Welsh Premier League Football - Ex-Premier player is a YouTube hit

A FORMER Llanelli and Cwmbran Town footballer, who played for the Icelandic team that have become an internet sensation with their unique goal celebrations, has lifted the lid on his time at the club.
Stjarnan FC's original extraordinary goal celebration has been viewed almost eight million times by fans enthralled by goalscorer Halldor Orri reeling in teammate Johann Laxdal, whose surname means 'salmon valley', like a fish before posing for a mock photo with his catch.
Nine-times capped Wales Under-19 international Hurlin scoed five goals from 67 (+23) Welsh Premier appearances for the Crows and the Reds between 2001 and 2005 and helped Stjarnan FC avoid relegation in their first season competing in Iceland's top division last year.
Hurlin, who has also represented Cardiff City, Swansea City and Llanelli at youth level, said he was shocked when a friend alerted him to his former club's new-found fame.
"A friend of mine in Puerto Rico sent me a web link to the first three celebrations, so it had reached Puerto Rico before I had even seen it," he told the South Wales Evening Post.
"So obviously I called my friend over in Iceland and they said they had a few more coming.
"They've done one called the human bicycle and there is also one where they give birth to a football."
Although Hurlin found the atmosphere at the club was as special as the celebrations suggests, he said they weren't something the team practised in training while he was playing there.
"The celebrations are something new this season, they have a good group of players and they've played together for a long time so it's a really good atmosphere amongst the players and the team."
"Also a lot of the fans have played for the club along the way.
"It's the whole sort of club atmosphere, it's really relaxed and you can have a good time there."
Hurlin, 26, joined Stjarnan after a successful trial with the club, set up by an Icelandic teammate he played with for a college team in America, but wasn't able to establish himself in the first team.
"It was difficult, it was the first time I've played in a country where I don't speak the language but everyone at the club was great and the fans were absolutely brilliant," Hurlin said.
"I was out of favour at the club, I came in halfway through the season because I was still in college and I didn't really get into the starting eleven there, I was kind of sat on the bench for a while there and the club is not really where I wanted to be playing."
Despite leaving the club that are quickly becoming every football fan's second team to join Swedish side Syriac IF, where he has just signed a new contract, the Llanelli product has no desire to return to play in Wales any time soon.
"I really think it would be a step backwards to come and play in the Welsh Premier League," said Hurlin.
"I don't really want to live in Wales, that's the problem, but I always keep up to date with the Welsh Premier League and I'm always seeing how Llanelli are doing."