Ninian Park Memories

[Taunton Blue Genie]

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Signs advertising Bif-Baf Bingo (whatever that was) Golden Goal Tickets. The olfactory cocktail of manky pasties and people chewing Juicy Fruit where the Grange End met the Bob Bank. A tree growing out of the wall at the rear of the Ninian Stand. The rusty floodlights. And last but not least, the sight of steam rising from the roofless, breeze-block Pissoir where the Bob Bank met the Ninian Stand. And who said romance is dead?

[Taunton Blue Genie]

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[uncle bob]

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[uncle bob]

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[Cyncoed Slumdog]

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Think he made a significant contribution to signing Phil Brignull, as the club couldn’t afford him.

Could be right as I was told he had inherited a few bob. He used to be on the main gates to the officials' car park a lot and it always amused me that visiting teams would arrive and managers would frequently say "hello John" when they saw him.

[SLUDGE FACTORY]

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The chap with the sideburns is John Reynolds who's mentioned elsewhere in this thread. When I was with Inter Cardiff he was a ballboy and he was about 55 then. He used to come over for a chat and would put his chewing gum behind his ear while he was talking. As far as I remember, he owns a house on Western Avenue that had been left to him.
I first met him about 60 years ago when I used to watch the City training in the school holidays and he would be down there every day. He had the same hair style then, there was just more of it.

often saw him running along western avenue

[SLUDGE FACTORY]

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the old days of the football special trains bringing in away fans and the youngsters running up to the open back to welcome them

[SLUDGE FACTORY]

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Ravenelli, the grey haired chief steward

Really good guy , Bridgend Bluebird

[life on mars]

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Cold wintry nights.
Walk down Sloper Road form bus station
Chips half way
Sneak into Ninian for under age drink ( if lucky )
Turn corner see the lights which lit up the sky then much more than now .
Shout abuse at the incoming Barry and Valley trains.
Sing songs about coppers and the wives
Especially enjoy those wonderful European games .
Always in the grange for the fun
Bovril
Peeing under the stand

Such politically correct times

[poc]

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[Malckent]

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often saw him running along the road by Llandaff tech

Exactly where I used to see him.

[splott parker]

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Re. The Asian Dad and son, he used to sit his son on the barrier with the chain link fencing on separating the boys’ enclosure from the rest of the Grangetown End in the 60s, always had a fag on the go. We used to call John, the cyclist, Jim Fryatt after the footballer of that time with the bushy sideboards.

[jimmyscoular]

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I suppose it helped to be 11 years old in 1968 and showing up at Ninian Park for the first time, but everything seemed so exciting and fresh. Even something as ordinary as people hawking team rosettes, or the match programme, added to an atmosphere of excitement. Those rickety old turnstiles where I handed over my tenpence, those trough-style urinals, turning the corner into the Grange End and seeing the vast green field, Dave Carver's massive thighs instilling confidence during warmups, it was all so . . . tribal. I was so envious of that press box up in the corner. They got in for free! LOL.

[Cyncoed Slumdog]

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Who else had a blue and white rattle? I even used to take mine to reserve games. I remember one season when I think the reserves won their Football Combination division and the whole ground would be open for Saturday afternoon games. Up front after signing from Worcester City was Harry Knowles who was prolific in the reserves but never made it at first team level. He eventually went back to Worcester for £2000 plus Peter King in exchange!

[A Quiet Monkfish]

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I remember them, on the Bob Bank as I recall, so I'm talking about around the mid seventies. You're right about the fags and the older one always used to shout "hold them out Cardiff" which I presumed meant don't concede (which would have fitted in with how crap we were at the time!), but I suppose it could have meant something else!

Talking of programme sellers and going back a long, long time, I can remember there always being one by each of the old Whore's Bed and Ninian Park pubs as well.

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