So over the last few seasons my daughters school has been giving out free tickets - we are those recipients - and she also has the football bug, like her dad
This season our family team changed over a 3 month period into something unrecognisable, the prawn sandwich brigade had finally hit and corporate football had taken over. Having spent large parts of my life travelling up and down the country following the team through thick and thin I decided is been mugged off and out prices of watching a team I loved.
I've lived in Wales since I was a child a product of a military up bringing, becoming a father changed my lifestyle but trying to fuel her desire to the football was something I wanted to keep up. I've always attended the odd game with friends at Ninian Park and CCS so I knew abit about the club, I'd even attended a game or two in the old standing area on NP wearing my old teams colours (I was 16 and how i didn't die I will never know!) anyway I looked at the football and I saw a familiar set up a place where I was familiar - the pricing is right the travelling is close and I quite enjoy it - even if the football isn't great at the moment. I recall my first ever football match was a game in the grandstand Cardiff v Wolves at NP with my Grandad even though our family team was miles away. Football is football you have to take the rough with the smooth you feel the pain but you gotta get up and go again.
I'm glad to call myself a City fan ...now