Vale of Llangollen F.C.

[5] It won in its first appearance in the Welsh Cup (for local purposes generally referred to as Llangollen), the same season, with an easy 4–1 win over Wrexham Excelsior, "Bob" Roberts scoring twice and the Excelsior goal - scored at the death - being blamed on darkness.

Olympic made a counter-protest on several grounds, including there being spectator interference, one of the half-backs wearing the wrong colour shirt, and the goalposts being the wrong size; the protest was dismissed, Wrexham blaming the decision on the hostility of Druids F.C.

It gained revenge over Oswestry in the 1888–89 FA Cup qualifying rounds with a 6–4 win, but in the next round at Chester, the club lost its goalkeeper to injury early on, and one other player was ordered off for wearing illegally-studded boots; the club thereupon lost 5–1.

[8] As was the Vale's wont, it protested the defeat, which the Football Association ruled "very frivolous" and the FA retained the two guinea deposit, as well as ordering the club to pay Chester's expenses of £1 1/.

[11] The club did not enter the FA Cup in 1889–90, and had fallen well off the pace over the close season; its last recorded matches were an 8–0 defeat to Chester St Oswald's in October 1889[12] and an 8–2 defeat at Rhostyllen Victoria in the first round of the 1889–90 Welsh Cup, having only turned up with 10 men.