Cardiff 5 Peterborough 2 27 Dec 1975

[Eric the Half a Bee]

I'm sure there will be a few posters who remember the game. In videprinter style, there was a bit of a goal fest:

Cardiff 3 Peterborough 1 (Dwyer 74)
Cardiff 4 Peterborough 1 (Evans 75)
Cardiff 4 Peterborough 2 (Gregory 78)
Cardiff 5 Peterborough 2 (Evans 80)

I'm struggling to think of a City game with 4 goals in a 6 minute spell, though we did score 3 in 5 minutes at Ashton Gate.

[Hot Shot Hamish.]

I'm sure there will be a few posters who remember the game. In videprinter style, there was a bit of a goal fest:

Cardiff 3 Peterborough 1 (Dwyer 74)
Cardiff 4 Peterborough 1 (Evans 75)
Cardiff 4 Peterborough 2 (Gregory 78)
Cardiff 5 Peterborough 2 (Evans 80)

I'm struggling to think of a City game with 4 goals in a 6 minute spell, though we did score 3 in 5 minutes at Ashton Gate.

That was the day after we had been thumped 4-0 at Swindon. Can you imagine that today? Managers would be taking their best players off after 20 minutes so that they’d be fit to play for half hour the next day.

[Mr Soul '68]

I'm sure there will be a few posters who remember the game. In videprinter style, there was a bit of a goal fest:

Cardiff 3 Peterborough 1 (Dwyer 74)
Cardiff 4 Peterborough 1 (Evans 75)
Cardiff 4 Peterborough 2 (Gregory 78)
Cardiff 5 Peterborough 2 (Evans 80)

I'm struggling to think of a City game with 4 goals in a 6 minute spell, though we did score 3 in 5 minutes at Ashton Gate.

It was needed after that abject, p*ss poor performance the day before at a struggling Swindon Town, losing 3-0. They made mugs of us that day. My first, and almost last, away game lol

[the other bob wilson]

Peterborough went 1-0 up in three minutes as well, so there was definitely a feeling that our bubble had burst for a while.

In goals for Posh that day was Eric Steele who had a spell on loan with us seven seasons later and made a contender of save of the season for us in front of the Match of the Day cameras in the clock game at Portsmouth.

[Eric the Half a Bee]

Peterborough went 1-0 up in three minutes as well, so there was definitely a feeling that our bubble had burst for a while.

In goals for Posh that day was Eric Steele who had a spell on loan with us seven seasons later and made a contender of save of the season for us in front of the Match of the Day cameras in the clock game at Portsmouth.

I'm trying to work out where I remember his name. I got interested in football in 1989 but seem to remember him playing, though he couldn't have been. Interesting that he had a modest playing career but has been in great demand as a coach at the top of the game.

[Dave Blue]

It was needed after that abject, p*ss poor performance the day before at a struggling Swindon Town, losing 3-0. They made mugs of us that day. My first, and almost last, away game lol

4-0 actually. Was a shock to the system. We took thousands there. The next day was a cracker.

[Mr Soul '68]

4-0 actually. Was a shock to the system. We took thousands there. The next day was a cracker.

It was a huge shock to the system. We had been playing so well. Too much Xmas pudding and alcohol for most of the players on Xmas Day that year, me thinks.

[TWGL1]

Attendance 16,094=Full season stats in link

We will get over 50% more people tomorrow

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1975%E...ty_F.C._season

Fickle fanbase

[the other bob wilson]

Attendance 16,094=Full season stats in link

We will get over 50% more people tomorrow

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1975%E...ty_F.C._season

Fickle fanbase

Four months later 35,000 turned up to watch us play in a Third Division game.

[TWGL1]

Four months later 35,000 turned up to watch us play in a Third Division game.

Game before 12,000

[the other bob wilson]

Game before 12,000

And?

[TWGL1]

And?

And what ?

Have a good Xmas ?

[the other bob wilson]

And what ?

Have a good Xmas ?

I don’t know, you brought the subject of crowds up - 16,000 was a very good attendance for a Third Division game given the sort of club City were at the time, 35,000 was truly amazing (although Malcolm Allison played a part in that). There are plenty of seasons you can pick from our history if you want to have a go about the size of our crowds, but I’m not sure 75/76 is one of them.

[TWGL1]

I don’t know, you brought the subject of crowds up - 16,000 was a very good attendance for a Third Division game given the sort of club City were at the time, 35,000 was truly amazing (although Malcolm Allison played a part in that). There are plenty of seasons you can pick from our history if you want to have a go about the size of our crowds, but I’m not sure 75/76 is one of them.

The point was that our crowds have always been fickle a point raised on here literally hundreds of times.
That was all

[the other bob wilson]

The point was that our crowds have always been fickle a point raised on here literally hundreds of times.
That was all

What I don’t get is your mention of what you think the crowd is going to be tomorrow - is that another example of our fickle fan base or are you saying that they’re not fickle any more?

[TWGL1]

What I don’t get is your mention of what you think the crowd is going to be tomorrow - is that another example of our fickle fan base or are you saying that they’re not fickle any more?

Don’t worry about it … have a great evening