Cardiff v Newport rivalry

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Originally Posted by Tuerto

It was probably at Ninian Park and due to Lynex's deft shooting ability, the ball ended up at Somerton park. Lynex actually had a very good thing going with Linekar at Leicester, and scored quite a few goals as well as setting up Linekar. He was shot when he came to us.

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Good old Lethal 👍

I think it’s a healthy and nowadays respectful rivalry.
My old Man used to take me to Somerton Park..only a 10 minute walk from where I grew up.

The 80’s were obviously when the two sets of casuals met up and invaded each other and I was a bit too young for that.

I started going to City around 92/93 and caught the buzz quickly.
I used to get mad shit in Newport for it, even got a beating for it at a cash point.

I knew a lot of the County “B Team” who would jones on me, but never pick on me as I grew up around them and they were Mates with cousins and lots of them knew my Dad etc…

The Youth Firm were different and mainly from other parts of Newport and even though a few years older…didn’t give a shit that I knew Lemmy or Pricey from up O’Reillys from when I was a kid.

Nowadays I think that many of the older heads of Newport and Cardiff are solid Mates.

From what I understand, a few hundred lads from Newport regularly used to go watch Cardiff in the 70’s.
I couldn’t tell you how many do now, but it’s a fair amount.

I always dread City drawing The County in any cup competition.
I’d like The County to win every game that they play in unless it’s against City.

When that game is on, I want City to win but will probably pretend it’s not happening.

Anni$ likes County !!!