Date: Thursday July 05 2012
Ground: Nantporth
Comp: Europa Cup Qualification Round 1
Match: Bangor City 0 Zimbru Chisinau 0 HT: 0-0
ATT: 1,012
Additional: Entrance £15.00 Programme £3
Nantporth in pictures
Farrar Road report & pics
Ground Statistics (marks out of ten, maximum 40)
Character 8, Structures/Terracing 8, Hospitality 9, Backdrop/Scenery or aesthetics for larger stadiums 8
Total 33
When July arrives you can start to smell the new season. Football’s hibernation is coming to its latter stages, heart rate and breathing has increased, the snooze button’s been pressed, the twigs have been disturbed with a tentative sniff of the air. It dangles tantalisingly on the horizon. Most league’s fixtures are out, teams are back in training and the friendlies are starting soon. Going to a game this early though, is like opening a christmas present before christmas day – while it is exciting it feels wrong somehow. Watching football in early July is unnatural – like cauliflower cheese at a carvery. Continue reading “Bangor City (Nantporth)”
Date: Thursday 09th July 2009 7.00pm
The New Saints missed an ideal opportunity to make it to the next round of the Europa Cup for the first time in their history, in this game. They totally dominated their Icelandic counterparts from start to finish and the score should have been 9-2. Unfortunately for TNS the FRAM keeper was on supernatural form, pulling off a string of full stretch saves. Add to that some poor finishing and a good pinch of bad luck and TNS went out at the first stage for the eleventh time. 
The Groundhog 