What is a club?

What do you think makes a football club?
If you look at us 5 years ago to now we have a different stadium, different badge, different colour kit, different manager, different owners but the same name, and we are undoubtedly the same club. But if you look at Swansea (sorry) they changed thier name (Town to City) and they are still the same club.

So what does make a club?

This is also a perfect opportunity to pull out one of the great football quotes from Sir Bobby Robson.

“What is a club in any case?
Not the buildings or the directors or the people who are paid to represent it.
It’s not the television contracts, get-out clauses, marketing departments or executive boxes.
It’s the noise, the passion, the feeling of belonging, the pride in your city.
It’s a small boy clambering up stadium steps for the very first time, gripping his father’s hand, gawping at that hallowed stretch of turf beneath him and, without being able to do a thing about it, falling in love.”

What do you think makes a football club?
If you look at us 5 years ago to now we have a different stadium, different badge, different colour kit, different manager, different owners but the same name, and we are undoubtedly the same club. But if you look at Swansea (sorry) they changed thier name (Town to City) and they are still the same club.

So what does make a club?

This is also a perfect opportunity to pull out one of the great football quotes from Sir Bobby Robson.

“What is a club in any case?
Not the buildings or the directors or the people who are paid to represent it.
It’s not the television contracts, get-out clauses, marketing departments or executive boxes.
It’s the noise, the passion, the feeling of belonging, the pride in your city.
It’s a small boy clambering up stadium steps for the very first time, gripping his father’s hand, gawping at that hallowed stretch of turf beneath him and, without being able to do a thing about it, falling in love.”

Bill Shankly once said that Celtic F.C. was a form of Socialism, a community etc.Those days are well gone.

Yes, I remember going to the City and feeling excited...particularly night matches. To me the club is Cardiff City F.C. and winning is the best thing that makes my weekend. Don't get sucked in by this shite that winning isn't everything, you only have to read the shite here after we lose one game to understand that is total rubbish.

Some fans are making a name for themselves as if they are above the rest because they have stopped going to games and cast the rest of us as mercenaries. By all means stop going to games if you wish but give up on the preaching as if you are super fans etc. If you are walking away then do it. This nonsense of sitting on mb's droning on and on how special and superior you are is tiring.

Some of these so called fans label the rest of us with well used clichés, no one gives a toss what a few dozen fans really think.

A club is the name...they represent us on the pitch. It's a professional sport and we are willing to pay the price because it's what we do.

Not only do they represent the City of Cardiff but we do too. Some of us should remember that.We bring shame on our City and club when we excuse the idiots who brought trouble to little towns elsewhere.

The club is Cardiff City F.C. and I for one can't wait for the premiership.....I have followed the City since 1967 and I have had enough of mickey mouse football. I wan't that sleeping giant to be a reality....not an over used term from some journalist.

Yes we are Cardiff City FC but once we were Riverside FC, so it must be in more than a name.

Also, yes they represent the city, but we all know in modern football that that needn't be the case. If Manchester United (for example) didn't have any fans from manchester, they could undoubtedly still survive (maybe they wouldnt be doing as well as they do, but they would still be there).

It also brings up the whole Wimbledon debate.

Everything that happens in the name of Now Cardiff City Was Riverside is what makes a club
all the Success , failure , colour change, new Badge , stadium , manager , old managers Fans,
we take it all as a package and some may call it history but its also about the present which tomorrow is our CLUBS HISTORY
and no matter what it can never be taken ....But without money there will be no club or name so it Appears A CLUB is a business that needs to be successful IMO

What do you think makes a football club?
If you look at us 5 years ago to now we have a different stadium, different badge, different colour kit, different manager, different owners but the same name, and we are undoubtedly the same club. But if you look at Swansea (sorry) they changed thier name (Town to City) and they are still the same club.

So what does make a club?

This is also a perfect opportunity to pull out one of the great football quotes from Sir Bobby Robson.

“What is a club in any case?
Not the buildings or the directors or the people who are paid to represent it.
It’s not the television contracts, get-out clauses, marketing departments or executive boxes.
It’s the noise, the passion, the feeling of belonging, the pride in your city.
It’s a small boy clambering up stadium steps for the very first time, gripping his father’s hand, gawping at that hallowed stretch of turf beneath him and, without being able to do a thing about it, falling in love.”

I'd never heard that quote before but it is absolutely spot on