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Why intercity derbies don’t really mean anything
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As anybody living in these parts probably knows by now, the entire South Welsh Police force will be having a paperwork-free bonding session at the Liberty Stadium this Saturday lunchtime. The itinerary will include separating lager-breathed Danny Dyer lookalikes hell-bent on manhandling one another, lots of human-barrier forming akin to portraying the Berlin Wall in [...]
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Tags: Cardiff City, Cardiff City News, intercity derby games, Jameson, postmodernity, suburbia, Swansea City, working-class identitiesTwo can play that game you’re playin’
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Due to work commitments, I missed the opening zwanzig minuten of debt-free (?) Cardiff City’s Beeb-televised clash with Nottingham Branches and Leaves. Fans and the TV bigwigs were salivating at the prospect of this encounter between the Newcastle-chasing duo: it was whole vs skimmed milk lids; Walker’s Ready Salted vs the same brand’s Cheese & [...]
Category: Cardiff City News‘Phew’ at these few
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By virtue of failing to capture a transfer target last summer, it appears that we’ve had a fortuitous moral escape. Marlon King was briefly lusted after, but thankfully negotiations barely went beyond a few e-mails/faxes/phone calls. Or texts, whatever it is club chairmen do these days (Ridsdale to Dave Whealan: “HI DAVE. CN WE SGN [...]
Category: Cardiff City News10 reasons why Peter Whittingham is currently making life more difficult for City’s opponents than trying to pull a condom over Darth Maul’s head
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12 goals in 17 games, 9 in the last 6, milestone hat-tricks, countless assists: yep, life is sweet for the left-midfielder at present. So pointing and laughing at Iridonian Zabraks aside, here are a full roster of toes explaining how and why Peter Whittingham is currently more potent in attack than the Luftwaffe was over [...]
Category: Cardiff City NewsNo Wanderers, Athletic, or United invited
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Chris Coleman’s dusky complexion and diamond-cut suit lend him an aura (?) that the charcoal bagginess of Dave Jones (and his threads) lacks. Nevertheless, it was the Jones-led City edging it in the alphabetical stakes who came out on top during a meeting the pair’s respective sides on Tuesday evening: a 2-0 margin that wasn’t [...]
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Due to being stuck in t’mine shaft with only a canary and baa baa black sheep-coloured sedimentary rock for company, I missed Saturday’s 1-1 draw with Richard O’Brien’s Neil Warnock’s Crystal Maze Palace. Therefore, my usual probing tactical analysis will be absent. However, focusing on that which I have seen, namely, the goals. For what [...]
Category: Cardiff City NewsWhatever happened to…
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A look at where life has taken some of the peripheral signings of the Dave Jones reign.
Jason BYRNE (01/07 – 09/08)
The Irish Gerd Müller was signed for a paltry £100k, and statistically his arrival seemed canny business. Unfortunately for Byrne, Championship-standard football is a pastime played in a vast surface area amongst a plethora of [...]
Category: Cardiff City NewsThese little town blues… are melting away
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2009/10s Cardiff City are proving to be owners of the most prominent split personality since Dr Henry Jekyll’s. Limp, moribund showings against the likes of Doncaster Rovers and the Parkies have been consigned to a dustbin seemingly reserved for anomalies: unless of course the 6-point-reaping, 10-goals-in-180-minute triumphs of the past week are themselves the occurrences [...]
Category: Cardiff City NewsDickov and Derby dicked on
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As overjoyed as I was to do twee self-concious jigs and fist-swipes on no less than SIX occasions yesterday evening, it must be acknowledged that our visitors were more shambolic than an anti-Swiss Bedouin leader being let loose at a United Nations convention. In a game played at the sort of leisurely pace that’d make [...]
Category: Cardiff City NewsIs Joe Ledley just a run-of-the-mill second division midfielder?
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ONCE UPON A TIME (or Amser maith yn ôl)…
in a land called Cardiff, there lived the most fantastic of all monarchs. His name was Joseph. Ninian Park was his castle, and all over the kingdom his name provoked nothing but verbal marvel and sheer joy. Heroic, handsome, gallant, brave, and noble, not to mention [...]
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