This column promises to highlight stories, whether heartwarming or scandalous, at all levels of our sacred football pyramid. But this week takes us to Wales and the lowest reaches of the game, to an amateur club in Swansea called Cwm Albion.
Cwm are, quite literally, the worst team in Britain. They lost every game last season, with a goal difference of -191. Their star player is 73-year-old John Rees, while goalkeeper Jamie MacDonald hasn’t kept a clean sheet in more than a decade playing for the club.
But a dismal record like that has also left them dubbed the best team in Britain, as part of a grassroots campaign led by Specsavers, which crowned Cwm the ‘best worst team’.