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Ten facts about TNS
:: Total Network Solutions play at the Recreation Ground, also
known as `Treflan', which they describe as being ``bang in the
middle of the village''. They have plans to move to a new
3,000-capacity stadium in Oswestry.
:: They play in the village of Llansantffraid, population 1,000,
where the local railway station shut down 50 years ago.
:: In their former guise as Llansantffraid FC, they won 10 Welsh
Village Cup titles.
:: TNS completed their spectacular ascent through the domestic
Welsh ranks by winning the Welsh Premier title in the 1999/2000
season. Their second league title arrived this year.
:: Striker Marc Lloyd-Williams plundered 34 league goals last
season, a new club record, and became the first player to score 200
career goals at the top level of the Welsh league. He had brief and
unsuccessful spells in England with Stockport, Halifax and
York.
:: Midfielder Steven Beck played in the same Everton youth team as
Wayne Rooney.
:: TNS play in green and white hoops, similar to Celtic's
kit.
:: Former Liverpool striker Ian Rush is a non-executive director of
TNS.
:: Centre-back Steve Evens is the current Welsh Premier player of
the season.
:: Llansantffraid became TNS in 1997 after securing a sponsorship
deal with a locally-based communications company.
