Bristol City My Arse

[Moodybluebird]

Sludge and many like him won't approve of this but in 1964 when Swansea Town got to the semi final of the FA Cup I was genuinely gutted when they were beaten by Preston. At the time they were just another Welsh club, so I wanted them to do well. At the age of 10 I never realised there was such a fierce rivalry between the teams. Maybe there wasn't.

What I do know is by the time we next played them in a league match it was 1980 and by then our rivalry with Bristol City was very intense and bitter. Swansea were anonymous.

Fast forward a generation and yes I can understand why to many City fans, beating Swansea is all that matters. My son feels the same way. It's purely generational but if Swansea spent the next 20 years in the lower leagues and we prospered, nobody would give them a second thought and the rivalry that exists at the moment would slowly dissipate and be meaningless, except to current Swansea haters of course.........

[JumpersforGoalposts]

Brizzle is a more important game to me than Swampsea, as (in common with many others) when I started going to games we only played Swampsea if we got them in the Welsh Cup. Of course I'd prefer it if we stuffed them both and am unhappy at the way we missed the chance for the first double double since 1969.
Beyond that I am as indifferent towards Brizzle's standing as the vast majority of other clubs while I wish Swampsea well despite a preference for them to be at least one place below us in the league.