CWMBRAN Town veteran Mark Aiziewood must have felt like the Kindergarten Cop as the 40-year-old player-coach saw his League of Wales side shoot down the young guns of Swansea City for the first time in the FAW Premier Cup.

An injury-time strike from Chris Summers taught a Swansea side with an average age of less than 20 a valuable lesson at a bleak Cwmbran Stadium as John Hollins saw his 100 per cent record in the BBC Wales-sponsored compe- tition wiped out.

It was good enough to keep Cwmbran in with a shout of snatching the best third-placed team to reach the quarter-final stages which Swansea had already secured as the group winners.

But despite the bizarre sending-off of Richie Appleby, Swansea’s oldest and most experienced player. Hollins saw enough to take somc sort of victory from defeat.

‘Cwmbran are a very good side and we took them on with virtually an under-20 team,” he explained. ‘We took them to the very last minute of injury time.

With the late withdrawals of flu victims Martin Thomas. Lee Jenkins and Ryan Casey, Hollins drafted 17-year-olds Kristian James and Chris Todd into a side already brimming with more youth than expe- rience.

While Swansea dominated most of the possession without really creating a great deal, Hollins was foIl of praise for his side whose lack of physical Cwmbran Town

Swansea City strength saw them muscled out at times.

“Obviously I’m disap- pointed with the result and so are the players because they want to be winners.” added the Swansea manager.

“But I’m happy and sat- isfied with the performance. I tried another three or four younger boys and I thought we came out on top. They cer- tainly haven’t let me down.

‘If Cwmbran are one of the top sides in the League of Wales. they had one corner throughout the game so it shows you where the ball was.

Chances were as rare as a warm spectator. Summers tested Jason Jones after 25 minutes with a shot the goal- keeper saved with ease, while James had a similar effort at the other end 10 minutes later.

Neither side looked like breaking the deadlock in a nondescript first half. Swansea had plenty of possession but struggled to get in behind a big Cwmbran back three of Aizlewood, Neil O’Brien and Jim Blackie as the hosts closed down their opponents extremely well.

When they did get the ball wide, the cross was never an option as strikers Tommy Mutton and Danny Barwood lacked the height to trouble the giant trio.

The breakthrough even- tually came from the penalty spot in the 38th minute when Swansea conceded their first goal in the competition.

It was a dubious decision after Coventry City loan signing Gary McPhee cut inside the area before being felled with the ball by the unlucky Lee De-Vulgt.

Montgomery referee Kevin Morris pointed straight to the spot and Summers slotted home ,his first of the night.

Swansea enjoyed as much possession after the interval as they had in the first period, but it was Summers and Richard Carter who had the first shots for Cwmbran.

But the young guns deserved the equaliser when it duly arrived in the 75th minute.

Strangely enough, it came from a high cross. Barn Morgan challenged goalkeeper Pat O’Hagan for a James delivery and as the ball dropped inside the area, Barwood drilled it home.

Swansea should have gone on from there to win it. Instead they were reduced to 10 men three minutes later when Appleby lost his head after Morgan had won a free-kick wide on the edge of the area.

Linesman Ray Ellingham asked for the free-kick to be moved back and for some strange reason Appleby chipped the ball up into the linesman’s face — not once but twice.

It left the red-shirted Appleby red-faced and red- carded.

Swansea still should have gone on and won it.

Instead Mutton’s 81st-minute goal from a Michael Keegan pass was disallowed for offside and Aizlewood’s quickly taken free-kick three minutes into injury time was fired home by two-goal Summers with the last kick of the game.

"We showed a little bit of naivety or tiredness towards the end to lose a goal so late on," concluded Hollins.