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PENCOED Athletic failed to gain much pre-season lift off against high-flying Cardiff Airport on an Astroturf pitch at St Cyres Comprehensive School in Penarth, writes Tony Poole.

Though the Airmen play two divisions below the Felindre Road boys in Highadmit South Wales Alliance Division Two, the gulf in class wasn’t always visible.

That said they never seriously troubled new Pencoed goalkeeper Darren Claridge, who moreorless received an armchair ride.

It was Mark Powell’s