"While our clubs in surrounding villages have commenced matches, Prestatyn is as yet still talking about practice games - one having been arranged at the Nant Hall grounds this Saturday. The following week they are due to go to Gwespyr Rangers* for a friendly match."

* Gwespyr had realised the rashness of their resignation the preceding season and rejoined, making up with Prestatyn along the way.

Meanwhile the Thursdays announced they were folding due to the lack of matches arranged, only Rhyl and Prestatyn had half-day closing on a Thursday while the rest of the coast favoured Wednesday afternoons.

Prestatyn lost that friendly at Gwespyr by 3-1 but due to a last-minute influx of teams joining the Prestatyn and District League that competition's start was delayed but the untimely death of prominent club member J E Parry meant their scheduled opener with Rhyl Post Office was postponed and the campaign finally got off on November 7 when a Ben Jones goal secured a 1-1 draw at Llanddulas.

This was followed by a 1-1 draw with Meliden played in front of a big crowd at Nant Hall then Rhyl Swifts beat the Seasiders 3-2 with Howell Gratton netting twice for Prestatyn. On November 28th Prestatyn won the rearranged game with Rhyl's posties by 3-1 then lost 3-0 in a rough game with Rhyl Legal Clerks.

Going into December, St Asaph were despatched 3-0 and what was described as a record crowd saw Prestatyn and Meliden battle out a 1-1 draw in the League Cup on Christmas Day 1912. In the Boxing Day medal competition the Seasiders were beaten 2-0 by Rhyl who went on to beat Mostyn by the same score in the final.

A mixed bag of results saw Prestatyn's title hopes fizzle out in the early part of 1913 and on St David's Day, all hopes of silverware vanished when they were defeated 2-1 at home by Llanddulas in the League Cup semi-final.

We now lose the next few seasons, mainly due to the outbreak of the Great War (1914-18), unsurprisingly football en masse was suspended as the conflict occupied the minds and hearts of the British public.

The Prestatyn Weekly devoted almost all of its column inches to the war effort and the fortunes of our town's men and boys as they faced the terrifying experience of trench warfare on foreign shores.

But when hostilities ceased, life slowly began to return to normal and the first mention of football I could trace came in March 1919 when Prestatyn Jolly Boys met Rhyl Tommies (demobbed soldiers) in a friendly on St Chad's playing field. The Jolly Boys ran out 3-0 winners and must have played a few friendlies around that time as the following week they were due to face Mostyn but oddly no further results of their games were printed but some weeks later a paragraph appeared stating that the Jollies had completed their fixtures with a fine record of played 10, won eight, lost two with the goals tally at 40 scored and 29 against. As there was no points tally given it is almost certain that these games were all informal kickabouts.

Events gathered pace on August 23rd 1919 when a meeting was held at the Liberal Club (part of what is now the Scala) where representatives and players of local clubs were invited to attend to discuss reforming Prestatyn Football Club. Again, there is no further mention of anything moving forward, but move forward they did as later reports showed that Prestatyn United had entered the Flintshire Coast League for season 1919/20.

On November 8th they lost 2-0 at home to Holywell Town in the first round of the North Wales Cup. Despite having only ten men, Prestatyn - aided by a sterling performance from goalkeeper Dai Davies - held the powerful Holywell side until the 75th minute when two late goals ended their hopes.

Better things were hoped for the following week when defender Tom Brooks would be available for the visit of Shotton plus the recently demobilised Sam Bennett and inside left John Hughes, who had made quite a name for himself in Army football, were also expected to return.

The team announced to face the Deesiders was: Dai Davies, J Smith, Tom Brooks, J Bayley, Sam Bennett, C Davies, Wynne Edwards, A Williams, J Roberts, John Hughes and O Jones.