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
Valley, Anglesey Valley, Anglesey Valley is a village, community and former electoral ward near Holyhead on the west coast of Anglesey, North Wales. Population (2001) 2,413, decreasing to 2,361 at the 2011 census. In Welsh it is referred to as either Y Dyffryn (meaning The Valley) or [Y] Fali (pronounced as Valley). Recent research, prompted by local opposition to the name of Y Fali, suggested that Valley may be a corruption of the Irish "Bally" (settlement), or "Baile" as it is spelled in Irish. There does not appear to be a traditional Welsh language placename for the village, and thus there has