Reply With QuoteI'm pretty sure he still lives in Rhiwbina. TLG will know.
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The other person I’m trying to trace is Peter Jackson the former Echo writer and Daily Mail rugby reporter- he has a Twitter account which reads as if he still lives in Cardiff, but I was wondering if anyone could let me have his address.
Thanks in advance for any help you can offer.
I'm pretty sure he still lives in Rhiwbina. TLG will know.
Sent you a pm
You (should) have a PM.
Rugby man , not really interested in city
That's not the impression I got when he reported on Cardiff City before he got his job at the Daily Mail.Originally Posted by SLUDGE FACTORY
He wrote a small book - The History of Cardiff City in 1975. He signed my copy a couple of years ago.
The book was The Cardif City Story and came out in 1974/75. Full of stats. I always thought he had like for Coty and is very knowledgeable on a lot of sports.
That's the one.
Without it I'd have never known we toured Canada a year after our cup win and that Len Davies scored 7 in one game on the tour 😮
No, he was THE Cardiff City man at one time.
Unlike the present incumbent he could form a sentence in English too.
Odd thing to ask for someone's home address really , but I expect his last employers would pass it on ( the request) if you wrote to them.
I'm sure they wouldn't.
Saw Peter yesterday walking his dog. He still in rhiwbina. Went to school with his daughters. We often chat about all types of sports.
I opened the thread thinking the worst. Used to be good friends with his youngest
I used to go out with one of his daughters way back in the Eighties. It's fair to say he wasn't impressed with my clothes, my haircuts or my critical reviews of his Sportfolio programme.
Lol
Truthfully was Jackson an egg chaser or a footie fan? Always thought he was the best City Echo reporter I ever knew.
I think he's a good all round sports reporter.
That isn’t right.
Even I remember him writing about Cardiff City and I was only young at the time.
I used to really like reading Joe Lovejoy back in the day.
I worked in the Library at The western Mail and Echo between 1971-75. The library provided support to both the editorial and sports departments. My Department was situated next door to sports which was then occupied by Peter Jackson, Karl Woodward and JBG Thomas. JBG was the rugby writer and Woodward and Jackson used to cover mainly the footy for CCFC and Cwnty.
Peter with a few of the journalists played Sunday League Football at Pontcanna for a team combo with the BBC, under BBC flag. I had a few games on the wing.
He was a very good keeper in an average side.
This was a few years before he left for the Mail. He was a City man through and through then and I have no reason from our several chats that he would ever be anything else.
Karl Woodward also spoke well of city but did not play himself. Karl also covered the boxing and one or two other sports. Both divided their time writing for the popular pink sports paper and covered all the local league stuff.
Chris Stuart joined the Western Mail as a young Journo and later became Peter’s replacement and Chris went onto presenting for BBC and BBC Sports radio commentary with shared duties with fellow Western Mail Journo Grahame Lloyd. Grahame hailed from Lincoln but became a firm City fan and I believe is published. He now works in England somewhere but also used to provide radio commentary for City and Wales games.
I last talked to Grahame after I left the WM and E on the Canton stand at Ninian Park post 1975.
All good people.
JBG Thomas did not want to talk about anything else but egg.
During the relatively brief period when I was seeing Peter's daughter (and it only lasted a few months), Welsh club football was in an especially grim state. Therefore, it got little or no coverage on the BBC Wales programme he was presenting. Sportfolio was always heavily weighted towards rugby and Peter seemed to me to be almost totally disinterested in football, so our handful of conversations about the programme were less than cordial. Bear in mind I was a Cardiff City-obsessed punk rocker with ripped jeans and dyed hair at the time, so I guess it's understandable that me being sat in his living room telling him I thought his TV show was rubbish didn't go down too well.
Years later, while I was doing lots of research on the microfilms at Central Library, I was surprised at how good and extensive his early-Seventies reports and articles about Cardiff City were. I think the path his journalism career took resulted in him concentrating almost exclusively on rugby as time progressed, but there's no doubt he was a very good football writer once upon a time.
Yes, i guess you weren't her dad's idea of a future son in law! Having a daughter myself, I sympathise with him. 😀
His Twitter feed suggests he is? He obviously focuses upon rugby but it’s a bit like your constant ramblings about fishing, heavy metal music and your rejected sexual proposals on unsuspecting women.
Glasshouses and all that...
The Trust had a members night in Llandaff a few years back in which Richard Shepherd and Peter Jackson talked about the City teams of the late sixties/early seventies while showing videos of games from that time (Gary Bell turned up as well). The former rugby correspondent of the Daily Mail told the audience that Cardiff City around the time I mentioned above would be his specialist subject if he ever appeared on Mastermind and, over the next hour or two, he proved that he would have done pretty well if he had been facing the questions.
As for Ronnie Bird and his dig about it being "odd" me wanting his address, my recent book relied heavily on Peter Jackson's reporting of City in the 70/71 season and I would like to send him a copy as a way of saying thank you.
He is regularly on scrum 5 talking rugby , if he follows both sports avidly then I stand corrected , says the man in the orthopaedic shoe
But over the years the only journalist print or otherwise I remember having a season ticket for ccfc during the dark days was the late bob humphries who was a regular in the grandstand with his daughter
Terry Phillips , Lovejoy , Karl Woodward , Robert CHELSEA Phillips ........who i think is a great commentator ......we have had em all
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