Four days, nine goals and six points later and Monmouth Town have completed their home fixtures with two wins to take them three points clear at the top of the Welsh League.

A superior goal difference stands which will be crucial with only four games remaining as they seek to land the title for the first time in their 138-year history.

Last Saturday's game (12th April, pictured) against Port Talbot-based Goytre United boasted several former champions. It was a strange affair with the visitors possibly the neater side for most of the game but lacking the cutting-edge to finish off some promising moves. Monmouth looked lethargic  and barely able to create any passages of play although they did threaten intermittently with better efforts. Had the bounce of the ball from the rookie keeper's spills fallen more kindly, they could have put the game to bed in the first half. As it was, it was left to a piece of magic from Dan MacDonald to edge the Kingfishers into the lead, latching onto a loose ball twenty five yards from goal and crashing a half volley into the top corner.

Blackburn was called upon to make a number of good stops but for all of Goytre's effort they couldn't quite make any real headway and Clare, Alderdice and Davies cleared their lines effectively.

It seemed everyone in the ground was just waiting for a mistake to be punished and Town to be left with just a single point but the little man with magic in his boots claimed all three points with another superbly struck free kick with just five minutes remaining to make it 2–0.

Last Wednesday's game (9th April) was an entirely different affair. With the visitors down to nine with an hour to play, this game was no contest, so much so that a local streamed bookies had the team at 1/200 to win the game. However, the Kingfishers did exactly what was required and did their goal difference no harm at all as the second half rained goals to match a first half dominated by two red cards.

With youth team keeper Matty Johns in for the absent Keiron Blackburn, Town started as if they could have achieved against a whole cauldron of Celts, with Nick Harrhy through early on and his header was well saved following up a  shot from MacDonald.

With just ten minutes on the clock, MacDonald opened the scoring, superbly finishing a great move as Davies whipped in a fine cross after a neat exchange with Harrhy.

Celtic, however, certainly hadn't come to make up the numbers and forged a few attacks of their own in the early minutes but when one broke down a long through ball caught them out, Harrhy was onto it like a Ton Pentre rabbit and was brought down just outside the box. Marching orders followed.

On 30 minutes Town went further ahead as another good move created an opening and Jenkins' goal bound shot was handled on the line by a covering defender. Red card number two was flashed and MacDonald slotted home the penalty. Job done but bizarrely Celtic grabbed a possible life-line as Alderdice conceded a penalty and it was 2 -1.

For the next quarter of an hour Town looked puzzled as to how they were going to make hay as Celtic dropped all of their players behind the ball and watched contentedly as it rolled back and fore in front of them. If they could hang on for a longer spell into the second half maybe they could get something.

The bookies are rarely wrong. Within five minutes of the restart Harrhy had headed a lovely goal stooping at the near post. A calamitous own goal made it four, a looping Laurie header five and by the time MacDonald had completed his hat trick and Skopinski had got his first Monmouth goal, any hopes of the score staying respectable had disappeared.

There was however, still time for Adam Davies to smash his own windscreen with a strike that flew wide.

Town now have four games remaining, all away to sides in the bottom half and are clear favourites to lift the title starting with a visit to Cardiff on Saturday to take on Caerau Ely, followed by trips to Swansea's West End and Pontardawe with a final game on 10th May at Cwmbran Celtic.

Challengers Taffs Well and Haverfordwest go head-to-head on Easter Monday in Pembrokeshire.  There is little margin for error and even less for complacency.