Originally Posted by
Hometown Unicorn!
I'm from Port Talbot and we've always been City. Majority of my family are Bluebirds bar the odd 1 or 2 who have gravitated to the darkside. My Dad has been watching City home and away since the 70s and has been a season ticket holder for years. Despite that I have always naturally gravitated towards Cardiff, whether it was to do with music, going to gigs and getting records or clothes shopping etc. Not only that, for my club and school team we often played Swansea sides in cup competitions and it was always kicking off in games, not much love lost between Port Talbot and Jack lads, certainly didn't want to head down the Vetch and follow that lot.
As a kid I was obsessed with Gazza after Italia 90, thought he could do anything on a football pitch (including kung fu kicking Gary Charles), so because he played for Spurs I instantly took on Spurs as my English team. My first ever game at NP was a friendly between City vs Spurs in the mid 90s, I think it was a testimonial for one of the Cardiff kitmen(?) but that night I got the buzz for live football and realising it was on the doorstep. My first league game my old man took me to was Halifax on a Friday night, quickly followed by Carlisle Utd and never looked back from there.