First time you went to Ninian Park

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23-08-16, 12:32
A Quiet Monkfish

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Originally Posted by Nemo

That was my second ever game. Brilliant sunshine, great game. Peter Hooper scored a couple for us and I think Ivor Allchurch made his home debut. My first game was in September 1961, a 1-1 draw with Sheffield United. I think Dai Ward scored for us and I remember City's centre forward ( John King?) blasting a chance over the bar from about 4 yards out. But memory plays tricks. Perhaps none of that happened!

Yes, Allchurch's debut. Distinctly remember a few seconds when he weaved in and out of a few Newcastle players..
23-08-16, 12:38
Charlie

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Originally Posted by Jordi Culé

Bob, help me with this match please sir.

First match was City v Brighton, 1979, City winning 3-1.

I've tried the head to heads databases but can't find the details of the match.

I'd be forever in your debt.

14 April 1979 Cardiff City 3 - 1 Brighton & Hove Albion
15:00 Gary Stevens Goal 37'
Tony Evans Goal 41'
Ronnie Moore Goal 90' Goal 14' Peter Ward Stadium: Ninian Park
Attendance: 12,613
Referee: Brian Stevens (Stonehouse)

From wiki.
23-08-16, 12:45
life on mars

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A bewildering dark midweek evening 1969 , a young 13 year old was taken to Ninian Park the, not knowing the area being from Llanrumney ,with little or no means of transport other than a bus down to central , then the long walk down to the game with hordes of other people , which was strange for me at the time as we did not indulge in large events other than playing football for hours on the fields of Llanrumney.

Shared some chips half way down , as we turned the corner by the Ninian pub , I spotted the glow of the floodlights and I will never ever forget that experience as long as I live , I am now beginning to tear up , as it was also a very sad time in my life , and the trip was offered to me by a very thoughtful neighbour ,who had little money and means themselves , thank you Mr Spurrier . I will support the city until I die , with you in my memory for that outing , as my dad sadly was unable to provide that moment in my life .
23-08-16, 13:06
the other bob wilson

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Originally Posted by Jordi Culé

Bob, help me with this match please sir.

First match was City v Brighton, 1979, City winning 3-1.

I've tried the head to heads databases but can't find the details of the match.

I'd be forever in your debt.

Only just got in and I see you've got the details of the match now. My first thought when I read your message was "he saw Ronnie Moore score the first time he watched us play, that must be a club that can hold it's annual reunion in a broom cupboard".

I've not looked at the link about the game that!'s been posted, but I'm pretty sure Mark Lawrenson and Peter Sayer were in the Brighton team.
23-08-16, 13:46
Austrian Bluebird

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"Shared some chips half way down , as we turned the corner by the Ninian pub"

Blimey, I remember that place. Black & White pub on the corner. Used to get hit by a wall of beer fumes as you walked past it!
23-08-16, 14:26
Sloop_Jon_Bee

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February 1972 v Fulham. !-0 to the City. Brian Clark scored. It was the week after the FA Cup game v Leeds. I nagged my older brother and sister to take me. I was 8 years old. My brother took me to that game and I was in the enclosure nearest to Grange End. Next two games were in the Grange End with my sister. Hooked straight away!
Spedger
23-08-16, 15:07
Jordi Culé

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Originally Posted by Charlie

14 April 1979 Cardiff City 3 - 1 Brighton & Hove Albion
15:00 Gary Stevens Goal 37'
Tony Evans Goal 41'
Ronnie Moore Goal 90' Goal 14' Peter Ward Stadium: Ninian Park
Attendance: 12,613
Referee: Brian Stevens (Stonehouse)

From wiki.

Thank you sir:thumbup:
23-08-16, 15:10
Feedback

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watford around 1984. 1-0 in the league cup IIRC
23-08-16, 15:11
Jordi Culé

Re: First time you went to Ninian Park

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Originally Posted by the other bob wilson

Only just got in and I see you've got the details of the match now. My first thought when I read your message was "he saw Ronnie Moore score the first time he watched us play, that must be a club that can hold it's annual reunion in a broom cupboard".

I've not looked at the link about the game that!'s been posted, but I'm pretty sure Mark Lawrenson and Peter Sayer were in the Brighton team.

I can remember Peter Ward playing for Brighton. I didn't know it was Ronnie Moores first goal but there again a lot of the occasion has passed me by.

Cheers Bob.
23-08-16, 15:17
Mrs Steve R

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I first went in 95 with my boyfriend (not Steve) I have no idea who we were playing, I just remember it was a freezing cold Tues night, it was damp and depressing and I couldn't understand why I suddenly had to start hating England :hehe:

I still wanted to go again though :-)
23-08-16, 15:23
Jordi Culé

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Originally Posted by Mrs Steve R

I first went in 95 with my boyfriend (not Steve) I have no idea who we were playing, I just remember it was a freezing cold Tues night, it was damp and depressing and I couldn't understand why I suddenly had to start hating England :hehe:

I still wanted to go again though :-)

I'm assuming then the then boyfriend must've been a bit of alright?
23-08-16, 15:32
Mrs Steve R

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Originally Posted by Jordi Culé

I'm assuming then the then boyfriend must've been alright?

Depends what you mean by alright.
23-08-16, 15:33
casinogame

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My Dad used to sit me on a barrier somewhere near to the TV gantry on the Bob Bank holding on to me throughout the match.
23-08-16, 15:38
Jordi Culé

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Originally Posted by Mrs Steve R

Depends what you mean by alright.

Well your description of the game doesn't sound too appealing so I'm assuming a must've at least bought you a pasty?
23-08-16, 16:13
GRUMPYS DEN

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1955-against Blackpool and we lost 2-1.Stan Montgomery scored our goal.I was in the Canton Stand on a friend's fathers'season ticket and thought I was special.Started going regularly the following season in the kids enclosure in the Grangetown Stand-9d admission.61 years on and I still have the 'bug'-now accompanied by my son and grandson and sit by my cousin who is my age.
Still love the day out-still go through all the emotions but they are my team and whatever drama goes on around the club (and there have been plenty)it makes no difference.Life is too short to worry about what are in effect short term problems.
23-08-16, 16:22
Mrs Steve R

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Originally Posted by Jordi Culé

Well your description of the game doesn't sound too appealing so I'm assuming a must've at least bought you a pasty?

:hehe:
23-08-16, 16:24
Splott David

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Originally Posted by Mrs Steve R

I first went in 95 with my boyfriend (not Steve) I have no idea who we were playing, I just remember it was a freezing cold Tues night, it was damp and depressing and I couldn't understand why I suddenly had to start hating England :hehe:

I still wanted to go again though :-)

It's only been 21 years. Ring him up and see if he's up for taking you again..
23-08-16, 16:46
BlueWales

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1965 home to Real Zaragoza in the Cup Winners Cup.
Floodlights , huge crowd , wonderful smell of beer and fags , Golden Goal tickets on sale ,
huge queues at the Grange End turnstiles , super atmosphere...............but we lost.

However I was hooked for ever and a day.
23-08-16, 16:56
Arfur Europe

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I'm proud to say my first ever live match was a Wales one at Ninian Park:

https://youtu.be/OnlJpNM69W4

:wales:

I then somehow developed a love for the place, so got down the City not long afterwards as a 10 year old for this classic:

http://www.11v11.com/matches/cardiff...er-1986-49271/
23-08-16, 17:04
Des Parrot

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Originally Posted by Mrs Steve R

I first went in 95 with my boyfriend (not Steve) I have no idea who we were playing, I just remember it was a freezing cold Tues night, it was damp and depressing and I couldn't understand why I suddenly had to start hating England :hehe:

I still wanted to go again though :-)

Sounds like Mrs.Parrots first game as well! January '94 0-0 v Barnet cold, wet & boring in front of 5,000, took until 2015 to get her to go again (2-1 win at Brentford)
23-08-16, 17:06
Des Parrot

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Originally Posted by TH63

Not long after my dad started taking me, he decided that NP was no place for a young kid what with all the flying seats/coins/fists etc and stopped taking me until I was old enough to go with my mates.

You left out the Kung-Fu stars & oranges full of razor blades .... fun days :yikes:
23-08-16, 17:23
Whisperer

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Originally Posted by the other bob wilson

Yes it was - 1-1 in a match that Carlisle had to win to stay up at City's expense. There was a massive scrap in the dying minutes involving about twenty players after a frantic scramble in City's penalty area after Carlisle had just missed out on the goal that would have kept them up.

I doff my hat to you Sir.:thumbup:
23-08-16, 17:36
Mrs Steve R

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Originally Posted by Splott David

It's only been 21 years. Ring him up and see if he's up for taking you again..

Perhaps we (Steve & I) should meet up with you and go to a game together? be good to meet the real David, if such a person even exists.

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Originally Posted by Des Parrot

Sounds like Mrs.Parrots first game as well! January '94 0-0 v Barnet cold, wet & boring in front of 5,000, took until 2015 to get her to go again (2-1 win at Brentford)

:hehe: It took her that long to thaw?
23-08-16, 19:11
Something Blue

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Everton FA cup 1977 is the first I remember. Poor back pass.
23-08-16, 19:17
Organ Morgan.

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I'd use a different adjective to poor.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=40UoS7YCmy8
23-08-16, 19:34
Heathblue

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It was a night Game, I was on the grange end with my dad, Ronnie Bird was playing, cannot remember date or who against.
23-08-16, 20:02
life on mars

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wow wonderful stuff ,in the post , its well in the blood " shared pain of losing binds fans together as much as winning"
23-08-16, 20:06
jeepster

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Originally Posted by life on mars

wow wonderful stuff ,in the post , its well in the blood " shared pain of losing binds fans together as much as winning"

This is so true,it was not about winning but just being there.:thumbup:
23-08-16, 20:37
Mrs Steve R

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Originally Posted by Cyclops

6 January 1968 Cardiff 3 Pompey 0
First time I took Mrs Cyclops out!
I was hooked!
Married 46 years now.

The game was good as well...:hehe:
Weather detail - it snowed that night....

Didn't see this earlier, so glad you made a miraculous recovery.
23-08-16, 20:55
Random in Duquesa

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My dad took me , Roughly 66/67 v Hereford in Welsh cup final . I think it was about 6-3 to City, and Toshack might have had a hatrick ?
I stood in the corner of the Bob bank and grange end near the huge pylons. I remember the grange singing Johnny Jonny Toshack la la la la . Also the smell of the place and walking under the grange end.
I was hooked , and couldn't wait to go again , but usually had to watch the floodlights from my bedroom high up in Pentrebane while listening on the radio , until I was allowed to go with mates.
23-08-16, 22:09
Something Blue

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Originally Posted by Organ Morgan.

I'd use a different adjective to poor.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=40UoS7YCmy8

Jesus! I've never seen that clip thanks, yes poor was putting it very mildly, I was only 10 though so didn't remember how monumentally shit it was!
24-08-16, 11:56
kendoddsdadsdogsdead

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1967/68..my Dad's friend was a City fan and asked if I wanted to go with him...yes please!
We beat Millwall 2-1..with Brian Clark scoring a bizarre header from the edge of the centre circle...can someone please con firm I wasn't dreaming?
( I've actually had it confirmed by someone I met in a camping site near Bordeaux in June...it was his first game too)
24-08-16, 12:16
jeepster

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Originally Posted by kendoddsdadsdogsdead

1967/68..my Dad's friend was a City fan and asked if I wanted to go with him...yes please!
We beat Millwall 2-1..with Brian Clark scoring a bizarre header from the edge of the centre circle...can someone please con firm I wasn't dreaming?
( I've actually had it confirmed by someone I met in a camping site near Bordeaux in June...it was his first game too)

It was straight from a Millwall goal kick he headed it over the keeper into the net.
24-08-16, 12:18
darran1927

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Sat 09 Dec 1995/96 Cardiff City 2 - 0 Hartlepool Utd
24-08-16, 18:14
Mr Soul '68

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5th October 1968, City 1 - 1 Villa, taken my dad as an 8 year old. Went back a month later to see City 2 -1 Blackburn, and I was hooked for life!
24-08-16, 21:00
elytillidie

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City v Leicester, 1969, drew 1-1, Peter Shilton was in goal for them. Refused to go back until we sold Toshack.
24-08-16, 21:08
CCFCPhil

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my first game was wales playing yogoslavea

what year was that

tosh played that game

relly big croud and crap ref
24-08-16, 22:13
Neathblue63

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40 years tomorrow. A 2-1 defeat against Bristol Rovers in the league cup. August 25th 76. Clive Charles with a penalty for City. Been hooked ever since.
25-08-16, 02:10
chris

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Originally Posted by Something Blue

Jesus! I've never seen that clip thanks, yes poor was putting it very mildly, I was only 10 though so didn't remember how monumentally shit it was!

duncan mckenzie jesus, what a player he was :thumbup: forest, leeds , anderlecht, everton , a class act . :thumbup:

a total maverick, up there with stan bowles, frank worthington, tony currie, and many others of that time, loads of ability but would never conform in a million years :thumbup:
25-08-16, 04:25
light up the darkness

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18 Apr 1964 against Southampton lost 2-4. No idea who scored but I remember vividly how long the summer felt waiting for the chance to go again when the next season started

First game was against Ipswich town 0-0

That was the season we had a run in the European Cup Winners cup

and the song that rang in my head "His name is Jimmy Scoular he’s the leader of the blues, we never get beat at Ninian park we never ever lose..." yeah

Happy days

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