Ridiculousness Down The City

[The Lone Gunman]

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Almost going bust

Which of the 37 occasions are you referring to? 🤣

[blue lewj]

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Vincent Tan.

[stan butler]

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Vincent Tan.

Are you sure

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'You don't have to go to town .... to go brown'

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Valley Rams TV was years ahead of the craze

[dembethewarrior]

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1971

Are you the fella from Llantwit that used to post links to his Twitter? Had you down as younger. Closer to 40.

[Bluebirdman Of Alcathays]

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Which of the 37 occasions are you referring to? ��

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.

[Dorcus]

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Are you the fella from Llantwit that used to post links to his Twitter? Had you down as younger. Closer to 40.

No not from Llantwit

[dembethewarrior]

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No not from Llantwit

[The Lone Gunman]

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Well, we've all got our personal favourites.

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.

[tforturton]

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What about the time the club persuaded the fans to fund the purchase of a player - one Kurt Nogan - via the sale of club shares? I think it was during the 2000-01 season? Nogan went on to score just once in eighteen league games, though he did slightly better in the Welsh Cup, or whatever it was called in those days. Still, City went up at the end of the season, so you could argue that it worked.

[Feedback]

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Sam Hammam years were great in my opinion. Perhaps not on as solid a foundations as we would have liked but the club moved forward enormously in those few years.

And more than anything else it was fun, and it was cool to be a City fan and sometimes that kinda thing does matter

The couple of seasons in the third tier around the turn of the millennium were good fun. Our support was top notch home and away and there was a bit of a buzz around the club. After the 80s and 90s, you could see why it was easy as fans we got carried away.

[Feedback]

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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.

[The Lone Gunman]

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did we beat Northampton by Carl Dale chipping in from about 30 yards out?

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.

[TWGL1]

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Northampton away was a mad day around 88,I think we lost 4-1 , the stadium was falling to bits