New Cardiff City book should be on sale within three days!

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Originally Posted by the other bob wilson

I might not sell many books, but I've just had word that a certain Peter King will be buying one of them!

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Order placed. Looking forward to reading it.

Your book has arrived, thanks very much Paul. Looks good, will be reading it this weekend. As a 19 year old then, my memory of the Real Madrid night is rather hazy apart from the goal, although one of the guys who we were walking home with seems to remember playing football with a cabbage in the streets

Good work Bob :thumbup:

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Originally Posted by the other bob wilson

http://mauveandyellowarmy.net/

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Arrived today
Looking forward to reading it.

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Originally Posted by ksbenchpwllheli

Your book has arrived, thanks very much Paul. Looks good, will be reading it this weekend. As a 19 year old then, my memory of the Real Madrid night is rather hazy apart from the goal, although one of the guys who we were walking home with seems to remember playing football with a cabbage in the streets

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I'm not sure what to say about that, except that cabbages in that era makes me think of "it's Friday, it's five o clock and it's Crackerjack!" - thanks for buying the book anyway.

I don't know if the person who left a nice review of the book on Amazon is on this board, but thanks a lot if you are.

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Originally Posted by the other bob wilson

I'm not sure what to say about that, except that cabbages in that era makes me think of "it's Friday, it's five o clock and it's Crackerjack!" - thanks for buying the book anyway.

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How many shouted Crackerjack when reading that?!

Just ordered the paperback. Will read it next week. Looking forward to it and all the very best wishes. It was my very first Cardiff City match. I still have the programme.

Brilliant, brought back so many memories. A few recollections. I was for some reason just as pissed off with us selling Peter Rodrigues a few years earlier and certainly Ramsey for a measly £5M later on. Tosh was at Radnor Road with me, same team, I was in goal. Lots of after school kickabouts on top-level of nearby Thompsons Park where you could incidentally look down on the Llandaf Road ground which was home of Cardiff Corries then (didn't know it was called Coronation Park though?).
All those goals from crosses! I can remember every week Ronnie Bird, Nigel Rees and Peter King galloping to the goalline (pity our wingers dont do that more now) and Tosh, Clark and Warboys heading them in. Uncanny similar experience at St Andrews when my lift broke down and I hitched the last 30 miles to arrive at half-time (got in free!) into a very hostile atmosphere which I can remember to this day,..... and the Watford game. I would disagree and say that we would have won 99 times out of a 100! From the far end of the Bob Bank all I saw of the "goal" was Watford players appearing out of a duststorm which engulfed the whole penalty area, and running back to the halfway line.
Trained it to Sheffield where indeed the Blades blew us away with fast attacking football and some excellent goals. To add to the surprise, the Bramall Lane ground only had 3 sides as one long side was open to a cricket field!
Thanks again Paul. Great stuff.

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Originally Posted by ksbenchpwllheli

Brilliant, brought back so many memories. A few recollections. I was for some reason just as pissed off with us selling Peter Rodrigues a few years earlier and certainly Ramsey for a measly £5M later on. Tosh was at Radnor Road with me, same team, I was in goal. Lots of after school kickabouts on top-level of nearby Thompsons Park where you could incidentally look down on the Llandaf Road ground which was home of Cardiff Corries then (didn't know it was called Coronation Park though?).
All those goals from crosses! I can remember every week Ronnie Bird, Nigel Rees and Peter King galloping to the goalline (pity our wingers dont do that more now) and Tosh, Clark and Warboys heading them in. Uncanny similar experience at St Andrews when my lift broke down and I hitched the last 30 miles to arrive at half-time (got in free!) into a very hostile atmosphere which I can remember to this day,..... and the Watford game. I would disagree and say that we would have won 99 times out of a 100! From the far end of the Bob Bank all I saw of the "goal" was Watford players appearing out of a duststorm which engulfed the whole penalty area, and running back to the halfway line.
Trained it to Sheffield where indeed the Blades blew us away with fast attacking football and some excellent goals. To add to the surprise, the Bramall Lane ground only had 3 sides as one long side was open to a cricket field!
Thanks again Paul. Great stuff.

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Thanks very much, glad it brought back so many memories.

Talking of Peter Rodrigues, he replied to my blog piece on Bob Wilson and I wrote back to him saying that he was probably my first City hero after I watched him score against Rotherham after being pushed up front in pre substitute days as nuisance value when he got injured.

You've got me thinking about Coronation Park/Corinthian Park now, I think you may well be right.

I remember John Toshack coming up to Fairwater to watch his younger brother play against Cantonian on a day when City had a home game and everyone spent more time watching him than the game.

I mention in the book that Charlie Woods who scored the winning goal in the game down here saying that Watford would go to Sheffield United on the last day of the season and do us a favour by winning there, but I didn't believe him for a second - they were a poor side whose goalkeeper (a Welshman!) just happened to play a blinder.

It's funny, before I wrote the book I knew of very few people who were at the Sheffield United game, but since it came out you're the fourth person to tell me they were there - they all say much the same as you about us being blown away.

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Originally Posted by the other bob wilson

Thanks very much, glad it brought back so many memories.

Talking of Peter Rodrigues, he replied to my blog piece on Bob Wilson and I wrote back to him saying that he was probably my first City hero after I watched him score against Rotherham after being pushed up front in pre substitute days as nuisance value when he got injured.

You've got me thinking about Coronation Park/Corinthian Park now, I think you may well be right.

I remember John Toshack coming up to Fairwater to watch his younger brother play against Cantonian on a day when City had a home game and everyone spent more time watching him than the game.

I mention in the book that Charlie Woods who scored the winning goal in the game down here saying that Watford would go to Sheffield United on the last day of the season and do us a favour by winning there, but I didn't believe him for a second - they were a poor side whose goalkeeper (a Welshman!) just happened to play a blinder.

It's funny, before I wrote the book I knew of very few people who were at the Sheffield United game, but since it came out you're the fourth person to tell me they were there - they all say much the same as you about us being blown away.

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Corinthian Park was the Corries ground on Llandaff Rd, Coronation Park was the City’s ground on Sloper Rd, old double decker bus for changing rooms at one time:hehe: Grange Albion’s ground now.

Just finished reading it and thoroughly enjoyed every page.

The John Toshack chapter opened some old wounds because I'd been nagging my parents to be able to go and watch City play for years. I was only 9 at the time and my mother was against it. Toshack was a player I only read and heard about and never saw play until 1979 for Wales.

As I mentioned in a previous post, my first match was Real Madrid. I got my uncle to take me and the rest, as they say, is history.

You mention an account in the Sunday New Of The World running a piece about the Toshack sale before the Monday papers covered it in full. Do you happen to know who the writer was? The main football journalist at the time was likely to have been Frank Butler but as it was a Cardiff City story it could have been my other uncle Lloyd Lewis who used to cover City in the late 1950's and early 1960's for the NOTW. Just thought I'd ask.

I will leave a review on Amazon this week and am looking forward to your next book!

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Originally Posted by Citizen's Nephew

Just finished reading it and thoroughly enjoyed every page.

The John Toshack chapter opened some old wounds because I'd been nagging my parents to be able to go and watch City play for years. I was only 9 at the time and my mother was against it. Toshack was a player I only read and heard about and never saw play until 1979 for Wales.

As I mentioned in a previous post, my first match was Real Madrid. I got my uncle to take me and the rest, as they say, is history.

You mention an account in the Sunday New Of The World running a piece about the Toshack sale before the Monday papers covered it in full. Do you happen to know who the writer was? The main football journalist at the time was likely to have been Frank Butler but as it was a Cardiff City story it could have been my other uncle Lloyd Lewis who used to cover City in the late 1950's and early 1960's for the NOTW. Just thought I'd ask.

I will leave a review on Amazon this week and am looking forward to your next book!

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Thanks very much and all reviews (good or bad) are appreciated.

I was around seven and a half when my father took me to my first match, but within a further eighteen months or so, my parents were prepared to let my go to games with my schoolmates who were all around the same age as me - I did know a few from school though who weren't allowed to go to games for a good few years after I started.

I may be wrong about the News of the World regarding the Toshack transfer. I can definitely remember that the story broke on the Sunday and that no one in our house knew about it until the following day - we had the Sunday Mirror and Sunday Express delivered when I was a kid, so it didn't appear in either of them.

I said the News of the World because I thought it was probably the most likely of the papers around then to have the story, but there were others like the People, the Mail etc. which could have been the ones to break it.

The last third or so of the book was written while we were in lockdown and it was a great way to pass the time, so, if it works out that we do have to stay in for sustained periods again, I may think about doing something else - God knows what it would be about mind!

I had thought about doing something similar to mark the fiftieth anniversary of our 75/76 promotion season, but that would, obviously, be a few years down the line.

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Originally Posted by the other bob wilson

Thanks very much and all reviews (good or bad) are appreciated.

I was around seven and a half when my father took me to my first match, but within a further eighteen months or so, my parents were prepared to let my go to games with my schoolmates who were all around the same age as me - I did know a few from school though who weren't allowed to go to games for a good few years after I started.

I may be wrong about the News of the World regarding the Toshack transfer. I can definitely remember that the story broke on the Sunday and that no one in our house knew about it until the following day - we had the Sunday Mirror and Sunday Express delivered when I was a kid, so it didn't appear in either of them.

I said the News of the World because I thought it was probably the most likely of the papers around then to have the story, but there were others like the People, the Mail etc. which could have been the ones to break it.

The last third or so of the book was written while we were in lockdown and it was a great way to pass the time, so, if it works out that we do have to stay in for sustained periods again, I may think about doing something else - God knows what it would be about mind!

I had thought about doing something similar to mark the fiftieth anniversary of our 75/76 promotion season, but that would, obviously, be a few years down the line.

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Your'e welcome and you should definitely write the 75/76 book. :thumbup:

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Originally Posted by the other bob wilson

Thanks very much and all reviews (good or bad) are appreciated.

I was around seven and a half when my father took me to my first match, but within a further eighteen months or so, my parents were prepared to let my go to games with my schoolmates who were all around the same age as me - I did know a few from school though who weren't allowed to go to games for a good few years after I started.

I may be wrong about the News of the World regarding the Toshack transfer. I can definitely remember that the story broke on the Sunday and that no one in our house knew about it until the following day - we had the Sunday Mirror and Sunday Express delivered when I was a kid, so it didn't appear in either of them.

I said the News of the World because I thought it was probably the most likely of the papers around then to have the story, but there were others like the People, the Mail etc. which could have been the ones to break it.

The last third or so of the book was written while we were in lockdown and it was a great way to pass the time, so, if it works out that we do have to stay in for sustained periods again, I may think about doing something else - God knows what it would be about mind!

I had thought about doing something similar to mark the fiftieth anniversary of our 75/76 promotion season, but that would, obviously, be a few years down the line.

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Just the fact that your house had two Sunday papers delivered is a sign of past times. We always had the Sunday Pictorial (The ‘Pic’ which became the Sunday Mirror) and The People. I wouldn’t have thought that many households have two Sundays delivered nowadays.

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Just the fact that your house had two Sunday papers delivered is a sign of past times. We always had the Sunday Pictorial (The ‘Pic’ which became the Sunday Mirror) and The People. I wouldn’t have thought that many households have two Sundays delivered nowadays.

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Would it still have been the Pictorial when Toshack was sold? I think it changed title back in the sixties didn't it? I'm not sure there'd be too many families who have one paper delivered on a Sunday now, I was still getting two Sunday papers (The Observer and Wales on Sunday) until quite recently, but I'd often get the latter in a Brains pub in town late on a Saturday night before catching the last bus home.

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Originally Posted by the other bob wilson

Would it still have been the Pictorial when Toshack was sold? I think it changed title back in the sixties didn't it? I'm not sure there'd be too many families who have one paper delivered on a Sunday now, I was still getting two Sunday papers (The Observer and Wales on Sunday) until quite recently, but I'd often get the latter in a Brains pub in town late on a Saturday night before catching the last bus home.

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I think The Pic changed to the Mirror around early/mid 60s.

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Originally Posted by splott parker

Corinthian Park was the Corries ground on Llandaff Rd, Coronation Park was the City’s ground on Sloper Rd, old double decker bus for changing rooms at one time:hehe: Grange Albion’s ground now.

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That's correct. City's Welsh League team also used Corinthian Park and I remember going there to watch them play Haverfordwest because Mel Charles, Ivor Allchurch and Derek Tapscott were all playing for the visitors long after they'd left City.