goal lead. The giant in blue continued to push forward and even hit the bar after a barnstorming dribble.

It had been an evening of colour, an azure sky of deepest summer, a verdant pitch of springy grass, one team in blue and the other in yellow. In short it had been the perfect evening to watch football.

Full time – Bangor 1876 6 Aberffraw 0

We’d like to thank our fans for turning out to support our team last night, it was great to see so many of you at Treborth.

Our next two matches involve trips to Anglesey. The first trip takes us to the Welsh Cup match in Llanerch-Y-Medd on Saturday 24 July (Note Kick Off 2pm), the second trip will take place the following Saturday when we visit Amlwch for a league match (Kick Off 2.30pm)