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What made you choose Cardiff City over Swansea City? Was it personal choice, family? Location etc ?
If your from Bridgend (roughly half way), what swayed you?
I'm from Newport. My grandparents used to take me and my cousins.
All their kids used to go with them when were younger (mother and uncle)
They were from Risca. I didn't have much interest as a kid but would say supported them at my late teens.
Newport County never game into the equation, they were probably so far down leagues.
I would say I probably don't have the same dislike for Swansea as some from Cardiff.
I think there was quite a following ratio wise for Cardiff from Newport a few years ago but has probably been saturated as the club has performed better.
Born in Cardiff. Man Utd fan
I was in Risca when I started. (1970).
Jones's coaches used to do specials down the valley straight to the ground and back.(Sat aftenoons only)
County were in their record-breaking season - record of longest start to a season without a win.
My boys were born in London, in the middle of the Arsenel/Spurs/WHU triangle (Leyton) So started out as ManU fans
I had to convert them when I moved back to Cardiff. They're ST holders now.
Rhondda Valley at a time it was much easier to get to Cardiff than anywhere else. Loyalty has been tested often but it's in the blood.
Rhymney Valley.
Cardiff City territory
When I was an impressionable teenager Merthyr was blue. It was the height of the hooligan era late 80s / early 90s and it was certainly not a safe place for the few Jacks in town. Supporting Swansea was not something you broadcast around Merthyr in those days.
These days since the 7 years the Jacks spent in the PL there’s a lot more Jacks in Merthyr. I’d still say the town was blue but not the large majority that it used to be.
I'm from West Wales, Swansea's an hour away and were never a thing when I was growing up, I supported Man Utd like most of the other kids. Moved to Cardiff in 2001, Divine Wright off here took me to Ninian Park and that was that
From Monmouth, uncle took me to a game in 1968, Toshack, Clark, Murray etc, hooked ever since.
Old man used to watch the city but moved away from Wales in the late 70s. We moved back in the late 80s not long after I was born
City would've been the closest football league side growing up too so if you wanted a fix of professional football then Ninian Park was the closest ground in which to see it.
Always thought despite it being in the same ground how different the experience must’ve been for my dad, going from 2nd tier and regular European football to 3rd/4th tier yo yo club with a few thousand in attendance. May have felt a little like watching a different club in a way.
City has tended to feel a bit like a regional “South (East) Wales” club to me and I can’t say I overtly identify with Cardiff in a civic sense as I’m not from there. I like the place itself don’t get me wrong, lived there very happily for the best part of a decade and knew it fairly well.
Appreciate it may sound strange to a Cardiffian but for me the club could’ve been from any area of South Wales really. Sure there must be other places with a scarcity of professional clubs where this might happen - Tyne and Wear, Norfolk?
I'm from Pontypridd, so City are the closest team to me. And I watched the Hamburg game on TV in 1968 and 3 days later went down and saw my first game. Swansea were always lower League then anyway. As soon as went to my first game that was it for me.