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Me and a bunch of mates bunked off school and went to watch a reserve game in midweek in late August of 1965. After that it was City on Saturday afternoons and dawg racing at the Arms Park later that night. We were usually left without a pot to piss in by the end of the night and invariably faced a long walk back to deepest darkest Splott...
Hull stubs, 1968 version.
City were due to play Arsenal in the FA cup 4/1/69. (52k 0-0, my feet never touched the floor!)
The week before they played Hull, winning 3-0, Toshack, Clark & King (I think), so my uncle took me to make sure of tickets for the Arsenal game.
So Hull stubs are nothing new & I've been a glory hunting City fan ever since, with 1000+ games under my scarf.
My first game was home to Spurs. I was seven years of age and think it was 1960 ?Originally Posted by Des Parrot
I think we won 3-2 (or did we lose 3-2 ?)
Couldn't see too much from the terraces although Spurs had Greaves and Brown up front with Blanchflower, Mac Kay, White, Medwin etc..
Fantastic team. City went down that year.
I did see the Arsenal game you mentioned. Although 0-0 the atmosphere was fantastic.
I believe we were top of the second division while they were top of the first ?
Never seen a crowd like it since.
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...
Weather detail - it snowed that night....
Didn't see this earlier, so glad you made a miraculous recovery.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...
Weather detail - it snowed that night....
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.
It was 11 March 1961 (60-61 season) It was my first game too. We won 3 - 2. (Spurs won the league and we got relegated lo Bit like us and Man City in the Prem) It was a night game under floodlights in the season spurs did the double. attendance over 45,000. I sat on my fathers shoulders all through the game. Wales had beaten Ireland 3 - 0 in a packed Cardiff Arms Park that afternoon and my father took me to both games. Better than any christmas I ever had.
22 August 1959 - 3-2 win over Liverpool. I remember virtually nothing of the game other than it was a sunny day and the pitch looked perfect ( it was the first game of the season so that wasn't going to last) and also we had a black player playing for us which was unusual in those days - Steve Mokone who also scored that day.
them were the days , beating liverpool
then everybody went home had bread and jam for tea, listened to the wireless blew the candles out and went to bed.
1987 - my dad took me. He had taken me in the early 80's, I remember Jeff Hemmerman coming onto the pitch on crutches, we sat in the Canton End.
Then he didn't go for a few years because of unemployment. One day he called me and asked me if I wanted to go to the game, against Exeter City.
We used to park on Bessemer Road, and the buzz I got whenever I saw the floodlights was the greatest.
I lived for Saturday 3pm, there was no place on earth that I would rather be.
Huddersfield 4th May 1968 - No Score Bore - and I still got the bug!
First City goal witnessed was Peter King in a 1-0 win home against Preston early the following season.
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.
Also used to mitch off my Wednesday school sports afternoon when I could during the mid Seventies to watch the home Combination games. Free entry into the Grandstand as I recall - happy days!
1961, Combination game, 1-1 draw against Ipswich, wasn't allowed to go to a first team game because of the crowds (Mam reckoned I was too little). Had to wait another 50 odd years to see the City in the top division, thanks Mam
November 11th 1961.
Cardiff City 2 Sheffield Wednesday 1
An evening game
Aged 7, I was hooked.
A 1-0 win over Northampton in October 63 with the goal coming from a Mel Charles header, but it was only when I went along to my first floodlit match about six months later that I was truly hooked.
1977.....Carlisle Utd Can't remember too much about it i think it was a draw.
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.
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.
October 1970 v Leciester 2-2.
Uncle was down from Leicester and my dad took us.
If I recall, Toshack and Clarke were the scorers for us, that season came down to the wire if I remember right, with Leicester winning promotion to the old first division, with us missing out. We then sold Toshack to Liverpool and the rest as they say is history.
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.
Last edited by Charlie; 23-08-16 at 12:40.
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.
[QUOTE=Jordi Culé;4663971]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.
That was one of my favourite city matches ever.
Peter award put in Brighton one up then City stormed back to win 3-1, which was quite a turn around against a Brighton team gunning for the first division,?that's the old First division. Tony Evans got one, can't recall who else scored.
I seem to recall Rod Thomas finishing the match with a bandage following a nasty head cut.
City were on a great end Of season run under Richie Morgan and beat another promotion favourite Sunderland away. Those were good times watching the city with their iconic
I doff my hat to you Sir.
70 - 71 season.
Beat Blackburn 4-1 in a cracker of a game.
Hooked ever since.
It happened to be the first match after Toshack left, "Toshack is a reject" was the chant of the day.
19 aug 1967 v Plymouth.
Cardiff City v Newcastle United August 1962. 1st game after relegation from 1st Division.
4-4. 27,000 in shirtsleeves. The colours, the sounds, the smells, sometimes I close my eyes and get a mental glimpse of that day 54 years ago ..
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