“Welsh rugby is a rainy night at the end of the Llynfi Valley watching Maesteg drive forward on their table-top ground.”
So runs a line from the Welsh Rugby Union’s official history, Fields of Praise, written in 1981 to mark the governing body’s centenary.
The following year the Old Parish Maesteg marked their own first hundred years with a fixture against the New Zealand Maori. It took place exactly 40 years ago this week, on October 27, 1982.
