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
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.
'...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.
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.