Finally losing the battle to stay in their premises by The Hayes in central Cardiff, the much loved Spillers record store closed on June 26th, 2010, reopening in the nearby Morgan Arcade a …
Spillers Records, Cardiff moves to the Morgan Arcade Read More
In case you’ve missed it, our ace Cardiff City reporter has filed another excellent report from Saturday’s match against Brizzle City. Check it out here.
Cardiff City 3 Bristol City 2 – oh yes! Read More
I can’t remember what sent us all scuttling off in the direction of a half-empty Grange End on a cold Winter afternoon in 1994, but here’s the scene from our …
Great minor football scuffles: Cardiff City vs Luton 1994 Read More
Blackpool 3 Cardiff City 2 – Championship Play Off Final, Wembley So we missed out on the Premiership. It was a great game, Blackpool just deserved it and we never …
Blackpool 3 Cardiff City 2 – some photos Read More
Coca Cola Championship play-off final Wembley Stadium Date: Saturday, 22 May Kick-off: 1500 BST The bigger game have played in living memory is here and I’m a bag of nerves! …
Come on Cardiff! The Play Offs final is here! Read MoreTurn off the sub-U2 backing drone of Futuretown’s ‘What Are We Waiting For’, stick on some slamming drum’n’bass, Pistols or The Clash, and soak up this glorious video showing Cardiff …
Cardiff City’s fabulous season in video Read More
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 …
Cardiff City awaydays: Colchester United, 1993 – with pitch invasion! Read More
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 …
What kind of fan are you? And how do you cope with failure? Read More
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 …
Cardiff City beat Leicester – we’re in the Championship play-off final! Read More
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 …
Leicester v Cardiff: Whittingham whaps in a winner! Read More
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.
Cardiff City awaydays: Northampton Town 2002 Read More
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 …
Crap away trips: Cambridge Utd vs Cardiff City, 2001 Read More
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 …
Cardiff City 2 Swansea City 1. A beautiful day. Read More
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 …
Five old ladies on a bench, Penarth, Wales Read More
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.
Not so great Cardiff City FC moments: Rochdale away, 1997 Read More
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 …
Great Cardiff City FC moments: the 1993 tranny pitch invasion Read More
Great win today at Selhurst Park, against a Crystal Palace team who battled hard. Here’s a few pics:
Crystal Palace 1 Cardiff City 2. Yes! Read More
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 …
Cardiff Bay photos Read More
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 …
A few snowy Cardiff pics Read More
Some photos of Cardiff City’s half demolished stadium – a place full of memories for me!
Goodbye Cardiff’s Ninian Park Read More[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 …
Modern football is rubbish Read More
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 …
Return to St Fagans museum, Cardiff Read More
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 …
Coping with failure: Cardiff City FC Read More
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 …
Charlton Athletic 2 Cardiff City 2 Read More
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 …
Crystal Palace 0 Cardiff City 2 Read More
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 …
Cardiff city centre photos Read More
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:
Christmas Day walk, Graig Llanishen, Cardiff Read More
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 …
Cardiff City 0 Bristol City 0 – photos Read More
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:
Barry Island photos Read More
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 …
Cardiff 3 Barnsley 0 Read More