Remember when we were a small club ?

[The Lone Gunman]

When I look back at the late 60s/very early 70s I do think that we really missed a trick, there were the Liverpool/Man U lot at school but nowhere near today’s hype. Most older football fans in the area were City fans brought up in an era where plasticness (is that a word?) was nigh of unheard of. We were regularly getting 25,000+ in the second tier, I remember a 30,000 at a fantastic win against QPR......

I agree with much of what you're saying in your post Steve, but the period in which City were getting 25,000+ crowds on a regular basis in the second tier was actually relatively brief.

The season averages for the years concerned are as follows:

66/67 - 10,259
67/68 - 13,301
68/69 - 16,870
69/70 - 21,502
70/71 - 21,522
71/72 - 15,510
72/73 - 11,456

The first Cardiff City replica kit I owned was in 1975/76. I remember being the only kid in my year at school who had one. The other kids who had replica football kits were wearing those of Liverpool, Manchester United, Leeds and Chelsea. Obviously that was Sky's fault.