Gather around if you will, ladies, gentlemen, and swineherds. And no jostling or pilfering of pork pies at the back please. This is a civilized affair. All you bowls club hooligans can take your nonsense elsewhere. This is soccer!

Now that the assembled have gathered and the gathered assembled it’s high time to take a butchers at this bunch of likely lads from way back when.

The year is 1949 and the club is…. Well! That’s for you to work out. We can’t give you everything on a plate you know. Ever heard the story about the boy who had his cake and ate it? He became fat and lazy.

Besides god loves a trier, so get busy tying people!

As you pull on your Sherlock Holmes hat and monocle here’s a few clues to whet you appetite and get the ball rolling. The picture was brought to the attention of the Chronicle’s beady eye by Clydach man Adrian Pearce, who’s also featured in the snap from yesteryear.

Here’s the roll call in full. From left to right (back row) are Dai Bevan, Gwyn Jones, Ken Parry, Brian Evans, Gwyn Vaughan and Adrian Pearce. In the front row we have Theodor Edwards, shirley Janes, Mr Lee (school teacher), Malcolm Snell, Graham Jones and Jimmy Lane.

Good luck and god bless folks!

If you’ve got any engaging and striking pictures from the past (they don’t just have to be sport related!) that could do with an airing and benefit from the oxygen of publicity, then why let them linger and gather dust in the drawer a day longer??

Send them to [email protected]. Alternatively you can do things the old fashioned way and pick up the telephone and ring Tim Butters on 01873 852187 (30).