Pre-Cardiff ramble ...

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Smug in Boots

Smug in Boots

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... with a bit of spite hoyed in.

I've never liked Cardiff, since the 70's, when a trip down there was inevitably unpleasant and a punch up always around the corner. Except when we went for an important game, took thousands upon thousands, and then police, ground and locals couldn't handle us.

So it's good to see them struggling and even better they've just been given a real kick in the balls. After 'losing' their game at relegation rivals, Rotherham, while 1-0 up they've been told to play the whole game again.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/65127551

At fourth bottom they have to play two teams below them, Blackpool and Huddersfield ...

... now they have to play the team immediately above them.

With them having to go to Sheff Utd, Watford and Burnley the last thing they need is a local derby with Swansea today. And then they have to worry about the Sunderland boys going down to put them in the bottom three <laugh>

It would be great to see them down in L1, they might be there for decades.

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Funnily enough our game at Cardiff 79/80 was on The Big Match Revisited this morning.13,000 went down that day, Pop Robson got our goal in a 1-1 draw. I got hit on the head with a brick INSIDE the ground, will never forget the barbed wire on the top of the fences round the pitch. Horrible place and horrible people.
 
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DH4 said:
Funnily enough our game at Cardiff 79/80 was on The Big Match Revisited this morning.13,000 went down that day, Pop Robson got our goal in a 1-1 draw. I got hit on the head with a brick INSIDE the ground, will never forget the barbed wire on the top of the fences round the pitch. Horrible place and horrible people.
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Mad day wasn't it <laugh>
 
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Smug in Boots said:
... with a bit of spite hoyed in.

I've never liked Cardiff, since the 70's, when a trip down there was inevitably unpleasant and a punch up always around the corner. Except when we went for an important game, took thousands upon thousands, and then police, ground and locals couldn't handle us.

So it's good to see them struggling and even better they've just been given a real kick in the balls. After 'losing' their game at relegation rivals, Rotherham, while 1-0 up they've been told to play the whole game again.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/65127551

At fourth bottom they have to play two teams below them, Blackpool and Huddersfield ...

... now they have to play the team immediately above them.

With them having to go to Sheff Utd, Watford and Burnley the last thing they need is a local derby with Swansea today. And then they have to worry about the Sunderland boys going down to put them in the bottom three <laugh>

It would be great to see them down in L1, they might be there for decades.

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Brilliant post mate. I'm 100% with you on this.
Would love them to go down...and stay down!
 
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Mad day wasn't it <laugh>
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Remember it well, we were in a pub early,about 15 of us, and slowly but surely the pub got filled with locals who were becoming more and more aggressive as the time passed on and noticed they were practically running in the pub, then realised when we left the place our fans had literally taken over the place and were everywhere
 
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Remember it well, we were in a pub early,about 15 of us, and slowly but surely the pub got filled with locals who were becoming more and more aggressive as the time passed on and noticed they were practically running in the pub, then realised when we left the place our fans had literally taken over the place and were everywhere
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It was a Franky Wheatley day out, and on the night we had a dodgy night in Chesterfield,it was like the Alamo
 
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It was a Franky Wheatley day out, and on the night we had a dodgy night in Chesterfield,it was like the Alamo
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On another visit to Cardiff, when we had less down, five of us from Mansfield latched onto his minibus crew.

We were walking down a long wide road, towards the ground, when there were suddenly two Cardiff knuckledraggers, on the other side of the road shouting and telling us to have a go. Frankie said we should stay on that side while he went to speak to them ...

... a right then a left and they were both sparked out on the road <laugh>
 
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Cardiff were given a boost with Reading's points deduction ...

... now they've lost their top scorer for the rest of the season <laugh>

"Cardiff City top scorer Callum Robinson could be ruled out for the rest of the season.

The 28-year-old has hit eight goals this term, but has been sidelined since February with a hamstring problem.*
 
Quite fancied this one, but there's no realistic option to get to to South Wales and back in a day
 
When I was a serving bobby, pulling match duties,in Middlesbrough and Hartlepool was always a cause of dread when certain clubs came to play, Chelsea, Leeds and Cardiff being in the top few cos you knew you were in for a chewy day.
Battled with Cardiff fans through the 70s - 80s and they were just awful people, mind Leeds were worse.
So come Monday and a good away performance and result will put an extra smile on my face. They are cretins.
 
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Quite fancied this one, but there's no realistic option to get to to South Wales and back in a day
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Flights from Edinburgh were really cheap but the train from Bristol was more expensive and I couldn't guarantee getting the return flight in time ...

... which meant a hotel, night out, bait, prostitute , A&E, etc <laugh>
 
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