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Cardiff City awaydays: Colchester United, 1993 – with pitch invasion!

Thu 20th May, 2010Mon 25th March, 2013 - by editor - 1 Comment

With Cardiff preparing for their third trip to Wembley in as many years, away trips like these seem a distant memory, but die hard City fans will have memories of …

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What kind of fan are you? And how do you cope with failure?

Thu 13th May, 2010Thu 13th May, 2010 - by editor - Leave a Comment

I’d forgotten about these comic strips I’d drawn for the Cardiff City Bluebird Jones football comic a years ago, but I’ve certainly been some of the characters portrayed. For the …

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Cardiff City beat Leicester – we’re in the Championship play-off final!

Thu 13th May, 2010Sat 15th May, 2010 - by editor - 1 Comment

Man, this was an incredible game. I watched in the Brixton Hootenanny and it was a mighty strange place to watch such a vital match. The Fulham game was on …

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Leicester v Cardiff: Whittingham whaps in a winner!

Sun 9th May, 2010Sun 9th May, 2010 - by editor - Leave a Comment

Oh yes! Watch Peter Whittingham’s stunning free-kick slam into the Leicester net as Cardiff City take the advantage in the first leg of their Championship play-off semi-final. Return match is …

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Cardiff City awaydays: Northampton Town 2002

Fri 16th April, 2010Fri 16th April, 2010 - by editor - Leave a Comment

Here’s another of my occasional series of photo reports from long-forgotten Cardiff City matches, with this one recalling the 2-1 victory over Northampton Town on the 2nd March, 2002.

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Crap away trips: Cambridge Utd vs Cardiff City, 2001

Tue 13th April, 2010Tue 13th April, 2010 - by editor - 3 Comments.

Ah, the delights of lower division football. On 15th September 2001, I took a trip with the 1927 Club to see the mighty Cardiff City take on the titans of …

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Cardiff City 2 Swansea City 1. A beautiful day.

Mon 5th April, 2010Mon 5th April, 2010 - by editor - Leave a Comment

Rarely has a birthday present been better that this one: Cardiff beating arch rivals Swansea to hoist the team into fourth place, with the prospect of a play off place …

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cardiff / Places / Wales

Five old ladies on a bench, Penarth, Wales

Sat 3rd April, 2010Thu 1st April, 2010 - by editor - Leave a Comment

I love this picture of these five old ladies dressed in white and sat on a bench looking out across the Bristol Channel. It was taken at the small seaside …

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Not so great Cardiff City FC moments: Rochdale away, 1997

Wed 31st March, 2010 - by editor - 1 Comment

It takes a certain type of fan to willingly set off on a 350 mile round trip to the bleak, wintry wastelands of Rochdale in the middle of winter.

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Great Cardiff City FC moments: the 1993 tranny pitch invasion

Wed 31st March, 2010Wed 31st March, 2010 - by editor - 1 Comment

Away days don’t get much better than this. By the end of the 1992-3 season, Cardiff had assured their promotion out of Division Three, with a win away at Scunthorpe …

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Crystal Palace 1 Cardiff City 2. Yes!

Sat 27th March, 2010 - by editor - Leave a Comment

Great win today at Selhurst Park, against a Crystal Palace team who battled hard. Here’s a few pics:

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Cardiff Bay photos

Tue 26th January, 2010Sun 14th March, 2010 - by editor - 1 Comment

We took a walk around the Bay around Christmas, and the place keeps changing so fast I can hardly recognise parts of it. A new walk had been opened up …

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A few snowy Cardiff pics

Mon 4th January, 2010Fri 26th March, 2010 - by editor - Leave a Comment

A few snaps from my trip up to Cardiff on Christmas Eve (including the train ‘trouble’ when some arse on a bridge in Slough threw a brick at the train …

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Goodbye Cardiff’s Ninian Park

Tue 29th December, 2009Mon 15th March, 2010 - by editor - Leave a Comment

Some photos of Cardiff City’s half demolished stadium – a place full of memories for me!

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Modern football is rubbish

Wed 7th October, 2009Mon 10th November, 2014 - by editor - Leave a Comment

[Rant] So, I fancy taking my girlfriend to see a game at Cardiff. Until recently this meant having a few pints at the pub and then turning up at the …

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Return to St Fagans museum, Cardiff

Tue 1st September, 2009 - by editor - Leave a Comment

We paid another visit a few weeks back and checked out all the indoor galleries we missed last time. They’ve currently got a great pop culture exhibition there, and after …

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Coping with failure: Cardiff City FC

Mon 4th May, 2009 - by editor - Leave a Comment

In a remarkable run of ultra-crapness, my beloved Cardiff City FC – who recently looked destined for a guaranteed play-off place (if not automatic promotion) – conspired to turn into …

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Charlton Athletic 2 Cardiff City 2

Wed 22nd April, 2009 - by editor - Leave a Comment

Phew! This was a nail-biting game alright! Even though Charlton were already relegated from the Championship and had nothing much to play for, Cardiff failed to match their high-flying league …

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Crystal Palace 0 Cardiff City 2

Sun 12th April, 2009 - by editor - Leave a Comment

We went down to Selhurst Park yesterday to see the mighty Cardiff City take on Crystal Palace. The game wasn’t short on thrills or incident and turned out to be …

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Cardiff city centre photos

Tue 13th January, 2009 - by editor - Leave a Comment

Central Cardiff is changing so fast, I have trouble recognising some parts now, especially in the area where the monolithic St Davids Centre 2 is going up. I can’t say …

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Christmas Day walk, Graig Llanishen, Cardiff

Tue 30th December, 2008 - by editor - Leave a Comment

By gum it was freezing cold, but I still managed my traditional Christmas Day walk up Graig Llanishen, to the north of Cardiff. Here’s some photos:

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Cardiff City 0 Bristol City 0 – photos

Wed 17th September, 2008 - by editor - Leave a Comment

On Saturday we popped down to Ninian Park for what will probably be our last cross-Severn derby with Bristol City – next season we should have moved across Sloper Road …

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Barry Island photos

Fri 9th May, 2008 - by editor - Leave a Comment

I fucking loves Barry Island (or “Barry’s Island” if you’ve been watching the fantastic Gavin and Stacey BBC TV prog). It’s right tidy. Here’s a few pics:

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Cardiff 3 Barnsley 0

Wed 7th May, 2008 - by editor - Leave a Comment

The game was a whole load more fun than our recent Wembley semi final clash with Barnsley and it was a great way to end the season. Who would have …

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Cardiff City win FA cup semi final vs Barnsley

Sun 6th April, 2008Wed 31st March, 2010 - by editor - Leave a Comment

Oh joy! In a tense (and, let’s be honest) frankly dull game, the mighty Cardiff City beat Barnsley at Wembley 1-0 to go through to the final of the FA …

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Colds, Keyboards and Wales

Sun 9th March, 2008 - by editor - Leave a Comment

It’s Saturday night and I’m stuck in with a stinky cold. No Fun. Bah. I didn’t do myself any favours spending most of last night out – I was doing …

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Cardiff at Christmas

Fri 4th January, 2008Mon 12th April, 2010 - by editor - 1 Comment

Just a few snaps from my brief stay in my home town over Christmas. It’s getting hard to reconcile the city with my memories as it’s being redeveloped so fast. …

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Football: cut out the “industrial language”

Mon 23rd April, 2007Sun 11th July, 2010 - by editor - Leave a Comment

Went to see the mighty Cardiff City play like a bunch of disinterested park walkers at QPR on Saturday and was rather baffled by match programme’s curious warning about “industrial …

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Camden, Cardiff and Majestical Lips

Mon 12th March, 2007 - by editor - Leave a Comment

Camden After not setting foot in Camden for ages, I found myself being given a tour of the super swanky Roundhouse building on Wednesday afternoon and then returning again to …

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Save Spillers!

Wed 31st January, 2007 - by editor - Leave a Comment

The oldest record store in the world, Spillers Records in Cardiff, is under threat as the landlord looks set to hike the rent to unaffordable levels. It’s a great shop …

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