Reply With QuoteApparently there was a Cardiff team admitted to the Western League in 1895, although they were thrown out for not paying league fines.
Maybe this was Cardiff Villa?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1895%E...826532033657-5
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An interesting find - post by Steve Borley .Might be of interest to some on here
An interesting find during renovation works. Wonder if any historian can find any info on this club. It is not however @CardiffCityFC which was formed in 1899 as Riverside Athletic Club which later became Cardiff City AFC in 1908 pic.twitter.com/SWn5EdxjvQ
— Steve Borley (@SteveCMB) August 2, 2022
Apparently there was a Cardiff team admitted to the Western League in 1895, although they were thrown out for not paying league fines.
Maybe this was Cardiff Villa?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1895%E...826532033657-5
It may be rugby related perhaps? Rugby clubs were often referred to as football clubs.
Yep. Cardiff rugby's badges have generally had three arrows on them. Think it might be something to do with rivers but I'm not really sure.Originally Posted by JamesWales
it's the emblem of Glamorgan
Wonder why Cardiff rugby have generally always used it then?
because Cardiff is in Glamorgan?
I don't mean the cricket team I mean the county and before that the Welsh kingdom of morgannwg
Yes, I understood that. I had something in the back of my mind that Cardiff RFC used the three to signify the three rivers in Cardiff; Rhymney, Taff and Ely.
Someone posted this in the comments. Season ticket for the rugby https://cardiffrugbymuseum.org/objec...-ticket-189697
The three inverted chevrons was the shield identifier of the de Clare family who were gifted the lands hereabouts in the 1200s.
Gilbert also built Caerphilly castle
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gilb..._of_Gloucester
Clare street etc remembers the family name
There was a Cardiff FC in 1890, probably the same team that played in the Western League in 1895/96. If I remember correctly they player in red and blue shirts. I'll have to dig into my files for more information.
no, the De Clare shield was chevrons on a yellow background.
the 3 red chevrons on a white background is the shield of Iestyn ap Gwrgant who ruled Morgannwg until it was taken over by Robert Fitzhammon and other Norman Knights a good couple of hundred odd years before Gilbert De Clare was on the scene.
Well I’ll be Fitzhammon embankmented !
Well I do de Clare!
Nice one Bute!
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