• Apologies for the
long delay since the last bulletin, but rest assured the project is still
alive and kicking!
• Time has been at a premium for me personally and I have not been able
to do as much research as I would have wished. However, others have carried
on the good work with Ian Garland chipping away at the internationals and Terry
Grandin building up a full record of our clubs in Europe.
• We have new additions to our group:
Rob Culley is doing great work on the old Ammanford and District Football League
and some tables are ready for upload. He is also putting together an article
to cover the League’s history.
Richard Huws has promised to look into the Aberystwyth & District League’s “missing” list
and hopes to enlist some help from his colleagues at work.
• Completion is near for some Leagues and I hope to be able to tie these
off during the summer months but we are still desperate to complete the Ceredigion
and Aberystwyth Leagues. Again an appeal for help on this one!
• I have made inroads this week into the Mid-Wales (South) League with
Mid-Wales Journal editor Mike Robinson offering to assist. During my research
through the Brecon & Radnor Express I managed to pick-up the restart of
the Brecon & District League which completes the Mid-Wales set of leagues.
• The aim for this summer is to complete research into the leagues of
Mid-Wales and an article on the senior leagues of the area by Ian Garland will
soon appear in Welsh Football magazine.
• There is also missing data from the Clwyd, Halkyn and Dyserth Leagues
in the nort east of Wales which we hope will be cleared this year.
• It was hoped that there
would be more involvement from existing leagues in the South to
help build our records of their Leagues but this has been somewhat
disappointing. If anyone out there can take on their local football
history or know a man who can…. Please help us out.
• I will be contacting Leagues and area Associations in the coming weeks
with a view to persuading them to help with the research involved in their
particular area.
• I have been informed that there may be funding available for the WFDA
but it would involve too much to set the group up as a formal body at the moment.
• I’m hoping that our colleague Gary Pritchard at BBC Cymru in Bangor
will be able to get us a mention on their Saturday morning football slot “Ar
y Marc”. I’ll speak to him formally before the season starts.
• We are constantly getting e-mail enquiries on various matters including
people researching family history! We (Ian mostly!) try to help where we can.
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