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
Holyhead Hotspur F.C. Holyhead Hotspur F.C. Holyhead Hotspur Football Club is a football club based in Holyhead, Anglesey playing in the Cymru Alliance (part of the Welsh football league system). The team's first choice strip is blue and white striped shirts, blue shorts and blue socks. The second choice strip is all white. Holyhead Hotspur play at the New Oval ground opposite the leisure centre in Holyhead. The new stadium was opened in a ceremony on 27 July 2007 with a friendly match played against a Wolverhampton Wanderers XI. Holyhead Hotspur was formed in 1990, initially playing in the Anglesey League. A group