Twenty years ago!!!
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Twenty years ago!!!
<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">On this day in 2002, Cardiff City earned a famous victory over then top of the Premier League Leeds to progress to the 4th round of the FA Cup ⚽ <a href="https://t.co/8C0WWqiRo0">pic.twitter.com/8C0WWqiRo0</a></p>— BBC Sport Wales (@BBCSportWales) <a href="https://twitter.com/BBCSportWales/status/1479075899312152582?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 6, 2022</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>
All that, plus Gavin Gordon's "tackle" on Rio, Alan Smith's red card, and Scott Young's other key moment - THAT tackle on Viduka in the second half. What a day! :ayatollah:
I wasn't there (ill) but followed , I think, GillSam's text commentary live. That match and Real Madrid. Two matches I really wished I'd been at. Leeds have only recently recovered from that FA Cup loss. Such a shame.
I was sitting 3 seats away from Perter Risdale during that match. He was mortified at the end of the match with his head in his hands. Strange that his next job was with Cardiff City.
Isn't he now at PNE?, who will be playing at Cardiff City in the third round on the weekend. Almost 10 years to the day of that famous visit.Quote:
Originally Posted by Vindec
The aftermath. Big tough bully boy Leeds fans ringing radio phone ins demanding the match be replayed.
Not to mention that pr!ck David O Leary.
Wasn't this just after a racism case involving Jonathan Wood gate, so when Michael Duberry replaced Ferdinand, they weren't really speaking to each other?
Christ alive I can’t believe it….Quote:
Originally Posted by Michael Morris
From the valleys they were and Barry if I recall…..:hehe:Quote:
Originally Posted by Hilts
I vaguely recall something like that, but also...Quote:
Originally Posted by The Bloop
wasn't Lee Bowyer having his collar felt by the old bill?
Heeeyyyy, Lee Bowyer
I wanna Know...ow...ow
why you're not in jail!
Another trivial thing that comes to mind was a guy walking up and down Sloper Road before the game muttering (not shouting)
"any spare tickets?" Fat chance!
Much later, Rio was being interviewed about an upcoming Euro game in Turkey
"Are you worried about the hostile atmosphere in Galatasaray?"
"No, I've played at Ninian Park!"
:hehe:
It was during the spell when the FA Cup final was played at the Millenium stadium.
David O’Leary said pre match that he wanted the cup run to start and finish in Cardiff 🤣
He got his wish!
One of ( if not the ) most favourite games I have been to, right from the start the atmosphere was evil, the crowd were so far up for it, right from when we parked the car and started to walk to the ground, you knew today was going to be a special day
yes of course we will now frown at the antics that went on, the Missiles being thrown at the Leeds players ( they couldn't play tight to the touchline due to it raining stuff on them ), the abuse they got from the crowd ( the Woodgate / Duberry incident didnt help ), Scam walking around the pitch to Gee the crowd up even more but it was great at the time, the crowd really did play the 12th man, some of the Leeds players looked scared,
The Bowyer chant was one of my favourites I heard in all my time going to Ninian Park. He also got hit by meat pie chucked from the Bob Bank during the game 😁Quote:
Originally Posted by bobh
The ‘Hey, Lee Bowyer’ chant was deafening and when he came on ‘Duberry, Duberry you’re a grass’ must have really made him feel amongst friends :hehe:
In the Canton pub after the game, I borrowed a mate’s mobile phone (in those mediaeval times we didn’t all have them) and using the STD code randomly phoned Leeds area telephone numbers while the pub went quiet. ‘Hello’ I said ‘Did you watch the football on Sky today?’..... ‘Erm, yes’......’Well I’m calling from Cardiff, listen to this’.....cue the pub going mental. Childish, I know, but I was 20 years younger!!!
Take me back - never to be forgotten.
Was a rare visit on the grange end for me that evening, or was it pm I can’t recall….I’ve never heard the Bob bank that noisy in all my time goingQuote:
Originally Posted by blue matt
It was the 4pm live Sky game.Quote:
Originally Posted by goats
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One of those classic "I was there" games. 20 years ago yet seems far, far less than that. In all the games I attended in NP from 1978 on I don't think there was another one to compare with the atmosphere that night - I thought I was going to have a heart attack in the last 10 minutes or so.
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Fantastic day, especially as it was all new for us a late kick off on a Sunday meaning most were on the pop very early.
The atmosphere was probably the best I can recall ever with everyone well watered and up for a sing.
Scott Young's winner is up there with Clarky's against RM as two of City's big game goalscorers.
Hardly a classic goal but soo sweet against dirty Leeds.
It was on the breakfast news all week about our unscrupulous support running amok along with David O'leary's pathetic whining about the hostility of fans and players alike.
Fact was, they were top of the premier league sporting multi-million pound millionaire players from one to eleven and were beaten by a bunch of "no-hopers".
As has been said, that game was the start of their meteoric fall from grace which they have only this last couple of seasons recovered from.
Frightening that it was twenty years ago :yikes:
They had a really good side in those days
Just looking at the line up against us:
Martyn
Gary Kelly, Woodgate and Rio Ferdinand centre backs
Danny Mills and Ian Harte full/wing backs
bowyer and batty in CM
Alan Smith AM
front two of Robbie Fowler and Mark Viduka
finished 5th that year
Top when they played us then slumped to fifth.Quote:
Originally Posted by Rjk
:hehe:
Not forgetting Young's match-saving tackle.Quote:
Originally Posted by MacAdder
I don’t think they won a game afterwards for about 7 matchesQuote:
Originally Posted by bobh
[QUOTE=MacAdder;5261468]Fantastic day, especially as it was all new for us a late kick off on a Sunday meaning most were on the pop very early.
The atmosphere was probably the best I can recall ever with everyone well watered and up for a sing.QUOTE
This was very true - seemed to me everybody had been in the pub drinking all afternoon! The atmosphere even before kick off was electric and continued throughout the game. It was mental when Young scored
Talksport wanted us kicked out of the cup the following week - very funny 😄
Did they go down the following season or was it the one after again?Quote:
Originally Posted by Don Corleone
Not sure but their missing out on CL football cost them big time and the mass exodus of assets ensued.Quote:
Originally Posted by goats
They gambled big and lost.