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My Dad used to sit me on a barrier somewhere near to the TV gantry on the Bob Bank holding on to me throughout the match.
1955-against Blackpool and we lost 2-1.Stan Montgomery scored our goal.I was in the Canton Stand on a friend's fathers'season ticket and thought I was special.Started going regularly the following season in the kids enclosure in the Grangetown Stand-9d admission.61 years on and I still have the 'bug'-now accompanied by my son and grandson and sit by my cousin who is my age.
Still love the day out-still go through all the emotions but they are my team and whatever drama goes on around the club (and there have been plenty)it makes no difference.Life is too short to worry about what are in effect short term problems.
1965 home to Real Zaragoza in the Cup Winners Cup.
Floodlights , huge crowd , wonderful smell of beer and fags , Golden Goal tickets on sale ,
huge queues at the Grange End turnstiles , super atmosphere...............but we lost.
However I was hooked for ever and a day.
I'm proud to say my first ever live match was a Wales one at Ninian Park:
https://youtu.be/OnlJpNM69W4
I then somehow developed a love for the place, so got down the City not long afterwards as a 10 year old for this classic:
http://www.11v11.com/matches/cardiff...er-1986-49271/
Everton FA cup 1977 is the first I remember. Poor back pass.
I'd use a different adjective to poor.
It was a night Game, I was on the grange end with my dad, Ronnie Bird was playing, cannot remember date or who against.
wow wonderful stuff ,in the post , its well in the blood " shared pain of losing binds fans together as much as winning"
My dad took me , Roughly 66/67 v Hereford in Welsh cup final . I think it was about 6-3 to City, and Toshack might have had a hatrick ?
I stood in the corner of the Bob bank and grange end near the huge pylons. I remember the grange singing Johnny Jonny Toshack la la la la . Also the smell of the place and walking under the grange end.
I was hooked , and couldn't wait to go again , but usually had to watch the floodlights from my bedroom high up in Pentrebane while listening on the radio , until I was allowed to go with mates.
1967/68..my Dad's friend was a City fan and asked if I wanted to go with him...yes please!
We beat Millwall 2-1..with Brian Clark scoring a bizarre header from the edge of the centre circle...can someone please con firm I wasn't dreaming?
( I've actually had it confirmed by someone I met in a camping site near Bordeaux in June...it was his first game too)
Sat 09 Dec 1995/96 Cardiff City 2 - 0 Hartlepool Utd
5th October 1968, City 1 - 1 Villa, taken my dad as an 8 year old. Went back a month later to see City 2 -1 Blackburn, and I was hooked for life!