Anglesey of such games left no hard feelings, with both sides parting "as good friends as they came, after they had spent half an hour together cherishing their spirits with a cup of ale... having finished Easter Holydays innocently and merrily." Football arrived on the island in the 1870s. It was initially met with resistance, given its perceived (by the islanders) associations with drunkenness and rowdiness, and the lower classes. One critic dismissed it as "un-Christian practice". The Anglesey League, comprising teams from Amlwch, Beaumaris, Holyhead, Menai Bridge, Llandegfan, and Llangefni, was, however, formed in the 1895–96 football season. The Ynys
Maeshyfryd, Anglesey though it continues to be a community ward for Holyhead Town Council. According to the 2011 UK Census the population of Maeshyfryd was 2,286. Maeshyfryd, Anglesey Maeshyfryd is an area southwest of the port and town centre of Holyhead in Anglesey, Wales. It was formerly an electoral ward to the county council. The area is the location for the town's main cemetery, Maeshyfryd Cemetery, which dates from the 1870s. Prior to the 2012 Anglesey electoral boundary changes Maeshyfryd was an electoral ward to the Isle of Anglesey County Council. It generally elected a Plaid Cymru county councillor, with the exception