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Ridsdale being suckered into a night out at Kiwi's by an "investor"
Get your season tickets early and we'll invest in players* (*no we won't, we're just desperate for cash)
Ridsdale brazening it out in the Muni Club and claiming going to the cup final cost us 500k
Almost going bust
Which of the 37 occasions are you referring to? 🤣Originally Posted by Bluebirdman Of Alcathays
Well, we've all got our personal favourites.
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Samesh Kumar offering his resignation to the board, thinking they'd refuse until they said okay cheers.
Mine would be February 1991: Cardiff City 1 Aldershot 3. Attendance at Ninian Park - 1,629.
Players' wages unpaid, under a transfer embargo, being sued by the council over unpaid bills, a winding-up order in the High Court over a variety of debts, a black and white programme consisting of four pages because the club couldn't afford to pay the printers for a proper one and a comedy pitch. About a third of it had been completely cleared of snow, but the rest just had the lines cut out as the club didn't have enough ground staff to clear the whole pitch.
Earlier in the season, the team had been knocked out of the FA Cup by Hayes and the Welsh Cup by Merthyr. I left Ninian Park after that woeful Aldershot defeat believing the club was dead. The situation seemed utterly hopeless. It felt like it was certain to be the Bluebirds' final game.
However, in true Cardiff City fashion, the club somehow scraped up enough money to stay alive, while the team won five and drew four of its next nine games. By the time April came around, City were play-off contenders and were beating Northampton in front of the biggest crowd of the season - a bumper 4,805.
Those were the days.
did we beat Northampton by Carl Dale chipping in from about 30 yards out?
edit: according to youtube, the chip happened in the Sep 1991 game, so probably the season after the aldershot game.
Not this game, Dale joined during the following summer.
City beat Northampton 3-2 at Ninian in 91/92 with Dale scoring two, so perhaps it was a goal in that game you're thinking of.
yeah it was. pike had a moment of brilliance in that game, setting up the third.
I can remember that game, November 91, about five weeks before Maidstone trounced us on New Years Day. I’d say Dale’s chip was further out than thirty yards - the Northampton keeper was stranded about twenty yards from goal as the ball sailed over his head.
I remember that game. A freezing Friday night with Nathan Blake at centre-half? Ian Stewart ran the show for them. Barclays sponsored the league at the time and apparently each branch were given two season tickets. I knew someone who worked in the town branch and he said no-one ever took (dis)advantage so me and a mate nabbed them for the night. The folly of youth.
I’m certain it was a Friday night and it was indeed freezing. It was the most miserable walk back to central station I can remember, and there have been a few grim ones. I think the next couple of games were postponed due to the freezing conditions and then City went on an unbeaten run when things resumed.
If i remember we were behind the goal on a terrace that had crumbling concrete under foot?
To the right near the halfway line was a scaffolding platform with plastic chairs on and to the left a cricket pitch?
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