NINIAN PARK WAS SPECIAL .....see for yourself

This has probably been shown / seen before but worth watching again.

The Old lady of Sloper Road brought us all together........ fantastic days!
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The "Old Lady Of Sloper Road"! Where or who was that then?
I don't know whether to laugh or cry!

It was, I wouldn't be a City fan if I didn't enjoy it so much there

This has probably been shown / seen before but worth watching again.

The Old lady of Sloper Road brought us all together........ fantastic days!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C7Xq4Bo ... Ap97rFmM6U

Those were the days. If you look at the crowd it's practically all young blokes 20's and 30,s, not anymore.

The "Old Lady Of Sloper Road"! Where or who was that then?
I don't know whether to laugh or cry!

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The "Old Lady Of Sloper Road"! Where or who was that then?
I don't know whether to laugh or cry!

I thought he was on about my nan then

Special needs more like.falling apart and empty most of the time.why do people call it the old lady? .move on people.

Special needs more like.falling apart and empty most of the time.why do people call it the old lady? .move on people.

Because such special memories of atmosphere and special occasions can't be replicated at a library of a new stadium, the best memories of boozers are the dingy anything goes boozers not the new wine bar trendy boozers and that's how it relates to people. The thing about Ninnian Park was it was a delapitated shit hole but it was our shit hole

NINIAN PARK WILL ALWAYS BE SPECIAL TO ME

NINIAN PARK WILL ALWAYS BE SPECIAL TO ME

Me too.Never been the same since.

loved watching that

It was Ninian Park. It had never ever been called the old lady !!

Ninian park was amazing, never be repeated but I think it died a few years before we left.

Ninian park was amazing, never be repeated but I think it died a few years before we left.

Luke, you are spot on with this!

Loved Ninian Park (saw my first game as a young lad in 1968) and sentimentality plays a huge part in football, but it was a tired old place and the new stadium was (truthfully) well overdue

No Cardiff City fan EVER, EVER called Ninian Park "The Old Lady"!!!! Absolute garbage

It certainly was. First game at Ninian would have been around '76 and loved it from the off. I find it a bit annoying when people refer to it as The Old Lady as no-one ever did - it was just Ninian Park. Its the same as people calling Caroline Street Chippy Lane or Chip Alley. Its not, its just Caroline Street. It seems that folks who don't live in or in the vicinity of Cardiff have made this up as they don't know the area.

Since a kid and into adulthood, I always loved the Cardiff City Football Club signage font type at the front of Ninian Park across the grey corrugated metal cladding. I still think it looks amazing now. Wish I would have bought one of those t-shirts that the 12th Man poster was doing a while back as it was that view of the stadium with that writing that I always found special.

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It certainly was. First game at Ninian would have been around '76 and loved it from the off. I find it a bit annoying when people refer to it as The Old Lady as no-one ever did - it was just Ninian Park. Its the same as people calling Caroline Street Chippy Lane or Chip Alley. Its not, its just Caroline Street. It seems that folks who don't live in or in the vicinity of Cardiff have made this up as they don't know the area.

Since a kid and into adulthood, I always loved the Cardiff City Football Club signage font type at the front of Ninian Park across the grey corrugated metal cladding. I still think it looks amazing now. Wish I would have bought one of those t-shirts that the 12th Man poster was doing a while back as it was that view of the stadium with that writing that I always found special.

ninian_park_street_view.jpg

Ninian Park - City.jpg

I lived in Cardiff from 1976 to 2010, and agree totally. It was always Ninian Park and Caroline Street. Nothing else. And a pint of 'light', please!

The 'Cardiff City Football Club' on the grandstand did look good, but the same on the new stadium doesn't look bad, either.

Ninian Park had its ups and downs. It was not always like the photo in the OP. It wasn't just young blokes in their 20s and 30s, either. There were always girls at the football, (fewer than now, perhaps), and families and older blokes too.

There were great nights like the Hereford game, but not such great times too. There was a photo in yesterday's a Reading programme of a game at Ninian Park in the mid-80s, where Reading beat us 3-1 in front of a 3k crowd.

Many of us will remember Ninian Park fondly, but as it really was. Some games were fantastic, others not so. Sometimes, the atmosphere was spine tingling, sometimes you could hear a pin drop.

That's my memories, anyway!

Nostalgia is a wonderful gift. It wasn't beautiful, in reality it was in the end a shit hole, but it was our shit hole. My first game was Preston NE mid 70's and can always remember walking into the bob bank from the Canton and see that lush green cambered pitch and how big the bob bank was (it was almost empty). Never the same after we put seat in.

Knocking it down was the start to ending the "lad" culture. It is different now, we caught up with the soccer am culture, all a bit safe and PC. But as a convert to the CCS, I doubt i would have taken my 8 year old daughter to Ninian 6 years ago.

Is it the fans or the grounds, how many old grounds are there ?

Goodison, shit atmosphere there when we played them,
Elland Rd,
Selhurst Park-

It certainly was. First game at Ninian would have been around '76 and loved it from the off. I find it a bit annoying when people refer to it as The Old Lady as no-one ever did - it was just Ninian Park. Its the same as people calling Caroline Street Chippy Lane or Chip Alley. Its not, its just Caroline Street. It seems that folks who don't live in or in the vicinity of Cardiff have made this up as they don't know the area.

Since a kid and into adulthood, I always loved the Cardiff City Football Club signage font type at the front of Ninian Park across the grey corrugated metal cladding. I still think it looks amazing now. Wish I would have bought one of those t-shirts that the 12th Man poster was doing a while back as it was that view of the stadium with that writing that I always found special.

ninian_park_street_view.jpg

Ninian Park - City.jpg

I lived in Cardiff from 1976 to 2010, and agree totally. It was always Ninian Park and Caroline Street. Nothing else. And a pint of 'light', please!

The 'Cardiff City Football Club' on the grandstand did look good, but the same on the new stadium doesn't look bad, either.

Ninian Park had its ups and downs. It was not always like the photo in the OP. It wasn't just young blokes in their 20s and 30s, either. There were always girls at the football, (fewer than now, perhaps), and families and older blokes too.

There were great nights like the Hereford game, but not such great times too. There was a photo in yesterday's a Reading programme of a game at Ninian Park in the mid-80s, where Reading beat us 3-1 in front of a 3k crowd.

Many of us will remember Ninian Park fondly, but as it really was. Some games were fantastic, others not so. Sometimes, the atmosphere was spine tingling, sometimes you could hear a pin drop.

That's my memories, anyway!

I discussed this with my Dad earlier who is into his '70's and Canton born and bred. He said it was always Ninian Park and Caroline Street so these new terms are very recent and from folks not native to the area.

If you don't already have it, a book I really recommend is Our Ninian Park. I think the club shop stock it but it's on Amazon if not, a superb book to always have around.

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Our-Ninian-Park ... 0957205503

It was our history... never let that place go

Ninian park is Cardiff, just as much as the Blue... what is there to let go ?

Special place, special times

It certainly was. First game at Ninian would have been around '76 and loved it from the off. I find it a bit annoying when people refer to it as The Old Lady as no-one ever did - it was just Ninian Park. Its the same as people calling Caroline Street Chippy Lane or Chip Alley. Its not, its just Caroline Street. It seems that folks who don't live in or in the vicinity of Cardiff have made this up as they don't know the area.

Since a kid and into adulthood, I always loved the Cardiff City Football Club signage font type at the front of Ninian Park across the grey corrugated metal cladding. I still think it looks amazing now. Wish I would have bought one of those t-shirts that the 12th Man poster was doing a while back as it was that view of the stadium with that writing that I always found special.

ninian_park_street_view.jpg

Ninian Park - City.jpg

I lived in Cardiff from 1976 to 2010, and agree totally. It was always Ninian Park and Caroline Street. Nothing else. And a pint of 'light', please!

The 'Cardiff City Football Club' on the grandstand did look good, but the same on the new stadium doesn't look bad, either.

Ninian Park had its ups and downs. It was not always like the photo in the OP. It wasn't just young blokes in their 20s and 30s, either. There were always girls at the football, (fewer than now, perhaps), and families and older blokes too.

There were great nights like the Hereford game, but not such great times too. There was a photo in yesterday's a Reading programme of a game at Ninian Park in the mid-80s, where Reading beat us 3-1 in front of a 3k crowd.

Many of us will remember Ninian Park fondly, but as it really was. Some games were fantastic, others not so. Sometimes, the atmosphere was spine tingling, sometimes you could hear a pin drop.

That's my memories, anyway!

I discussed this with my Dad earlier who is into his '70's and Canton born and bred. He said it was always Ninian Park and Caroline Street so these new terms are very recent and from folks not native to the area.

If you don't already have it, a book I really recommend is Our Ninian Park. I think the club shop stock it but it's on Amazon if not, a superb book to always have around.

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Our-Ninian-Park ... 0957205503

Bought it when it came out. Excellent book, which really catches the atmosphere during the last season in Ninian Park.

This has probably been shown / seen before but worth watching again.

The Old lady of Sloper Road brought us all together........ fantastic days!
Video
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C7Xq4Bo ... Ap97rFmM6U

'The Old Lady Of Sloper Road'