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City 0 Arsenal 0 in front of 55,000.
I was there as an excited 11 year old.
Anyone else?
Remember Arsenal running on to the pitch in their red shirts white sleeves,very impressed.
My only memory of the game itself now is of the crowd’s anger at Ian Ure for the way he was roughing up Toshack.
I was stood in the Bob Bank, Grange End corner with my Dad, didn’t have a bad view if I remember rightly.
I was sat on the wall at the corner of the bob bank and canton stand, Ian Ure stood out with that mop of blond hair, I remember John Radford up front, did Ray Kennedy play alongside him that day? I can't recall, it was a long time ago![]()
Yes I was on the bob bank. Can't remember much about the game mind you.
Here’s the Arsenal team.
https://www.11v11.com/matches/cardif...y-1969-212797/
Here's a link to the full matchday programme:
https://www.flickr.com/photos/114058...7716670302602/
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That's the biggest Ninian Park crowd I've been in. My memories are the same as yours, I was standing by the cameras and it was packed and it was a real squeeze exiting the Bob Bank at the Canton Stand end. If anyone had fallen over they would have been trampled in the crush. As others in this thread have said Toshack got absolutely nowhere with Ian Ure
Was living in Rumney at the time and my cousin came down from London for the game, big Arsenal fan, my mother’s brother’s son, lived on Highgate Hill. Despite not knowing Cardiff, the bugger got back to my house before me.![]()
Bobby Gould came to national prominence when he scored the late equaliser for Arsenal in the League Cup final in 1969 when they lost to Swindon. Don Rogers scored twice in extra time to win it for Swindon.
My brother and I entered the bob bank from the grange end. I remember 2 things. A tight, dour game with Arsenal [Ure] keeping Toshack in his pocket, and that fact it took us half an hour to squeeze our way to approx. the halfway line !
I was there too, on the grange end.
I was in the standing section behind the home dugout against the wall
I was on the bob bank with my Spanish brother in law who was at a City game for the first time. He was scared to death almost as we were packed in like sardines. I can remember Ian Ure kicking lumps out of Toshack.