I’m not a great football fan but my boys are and when we heard Aberystwyth were playing Everton in a pre-season friendly, we thought we’d like to go. So three of my sons and their cousin joined the 1561 watching the game against Everton’s reserves on a sunny but slightly chilly evening. There was a nice enough atmosphere in the tiny ground. Vocal support was limited. (I found it difficult to distinguish shouts of 'Aber town' and 'Everton').
We got there quite early and positioned ourselves directly behind the goal where, it turned out, the games two goals were scored. There were no well known players on show but the boys told me the goalkeeper was at the Aber conference last year and belongs to an evangelical church in Newtown.
The two young sides played fairly uninspiringly but an early goal for Aber in the fourth minute put Everton on the back foot for much of the game. In the first half Aber were easily the better side but in the second half Everton’s professionalism began to show and they slowly came back into it, managing to equalise shortly before the end. So 1-1 - probably just about fair.
We got there quite early and positioned ourselves directly behind the goal where, it turned out, the games two goals were scored. There were no well known players on show but the boys told me the goalkeeper was at the Aber conference last year and belongs to an evangelical church in Newtown.
The two young sides played fairly uninspiringly but an early goal for Aber in the fourth minute put Everton on the back foot for much of the game. In the first half Aber were easily the better side but in the second half Everton’s professionalism began to show and they slowly came back into it, managing to equalise shortly before the end. So 1-1 - probably just about fair.
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