Nantlle Vale F.C.

Nantlle Vale
Full name Nantlle Vale Football Club
Ground Maes Dulyn, Penygroes
Chairman Wales Alun Ffred Jones
Manager Wales Aled Jones-Griffiths
League Welsh Alliance League Division 2
2011–12 Welsh Alliance League, 7th

Nantlle Vale F.C (Welsh: Clwb Peldroed Dyffryn Nantlle) is a Welsh football club from Penygroes, near Caernarfon, formed around 1920. They play in the fourth tier of Welsh football in the Welsh Alliance League. They were notorious in the early 1970s for their very robust style of play, when the team featured noted hard men such as player-manager Orig Williams - a professional wrestler by trade, who fought under the stage name El Bandito - and defender Idris Evans, better known by his nickname of Tarw Nefyn.[1] Williams was once famously sent off in only the third minute of a match at Bangor City. His autobiography Cario'r Ddraig was published in the 1990s.[2]

References

  1. ↑ "Tributes to 'El Bandito' Orig Williams". Daily Post. Retrieved 20 July 2016.
  2. ↑ James Morton (20 December 2009). "Orig Williams obituary – Charismatic Welsh wrestler, promoter and commentator for S4C". The Guardian. Retrieved 18 April 2010.
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