Debut for Trevor Francis, Gary Bell put him in his pocket.
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My first ever Cardiff match. Toshack scored both and this 6 year old was hooked for life.
During the late 80s and the whole of the 90s I'd never have guessed I'd see us in an F A Cup and League cup final and two years in the top flight.
Those 50 years have flown and thank you Cardiff City for giving me so many great memories.
Debut for Trevor Francis, Gary Bell put him in his pocket.
Congratulations Hamish As a kid, I can remember looking in City programmes which had features on games played 10, 20 and 30 years ago and thinking how ancient must anyone be who can remember those from 30 years earlier? Then, go forward a few years and reading my copy of NME, I started to realise that I was singing some of the singles that were in the charts from three decades earlier.
Now I look at someone who has been supporting us since 1990 and think they're an apprentice
I saw Trevor Francis score against us that season at Birmingham's ground. We had a really good side then but lost the match 2-0 I think. There were 49000 in the crowd and I took my wife who experienced a bloke urinating all over her new coat. Oddly enough she hasn't been to a match since.
This didn't seem correct to me so I looked up their birth dates. Trevor Francis was born in April 1954 whereas Gary Bell was born in 1947. I know little about youth set ups but doubt if there was a 7 year age range in any youth arrangements at any club in the 1960's. Also Gary Bell was born in Stourbridge and was signed to a non league club (Lower Gornal Athletic) whereas Trevor Francis was born in Plymouth and was attached to Birmingham City so can't see how their paths, in a footballing sense, had crossed let alone played in the same youth set up. Of course stranger things have happened but I doubt the veracity of the claim that the two played in the same set up.