FOOTBALL fever has hit Bala just days before Wales’ first foray in to the finals of a major international tournament in 58 years.

Football fans turned out in their hundreds to share the Euro 2016 excitement as S4C held a tour of football clubs across Wales.

Over the last few weeks, members of S4C’s Euro 2016 presentation team visited Bala, Llandudno, Bangor, Penrhyncoch and Carmarthen to meet fans, hold coaching sessions with junior football teams and hold quizzes and Q&A sessions.

Among those who went on the tour, which was held to promote S4C’s coverage of Euro 2016, was presenter Dylan Ebenezer, commentator Nic Parry and former Wales internationals Iwan Roberts, a former Ysgol Ardudwy pupil, as well as Malcolm Allen and Owain Tudur Jones.

Dylan Ebenezer said: “It was great to speak to fans across the nation about Welsh football.

“There were a lot of enthusiastic fans in Bala and we all received such a warm welcome there."

Throughout the tour, S4C has also been raising money in aid of our charity partner Street Football Wales, a charity that helps homeless and socially excluded people in Wales through football activities.

Read the full story in this week’s north editions of the Cambrian News