Being a Cardiff City fan

I know that many fans say that following their club is like being on a roller coaster but for so long now that has been so true for us Cardiff fans.

To use just the period since Sam Hammam left the club (and that was hardly an uneventful time!) every season seems to have had something going on. Since Ridsdale took over we've had:-

Two promotions to the Premier League and one relegation
The move to the new stadium
Play off wins and defeats including a trip to Wembley against Blackpool
The threat of administration and even liquidation
The takeover by the Malaysians, initially fronted by TG and then VT
Wembley finals in both the FA Cup and League Cup finals
The sacking of Malky and the circumstances surrounding it
The change from blue to red that turned fan against fan and fans against the club
The cutbacks in playing staff and wages and a transfer embargo
The change back to blue
The real possibility of relegation under Trollope
The appointment of one of, if not THE best manager in the history of our club
The way in which that manager has brought the entire club together in a way that nobody could have envisaged only a short while ago
Sell out crowds home and away
A real feeling of a club that is totally united at long last - fans, players, management, owner all doing their absolute best for the club

And now the unbelievably sad situation where it looks as if we will never get the opportunity to see our record signing pulling on the famous blue jersey and representing all of our hopes and wishes.

I am sure there are many other things I have missed out and that is only over the last 15 years or so!

Success, failure, controversy and tragedy. We City fans have experienced all of these emotions over the past few years.

I have never felt sadder to be a Cardiff City fan than I am at the moment - but when I see the way in which the club and it's fans have reacted to the terrible events of the last week I am also very proud to say that I am a Cardiff City fan.

Agree mate, wouldn't change it for the world, even the rebrand years that I made the tough decision to boycott. Makes the fact we're so united now all the better. Never been more upset as a Cardiff fan but never been so proud

Agree mate, wouldn't change it for the world, even the rebrand years that I made the tough decision to boycott. Makes the fact we're so united now all the better. Never been more upset as a Cardiff fan but never been so proud

Two brilliant posts. Da iawn to you both.

Great post the only thing I can think is missing out on the play offs by goals scored. That had to be the most unbelievable turn around in football history only 1 point in the last 4 games with 10 goal swing, starting with a 6-0 away loss and missing 2 pens. One of those pens go in and we get the play offs!! The other one is concededing a goal at the end of the game against stoke at ninian park to take the game to extra time!! I'll never forget how we controlled those 2 games and somehow went out in extra time!! We lost a late goal in the away game when we had total control as well!!

Year after we then hold out vs Bristol City at their place with a slender 1-0 lead after they had done the double on us in the league.... unbelievable. Never been so nervous over 95mins.

We've been through so much together as a club. We've all followed the City not because it's easy. We've all grown up with mates taking the easy way out and follwig Liverpool and United.

I think Bob's 3 little brids needs become our anthem. Whatever happens we'll get through it!

You wouldn't believe our history if we were Harchester United but we'll keep fighting!! Sala will now forever be one of our hero's and he will never be forgotten.

6 nil loss. I was on a flight at the time, landed, My colleague met me (Leicester fan) huge smile on his face, 6 nil loss. Goal difference and fucked us! Wow! Welcome to Afghanistan. 2009.

Wouldn't change it for the world. Best club in the world too! City til I die.

Brilliant posts guys. This latest situation has wiped me out. I really hope Mr Warnock is okay, as I would imagine he must be feeling this so much. Warnocks Warriors has never been so apt. Let's do this together for Emeiliano, God Bless him and his family.

Brilliant posts guys. This latest situation has wiped me out. I really hope Mr Warnock is okay, as I would imagine he must be feeling this so much. Warnocks Warriors has never been so apt. Let's do this together for Emeiliano, God Bless him and his family.

Another great post on this thread

It’s very difficult to get it out of the mind . It’s the most horrible to think somewhere out there , there are two body’s that maybe still strapped in that plane . The pictures that come into my head of them is unbeliveble . But I just can’t stop it coming to me. I know it’s not possible now , but I just keep hoping some kind of mirical will happen. It’s been one hell of a week. There family’s must be going through hell.

It’s never been an effort supporting City.

We’ve had far more disappointments over the years than success against all the odds and other teams even now we continue to have them with Sala.

Where do I start or finish?? Through thick or thin or illness the Club and team have given me hope and enjoyment. I’ve met some super people some not but all of us have had one aim Cardiff City!

We’ve always been up against it and by the looks of it continued to do so but let’s not be afraid of it we are a super club and family and let’s not anyone take it away from us.

Once a Bluebird always a Bluebird

My dad took me down “to the city “ in 70/71 and I was hooked ! Been thru the years and years of promotion then relegation up and down, division 2 to division 3 then things got bad and we dropped to division 4 , drew 23 of 46 and just about stayed in the league then came backup then back down . Crowds dropped to 2000-3000 and I used to get ridiculed for saying I was going “down the City ! “

Sam Hammam for all his faults reignited the club, then as I tell my boys , the golden years started , promotions, FA Cup Final, Play off Finals, League Cup final, then for the first time since I was born ...promotion to the top division!

Messsed it up ! , playing in red , internal arguments , lost the team spirit that Malky built and we went down , looked like we were going down again , then Warnock picked us up and performed miracles!

This season, we have defied the critics, only recently falling down into the bottom 3 and this week we have endured the worse week I can remember but it’s time to pick ourselves off the floor and get behind our team.....

“From the hills rebounding
Let this war cry sounding
Summon all at Cambria's call
The mighty force surrounding

Men of Harlech onto glory
This shall ever be your story
Keep these fighting words before ye
Cambria (Welshmen never) will not yield”

Agree mate, wouldn't change it for the world, even the rebrand years that I made the tough decision to boycott. Makes the fact we're so united now all the better. Never been more upset as a Cardiff fan but never been so proud

Two brilliant posts. Da iawn to you both.

Thanks mate. It's what makes supporting your local team worth it, these South Walian Scousers will never know the true ups and downs

When I was in school I was a rare breed, a City fan. many were closet Man United, Leeds, Spurs, Liverpool, but none traveled to these outposts. It was only when they began to discover that I used to travel that they began to get where I was coming from and enjoying the experience of actual football, not Match of the Day clips as it was back then. I would only wear a Ccfc kit, again not the replicas you get now, but I d always had a City badge sewn on. Eventually, it caught on with a few close mates copying and began going to Ninian,and travelling etc. I still get a buzz to see many of them who took the mic of me back then, took up real life experiences of being a City fan, all those jokes I took. If you don't like crowds get down the City. They announce the crowd changes down there before the team changes. Why do u go down there. ? They don't go to see you when your bad.Your lot signed a new striker, Barry Van Hire etc etc. How times have changed. Premier league with 30,000 plus crowds, and me always with a grin on my face when I see um. The Bluebird Brotherhood.