Originally Posted by
splott parker
Those 4 years, 68-72 ( I’d been watching from other parts of the ground before then), were exhilarating for a teenager on the Grangetown End, the plastic fan phenomenon hadn’t really caught on and all my mates were City fans. No segregation giving it an aura of tribal resistance and a definite smell of evil, sounds so un PC now but but we were like bees to honey. It was fantastic!!
I know we regularly get 20 thousand + now but our regular 20 thousand + in those days seemed so much more tightly knit and those cup games with over 50 thousand, wow!!! I mention those four years particularly because it’s as if Scoular was building a club destined for Division One in those years. If only we’d had a board with bollocks this club could have taken off, I truly believe that, the South Wales area was ready & waiting. The plastics would,nowadays, be few & far between, So annoying!
Ninian Park had to go, it was decrepit in latter years, a disgrace with no scope for development really, a one street entrance was always going to be a hindrance to improvements. I’m glad we’re over the road now, I was getting to hate Ninian Park and it’s abysmal faciities, we had to move on or I dread to think where we’d be now, the dungeon or, God forbid, worse. But it was of it’s time for those teenage years of mine and I’m so thankful I’ve lived in the era I’ve lived in.