29-04-2025
Irish U-12 team's football washes up Welsh beach
Sometimes when you are playing football, a wild kick can send the ball over a fence or into a garden where you didn't really mean it to how about sending the ball... over the Irish Sea?Well, when 12-year-old Celyn was searching for driftwood on his local beach in Anglesey, he made a strange discovery nestled between some the battered ball had been left behind by visitors, Celyn and his dad were amazed to see that written on the side was 'Finglas United Under-12s', a team based in a suburb of Ireland's capital city, Dublin.
Celyn's dad Andrew, who runs a campsite nearby, said: "The beach is at the bottom of our fields and isn't the easiest place to get to. "We saw it belonged to a team in Dublin which was quite a shock and not what I expected. I wouldn't like to think how long it had been in the sea... we've found ropes and things like that washed up before but never a football."Andrew and Celyn explained that the ball was quite battered but was good enough to have a kickabout about the find on social media, Finglas Football Club pointed out that their under-9s found success at a tournament in Blackpool over Easter weekend but admitted that "a bit of shooting practice" may be needed for their under-12s team!
