Goals from Joe Ledley and Paul Parry gave us a 2-0 win over promotion favourites Birmingham City at Ninian Park.

The win meant we were top of the Championship after 5 games though we lost our next fixture at Preston. At the time we were 3 points clear with 4 wins and a draw from our opening 5 matches, scoring 7 and conceding 2 (same defensive record as we currently have). The win came the weekend after a disappointing home defeat in the League cup. Just over 20,000 crammed into Ninian Park for the game.

We would remain top of the table until the end of November, leading it by 6 points at one stage, due to a run of 11 games without a win that saw us drop out of the top 6. We briefly flirted with the playoffs with 6 wins in 9 games but won 2 points from the remaining 9 matches to finish in the bottom half.

The football that team played early in that season was among some of the best I've seen from a Cardiff side. Over the next few seasons there were games where we battered teams but whether the football was as consistently good as it was for the first few months of the 2006/7 season I'm not so sure. Even our Championship winning side was more functional than it was enjoyable at times.

We're the first side since Fulham in 2000/01 to win their first 5 league games in this division. Back then, Fulham managed an incredible 11 straight league wins from the start of the season.

Anyway, back to the team of 2006. This was the starting line up - a bit like us at present in that there were few household names (at the time) in that team:

Neil Alexander
Kerrea Gilbert
Kevin McNaughton
Roger Johnson
Glenn Loovens
Paul Parry
Riccardo Scimeca
Stephen McPhail
Joe Ledley
Michael Chopra
Steven Thompson