I was listening to Nathan Blake’s podcast last week and they had a bit of chat about referring to the club as ‘city’ or ‘the city’ and ‘going down the city’.

Appreciating the Beeb and media outlets have to obviously use Cardiff to refer to the club, but personally I’ve always found it strangely jarring when I have to understandably refer to the club as just Cardiff when talking with non-Cardiff City fans.

Aside from clubs that refer to themselves as that to distinguish themselves from their city neighbours (Manchester, Bristol, etc), do any other sides with City as their suffix seem to use it to refer to their club as much as we tend to colloquially between supporters?

Our nearest and dearest don’t tend to use it much from my experience, preferring the swans or jacks instead. Couldn’t tell you about the Leicesters, Stokes, etc of this world.