POET AND WRITER CHRIS TOWERS TREKKED TO NORTH WALES TO WATCH FLINT MOUNTAIN IN ACTION IN JD CYMRU NORTH…

Impressive: The view from the main stand

There I was on the cusp of the clocks going back and, in the gloom, walking up a track from Flint Station, having taken a train from Chester, beyond the castle ruins and the banks of the estuary, looking for the home ground of Flint Mountain.
The name of the club appealed to me. I had never come across a team name with ‘mountain’ and from the outset assumed there was a mountain there.
But getting there was and is a...