Wales team manager Chris Coleman was the guest of honour at the Newcastle Emlyn FC fund raising dinner held at the Cliff Hotel on Saturday night.
The highly successful and entertaining evening was kicked off by Radio Cymru presenter and former local footballer Andrew Thomas aka ‘Tommo’ who commenced proceedings with a few stories and anecdotes before introducing Wales supremo Chris Coleman and former TV and radio pundit Ian Gwyn Hughes the one time Bury and Blackpool centre back, who is the current head of Public Affairs at the Football Association of Wales.
This was followed by a Question and Answer session between Ian and Chris which revolved mainly around Wales’ successful campaign at the recent European Championships in France and a few witty questions from the crowd.
There was a raffle and auction with some fantastic memorabilia up for grabs and organiser Morlais Davies, the chairman of Newcastle Emlyn FC and a local businessman said that it had been a wonderful evening and added :”It really was a great night and it was good to see other local clubs supporting us such as Bargod FC, Crannog, St Dogmaels, Cilgerran and Cardigan Town FC.
“I must thank our hosts, The Cliff Hotel and their staff as they did a superb job and helped to make it an amazing night.
“Chris Coleman who was in big demand for photos and autographs was very down to earth and a really nice bloke and he didn’t disappoint whilst Tommo kept it all running smoothly.”
