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You must be talking about Mostyn? They along with Glyn Derw were saps. We battered both schools at everything.Originally Posted by SLUDGE FACTORY
I went to Glan Ely and played for Cardiff school boys football all the way through and had an under 15 trial for Wales.
When I was in form 1 my maths teacher Mr K D Davies told my mum and dad I could get a better maths result if I played rugby for the school my dad told him to piss off.
KD was a rugby freak, but he was outnumbered.
Mr Lizakowski liked his football.
I remember Mr Davis, tall with a beard. Never liked him. He was a rugby nut. Football still dominated, we even had a school five aside tournament sponsored by barclays. Our class came second.
I remember 1 maths lesson first lesson on a Monday morning K D Davies had been to Edinburgh for the rugby he just said get on with some work quietly and sat there with his head in his hands completely pissed.
Lizacowski was a biology teacher he never told my mum and dad if I played football I'd get a better mark in biology.
In form 4 no teachers would take the football team due to no overtime/after school activities. So we got a remedial teacher to drive the school mini bus and my dad picked the side and did the tactics.
My sisters brother in law was a teacher in a Pontypridd school and at a family party in the early 80s he told my dad that football should be banned in all Welsh schools ,that's what we were up against back then.
Giorgio Chinaglia was a pupil at my school. Played for Inter Milan, Lazio and was capped 14 times by Italy. Not 1 picture of him in the corridors of my school. Cyril Thompson who played for Cardiff Schools u14's rugby-At least 1 photo and various team photos. Not to blow my own trumpet, but it's on Topic. Cardiff Schools Football-All ages. Wales Schools u16s- 5 caps. Wales Youth Football u16's , with every County of Wales represented. Not 1 single photo of me or predentation on the school stage, like the rugger lads had when they recieved their special Cardiff schools rugby tie.
Quite correct, the photo ‘hall of fame’ outside the boys hall in my time didn’t have a round ball in sight. No mention of Chinaglia, who was a few years before me, might have been some truth in the rumour, which grew more tasty over the years, that he gave our ‘favourite teacher’ a clip under provocation.
The new school at the bottom of Cyncoed road is the same. All three of my kids went there. There are even more photos now, it's a shrine, photos going back to the 60's. I was shit in school, didn't enjoy a minute of it, but it would have been nice for my kids to see something positive about their old man in the corridors of the school we both attended
Mine went to Corpus Christi as well. We had a fair old side when I was at Lady Mary and won a few trophies at intermediate & senior level but I’d be embarrassed if our team’s photos were up in lights, I’ve still got the photos. Dear God we looked like the ragged arse rovers, alongside the well turned out, pristine rugby team’s photos we’d look like something out of the workhouseThe new school at the bottom of Cyncoed road is the same. All three of my kids went there. There are even more photos now, it's a shrine, photos going back to the 60's. I was shit in school, didn't enjoy a minute of it, but it would have been nice for my kids to see something positive about their old man in the corridors of the school we both attended
The lost Property BasketMine went to Corpus Christi as well. We had a fair old side when I was at Lady Mary and won a few trophies at intermediate & senior level but I’d be embarrassed if our team’s photos were up in lights, I’ve still got the photos. Dear God we looked like the ragged arse rovers, alongside the well turned out, pristine rugby team’s photos we’d look like something out of the workhouse
Kids in Cardiff were always more into playing football than rugby, it was just the teachers and the council no doubt pushing the egg.
Certain schools were just more rugby like St illtyds, glantaff, Radyr…cantononian, fitzalan, llanishen more football?
It's much better now, it has to be. It was a sort of establishment thing, which seemed more prevalent in years gone by. If i was to make an observation, it seemed that the schools is the poorer areas of the City were less Rugby orientated. Read into that what you will
I went to the same school, good days.The new school at the bottom of Cyncoed road is the same. All three of my kids went there. There are even more photos now, it's a shrine, photos going back to the 60's. I was shit in school, didn't enjoy a minute of it, but it would have been nice for my kids to see something positive about their old man in the corridors of the school we both attended
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