Originally Posted by
splott parker
I can remember seven divisions in the district, Premier, 1,2,3,4,5 & 6. If your game was off you could still turn up at Pontcanna or The Racecourse (we called Trelai Park the part that was separated from the Racecourse by a fence on the right hand side nearer the school, the district side Trelai played there, very good cup side) and get a game as a strapper for someone who was short. Do you remember the old army huts that served as changing rooms at the Racecourse before the new ones were built? The shower block was in another building and there’d be blokes running back & fore with towels around them in the pissing rain after games. The shell of the old grandstand was in front of the huts. There was a bloke nicknamed the tosser who used to turn up at Pontcanna near the end of games and spend time in the showers clocking everyone, yet nobody challenged him, weird!!! The old changing rooms at Pontcanna were dismal brick huts alongside the long stone wall separating the park from the back lane that ran the length of the fields. The changing rooms at Heath Park were a ‘luxury’ to behold as well, an old derelict house and barn like building, f*cking freezing!!