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Yn ôl y dystiolaeth, daeth ffwtbol i'r gongl fechan hon o Gymru, tua'r flwyddyn 1876, pan sefydlwyd clybiau dinas Bangor a Chaernarfon. O gwmpas 1890 fe ddechreuodd bechgyn Llanfair chwarae'r gem - a hynny er mawr siom i Mr Richard Hughes, aelod parchus o Gymdeithas Cymru Fydd Llanfair.
Mewn dadl ar y testun "Crefydd Cymru" ym mis Chwefror 1891, fe gondemniodd yr hen frawd yr arferiad o gicio'r ".. bel-droed yn ddiarbed."
Yna, bedair blynedd yn ddiweddarach (sef Mai 1895), fe dderbyniodd y Cyngor Plwyf gwyn fod glaslanciau'r pentref yn chwarae pel-droed ar y priffyrdd, ac yn aflonyddu ar gerddwyr.
Ym 1896, fe benderfynnodd yr Hen Gorff wneud safiad.
Yn Sasiwn Rhuthun, fe gondemniwyd ".. yr eithafon y mae llawer o'r ieuenctid yn rhedeg iddynt gyda chwaraeon megis y bel-droed" a phasiwyd yn unfrydol y cynnig .. "Fod y Gymdeithasfa hon yn galw sylw ein holl aelodau at y peryglon hyn.."
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The Industrial Revolution brought the factories, smoke, pollution and the train.
The final ten years of the century saw the advent of the car and the aeroplane.
Into the middle of all this came a new heresy - FOOTBALL, to upset the old Nonconformist way of life in Wales.
Soccer in a recognisable modern form had been played in North Wales since the 1870s but it appears that it reached Gwynedd in 1876 when teams were formed in Bangor and Caernarfon.
The first record of football being played in Llanfairpwll is in 1890 and there was strong condemnation by the chapel leaders.
In 1896 the religious movement, The Cymry Fydd Society and the Parish Council denounced the playing of football in the parish and noted the dangers involved with the youngsters participating in the game, taking the whole of the road for their game and making life difficult for pedestrians.
However their efforts to dissuade the youngsters failed miserably.
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