55 Years ago today

[Joe Gillis]

City 0 Arsenal 0 in front of 55,000.
I was there as an excited 11 year old.
Anyone else?

[Joe Gillis]

Re: 55 Years ago today

City 0 Arsenal 0 in front of 55,000.
I was there as an excited 11 year old.
Anyone else?

Oh hang on, it's 2025, 56 years :facepalm:

[jeepster]

Re: 55 Years ago today

Remember Arsenal running on to the pitch in their red shirts white sleeves,very impressed.

[the other bob wilson]

Re: 55 Years ago today

My only memory of the game itself now is of the crowd’s anger at Ian Ure for the way he was roughing up Toshack.

I was stood in the Bob Bank, Grange End corner with my Dad, didn’t have a bad view if I remember rightly.

[Moodybluebird]

Re: 55 Years ago today

City 0 Arsenal 0 in front of 55,000.
I was there as an excited 11 year old.
Anyone else?

I was there and Ian Ure marked Toshack out of the game. No other centre half in our division (Div 2) had managed that throughout the season. I was standing on the Bob Bank near the television gantry and couldn't move a muscle it was so packed.

[Joe Gillis]

Re: 55 Years ago today

I was sat on the wall at the corner of the bob bank and canton stand, Ian Ure stood out with that mop of blond hair, I remember John Radford up front, did Ray Kennedy play alongside him that day? I can't recall, it was a long time ago :shrug:

[the other bob wilson]

Re: 55 Years ago today

I was sat on the wall at the corner of the bob bank and canton stand, Ian Ure stood out with that mop of blond hair, I remember John Radford up front, did Ray Kennedy play alongside him that day? I can't recall, it was a long time ago :shrug:

Don’t think Kennedy had broken into the Arsenal team at the time.

[Former Labour leader]

Re: 55 Years ago today

Yes I was on the bob bank. Can't remember much about the game mind you.

[the other bob wilson]

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Here’s the Arsenal team.

https://www.11v11.com/matches/cardiff-city-v-arsenal-04-january-1969-212797/

[Michael Morris]

Re: 55 Years ago today

Here's a link to the full matchday programme:

https://www.flickr.com/photos/114058793@N05/albums/72157716670302602/

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[Enoch Mort]

Re: 55 Years ago today

I was there and Ian Ure marked Toshack out of the game. No other centre half in our division (Div 2) had managed that throughout the season. I was standing on the Bob Bank near the television gantry and couldn't move a muscle it was so packed.

That's the biggest Ninian Park crowd I've been in. My memories are the same as yours, I was standing by the cameras and it was packed and it was a real squeeze exiting the Bob Bank at the Canton Stand end. If anyone had fallen over they would have been trampled in the crush. As others in this thread have said Toshack got absolutely nowhere with Ian Ure

[Steve the Tea]

Re: 55 Years ago today

City 0 Arsenal 0 in front of 55,000.
I was there as an excited 11 year old.
Anyone else?

And me, Joe. Had deserted my usual place on the Grange End for a place on half way line on the Bob Bank for this one.

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[splott parker]

Re: 55 Years ago today

Was living in Rumney at the time and my cousin came down from London for the game, big Arsenal fan, my mother’s brother’s son, lived on Highgate Hill. Despite not knowing Cardiff, the bugger got back to my house before me.:hehe:

[NYCBlue]

Re: 55 Years ago today

Here’s the Arsenal team.

https://www.11v11.com/matches/cardif...y-1969-212797/

Some real stars in that Arsenal line-up. I never knew Bobby Gould played for them.

[tpcnw]

Re: 55 Years ago today

Bobby Gould came to national prominence when he scored the late equaliser for Arsenal in the League Cup final in 1969 when they lost to Swindon. Don Rogers scored twice in extra time to win it for Swindon.