Exile in Kingston Upon Thames?

[StraightOuttaCanton]

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2 of my girls went to University in Guelph, Ontario. One evening I randomly suggested we go to a pub nearby for a meal and some beers. The entire pub was decorated in Cardiff City shirts and memorabilia. We were all gobsmacked.

[Zowhore]

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Taxi driver wearing the vansdirect blue shirt from 2009 I think, getting into his car in Playa Del Carmen, Mexico.

Didn’t get a chance to speak to him though

[Baloo]

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was that Jurrsey ( wurzel guy ) from Kingston Upon Thames ? ? ?

maybe has has seen the light

Jurssett was from Henley-on-Thames I believe.

I’ve seen a few City fans at different times in London. Saw a bloke in a Cardiff Blues shirt in New Orleans.

[light up the darkness]

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I was in the Con Dao islands in Con Son about 80 kms off the Vung Tau / Mekong river coast.

The place is infamous for imprisonment of political prisoners first with the French and then the Americans

We were looking for breakfast and saw a dive school on the corner in the town (takes three minutes to drive through on a motorbike) and sat outside deciding what to eat.

A young guy walks past wearing an old city shirt with the yellow and white stripe down the side and I called over to him. Turns out he’s from caerau, Ely and runs the dive school with his his dad.

To find such treasure In such a remote place is truly remarkable.

The breakfast was good but my wife didn’t like the snake that tried to enjoy it with us.

[Poolerblue]

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In a taxi travelling from the airport to Darling Harbour in Sydney

Stopped at traffic lights in city centre looked out of window saw a bloke with a City shirt on sitting outside having a coffee in a cafe

Wound down the window and did the ayatollah he immediately jumped up and did it back with about 50 people looking at him as if he was mad

Then had to explain to our Indian taxi driver what the ayatollah was. He obviously had no idea what I was talking about

[Bobby Dandruff]

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In a taxi travelling from the airport to Darling Harbour in Sydney

Stopped at traffic lights in city centre looked out of window saw a bloke with a City shirt on sitting outside having a coffee in a cafe

Wound down the window and did the ayatollah he immediately jumped up and did it back with about 50 people looking at him as if he was mad

Then had to explain to our Indian taxi driver what the ayatollah was. He obviously had no idea what I was talking about

I love these sorts of stories 👍👍👍

[blue matt]

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Jurssett was from Henley-on-Thames I believe.

I’ve seen a few City fans at different times in London. Saw a bloke in a Cardiff Blues shirt in New Orleans.

sounds right, i knew it was something on Thames

[The Hooded Claw]

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I saw a young bloke wearing a Cardiff City shirt in Pollenca (Mallorca) Sunday market.
It was August 2019, so would’ve been the previous season’s shirt. He must have been boiling!

[life on mars]

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I saw a chap in Canton a year ago wearing a red one whilst holding a can of white lighting, I motioned to him to do the ayatollah ,he duly did , and ended up soaking wet and not so pissed, every moment has a silver lining.

[Rock_Flock_of_Five]

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Years ago, going back to the late 90's, a mate of mine who was in the merchant navy, said there was a large rock as you enter Singapore harbour with the words 'Cardiff City' painted on it.

I live in what is considered a third-tier city in China. One day, I was travelling across a bridge on my e-bike when I saw an older local man wearing a Welsh rugby shirt, the one with the Brains logo emblazoned across it.

Okay, no stories relating to City shirts from me...

[Bobby Dandruff]

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Years ago, going back to the late 90's, a mate of mine who was in the merchant navy, said there was a large rock as you enter Singapore harbour with the words 'Cardiff City' painted on it.

I live in what is considered a third-tier city in China. One day, I was travelling across a bridge on my e-bike when I saw an older local man wearing a Welsh rugby shirt, the one with the Brains logo emblazoned across it.

Okay, no stories relating to City shirts from me...

The first one is perfectly acceptable. The second one though.... ;-)

[Hot Shot Hamish.]

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Not the strangest of places, but I was out for a morning run along the prom in Playa de Americas 2 years ago wearing my City away shirt, when a fellow bluebird passed me in the home shirt running the other way. We both seemed to knackered to acknowledge each other with anything other than a thumbs up.

[Blue Dwr]

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I saw a couple of men wearing the old red shirts while on holiday in the Gambia. Also a pub in Xiamen, China, with a big Welsh dragon on the wall plus a City shirt years ago. Later found out that Cardiff is/was twinned towned with Xiamen.

[Xmarksplott]

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Whilst on holiday in Crete 3 years ago I spotted a guy about 50yards away wearing a pair of swimming trunks with a Bluebird logo on.
So I approached him doing the ayatollah and he responded same .
Then I thought I should ask him where he was from and expecting a Welsh accent I was amazed to here a foreign accent .
We started chatting and he said he was from Holland and was a Utrecht fan and he also followed Cardiff City , he also had a Cardiff City tattoo on his arm.
We had a few beers together and he said he was returning to Holland the next day and next time he was in Cardiff we should meet up to go to a City game.
I agreed and we exchanged numbers but when I got back home I could not contact him as I lost my phone on holiday (Pissed up)
He said his mate lived in Cardiff I cant remember if it was Llandaff or Llanishen and worked for the BBC.
It was mad to hear a different accent than Welsh/British from a Cardiff fan .

[cardiff55]

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Sort of City related. I was walking along a beach in Florida about 5 years ago when a chap was heading towards me with his wife, and he was wearing a Swansea shirt! So I smiled as he passed, as part of the great brotherhood of football fans, and uttered to him "You Jack B*****d". He look puzzled. My wife tutted.

I also was buying a new Mini for my wife in 2008 from Hadfield Road and chatting to the salesman , he told me loved football. Yes, Swansea. I refused to buy he car from him and my wife had to go back the following day and buy it from someone else.

It may sound childish but we have to have standards!