For all Cardiff City fans who aren't from Cardiff

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Originally Posted by J R Hartley

When I was an impressionable teenager Merthyr was blue. It was the height of the hooligan era late 80s / early 90s and it was certainly not a safe place for the few Jacks in town. Supporting Swansea was not something you broadcast around Merthyr in those days.

These days since the 7 years the Jacks spent in the PL there’s a lot more Jacks in Merthyr. I’d still say the town was blue but not the large majority that it used to be.

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The worst times to be a city supporter was back in the 70's. So much violence

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Originally Posted by The Hooded Claw

Wouldn’t be Ludchurch would it?

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No, that would have been a hell of a guess though

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Originally Posted by welshwarrior

The worst times to be a city supporter was back in the 70's. So much violence

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Oh fk yes

It was the best of times It was the worst of times

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Originally Posted by light up the darkness

Oh fk yes

It was the best of times It was the worst of times

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It was pretty naughty in the nineties and early 2000s too

The 70s were something else, no segregation, you wore your colours everywhere as a badge of honour (even if secretly you were shitting yourself), train stations, the route to the ground, the ground itself, then you had to make your way back to the station. It was like the movie 'The Warriors' every single week, I wouldn't have changed it though, great times.

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Originally Posted by Joe Gillis

The 70s were something else, no segregation, you wore your colours everywhere as a badge of honour (even if secretly you were shitting yourself), train stations, the route to the ground, the ground itself, then you had to make your way back to the station. It was like the movie 'The Warriors' every single week, I wouldn't have changed it though, great times.

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The lower leagues in the mid to late eighties and nineties

City fans would invade places like hereford , exeter , stockport , tranmere etc

It was a bit of a shock at times , for us

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Originally Posted by delmbox

No, that would have been a hell of a guess though

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I knew a Delme from Ludchurch back in the 80s and he’s the only Delme I’ve met, so thought I’d take a punt!

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Originally Posted by Joe Gillis

The 70s were something else, no segregation, you wore your colours everywhere as a badge of honour (even if secretly you were shitting yourself), train stations, the route to the ground, the ground itself, then you had to make your way back to the station. It was like the movie 'The Warriors' every single week, I wouldn't have changed it though, great times.

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Practically no CCTV anywhere, no mobile phone calls from mates who'd already arrived at the away game destination... you really did stumble blindly into some very naughty situations.
'Football specials', resulting in ridiculous numbers of away fans arriving on mass, making it difficult for the police to get a grip on things.
Drinking alcohol on the buses to away days.

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Originally Posted by The Hooded Claw

I knew a Delme from Ludchurch back in the 80s and he’s the only Delme I’ve met, so thought I’d take a punt!

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Sorry to be a letdown :hehe:

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Originally Posted by delmbox

Sorry to be a letdown :hehe:

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Not at all! 👍🏻

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Originally Posted by William Treseder

Message board perceptions eh?
You’d want me on your side in a spot of bother.
Trust me on that one. 👍

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Yes, that's obviously what I meant. How else could I mean it?