' Ninian Park Gates ' " Eddie May "

Hi guys Paul here, Eddie's lad. Me and my brother were at the game yesterday as we came down to put a memorial plaque up on the Ninian Park gates for Dad.

That's class, didn't notice it yesterday

Class

Always be a place in our hearts for Eddie May

Hello Paul, thanks for sharing your great picture!

A wonderful plaque & no truer word was said "Forever a Cardiff Legend".

As a youngster growing up in the 90s, Eddie May was my first real memories of Cardiff a City & one of my childhood heroes.

What's his name?

I need to speak to a stone mason though or somebody in the profession of inscribing on granite, something needs tweaking on it, problem is we cannot now take the plaque off the wall ! Anybody on here do that for a living? if so can you inbox me please?

Yes I saw it Paul and Your Father deserves to have a plaque up there Eddie Eddie Eddie May

In my 41 years of following City, Eddie Mays promotion season was by far the best to me

Thanks guys can I just say a big thank you to the club to for providing us with comps yesterday so we could see the game, we were right in the corner quadrant with a great view .

As a family we were very humbled to find out recently that he has been voted the third most popular in Cardiff City's history after Malky and Jimmy Scholar which Obviously makes us very proud.

Sorry we couldn't give you a win paul
all the best take care

Hi Annis it's great to know that and how much it meant to City fans. I was around in those days too and loved every minute of my life in Cardiff. I like to think that the success of the club in the early 90's started the ball rolling to where City are today.

Im welling up looking at this post I loved eddies passion and commitment to the cause the word legend is used far to often but the big guy was and always will be a legend paul u should be and are a very proud lad and good luck in whatever you do in life pal

Looks amazing. Nice to have a bit of tradition around the ground too after whats gone on in recent times.

We'll never forget.

It was a game of two halves I thought. In the first half City were guilty of over passing the ball and were not direct enough, there was no decisive final ball that cut Newcastle open so they were happy to let you have a lot of the ball because it was in areas where you were not hurting them.

In contrast they were passing it around far more dangerously and the ball was finding it's intended target. The final ball was the difference between the two sides in the first half as Remi proved but the second half was a different ball game and it's that kind of performance backed by a fantastic crowd that will see you ok, you have to win your home games though.

Not sure about Medel to be honest not sure what he brings you, he goes sideways too often when to win games you need to be more direct, not hoofball but ball into the feet of your strikers on the edge of the box.

Eddie May is a legend,once gave me a bollocking,for having a piss against the wall outside Ninian park,he just laughed when I said I was busting

Hi Paul, noticed it yesterday. Very neat, lasting tribute.

Hi Annis it's great to know that and how much it meant to City fans. I was around in those days too and loved every minute of my life in Cardiff. I like to think that the success of the club in the early 90's started the ball rolling to where City are today.

Paul, you can be more than proud of your Father and to myself and many other fans your Father awoke the sleeping Giant Cardiff City/The Bluebirds, that season 1992/93 will never ever be forgotten, never before or since that day has a manager had his name sung so much by Cardiff City Fans.

I was very lucky and proud to have travelled with your Dad and the team to Standard Liege on the small plane, I sat with Nathan Blake, but the feeling to be on board a plane with such a great team and great City Manager I will never forget, the fans and players loved your Dad.

Brilliant - great to see this memorial on the gates. There must be a forum member who is or knows a stonemason to help Paul out?

Remember the night well Annis I was in Belgium myself that day (Misbehaving I am told!!) cannot remember that bit though but i do the game which I think we lost 5-2.

Funny thing is I have been watching Standard Liege this afternoon online because I had an accumulator on Udinese, Basel, Helsingborg and Zulte Waregem. Zulte had won all 4 homes games prior to today but Liege had won all 9 home and away conceding just three goals. I follow my European football though and put Zulte in to beat them which they did 1-0!

Remember the night well Annis I was in Belgium myself that day (Misbehaving I am told!!) cannot remember that bit though but i do the game which I think we lost 5-2.

Funny thing is I have been watching Standard Liege this afternoon online because I had an accumulator on Udinese, Basel, Helsingborg and Zulte Waregem. Zulte had won all 4 homes games prior to today but Liege had won all 9 home and away conceding just three goals. I follow my European football though and put Zulte in to beat them which they did 1-0!

We did lose 5-2 and were actually winning Paul, but still a great night out there.
Good to see you keep up with all the football

Hi Paul,
Your dad was a top bloke, I used to work security at the camp and at minivan park , we enjoyed a good few beers don't know if you can remember that far back .respect to the mays

Yes I do remember did a guy named Mike run that firm, Glamorgan security was it?

Started taking my lad to watch City when Eddie May was manager. We saw him once and he said hello, my boy sang Eddie May s barmy army all the way to the bus station. Will have a look for your tribute to your dad at our next game

Paul,
I have sent you a PM re stonemason
Andy

Hi Paul, great plaque to a legend at Cardiff City, I had many a great day (and after match drink) with your dad Paul, Eddie was a great guy to be around during those great years in City,s history, all the very best to you and your family, Simon (Williams)

The first manager I can remember, he help give me the Cardiff City bug. Eddie May's Barmy Army

The darling buds of Eddie May

Yes I saw it Paul and Your Father deserves to have a plaque up there Eddie Eddie Eddie May

In my 41 years of following City, Eddie Mays promotion season was by far the best to me

Absolutely agree annis great memory and we had a crowd of 18000 we really had 18000 voices in the ground

I'm disappointed the club didn't do some kind of official ceremony around this.

As others have said, what a fantastic bloke he was. My favourite Cardiff City manager and I've been a fan since 1976.

I was privileged to have shared a little social occasion in The Philharmonic in the early '90s with Eddie, Marlene and a lot of the players, after we'd beaten the Jacks 1-0 at The Vetch (Chris Pike scored the goal right in front of us - we were on the West Terrace). Memorable night and a great era for me, as a fan.

I'll never forget trips like Scunthorpe and Liege in '93 and the camaraderie among our fans was really something. It started at the top, with people like Rick Wright and Eddie May and filtered all the way down to the likes of me, a Cardiff boy (who moved to Neath in '92), who was proud to follow his club and shout its name in football grounds far and wide.

Great tribute to a great manager for us. Fantastic memories indeed. Scunny, Liege and Wrexham, 3 stand out aways for me.