Originally Posted by
the other bob wilson
It is an age thing, but I'm not sure City fans older than me will feel I do because, at 62, I think I represent the upper age limit of the grouping who share my opinion about the wurzels and the jacks when it comes to rivalry.
I saw my first City game in October 1963. Swansea weren't relegated until 64/65, so they played down here in the league a couple of times after my first visit to Ninian Park, but, for whatever reason, I did not go to either match. Therefore, I didn't get to see us play the jacks in a league game for almost seventeen years after my first City game - Swansea were a side we only ever played, and usually beat, in the Welsh Cup while I was growing up. On the other hand, I make it that I had watched us play the wurzels in the league twelve times before I saw my first Swansea league derby. I daresay if I was ten years older or twenty years younger I would have Swansea down as our main rivals like most others - I'm a product of my time though and when you also consider that I went thirty one years without seeing us beat them in any contest that mattered, I always get at least as much satisfaction out of a win over the wurzels as I do from one over the jacks.