{"id":1270,"date":"2010-03-31T15:56:07","date_gmt":"2010-03-31T14:56:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/?p=1270"},"modified":"2010-03-31T15:56:07","modified_gmt":"2010-03-31T14:56:07","slug":"not-so-great-cardiff-city-fc-moments-rochdale-away-1997","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/not-so-great-cardiff-city-fc-moments-rochdale-away-1997\/","title":{"rendered":"Not so great Cardiff City FC moments: Rochdale away, 1997"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.urban75.org\/cardiff\/images\/rochdale-cardiff-1997.jpg\" alt=\"Not so great Cardiff City FC moments: Rochdale away, 1997\" \/><\/p>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.urban75.org\/cardiff\/images\/rochdale-cardiff-1997-02.jpg\" alt=\"Not so great Cardiff City FC moments: Rochdale away, 1997\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Yet here we were, watching Cardiff City slide to an undignified 0-1 defeat in the old Division Four at a ground that could, at best, be described as &#8216;basic,&#8217; with a pitch that was more sand than grass.<\/p>\n<p>It was 18th January 1997, and we were freezing cold. Cardiff were awful.\u00a0 Still, there was a nice chippy by the ground and there were no queues and &#8211; somehow &#8211; I still had a great time.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Division Four<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Looking at the excellent <a href=\"http:\/\/www.soccerbase.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">soccerbase<\/a> website, it&#8217;s interesting to see the teams we were playing against in the basement division &#8211; some have gone on to greater things (Wigan, Fulham, Hull), while others still languish in the lower divisions, or below.<\/p>\n<p>Chester &#8211; who stood one place above us at the end of the season &#8211; have ceased to exist altogether.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.urban75.org\/cardiff\/images\/rochdale-cardiff-1997-01.jpg\" alt=\"Not so great Cardiff City FC moments: Rochdale away, 1997\" \/><\/p>\n<p>[<a href=\"http:\/\/www.urban75.org\/cardiff\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\">Check out our Cardiff City section<\/a>]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":6618,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[20,7],"tags":[8,1192],"class_list":["post-1270","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cardiff","category-football","tag-cardiff-city","tag-football"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/rochdale-cardiff-1997.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pQI7P-ku","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1270","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1270"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1270\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1273,"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1270\/revisions\/1273"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6618"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1270"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1270"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1270"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}