Monmouth Town's Kingfishers missed out on the chance to go second in the Welsh League

Division One table with a disappointing 1–0 defeat against 2011 champions Cambrian & Clydach, after dominating most of the play and losing a top scorer in a shocking first half incident.

Elliot Ford will now miss Town's trip to Cymru Alliance side Llanidloes Town in the Welsh Cup tie as they look to reach the last sixteen of the national tournament. 

Monmouth travelled to the Rhondda Valleys on Wednesday (27th November) to take on Cambrian on their recently installed 3G surface which looked magnificent under the Valley's floodlights, and the team much the better of the early exchanges against a resolute and well organised Cambrian team.

In Jason Bertorelli, the home team have the most potent of strikers but it was Monmouth's more mobile and fleet of foot front players who were easier on the eye.

MacDonald went close on a number of occasions and Harrhy led the line well linking up with Elliot Ford and was the subject of a number of strong challenges the most unfair bringing a yellow card for defender Turner on the half hour as he upended Harrhy.

Minutes later a volley of abuse at the assistant referee went unpunished and with just five minutes to go before half time the same defender landed a vicious punch on Ford off the ball.

The aggrieved linesman claimed to have seen provocation by Ford and both he and his assailant were shown red. Ford now misses three games.

The game could have spilled over as there was certainly a lot of rancour on the pitch but there was also a lot of good football from both sides with Town keeping the ball much better than the home side and probing for an opening but with Ford missing, it looked difficult to get behind the home back number four. A lumbering defender for a lithe striker is never a fair swap and maybe Cambrian knew that.

And so it proved as Cambrian had not troubled Monmouth's keeper Blackburn with any strikes on goal, until the 76th minute, when a swift break after Alderdice had surrendered possession ended with a good clean strike from distance, nestling in Blackburn's bottom left hand corner. Try as they might Town could not get the deserved equaliser as Clare was denied by a fine stop and a few others went close.

For now Monmouth, sponsored by WyeMedia and Raduni restaurant can concentrate on Welsh Cup action. Supporters are more than welcome.