football arrived on the island in the 1870s. it was initially met with resistance, given its locally perceived 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 1895–1896 football season.