Six foot two, eyes of blue.. etc
The pain of the forgotten Cardiff hero who kept out Real Madrid
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Six foot two, eyes of blue.. etc
The pain of the forgotten Cardiff hero who kept out Real Madrid
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A bitter sweet story with a couple of interesting revelations re Scoular and Peter Taylor.
Met him at the Real Madrid reunion do at the Holland House Hotel a few years ago. After that night I’m not surprised to see his ‘Alex Ferguson’ nose:hehe:
I’m guessing that the injury retirement payment is incorrect as well.
For whatever reason, we always seem to be blessed with decent keepers and as I rarely used to miss a home game in the late 60's and early 70's I remember Jim well, although it was a surprise to read that he only played 43 games for us. Mind you Bill Irwin who replaced him was a superb goalie too.
We all have a specific timeframe that was special to us as City fans and Jim Eadie's career was smack bang in the middle of mine. Off the top of my head, I would struggle to name our first eleven say 10 years ago but not so during "my" time.
Jim Eadie was an excellent goalkeeper for City, I remember him well. He played twice when Fred Davies was injured, and when Davies was sold at the end of the season Cardiff signed Frank Parsons as his replacement, but after the 3-4 home defeat to Middlesbrough, back came big Jim for a year or so. Then City signed Bill Irwin and Jim was gone , all too soon, as Parsons was kept on as 2nd choice behind Irwin. He went on to have a good spell at Bristol Rovers but I do feel City let him go too soon.
He was a big , stocky . 'keeper and I won't mention his nickname on here. Sad to see how his injuries have caught up with him.
Great post Slumdog.
Yes I was at the 70's games as a very young Grange End lad, and being at that Madrid game well what can one say ,other than I was lucky to be at that game just an incredible moment and memory .
"" but life under Scoular, a fearsome Scot himself, was always gruelling.""
"I was knackered by the Saturday! Your legs were just gone."
"Then, on game day itself, he'd take a half bottle of whisky, put it on the table and say 'right, before you go out, everybody has to have a swig'. He said it would give us some fire in our bellies.""
Thanks Jim for the memories , if your reading this you were a great keeper.
I remember that Middlesbrough game. As fast as we were scoring fantastic goals at one end, Frankie Parsons was throwing them in at the other. Jim was unlucky not to be kept on but Scoular obviously never forgave him for a mistake in a big game in the same way that Bob Wilson (the other other one) never played again after his mistake against Hamburg in the last minute.
'...bless Freddie Davies and bless Peter King, bless Barrie Jones as he streaks down the wing, bless 'em all...'
'We all agree, Davies is better than Yashin, Toshack is better than Eusebio, and Bristol are in for a thrashin'.
No sure when Peter King came along, probably slightly later, but basically that's my earliest team.
'If I had the wings of an eagle...' the good old days, the good old songs. Oh what fun we had.
Well done Steve :thumbup:
Peter King was the first name on the team sheet from about 1963 onwards, up until about 1972.
Converted from a winger to a quality midfielder, after the success of Ingurlund’s wingless wonders in 1966
Yes, my favourite City team too (with Peter King). The only weak link and probably the most derided player was Ronnie Bird but he had a great shot on him and was the best penalty taker we've ever had.
On their day, they were almost unplayable in our division. Toshack got on the end of every cross in the air and no opposing centre half could deal with him. With a little investment and retaining Toshack, the old First Division would have beckoned but alas we had to wait another 40 odd years for that 'privilege'.
I've got a great Dave Carver memory that is as clear today as it was then. At the time we used to stand in the bob bank, slightly lower down from the camera tower. An older guy was always in the same vicinity and he seemed to have a permanent scowl on his face. Poor old Dave Carver was not the most elegant or athletic of players and boy did he come in for some stick from Mr Happy if he was have a bit of a mare or generally under-performing. He would bellow the same thing week after week. "Carver, you are like a baby carthorse!" Poor Dave ! To be fair, he was a safe if unspectacular player but for all that he will still be part of my favourite ever City team.
Apart from making sure I didn't get filled in and seeing Ronnie Bird actually miss a penalty, the main memory I have of the Swansea v City Welsh Cup Semi Final replay at the Vetch in 1970 was the competition me and my mates set whereby we predicted how many times Dave Carver would boot the ball out of the ground during the ninety minutes. I said two, but had already lost by the time the match went into extra time - think it was five in the end :hehe:.