The outraged Mr Wright threw a real wobbler over this, and lodged a formal protest at the committee decision. The protest was overturned and on Saturday January 27th, Gwespyr returned to the Nant Hall ground and gave Prestatyn another beating, this time by 4-2.

In a fit of petulance, Prestatyn secretary Jas Linnell then lodged a counter-protest to the league saying the rearranged game should actually have been played at Gwespyr so in a fine show of officialdom, the league committee threw out the protest, ruled the 4-2 match void and said the game would be played for a third time at a neutral venue.

Linnell said there were precedents - in a recent match between Gwespyr and Meliden, the game was played 18 minutes short and ordered to be replayed in its entirity at Prestatyn (!) as the committee thought it would draw a bigger gate. As it was the cup tie WAS replayed in midweek, but only the unplayed 45 minutes which ended 1-1.

Prestatyn protested formally yet again saying the whole match should have been replayed and claimed it was the referee who abandoned the original game for the safety of the players and not because the Seasiders wouldn't come out. This time the committee upheld the protest and awarded Prestatyn a bye into the semi-finals, a decision which caused

Gwespyr's Mr Wright such fury that he immediately resigned his club from the league and sparked off a heated exchange of letters in the Weekly.

It seems Prestatyn were not the most popular of clubs at this time, Rhuddlan and Dyserth also jumped on the bandwagon and had also lodged complaints about the behaviour of the club's players, officials and supporters although the nature of these complaints were not revealed to the press.

Dyserth were also having a moan about other sides in the league bringing in players from elsewhere while they ran a team of purely local lads (sound familiar?).

With the Gwespyr debacle behind them, normal service was resumed and on March 2nd 1912 Rhyl Swifts knocked Prestatyn out of the League Cup semi-final, winning 3-1 at Nant Hall but the Seasiders bounced back a week later with a 2-1 against Meliden to keep in touch with the league leaders.

Meanwhile Gwespyr's secretary was still bombarding the paper with letters trying to make Prestatyn out as the guilty party for not coming out for the second half of the ill-fated cup tie. All very petty, but the title hunt was to open up dramatically a week or so later when Dyserth beat Rhyl Swifts 2-1 to throw the competition wide open. The Gwespyr whingers meanwhile had organised a glamour friendly with Holywell Church Brigade!

The League Cup final was ironically to be played at Prestatyn and the finalists - Rhuddlan and Rhyl Swifts - battled out a 0-0 draw in a "most strenuous encounter". A replay was arranged for Friday April 5th 1912 with Rhyl winning 3-2 in extra time (90m 2-2) and it was recorded that the un-named Rhuddlan keeper had an outstanding match.

Prestatyn lost their next two fixtures - to Dyserth and Rhyl Swifts who went on to win the league and the season closed on Saturday April 27th with a Champions v The Rest fixture at Nant Hall which was won by Rhyl Swifts.

Prestatyn Thursdays re-emerged in the Rhyl Easter Cup but fell at the first hurdle, losing 1-0 to the London Jolly Boys while a youth team made up of Prestatyn youngsters reached the semi-final of the junior tournament only to be beaten by Llanrwst.

One of Prestatyn's brightest football talents, Llew(ellyn) Hughes had moved to London a few months earlier and although the hacks at the Weekly failed to mention who he was playing for in the capital they did reproduce a piece from the London Evening News football section which said: "Hughes completed his hat-trick and was easily the best player on the field and comes from gallant Wales. He has turned out on occasions for Prestatyn, his native town."

The 1912/13 season saw the town's population up to just over 2,000 and on Sptember 18th a meeting was held in readiness for the coming campaign. At a well-attended event, a committee was elected but for some reason it was a while before Prestatyn started playing matches as the paper noted in its October 5th edition.