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From the thousands of matches ever played by Cardiff City, stretching from the club's Victorian foundation to their grand Premier League entrance, here are 50 of the Bluebirds' most glorious, epochal and thrilling games of all! Expertly presented in evocative historical context, and described incident-by-incident in atmospheric detail, Cardiff City Greatest Games offers a terrace ticket back in time, taking in everything from the famous FA Cup triumph of 1927 through great European nights of the 60s and 70s to the two Cup finals reached since the millennium. An irresistible cast list of club legends - John Charles, Robert Earnshaw and Brian Clark, Derek Tapscott, Phil Dwyer and Peter Whittingham - springs to life at wonderful moments such as promotion day against Leeds in 1952, 1999's heroic 0-0 draw with eight men at Cambridge United, and the third-tier playoff win in extra-time against QPR which continued the Bluebirds' resurgence in 2003. In all, a journey through the highlights of City's history which is guaranteed to make any fan's heart swell with pride.

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Publié par	Pitch Publishing Ltd
Date de parution	01 septembre 2013
Nombre de lectures	0
EAN13	9781909626102
Langue	English
Poids de l'ouvrage	1 Mo

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Sean Wozencroft 2013
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Contents
Acknowledgements
Introduction
1. v Wolverhampton Wanderers 1921
2. v Sheffield United 1925
3. v Arsenal 1927
4. v Dynamo Moscow 1945
5. v Leeds United 1952
6. v Liverpool 1957
7. v Liverpool 1959
8. v Aston Villa 1960 .
9. v Knighton Town 1961
10. v Arsenal 1961
11. v Tottenham Hotspur 1961
12. v Newcastle United 1962
13. v Sporting Lisbon 1964
14. v Real Zaragoza 1965
15. v Middlesbrough 1966
16. v Moscow Torpedo 1968
17. v Hamburg SV 1968
18. v Pezoporikos Larnaca 1970
19. v Real Madrid 1971
20. v Crystal Palace 1974
21. v Hereford United 1976
22. v Tottenham Hotspur 1977
23. v Wrexham 1977
24. v Swansea City 1980
25. v Leyton Orient 1983
26. v Chelsea 1984
27. v Scunthorpe United 1993
28. v Middlesbrough 1994
29. v Manchester City 1994
30. v Fulham 1997
31. v Chester City 1998
32. v Scunthorpe United 1999
33. v Cambridge United 1999
34. v York City 2001
35. v Leeds United 2002
36. v Oldham Athletic 2002
37. v Stoke City 2002
38. v Bristol City 2003
39. v Queens Park Rangers 2003
40. v Middlesbrough 2008
41. v Barnsley 2008
42. v Portsmouth 2008
43. v Bristol City 2010
44. v Swansea City 2010
45. v Leicester City 2010
46. v Blackpool 2010
47. v Leeds United 2010
48. v Liverpool 2012
49. v Charlton Athletic 2013
50. v Burnley 2013
51. v Manchester City 2013
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Acknowledgements
T HIS WONDERFUL football club has played a major role in my family for more than 100 years. Indeed, our support for the club can be traced back to its very formation in 1899.
For my own obsession I have my late grandfather John Wozencroft and my father Paul Wozencroft to thank. John was born in 1916 and started supporting Cardiff City as a young boy after being encouraged by his uncle. In 1927 he was among the thousands to line the streets of Cardiff to welcome home the FA Cup heroes. His passion for the club was unfailing throughout his life and we would spend hours talking about the most minuscule piece of news. John stopped attending matches shortly before City moved to the new stadium as his eyesight deteriorated, but his support continued from his armchair. He died in 2011 aged 95.
My dad started going to City games in the late 1950s. He caught the bug and has been a regular ever since and a long-standing season ticket holder. He started taking me to Ninian Park in the 1992/93 season when City won the Third Division championship. What a way to start, but it could never last and the years that followed turned out to be some of the worst in the club s history. With City languishing towards the bottom of the fourth tier of English football by 1995/96 and playing in front of crowds of less than 3,000, I m sure there were times when my dad wondered whether his Saturday afternoons could be better spent elsewhere. But he persevered and in the last decade the rewards have been plentiful with cup finals and thrilling football. I will always be grateful that he chose to share his passion with me.
A word of thanks, too, for my wonderful wife, Dani. She is a staunch Crystal Palace supporter but humours me and my childlike love for Cardiff City. She has also been very supportive of this book, even though its production has left me with little time to help her around the house. I ll get the washing up gloves back on soon, I promise!
Tribute must also be paid to staff at libraries across the country who have helped me dig out the information required, particularly the helpful folk at Cardiff Central Library.
A big thank you, too, to Ann Lumley, who ploughed through the draft version of this book with her red pen to eliminate mistakes and typos.
But above all the praise must go to the Cardiff City heroes of the last 114 years who have produced such a large amount of incredible games and unforgettable moments. I salute you all.
Sean Wozencroft
Introduction
C ARDIFF CITY are the ultimate rollercoaster club. Supporters old enough will have witnessed victories over Real Madrid, Sporting Lisbon and Arsenal as well as defeats against Maidstone United, Weymouth and Scarborough. In the last 25 years the Bluebirds have been amongst the dead men in the bottom division and have also played in two major cup finals. And now they are ready to soar on the biggest stage of them all - the Premier League.
This book aims to be a celebration of the best moments since the club s formation in 1899. Have there been 50 great Cardiff games? was a joke I heard regularly as I began to tell my friends and family that I was going to be writing this book. There have, of course, been many more. When I started looking through results of seasons gone by it became abundantly clear that 100 games would have been possible. Some great victories - even a League Cup semi-final win over Crystal Palace in 2012 - have been left out as I struggled to pick the games to be featured.
Some matches, of course, were obvious choices for inclusion. The 1927 FA Cup Final against Arsenal remains the most famous day in the club s history while the European Cup Winners Cup successes over Real Madrid, Sporting Lisbon and Moscow Torpedo in the 1960s and 1970s were very special.
But I have deliberately strayed away from the obvious where possible to include some fixtures which might not have been great games in their own right but have gone down in folklore because of what they meant to the supporters. A 0-0 draw at Cambridge United in 1999 might not sound like a candidate for this book, but any City fan worth their salt will know that this was the day when Frank Burrows s team held out for a point with just eight men. Likewise, the 3-0 win over Scunthorpe United in 1993 might not have won any awards for football brilliance from pundits, but City fans remember it as the day more than 4,500 Bluebirds supporters invaded North Lincolnshire for a promotion party of epic proportions.
I have tried to select games from as many different decades as possible but it is inevitably the case that many are from the 1960s and 1970s when City plied their trade almost exclusively in the top two divisions. There were big wins against Liverpool, Chelsea, Arsenal and Spurs during those years of relative success. But despite lurking in the bottom two divisions for much of the 1980s and 1990s, there were still some memorable games, including a 3-3 draw against Chelsea on a feisty afternoon and 2-0 win against Leyton Orient which secured promotion.
But there is no escaping the fact that the last ten years have seen unprecedented success for the club, including a play-off promotion against QPR and a play-off final defeat against Blackpool as well as an FA Cup Final and a League Cup Final, and promotion to the top tier.
Nothing excites supporters more than a cup shock, and there have been one or two for City fans to savour over the years. The 2-1 win at Middlesbrough in 1994 was excellent while Nathan Blake s winner against Manchester City just weeks later will never be forgotten. And of course, that win against top-of-the-Premier-League Leeds in 2002 was out of this world.
Some games have been featured simply because they showed City at their best. They include a 6-0 trouncing of Chester City, a win by the same scoreline at rivals Bristol City and a 7-1 win at Oldham Athletic. The 16-0 Welsh Cup win over Knighton Town earns a chapter simply as it is the club s record scoreline. A 10-1 loss against Moscow Dynamo is one of only a handful of defeats featured but is there because of the political importance of the match and the excitement it created around the country at the time.
It is my hope that this book will in a small way help to revive memories among supporters of a certain vintage while helping to reinforce the history and traditions of the club to younger folk. The greats like Brian Clark, Derek Tapscott, Ivor Allchurch and Willie Anderson - not to mention Phil Dwyer, John Toshack and John Charles - should never be forgotten. And then there are the modern-day heroes like Graham Kavanagh, Phil Stant, Carl Dale, Peter Whittingham and Robert Earnshaw. So much of this great club has changed over the years, including the move of stadium and the recent alteration of home colour from blue to red. I hope that this simple book will go some way to keeping yesteryear alive for us all.
It is also worth remembering that the story of Cardiff City Football Club will run and run. As long as there is football being played in this country there will be a Cardiff in one form or another. In 200 years the supporters of today will be considered the early trailblazers.
It is inevitable that some readers will not agree with some of the games I have decided to include and will question why others have been omitted. Whether or not that is the case, I sincerely hope you enjoy reading about what were undoubtedly 50 great days in the club s history.
CARDIFF CITY: Ben Davies Jack Page Jimmy Blair Fred Keenor Bert Smith Billy Hardy Billy Grimshaw Jimmy Gill Fred Pagnam Harry Nash Joe Clark WOLVERHAMPTON WANDERERS: Teddy Peers Maurice Woodward Geor