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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 many trips to the lesser known football outposts of the nation.<\/p>\n
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In this case, it was a Football League Two face-off in the south east of England, with Cardiff City travelling to Colchester United, on the 12th March 1993.<\/p>\n
Being a night game, there was plenty of time for both sets of supporters to get tanked up, leading to a fairly lively atmosphere inside the ground.<\/p>\n
There was a fair bit of noise in the ground, with Colchester’s squaddie following responding in kind to Cardiff’s taunts.<\/p>\n
I can’t remember too much (on account of the aforementioned tanking up) but I seem to recall Cardiff going behind and then scoring dramatically, sparking off a good old fashioned pitch invasion with a load of Cardiff\u00a0 ‘lads’ half heartedly ambling over in the direction of Colchester’s ‘boys’ before promptly returning to the terracing.<\/p>\n
We eventually won the game 4-2. I think I may have missed out some of the details. I blame the Stella.<\/p>\n
Updates!<\/strong> Thanks to posters on ccmb.co.uk<\/a> and urban75<\/a>, I’ve been reminded that it was a Friday night game and that the pitch invasion happened after we scored our third – putting us top of the league.<\/p>\n Some\u00a0 Colchester fans got on the pitch as well and it turned a little spicy for a while, although it all handbags really.<\/p>\n Colchester’s players were taunted throughout with chants of ‘Tesco bag, Tesco bag!’ on account of their blue and white strip.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" 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 … <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":6660,"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-1685","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\/colchester-cardiff-1993.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pQI7P-rb","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1685","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=1685"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1685\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1690,"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1685\/revisions\/1690"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6660"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1685"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1685"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1685"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}