Thinking back, I remember City going 4-0 up, away to high flying West Brom a few years back. We had Robbie Fowler and JFH in the team for the match, a Carling Cup tie I believe. They pulled back a couple of goals in the end (Marshall?), and even though it was not a full strengh WBA side, still a good result.
You know Google is a wonderful thing.....I thought I would just tap in West Brom 2-4 Cardiff, and it`s all there! Robbie Fowler grabbed a brace as Cardiff tore West Brom apart to reach the fourth round of the Carling Cup. He put the Bluebirds ahead after four minutes converting Stephen McPhail's cross before Jimmy-Floyd Hasselbaink doubled the lead with a 20-yard strike. Fowler got his second from the penalty spot after Joe Ledley was felled in the box and Trevor Sinclair made it 4-0 inside the first 30 minutes. Ishmael Miller pulled two goals back for West Brom, with one from the spot. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- •West Brom manager Tony Mowbray: "The game was lost in that first 30 minutes, but the bigger picture gives me some food for thought on one or two players. "It is a learning curve for me about my squad and my team, the ones you can trust and the ones you can't. "I was pleased with Ishmael's two goals and the fact we kept going." •Cardiff manager Dave Jones: "I thought the performance would come at home, I didn't think it would come away and I said if those two [Fowler and Hasselbaink] fired well, someone was going to come on the backlash of it and fortunately, West Brom got it in the first half. "The problem we had was getting them fit. I'm pleased for the pair of them because they have worked really hard and they've had to do that because they've been playing catch-up. "The second half was just about killing it off and settling it down." -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- West Brom: Kiely, Hodgkiss, Martis, Albrechtsen, Tininho, Pele (Greening 46), Beattie (MacDonald 71), Morrison, Chaplow (Teixeira 46), Brunt, Miller. Subs Not Used: Steele, Barnett. Goals: Miller 33, 87 (pen). Cardiff: Oakes, McNaughton (Gunter 78), Johnson, Loovens, Capaldi, Sinclair (Whittingham 87), McPhail, Rae, Ledley, Fowler (Parry 71), Hasselbaink. Subs Not Used: Turnbull, Green. Booked: Capaldi, Loovens, Ledley. Goals: Fowler 4, 27 (pen), Hasselbaink 23, Sinclair 30. Att: 14,085 Ref: P Walton (Northamptonshire).
Beating Leeds 4 - 0 at their place last season, live on tv, takes some topping. The win at Baggies was good but that must have been the only time Blobby and JFH successfully played together. Did we then have an away tie at Liverpool on the back of that or was that the following season?
The Weeds in the FA Cup when they were tearing up the Premiership was a good result, although 4-0 at Bellend Road was a great result too (ok)
I remember that cup game well.....I thought the magic partnership of Fowler and JFH was going to be fantastic, not to be! Southampton 3 Cardiff City 5 was something special but not recent. How about Cardiff 4 Sunderland 0!
Both the FA cup games against Leeds & the Boro are up there for me. But I think 2-0 away to Boro just shades it. Still replay Whits goal over and over in my he'd.
