Ninian Park Memories

[Enoch Mort]

Colin

No, Terry

[alfie]

I remember late sixties early seventies two asian looking guys father and son at every single home game,they never missed a match. Older fans surelywould remember them.You knew where they were as there was aways a cloud of smoke where they inhaled umteen fags during the game. The son still goes but his dad sadly passed away a good few years ago.

[the other bob wilson]

I remember late sixties early seventies two asian looking guys father and son at every single home game,they never missed a match. Older fans surelywould remember them.You knew where they were as there was aways a cloud of smoke where they inhaled umteen fags during the game. The son still goes but his dad sadly passed away a good few years ago.

I remember them, on the Bob Bank as I recall, so I'm talking about around the mid seventies. You're right about the fags and the older one always used to shout "hold them out Cardiff" which I presumed meant don't concede (which would have fitted in with how crap we were at the time!), but I suppose it could have meant something else!

Talking of programme sellers and going back a long, long time, I can remember there always being one by each of the old Whore's Bed and Ninian Park pubs as well.

[Taunton Blue Genie]

Signs advertising Bif-Baf Bingo (whatever that was) Golden Goal Tickets. The olfactory cocktail of manky pasties and people chewing Juicy Fruit where the Grange End met the Bob Bank. A tree growing out of the wall at the rear of the Ninian Stand. The rusty floodlights. And last but not least, the sight of steam rising from the roofless, breeze-block Pissoir where the Bob Bank met the Ninian Stand. And who said romance is dead?

[A Quiet Monkfish]

I remember them, on the Bob Bank as I recall, so I'm talking about around the mid seventies. You're right about the fags and the older one always used to shout "hold them out Cardiff" which I presumed meant don't concede (which would have fitted in with how crap we were at the time!), but I suppose it could have meant something else!

Talking of programme sellers and going back a long, long time, I can remember there always being one by each of the old Whore's Bed and Ninian Park pubs as well.

What ??

[the other bob wilson]

What ??

It was called the Boar’s Head.

[splott parker]

It was called the Boar’s Head.

Well known local Spoonerism.

[life on mars]

Cold wintry nights.
Walk down Sloper Road form bus station
Chips half way
Sneak into Ninian for under age drink ( if lucky )
Turn corner see the lights which lit up the sky then much more than now .
Shout abuse at the incoming Barry and Valley trains.
Sing songs about coppers and the wives
Especially enjoy those wonderful European games .
Always in the grange for the fun
Bovril
Peeing under the stand

Such politically correct times