Ridiculousness Down The City

[HiVis]

Mine would be February 1991: Cardiff City 1 Aldershot 3. Attendance at Ninian Park - 1,629.

Players' wages unpaid, under a transfer embargo, being sued by the council over unpaid bills, a winding-up order in the High Court over a variety of debts, a black and white programme consisting of four pages because the club couldn't afford to pay the printers for a proper one and a comedy pitch. About a third of it had been completely cleared of snow, but the rest just had the lines cut out as the club didn't have enough ground staff to clear the whole pitch.

Earlier in the season, the team had been knocked out of the FA Cup by Hayes and the Welsh Cup by Merthyr. I left Ninian Park after that woeful Aldershot defeat believing the club was dead. The situation seemed utterly hopeless. It felt like it was certain to be the Bluebirds' final game.

However, in true Cardiff City fashion, the club somehow scraped up enough money to stay alive, while the team won five and drew four of its next nine games. By the time April came around, City were play-off contenders and were beating Northampton in front of the biggest crowd of the season - a bumper 4,805.

Those were the days.

did we beat Northampton by Carl Dale chipping in from about 30 yards out?

edit: according to youtube, the chip happened in the Sep 1991 game, so probably the season after the aldershot game.

[Bluebirdman Of Alcathays]

Mine would be February 1991: Cardiff City 1 Aldershot 3. Attendance at Ninian Park - 1,629.

Those were the days.

I remember that game. A freezing Friday night with Nathan Blake at centre-half? Ian Stewart ran the show for them. Barclays sponsored the league at the time and apparently each branch were given two season tickets. I knew someone who worked in the town branch and he said no-one ever took (dis)advantage so me and a mate nabbed them for the night. The folly of youth.

[blue lewj]

Vincent Tan.

[stan butler]

Vincent Tan.

Are you sure

[Re-Reworked]

'You don't have to go to town .... to go brown'

[Re-Reworked]

Valley Rams TV was years ahead of the craze

[dembethewarrior]

1971

Are you the fella from Llantwit that used to post links to his Twitter? Had you down as younger. Closer to 40.

[Dorcus]

Are you the fella from Llantwit that used to post links to his Twitter? Had you down as younger. Closer to 40.

No not from Llantwit

[dembethewarrior]

No not from Llantwit

[tforturton]

What about the time the club persuaded the fans to fund the purchase of a player - one Kurt Nogan - via the sale of club shares? I think it was during the 2000-01 season? Nogan went on to score just once in eighteen league games, though he did slightly better in the Welsh Cup, or whatever it was called in those days. Still, City went up at the end of the season, so you could argue that it worked.

[The Lone Gunman]

What about the time the club persuaded the fans to fund the purchase of a player - one Kurt Nogan - via the sale of club shares? I think it was during the 2000-01 season?

It was 1999/2000 - the season before Sam Hammam rolled into town. Nogan was supposed to score the goals that kept City up. He didn't and the team was relegated. Again.

[TWGL1]

Northampton away was a mad day around 88,I think we lost 4-1 , the stadium was falling to bits

[The Lone Gunman]

Northampton away was a mad day around 88,I think we lost 4-1 , the stadium was falling to bits

1986. The County Ground was one of the most bizarre in the league, with the cricket pitch on one side. I can remember us singing:

You've got a cowshed over there,
You've got a Subbuteo grandstand over there,
You've got **** all over there,
You've got the worst ground in the land.

[Tuerto]

1986. The County Ground was one of the most bizarre in the league, with the cricket pitch on one side. I can remember us singing:

You've got a cowshed over there,
You've got a Subbuteo grandstand over there,
You've got **** all over there,
You've got the worst ground in the land.

I was at that game, Boxing day? Northampton pissed the league that season if memory serves.

[The Lone Gunman]

I was at that game, Boxing day? Northampton pissed the league that season if memory serves.

Not quite, Christmas holidays, December 28th. I remember going over there in Dafydd's car (or it may have been Phil's) and parking in an area that was a nightmare to get back to after the game. The crowd was 11,000+, which was about as much as that place held. We were on that open concrete embankment behind the goal.

You're right, Northampton won the league doing cartwheels. That was the City's first season in the old Division Four. Last game of the season, a 4-0 victory over Hartlepool, saw the lowest-ever league crowd - 1,334. The Ninian Park glory days everyone talks about.

[Tuerto]

Not quite, Christmas holidays, December 28th. I remember going over there in Dafydd's car (or it may have been Phil's) and parking in an area that was a nightmare to get back to after the game. The crowd was 11,000+, which was about as much as that place held. We were on that open concrete embankment behind the goal.

You're right, Northampton won the league doing cartwheels. That was the City's first season in the old Division Four. Last game of the season, a 4-0 victory over Hartlepool, saw the lowest-ever league crowd - 1,334. The Ninian Park glory days everyone talks about.

Us, Swansea and Wrexham were in the dungeon that season. What were County doing, had they dropped out by then or were they in the 3rd division? surely not!

[dembethewarrior]

Bloody hell, Newport were wales' no 1 team. I didn't think that had ever happened.

There's paper cut Outs on the wall of a cafe we go to now and again around St Julian's with something like that on the wall, the final league table. Ain't been there for a while but remember seeing it and thinking how weird it was

[dembethewarrior]

I remember that - they would have been better off having no fireworks at all rather than that pathetic couple of bangers and a rocket.

The Newcastle choir was cringey beyond belief. Having stewards sit down at the front with their backs to the game - just watching fans is also a bit creepy.

Wouldn't want the poor bastards watching the game would we..

[Mario Miethig]

Having the QPR cup takings stolen from the ground. Only could happen down the City.

[Harry Lime]

Having the QPR cup takings stolen from the ground. Only could happen down the City.

Not quite, I seem to recall our West Walian friends having a similar situation with a certain Tony Pretty.
Hardly a boast but I'd say his 'era' was far more ridiculous than anything at CCFC.

[JamesWales]

On the ridiculousness scale it's fairly low, but I have always found it curious that the GMB have sponsored the back page of the programme for decades now.

[TWGL1]

The green curtain hiding the view of the away fans …..