' CCFC PETER KING '

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Cracker.
A few more like that and we'll stay up.

I remember that goal.....wondered what he was trying to do at the time !

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Remember that one think it was against Middleborough but we lost 3/4

Was you there Annis

Was you there Annis

I was there this day on the Bob Bank 1980 v The Jacks
John Buchanan

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1980 That was the year i was born !

Brilliant goal

A very rare Peter King goal - as I remember. Got any of Ronnie Birds 40 yarders!
Bluebirds

I was there that day. That goal put us 3-1 up against Middlesborough. Unfortunately, we had a goalkeeper called Parsons who we had signed that summer from Crystal Palace. With 25 minutes to go, he saved a penalty. He then managed to make a series of serious blunders so that we lost 4-3!

If it had happened today they would have questioned the influence of betting syndicates!

Peter King - Bluebirds legend!

Great goal, I was right behind the goals when he fired it in. Peter is living in Spain these days and still runs marathons at the age of 70, he stays with friends I know when he visits Cardiff and he's a real gent.

A very rare Peter King goal - as I remember. Got any of Ronnie Birds 40 yarders!
Bluebirds

Not really a a rare Peter King goal as i'm sure he scored more than Ronnie Bird, By the way Peter King was or is an icon of Cardiff City, not knocking Ronnie but he wouldn't have laced King's boots. Just my opinion.

A very rare Peter King goal - as I remember. Got any of Ronnie Birds 40 yarders!
Bluebirds

Not really a a rare Peter King goal as i'm sure he scored more than Ronnie Bird, By the way Peter King was or is an icon of Cardiff City, not knocking Ronnie but he wouldn't have laced King's boots. Just my opinion.

I think Peter averaged a goal every five games for City.

A very rare Peter King goal - as I remember. Got any of Ronnie Birds 40 yarders!
Bluebirds

Not really a a rare Peter King goal as i'm sure he scored more than Ronnie Bird, By the way Peter King was or is an icon of Cardiff City, not knocking Ronnie but he wouldn't have laced King's boots. Just my opinion.

I think Peter averaged a goal every five games for City.

You're correct and Ronnie scored at an average a goal every four but the difference is that Peter King played 250 games more for us.

Im not arguing about the merits of Peter King and Ronnie Bird. Im not suprised Peter King is still fit - there was never an inch of fat on him. He daidnt score many goals from distance.
We all have our favourites and Iremember often Ronnie was in and out of the team. Sometimes he played badly and had limited ability. But he was fun to watch - and I thought he was great as a kid. Booting the ball ahead and running at defenders head down and hell for leather. And he couldnt half shoot! Anyway............
Bless them all bless them all the long and the short and the tall - bless Johnie Toshack and bless Peter King , bless Ronnie Bird as he streaks down the wing..........
Bluebirds.....

When Ronnie Bird had the Golden Cross I was waiting to cross the Bute Terrace with my wife and my two sons after ice hockey practice .I pressed the Pelican crossing,dashed in and downed a pint before green man came on.!Don't think I could do it now at 60

People remember Ronnie for his tremendous strikes, he had a lethal left foot, scored a few penalties for us as well. Peter King could play anywhere along the front five (as it was in them days) and could shoot with either foot. Not knocking Ronnie as he gave us some wonderful moments but in players you cant compare them.

As I understand it, Frank Parsons fractured his hand saving the penalty and we then went on to lose 4-3. Sure Fatty Alan Foggon scored for the Smoggies that day.

As I understand it, Frank Parsons fractured his hand saving the penalty and we then went on to lose 4-3. Sure Fatty Alan Foggon scored for the Smoggies that day.

If i remember correctly they had a winger called McMordie and a guy called Burns up front that did the damage that day, i might be wrong though, it was a long time ago,

My 1st ever game, Oct 1970, sitting in the Canton Stand with my late Dad. The 2 blokes who sat next to us for about 4 years were from Haverfordwest, see even then West Wales was Blue

Great servant for CCFC. I recently watched the highlights of the Real Madrid game and saw that he was given a yellow card for nothing. the commentator, the great Kenneth Wolstenholme had to explain what it meant because we had not seen them in the league. The first city player to be given a card?

I remember this game well. I recently mentioned it to Bobby Woodruff, who attends every home match. He reminded me that he too scored a good goal.I remember the game so well because I was devastated by the result, but my mum died suddenly the next day. That has always kept football in perspective for me (well to some extent anyway).

Sorry but all you guys who remember "being there" are wrong.....this is 3rd october 1970, losing 3-4 v middlesboro.
3-1 up, our keeper saved a penalty but we still lost 3-4....some things never change.
Peter King, my hero retired injured in 1974...i really was there.

that was amazing, proud to be a City fan

Im not arguing about the merits of Peter King and Ronnie Bird. Im not suprised Peter King is still fit - there was never an inch of fat on him. He daidnt score many goals from distance.
We all have our favourites and Iremember often Ronnie was in and out of the team. Sometimes he played badly and had limited ability. But he was fun to watch - and I thought he was great as a kid. Booting the ball ahead and running at defenders head down and hell for leather. And he couldnt half shoot! Anyway............
Bless them all bless them all the long and the short and the tall - bless Johnie Toshack and bless Peter King , bless Ronnie Bird as he streaks down the wing..........
Bluebirds.....

This sums it up for me?
Ronnie was my favourite player & the times he'd push the ball past his man & then forget to take it with him was so funny. But then he'd do something outrageous like leave his defender for dead & score from 30 yards. He'll of a shot on him.
Peter King ...... Ab City legend.

Sorry but all you guys who remember "being there" are wrong.....this is 3rd october 1970, losing 3-4 v middlesboro.
3-1 up, our keeper saved a penalty but we still lost 3-4....some things never change.
Peter King, my hero retired injured in 1974...i really was there.

I remember that goal well, one of my favourites at NP. I was towards the front of the Grange end, and what the video doesn't show is how much the ball curved before going in. When he first hit it, I thought it was going well wide, but curled in as it got close to the goal. Remember Frank Parsons making a couple of howlers later in game, but didn't realise until now that he was injured. Ronnie Bird scored twice in my very early days down there(one was a penalty), beat Villa 4-0 in the league, pretty certain Toshack had the other two.

Sorry but all you guys who remember "being there" are wrong.....this is 3rd october 1970, losing 3-4 v middlesboro.
3-1 up, our keeper saved a penalty but we still lost 3-4....some things never change.
Peter King, my hero retired injured in 1974...i really was there.

No one as far as I know has said it wasn't that season, my 1st ever game, good memories.

'I seem to remember keeper parsons saved a penalty, stood there taking the deserved applause from the fans, the fans were going wild.
But I think he then dropped a howler to gift the game to Boro.

Hero to Zero.