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I'm sure it's brought up occasionally, but didn't Ferdinand compare Ninian Park and our fans to going to one of the Turkish teams in his autobiography ? I hope its battering down with rain this saturday, absolutely freezing cold, I hope the entire stadium is just vicious to the united players (within reason). Make it hell.
Everyone goes to the pub for midday and the atmosphere will be fantastic
Pity we don't play at NP anymore
Please tell me you’re joking!!!Quote:
Originally Posted by The Bloop
I think he means in the context of it being an intimidating place that afternoon.Quote:
Originally Posted by splott parker
I know but I’m looking at today’s rain, last Saturday’s rain & the Saturday before and a cold shiver ran down my spine at the thought of the shithole that Ninian Park became in latter years.Quote:
Originally Posted by lardy
That's exactly what I meant. My bones are too old these days for standing on the Bob bank terrace in the cold.Quote:
Originally Posted by lardy
Do you remember when he was receiving treatment by the canton stand goal prior to going off.
I dragged my boy down and stood as close as I could get. I told my boy to remember this moment for ever because that’s the closest we’ll ever get to £18 million quid
And now we’re in the Premier League😂😂😂Quote:
Originally Posted by light up the darkness
Just found a dodgy copy of Rio autobiography online and after a quick search the only time Cardiff are mentioned is when he's talking about getting injured.
"A key moment came when I got injured in the first minutes of an FA Cup game against Cardiff. One of their players went over the ball and twisted my ankle. In truth, the damage was done before the match. A few of the lads had sawn Paul Robinson’s shoes in half, and were generally messing around. It was just a stupid bit of banter while we were having a laugh in the changing room. When I got hurt on the field the manager told me it was my own fault. He said: ‘You got injured because you were messing about before.’"
I'm sure he gave an interview where he said the Ninian Park atmosphere was more hostile than even the one he had experienced at Fenerbache or GalatasaryQuote:
Originally Posted by Der Kaiser
The version I heard was during an interview before playing for Man Utd away to Galatasary he was asked if was worried about the intimidating atmosphere. His answer was "No, I've played at Ninian Park"Quote:
Originally Posted by Mr Soul '68
This is the one I was thinking of. Cheers :thumbup:Quote:
Originally Posted by RichardM
That is indeed the line he used, i have a copy of the paper ( in my mums house ) I used to keep stuff like thatQuote:
Originally Posted by RichardM
We have come so far :thumbup: but to be honest, that FA cup game was one of the best,Quote:
Originally Posted by light up the darkness
Moments like that are one of the reasons we will always support the CityQuote:
Originally Posted by blue matt
I honestly do not think that day would / could happen again, todays fan / society would never get itQuote:
Originally Posted by light up the darkness
It was like the perfect storm, Sunday eve wasn’t it?Quote:
Originally Posted by blue matt
Yes, 4pm kick off if memory serves. It was an incredible day, the fans genuinely played their part in that winQuote:
Originally Posted by goats
Indeed it was, so of course everyone looked like they had had a few beers, as you hit sloper road, you felt the atmosphere, it felt really aggressive, everyone appeared like they were up for it, it was absolutely magicQuote:
Originally Posted by goats
more so than any other game i have ever seen, Leeds just looked like rabbits caught in cars headlights, from the moment they walked on the pitch ( though from the press reports later, it was from the time they tried to walk down sloper road as a BBC intro and were abused as soon as they got off the coach and had to abandon the idea , the BBC had the clever idea after Oleary said they would start and end the FA cup run in cardiffQuote:
Originally Posted by Swbluebird
then it started raining coins and bottles on them as they took throw-ins and they stayed away from the touchline *** I in no way condone that behaviour, it was very very wrong *** but didnt it scare them leeds players
Duberry having to hear the whole ground shout grass at him, what did woodgate think of that
Kavs Goal, what a goal
Durso sending off smith , i actually felt for Durso, He didnt deserve to referee a game like that
Youngs tackle on viduca when he was through on goal, then his goal to win it
I got to add the youtube video of it
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kHWdL86yoMs
look at Scotty's and Leggy's face at the end, it meant the world to them
I did love the 'Hey Lee Bowyer' chant and also the pie that hit him in the head 🙂
I really enjoyed watching that video. It bought back so many memories. I was stood on the Bob Bank with my son and Father In Law. He was in his 70s and more used to sitting in the seats on the Bob Bank. I think he would have sympathised with the Leeds players, he had never experienced an atmosphere like that but he really enjoyed it.