[Lord Snooty]

Cardiff City v Huddersfield Town
The Sky Bet Championship
Saturday November 6th - 15:00 ko
at the Cardiff City Stadium

Huddersfield Town travel to Cardiff to the imaginatively named Cardiff City Stadium on Saturday afternoon for what hopefully will be our first ever victory there. There couldn't be a better time than now to be playing them. They've lost 9 out of their last 10 games, with just one draw to show since their last win, a 2-1 victory at Forest on September the 12th. Mick McCarthy was in charge for the eight successive defeats in that run and so was given the boot. Ex Leeds and Millwall striker, Steve Morison is in as caretaker.

Town's Sorba Thomas will be hoping to impress the Cardiff fans. They may be booing him this week, but the same fans on the same ground will be cheering for him a week later, as he hopes to be playing for Wales in the World Cup qualifying matches on Saturday against Belarus and against Belgium on Tuesday.

Tickets:
Adults - £19
Over-60s - £16
16-21s - £10
Under-16s - £8

Coach tickets are available at £27 per person, with coaches departing the St Andrew’s Road car park at 8am on match day. Fans can park in the St. Andrew’s Road car park.

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION

The Welsh Government requires spectators over 18 years old to show their COVID status in order to enter the Cardiff City Stadium.

This status may be shown in several ways:

- A digital solution such as the NHS Covid Pass or EU equivalent
- A digital or paper-based certificate of vaccination
- Confirmation of a negative lateral flow test (LFT) result by text or email (within 24 hours of kick-off)
- Confirmation of immunity, having recovered from Coronavirus no sooner than 14 days and no longer than 6 months before the date of the fixture.

Accordingly, until further notice the following additional entry procedures will apply:

- An outer security perimeter will be constructed from portable fencing at each of the entry gates.
- Each outer security perimeter will have two entry points, each staffed by two stewards, thus creating four entry lanes;
- At the entry lanes, spectators will show their COVID status in the prescribed format for visual inspection by the stewards;
- Spectators will then move forwards to the inner security perimeter, namely the search lines in front of the turnstile blocks.

Apologies if you've read most of the following stuff before. It's a re-hash of last season's.

A brief history of Cardiff City: formed in formed in 1899 as Riverside AFC, another cricket club forming a footy team for it's players to keep them fit in the winter. They became known as Cardiff City in 1908 and moved into Ninian Park two years later. They were elected into the Football League for the 1920/21 season.

They rose rapidly. Their first season saw them promoted from the 2nd division as runners up to Birmingham. They then finished 4th in their first season in the top flight, then a drop to 9th in the next one before finishing as runners up to Huddersfield Town in 1923/24. This was the closest ever finish to a Football League season with us getting the first of our three consecutive titles by virtue of a better Goal Average. We have Len Davies to thank. He had a penalty to win the match against Birmingham, but missed and the score remained 0-0. Now if today's rules had applied, Goal Difference, then Cardiff would've won it on Goals Scored as the GD was level. But those were the rules then, so tough titty!

Poor old Davies was left feeling sorry for himself again in 1925 as Cardiff made it to the FA Cup Final. He was out injured as the Bluebirds were beaten 1-0 by Sheffield Utd. They didn't do as well in the league as we took our 2nd title, finishing 11th. And they finished 16th as we completed the Thrice Champions of the First Division. They had another bad day against Sheffield Utd as well during this season, losing 11-2 at Brammall Lane. This is still their record defeat.

Things got better in the next season when they won their only major trophy by winning the 1927 FA Cup Final and taking it out of England for the one and only time. Hughie Ferguson is credited with the goal as they beat Arsenal 1-0, but the dubious goals panel may well have given it as an own goal by the Arsenal keeper Dan Lewis. Len Davies finally got his hands on a winners medal and would go on to be Cardiff's all time leading goal scorer with a whopping 179 from 371 appearances.

They followed that up by winning the Charity Shield 2-1 against Corinthians. But then the bubble burst and they were relegated in 1929. A quite remarkable first nine years in the Football League. Another remarkable thing about their relegation is the fact that they only conceded 59 goals throughout the season and that, despite finishing bottom of the league was the lowest number of goals conceded in the division.

Things got worse a couple of years later when they were relegated again, to Division 3 (South). It got slightly better down there when they had their record victory in 1932/33, beating Thames FC 9-2. But then in the next season, just ten years after finishing as runners up in the First Division, they were finishing bottom of the Third and had to apply for re-election. They succeeded in that but by the time the war broke out, they were still a 3rd division team.

When the league resumed in 1946/47, Cardiff had somehow changed their fortunes around and were promoted as champions of Div 3 (S). And then under the management of Cyril Spiers, won promotion back to the First Division in 1951/52 after 23 years outside the top flight. They stayed for 5 years, went down, came up again in 1960 and went down again in 1962.

The 1960s saw the introduction of the European Cup Winners Cup and the winners of the Welsh Cup were eligible to take part. Despite their lowly second division status, they reached the semi finals of this competition in 1967/68. They played Hamburg and drew the first leg 1-1 away, with Norman Dean getting the goal. The second leg attracted 43,00 to Ninian Park. Dean scored again to put them 2-1 up on aggregate, but Franz-Josef Hönig equalised shortly afterwards. Brian Harris gave the Bluebirds the lead again in the 78th minute only for Hönig to score again. Then in the 88th minute, German international legend, Uwe Seeler, who would go on to knock England out of the World Cup in 1970, popped up with the winner to knock the Welsh boys out. This is still the furthest a Welsh club has ever gone in a European competition.

They reached the quarter finals in 1971 and played Real Madrid. They won the first leg 1-0 at Ninian Park in front of 47,000 spectators, with ex Town striker Brian Clark scoring the goal. They lost the second leg 0-2 though.

Relegation reared it's ugly head again in 1975 and they went down to Div 3, coming back up after just the one season. They went back down again in 1982 and then in 1986 they went down for the first time to Division 4. They yo-yoed between the bottom two divisions, culminating in 1996 with their lowest ever league finish, 22nd in the 4th tier (called Div Three then). Their European adventures came to an end as well. After winning the Welsh Cup on 22 occasions, the teams playing in the English FA Cup were banned from the competition by the FAW in 1995.

Sam Hammam became the new owner in 2000 and made Lennie Lawrence manager. Things slowly started to turn around. They won the 2003 Play Offs at the Millennium Stadium, beating QPR 1-0 with a goal from Andy Campbell in extra time to get them back into the 2nd tier for the first time in 18 years. Then in 2008, with Dave Jones now in charge, they reached the FA Cup Final for the first time since they won it in 1927. It wasn't to be this time though as they were beaten by Portsmouth 1-0.

After playing at Ninian Park for 99 years, they moved into the new Cardiff City Stadium in 2009. You can see from this picture how close the two were to each other, probably a few feet closer than our two stadiums. The old one has a housing estate on it now, as you can see from the photo at the top of the page.

Vincent Tan then became the major shareholder and appointed Malky Mackay as manager and they reached the League Cup Final in 2011. Their opponents were the mighty Liverpool. Cardiff were still in the Championship. Joe Mason opened the scoring in the first half to put the Bluebirds ahead, only for Martin Škrtel to equalise on the hour mark. It finished 1-1 after 90 mins and then Liverpool went ahead. Skipper Mark Hudson had been replaced on 99 minutes by Anthony Gerrard and Dirk Kuyt gave the Reds the lead soon after. However, with time running out, Ben Turner scored the equaliser for Cardiff from a corner and the match went to a penalty shoot out. Despite Tom Heaton saving from Steven Gerrard and Charlie Adam blazing his kick over the bar, by the time it got to the last of the Cardiff five, that numpty Gerrard had to score to keep the game alive. He missed.

The experience did them good though as in the next season, they won the Championship title and won promotion to the Premier League after an absence of 52 years from the top flight. It was only for one season though. Mackay was given the sack half way through the season and replaced by Ole Gunnar Solskjær, who took them down. He was replaced by Russell Slade in the next season and then in 2016, he was replaced by Neil Warnock. The old boy got them promoted, not through his usual Play Off route, they finished as runners up to Wolves and went up automatically.

Struggling to make waves in the Premier League, they made the decision to break their transfer record and agreed a fee of £15m for Emiliano Sala from Nantes. A 28 year old Argentinian striker with an excellent goal scoring record in France, he had passed his medical and was returning to Cardiff to join his new team mates when tragedy struck and the light aircraft he was travelling in, crashed into the sea off the Channel Islands. Cardiff were relegated alongside us at the end of the 2018/19 season.

They made it to the Play Offs in their first season back in the Championship. By now Neil Harris was in charge after Warnock left in November, they lost on aggregate to Fulham. Last season, Harris got the sack in January, to be replaced by Mick McCarthy. Irish Mick got them from relegation contenders to Play Off outsiders, eventually finishing in 8th, 9 points short. Mick had a disastrous run though this season, going on a club record eight successive defeats, which saw him get sacked on October 23rd.

Head to Head



Town lead the head to head with 29 wins to Cardiff's 27, with 23 draws.

But we haven't won since 2003 when Andy Booth scored in a 1-0 win at the McAlpine. There have been 15 games since without us winning.

We first started playing each other in the 1920s and as you can see from the History section above, we had a bit of a rivalry. The first two matches were in December 1921 and we didn't even score. It was goalless at Ninian Park and then they came up to Leeds Road on Christmas Eve and left with the points and a 1-0 win. We played them in the next season in a November double header and it was us this time with the upper hand as we beat them both times 1-0. Charlie Wilson scoring at Leeds Road and then Jack Byers with the goal down there.

The next season, 1923/24 was the one where we won the title, beating Cardiff on Goal Average. The two games came late on in the season. We beat them 2-0 at home in March with a couple of George Brown goals, but it was another tense goal less affair in Cardiff in April. We were top of the table after that match as Sunderland's challenge began to fade. By the time the final round of matches came around, Cardiff had taken advantage of our defeat away at Aston Villa in the penultimate match and moved into top spot. All they had to do was win at Birmingham. A George Cook double and another from Brown gave us a 3-0 win at home to Nottingham Forest. The Town fans awaited the result from St Andrews. It was good news. I've already mentioned that Len Davies missed the penalty, but it was a save from the Birmingham keeper Dan Tremelling after wing half Percy Barton had given away the spot kick by punching the ball off the line, in the days before this was a sending off offence. And so Cardiff drew 0-0 and only took one point. We went above them by virtue of winning 3-0. A 2-0 win wouldn't have been enough.

Unlikely Town hero!

As we all know, we won the title again in the next two seasons. Cardiff were still around for both of them and in 24/25 we drew both games. We also drew the first meeting in the thrice champions season and then beat them 2-1 away. The next season saw another draw at Leeds Road and a 0-2 defeat down there. But then in 1927/28 we had a couple of crazy games. This was the season that we finished as runners up to Everton and Cardiff came up here in October. They left with a good old walloping as our brave lads scored 8 for the first time in a FL match. We won the match 8-2 with a Bob Kelly hat trick, two from Johnny Dent, one each from Alex Jackson and Billy Smith and a Roy Goodall penalty. Then in February, after big wins against West Ham (5-2), Spurs (4-2) and Everton (4-1), we went to Ninian Park and got stuffed 4-0! Funny old game!

We followed that by drawing the two games in the next season as Cardiff got relegated. And that was the rivalry done with for 24 years. Cardiff had made it back to the First Division as we went down for the first time and met up again in 1953 when we won promotion back into the top flight. And we beat them at home 2-0 in the third game of the season to go top of the league, with goals from Jimmy Watson and Vic Metcalfe. They beat us 2-1 a week later down at theirs. We had three more seasons together in the top flight and then we got relegated. And so when we met at Leeds Road in Feb '56, it would be the last meeting of the two clubs at the top level for 62 years. Cardiff won it 2-1.

They came down in the next and so we met at the 2nd level for the first time in September '57 and Cardiff beat us again down at theirs. We had a few seasons together in the 60s, missing a couple when they went back up. We were apart again at the start of the 70s as we had gone and got ourselves promoted. We did the double over the Bluebirds in our promotion season, winning both matches 1-0. Jimmy Nicholson scored at home and a Brian Harris own goal gave us the points at theirs.

We met again in the 2nd division after we got relegated in 1972, but that was it for the 70s. The next time we shared a division was in the 80s. Cardiff had just been relegated to the 3rd division and they came to Leeds Road in October 1982. They brought their ruddy hooligans with them as well and I remember a big old scrap outside the Waggon & Horses and one of the Cardiff fans getting trampled by one of the police horses. He just got up and laughed it off.   Happy days!

Anyway, we won the game 4-0. Mark Lillis scored all four of them. What a game that was, much to the delight of a local butcher who was sponsoring him with a T-Bone steak for every goal he scored. We should try that now instead of pledging breakfasts for poor kids, we should buy big juicy steaks for our brave, under paid footy stars.

We went down to Cardiff for the return match in March. We had a minibus trip for a midweek game. Some of the lads had their wives with them and so decided that they didn't want to be in with the mob, so we all sat in the main stand. We'll be alright there. Wrong! When David Cowling equalised to make it 1-1, they were all over us, some climbing the wall from the paddock in front of the seats to hit us. Oh happy days!  

We both got promoted that season. We finished 3rd and they finished 2nd behind champions Portsmouth. So we met up again in the 2nd division in 83/84. We started the season well and by the time we went to Cardiff and lost 1-3, we were in 5th place. It was more of a struggle for the second half of the season though, but when Cardiff came up here in April, we beat them 4-0 again. No goals for Lillis this time though, but we did have a hat trick and it was from a centre back. Paul Jones it was, two of the three were penalties though. Daryl Pugh got the other.

Jones got another pen at Leeds Road against them as we beat them 2-1 in the following season, with Dale Tempest getting the other. Cardiff beat us 3-0 at theirs towards the back end of the season, but it wasn't enough to save them from relegation.

So it was another four years before we played each other again in the third tier. Only a couple of seasons, they got relegated to the 4th div. Along the way, we contributed to their down fall. Despite losing 2-3 at home, we went down to Ninian Park at the back end of the 1989/90 season and hammered them 5-1. And another Town player scored four against them. This time it was Craig Maskell, with Kieran O'Regan with the other. When they came back up, we did them again 5-1 at home in our first season in the MacAlpine Stadium. Five different goal scorers though in this one, Andy Booth, Tom Cowan, Ronnie Jepson, Paul Reid and Gary Crosby. They went down and we went up, so didn't play each other again until we had a couple of seasons together in the early 2000s.

There has only been one Cup meeting and that was in the League Cup 2nd round in 2011. And a right cracker of a game it was an' all in our first visit to the new Cardiff City Stadium. Gábor Gyepes opened the scoring and Jon Parkin made it two, with his only Cardiff goal that season before he came on loan to us. Then came an unbelievable turnaround. Jordan Rhodes pulled one back in the second half, Danny Ward equalised and then in the 88th minute Rhodes put us 3-2 up. Could we hold out for the win against a team who were by now in a higher division than us? Nope! Don Cowie grabbed an equaliser in the third minute of injury time to send the match into extra time. Craig Conway gave them the lead before Cowie rounded the night off with his second to finish the match at 5-3.

We got promoted that season and started off the new season on a Friday night, live on Sky Sports down in Cardiff. They were one of the favourites for promotion, having made it to the Play Off Final in the previous season and we did really well. It was 0-0 when the 4th official put his board up showing five minutes. Unfortunately in the first of those, up popped future Town skipper and caretaker manager Mark Hudson to burst our bubble. He would lift the Championship trophy at the end of the season.

They came straight back down though and won five out of six against us in the next three seasons. The last of them though was at the end of the 2016/17 season when we had already secured our place in the Play Offs. Neil Warnock was their manager now and we had David Wagner. Whatever you do, don't do anything stupid to jeopardise the Play Off campaign would've been what Wagz instructed the team as they went out onto the grass. It took Danny Ward just 20 minutes to forget all that as he came flying out of his area and got sent off. We were already one down to a Kenneth Zohore goal. Joel Coleman took over in goal and was then beaten twice by Joe Bennett as the visitors took a 3-0 win.

We won the Play Offs and Colin got Cardiff up in the next season and so we met up in the top flight for the first time in 62 years. And after all these classic matches I've just wrote about, what a terrible anti climax those Premier League games were, both ending in goal less draws. Jonathan Hogg got sent off in the home game and the one at theirs on January the 12th 2019 was particularly galling after the ref, Lee Mason, gave us a penalty and then changed his mind, in the season before VAR came in. Sadly, this was the last straw for Wagner after a series of shocking refereeing decisions and bad luck and yes, some poor play, he left the club by mutual consent the day after this.

Ye baldy headed twat!

We had two very disappointing games against Cardiff last season, a defeat down there and a drab 0-0 draw up here when Yaya Sanogo missed a penalty. Kieffer Moore scored twice in the 0-3 defeat at theirs.



Wednesday night's line up at home to QPR:

25 Alex Smithies - If we get a penalty, he will save it!
2 Mark McGuinness - 20 yo Irish centre back.
4 Sean Morrison - An absolute danger!
16 Curtis Nelson - Ex Plymouth and Oxford centre back.
38 Perry Ng - Liverpool lad, ex Crewe, eligible to play for Singapore.
6 Will Vaulks - Played for Falkirk in the Scottish Cup Final, beaten by Caley Thistle.
21 Marlon Pack - Ex Brizzle Titty midfielder.
26 Ryan Giles - 21 yo midfielder on loan from Wolves.
36 Kieron Evans - 19 yo midfielder, made his debut this season.
27 Rubin Colwill - 19 yo old midfielder, already a full Welsh international.
10 Kieffer Moore - Big lad.

Subs:
1 Dillon Phillips - Ex Charlton keeper.
5 Aden Flint - 32 yo centre back, top scorer this season.
7 Leandro Bacuna - Brother plays for Rangers.
8 Joe Ralls - Almost 300 apps for the Bluebirds now.
29 Mark Harris - Welsh international winger.
30 Ciaron Brown - Spent last season on loan at Livingston.
35 Chanka Zimba - So young he hasn't got a Wiki page yet.

Club connections:

If you watched the video in the History section, you will have seen Brian Clark scoring one of the most famous goal in Cardiff's history when he scored against Real Madrid in the European Cup Winners Cup. He had been at Town for a couple of seasons in the 60s, eventually losing his place to the emerging talent of Frank Worthington. He began his career with Bristol City, playing there for 7 years and scoring 83 goals. He came to Town in '67 in exchange for Johnny Quigley and scored on his debut, in a defeat at Rotherham. He left for Cardiff in '68 and scored twice on his debut there as the Bluebirds beat Derby County. He formed a partnership with John Toshack, who had left for Liverpool by the time Brian scored his winner against Madrid. He scored 75 times for Cardiff, being top scorer for three years. He then went to Bournemouth, Millwall, back to Cardiff for one season and then finished off at Newport County. His career goal total was 217, only 11 of them in the bright blue n white of Huddersfield Town. He died in 2010 of Lewy body dementia at the age of 67.

There's a couple of ex Town players in the current Cardiff squad in Alex Smithies and Sean Morrison. Our very own Fraizer Campbell used to play for them and of course we signed Danny Ward from Cardiff last year.

Others to feature for both include Jazz Richards, Lee Peltier, Anthony Pilkington, Mark Hudson, Anthony Gerrard, Tony Carss, Danny Drinkwater, Alan Lee, Rob Page, Steve Jenkins, Des Hamilton, Emyr Huws, Jon Parkin and goalkeepers Martyn Margetson and Andy Dibble. And not forgetting the legend of Scott Malone who played for us in the PL 22 times and 54 games for Cardiff in the Championship and seems to get a mention in nearly every match thread I do.

And of course Neil Warnock managed both clubs.




Cardiff in popular culture: There are loads of entertainers from Cardiff. Bands like Amen Corner, Catatonia, Super Furry Animals and the Hot Puppies. Then of course we have the legend that is Shakin' Stevens, Dame Shirley Bassey and young classical singer and tabloid darling Charlotte Church. Add to that Griff Rhys Jones, Honeysuckle Weeks, Tessie O'Shea, Stan Stennett and Gethin Jones, you can say that Cardiff is full of talent.

As for celebrity fans, it's a great big list of who's nobody. Most of them I've never heard of and the ones I do know are dead. That just leaves us with the fictional. That'll be Dave Coaches from Gavin & Stacey, who revealed in series 3 that he was a Cardiff supporter.

"Y'aright, Sugar Tits?"

'ow to get theere an' wheere to sup: The post code for sat nav is CF11 8AZ. There is parking at the ground, which costs a tenner. Be careful not to park in the nearby retail park, as it's like the one near the John Smith's, you're limited to 90 minutes and parking wardens are out in force on match days. There are other private car parks around the area and some limited street parking.

The nearest railway station is Ninian Park Halt, which is only a five minute walk from the stadium. All the pubs around the stadium are for home fans only. The Lansdowne on Lansdowne Road does allow away fans in, but to get there means walking away from the ground when you leave the station. Best bet is to get tanked up in the city centre, then catch the train from Cardiff Central, which run every 30 minutes. But bear in mind, like with entry to the stadium, you will need your Covid passport.

Recent form - last 6 matches:

Peterborough 1-1 Town
Town 1-0 Millwall
Bournemouth 3-0 Town
Town 0-0 Birmingham
Town 2-0 Hull
Luton 0-0 Town

Cardiff 0-1 QPR
Stoke 3-3 Cardiff
Cardiff 0-2 M'boro
Fulham 2-0 Cardiff
Swansea 3-0 Cardiff
Cardiff 0-1 Reading

Town are 7th in the Championship table with 25 points. Cardiff are 21st with 12.

Leading scorers:

Terriers:
Danny Ward (4)
Matty Pearson (3)

Bluebirds:
Aden Flint (4)
Rubin Colwill (3)


November the 6th down the ages: How did we get on in previous matches played on this date?

1909: South Kirkby Colliery (h) FA Cup, WON 5-2 (Jack Foster, William McCreadie, Alonzo Drake 2, James Roberts pen)
1915: Bradford Park Avenue (h) Wartime League, WON 2-1 (Thomas Elliott, Joe Jee)
1920: Manchester City (h) Div 1, lost 0-1
1926: Liverpool (a) Div 1, WON 3-2 (William Devlin, Billy Smith, George Brown)
1937: Birmingham (a) Div 1, drew 2-2 (Pat Beasley, Bobby Barclay)
1943: Crewe Alexandra (h) Wartime League, WON 8-0 (Billy Price 7, Jimmy Glazzard)
1948: Chelsea (h) Div 1, lost 3-4 (Peter Doherty 2, 1 pen, Albert Nightingale)
1954: Sheffield United (h) Div 1, lost 1-2 (Jimmy Glazzard)
1965: Bury (h) Div 2, WON 2-0 (Johnny Quigley, Don Weston)
1971: Coventry City (a) Div 1, lost 1-2 (Dave Smith)
1976: Workington (h) Div 4, WON 2-1 (Neil Hague, Steve Smith)
1979: Northampton Town (h) Div 4, WON 5-0 (Ian Robins 2, Micky Laverick, David Cowling, David Sutton)
1981: Doncaster Rovers (a) Div 3, WON 2-1 (Mick Kennedy, Micky Laverick)
1982: AFC Bournemouth (a) Div 3, WON 1-0 (Mark Lillis)
1991: Fulham (h) Div 3, WON 3-1 (Kieran O'Regan, Phil Starbuck, Peter Jackson)
1993: Cambridge United (h) Division Two (3rd tier), drew 1-1 (Rodney Rowe)
1999: Swindon Town (h) Division One (2nd tier), WON 4-0 (Chris Beech, Ben Thornley, Dean Gorré 2)
2005: Welling United (h) FA Cup, WON 4-1 (Andy Booth 2, Danny Schofield pen, Andy Holdsworth)
2007: Hartlepool United (h) League One (3rd tier), WON 2-0 (Danny Cadamarteri, Luke Beckett)
2009: Dagenham & Redbridge (h) FA Cup, WON 6-1 (Robbie Williams, Gary Roberts 2, Lee Novak 2, Jordan Rhodes)
2010: Cambridge United (a) FA Cup, drew 0-0


Won 14, drawn 4, lost 4. Unbeaten on this date since 1971. That's 50 years!

The Cup match against South Kirkby in 1909 was in the same season as we beat Heckmondwike 11-0 in the same competition. The next season would be our first in the Football League, but none of the players who scored in this match would be retained. Jack Foster scored 11 goals in the competition that season. Alonzo Drake also played cricket for Yorkshire. He was a left arm slow medium bolwer, but died in Honley in 1919 at the age of 34.

Pat Beasley, who scored against Birmingham in 1937, would later in life be the manager of Birmingham City. He took them to the Final of the European Inter Cities Fairs Cup (equivalent to what is now the Europa League), where they were beaten in the Final by Barcelona.

Billy Price scored 7 (seven) in the game with Crewe in 1943. It's the record for Town players in a single match. Unfortunately for him, you won't see it in the official records as it wasn't an official game. As with most of the goals he scored in the bright blue n white, he would've been the club record scorer had it not been for the wartime games not being officially recorded.

Johnny Quigley, who scored against Bury in 1965, had signed for us from Nottingham Forest, with whom he won the FA Cup in 1958. He had two seasons with us before joining Bristol City in an exchange deal that brought Brian Clark to us.

Steve Smith, who scored against Workington in 1976, came back to the club as a coach after he'd retired, but came out of retirement for one match during an injury crisis. That match was also against Workington. He went on to manage the club and is still the only Huddersfield born man to manage Huddersfield Town.

Cardiff Anagrams: Some football related. Some not.

1. Iran Napkin 
   
2. McEnroe Ran 
   
3. Ishmael Exits 
   
4. Vaselined 
   
5. Illuminant Dummies 
   
6. Ahmed Sayers Sibley 
   
7. Clammy Kayak 
   
8. Replace Brazil FM 
   
9. Nissan Romero 
   
10. Colin Wanker 
    

[ritchiebaby]

Great thread (so far, as I've only read half of it) - my brain's beginning to hurt..

I think you've made a mistake in Anagrams 9 and 10. 9 is the old "pornstar name" game using your first car and an old actor's surname. 10 of course should read Cloak Winner to reveal the answer.

[Lord Snooty]

Hogg and Holmes both training with the squad this morning before being assessed whether they're fit enough to travel.

[theo_luddite]

An excellent copy and paste job m'lud, with relevant updates of course - your talents could get you a place lodging International Trade Deals for the Government.

There's a ni, na, ni, na, Ninian Park in there at the top of the list and per ritchie you've given us the answer rather than question to 10.
I'm sure Colin won't mind though and I never realised Sean Morrison was a porn star to be honest. Funny how that works isn't it?

[Lord Snooty]

[jjamez]

Don't think I've ever seen us do well down there, as such, I can't see us doing well down there today. Kieffer Moore always has it in for us, they usually bully us no end, but this season we seem to be a lot stronger physically and mentally, today would be a good time to pick naby sarr, probably over colwill, just for that extra height and experience. Hopefully hoggy and Holmes are available, I feel we lose the midfield battle if Scott high has to play

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Got that nasty bugger who used to play for Millwall Steve Morrison in charge today, if they play like he did, be a load of elbows flying around

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1- ninian park

3- Alex smithies

7- looks like malky mackay

10- good old Neil, could be getting the sack at Boro if they lose today

[Lord Snooty]

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Let's hope we don't end up with the Malt n Barley Blues today.

One for 70s pop fans there.

I'll give you another clue When I'm Dead n Gone.

[theo_luddite]

It's likely squirreled away in Snoots post but we last won at Cardiff 1-2 in Sept 2001

[Lord Snooty]

You're wrong there theo. I didn't mention it at all.

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I thought I had mentioned it, so had to go back and check. No. Silly old fool just mentioned the last win, which was at home in 2003.

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Hogg off injured early doors. Not good news at all.

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SINANIIIIIIIII

[theo_luddite]

Koroma now on for Holmes - both players injured v Posh don't make it to half-time