Originally Posted by the other bob wilson
How strange - small world. I didn't think there was a huge crowd , but you're probably right. My memory is of standing right on the touch line. I'm pretty sure it was raining heavily ,but we didn't care.
Sir Jim was getting a bit out of puff but he was tackling and running with about 300% commitment.
By the way, my chum Rudey has posted above an article which you apparently wrote which mentions Ronnie Bird's hairdressers in Churchill way. Ignoring the fact that he thinks I cribbed it from the article (!!!!) it means that my vague memory was right.
The whole article was very good and I enjoyed reading it though, but I wonder if it's strictly correct that Ian Gibson displaced Ronnie because he was much more a midfield general than an attacker really .
I wrote elsewhere that Harry Arter was probably the best midfielder I've seen in a Cardiff shirt EXCEPT Ian Gibson, who's exactly the kind of player we need now. I think we got him fairly cheaply from Coventry didn't we ? Again I'm trawling the deep waters of my memory ,( second fishing metaphor of the day), but didn't he have some kind of a heart problem at some point ?
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