'CARDIFF CITY' THE MOST SEARCHED TERM ON GOOGLE

Tuesday 27th August 2013.

'Cardiff City' was the most searched for term on the internet on Sunday following the epic 3-2 win over Manchester City

Cardiff City's stunning upset of big-spending Manchester City in their first Premier League home game has continued to send shock waves across the sporting world.

Google ranked “Cardiff City” as the most searched item on the internet in Britain on Sunday – ahead of the Belgian Formula One Grand Prix (ranked sixth) and England’s Ashes triumph (seventh).

In the hours after Malky McKay’s men swept aside 2011-12 champions Manchester City, Cardiff was searched more than 50,000 times, according to the search engine.

Football fans across the globe also took to Twitter to congratulate the Premier League newcomers, with “Cardiff” tweeted about 152,000 times when the Bluebirds took the lead.

In the 24 hours to 5pm yesterdayMON, the Welsh capital was mentioned 244,000 times on the social network – more than twice as many as when the club was promoted in April.

Of these, 84,000 tweets were in the UK, 41,000 in the US, 32,000 in Indonesia, 15,000 in Malaysia, 5,000 in Spain and 5,000 in Nigeria – showing the global reach of the world’s biggest football league.

The Bluebirds made headline news on the websites of the New York Times (Cardiff All Smiles After Beating Manchester City), The Sydney Morning Herald (Cardiff stun Man City), South China Morning Post (Cardiff shock Manchester City while Tottenham sink Swansea) and US TV channel CNN (Promoted Cardiff shock Manchester City in EPL).

It was perhaps unsurprising that by yesterday, the word “hungover” was trending on Twitter in Cardiff as jubilant Bluebirds supporters recovered from yet another historic day in the club’s history.

Among the fans still in a state of euphoria was Neil Kinnock, the former Labour leader from 1983 to 1992, and a lifelong Bluebird.

Because the match was moved to a Sunday for television, a prior commitment meant he couldn’t attend the Cardiff City Stadium but he recorded the match, avoided the result and watched it back on Sunday evening.

Lord Kinnock told WaleSOnline waking up yesterday, it felt like Christmas morning.

He said: “I’m not back to earth yet.

“I must have watched the goals a dozen times. It’s just like Christmas morning, it’s wonderful.

“It’s a real tribute to Malky and to an extraordinary team with a defence that’s a fortress and really fluent attack.”

And while Lord Kinnock may have been slightly behind the real-time action, the gamut of emotions of seeing City eventually hang onto a 3-2 win after six minutes of added time were no less keenly felt.

He said: “I switched my phone off so I didn’t get any hints from anybody else.

“I was dancing around the living room. It was just extraordinary.

“The point is I was 20 years of age when we were last in the top flight and I’m now 71 so multiply the joy by all the years that have gone in between and all my fellow Bluebirds around my age will feel exactly the same way.”

He added that after some nervousness going into the game, supporters could now look forward to the remainder of their Premier League year.

Cardiff’s stunning triumph bumped most other sport stories across the country off the back page of national newspapers.

The Telegraph proclaimed Malky Mackay’s men “The History Boys” after securing their first top flight win in 51 years. while two-goal hero Fraizer Campbell was labelled “The Prince of Wales” by The Times who described the deafening atmosphere inside The Cardiff City Stadium as “fervent” and “passionate”.

Another Cardiff City fan unable to be there but proudly watching on was actor Jonathan Owen, who watched proudly wearing a Cardiff City T-shirt in a pub in Nottingham, where he is currently working.

He told the Echo that all the neutrals watching with him were backing the Bluebirds.

Owen said: “I think everyone likes the giant killing and David and Goliath story and because Manchester City have spent so much money everyone was supporting Cardiff City as the underdog.

“The fans were superb on Sunday. The Cardiff City Stadium has got to be a bear pit and they made it a bear pit.

“Teams have not got to want to go there – a little bit like Stoke – and we had that on Sunday and we have got to have it all season.”

Owen said he had marvelled at the concentration, discipline and fitness of Cardiff and said he was “so impressed” with Malky Mackay’s tactical nous.

He said: “We have always heard this thing of Cardiff City is a sleeping giant blah, blah, blah.

“The fact is in the 1960s they had 60,000 crowds, the same attendances as Manchester United.

“There’s potential there to be a big club. We have always spoken about it. We have realised it by getting to that position now.

“The big thing is there’s going to be more kids coming through with Cardiff tops – I just hope they are blue.”

It honestly feels like I'm dreaming. Great times for the club and everyone involved!

Im in the middle of setting up my match worn shirts website and I can see that the world is searching the club and our shirts.

I can see that I have hits to my site from argentina, chile, france, brazil, hungary and sweden to just name a few.

Just wish I had spent a bit more time to get the last few pages complete.

Check it out.

Www.cardiffcityshirts.co.uk

Midget porn must be a close 2nd

Some great comments there carl,enjoyed reading that

Amazing

Midget porn must be a close 2nd

Nah I was out Subday evening

That Jack in the 27000+ thread claimed Swansea were the bigger club because of their 'Twitter' following I suppose this evens things up

see it is nice to be popular isn't it , when swans fans posted on here for the last two seasons about a global image you lot said what a load of bollocks , now you can see what was meant

see it is nice to be popular isn't it , when swans fans posted on here for the last two seasons about a global image you lot said what a load of bollocks , now you can see what was meant

When you talk a load of bollocks most of the time it's no wonder everything you say is treated the same even if you accidently stumble on something truthful.

Let's be fair you wouldn't be on a Cardiff Website unless it was to be mischievous so you can't really moan about what we think of your postings, which BTW are generally shite.

see it is nice to be popular isn't it , when swans fans posted on here for the last two seasons about a global image you lot said what a load of bollocks , now you can see what was meant

When you talk a load of bollocks most of the time it's no wonder everything you say is treated the same even if you accidently stumble on something truthful.

Let's be fair you wouldn't be on a Cardiff Website unless it was to be mischievous so you can't really moan about what we think of your postings, which BTW are generally shite.

I'm right though aren't I

see it is nice to be popular isn't it , when swans fans posted on here for the last two seasons about a global image you lot said what a load of bollocks , now you can see what was meant

We knew what you meant.

We just didn't want to hear about it.

see it is nice to be popular isn't it , when swans fans posted on here for the last two seasons about a global image you lot said what a load of bollocks , now you can see what was meant

We knew what you meant.

We just didn't want to hear about it.

Nothing better than reading the papers , internet etc after a massive win you're still not going to finish higher than us though

We knew what you meant.

We just didn't want to hear about it.

Nothing better than reading the papers , internet etc after a massive win you're still not going to finish higher than us though

Probably not, but if we finish 17th i'll be over the moon.

Unfortunately I think you will stay up , but it's still early

Unfortunately I think you will stay up , but it's still early

Unfortunately I think you will stay up , but it's still early

Fingers crossed, but as you say, it's very early days.

Feet are firmly on the ground and i'm just going to enjoy the ride with a big grin on my face. For me personally 17th will be a success. Anything else will be a bonus.

Unfortunately I think you will stay up , but it's still early

Fingers crossed, but as you say, it's very early days.

Feet are firmly on the ground and i'm just going to enjoy the ride with a big grin on my face. For me personally 17th will be a success. Anything else will be a bonus.

when you get promoted its elation which when you see the fixtures against the big guns turns to oh shit then on matchday its oh ffs we're going to get leathered
for me the pressure games are the likes of sunderland , norwich etc the ones we have to win in our "mini league" anything else is a bonus as you found out on sunday