Cardiff City Blog

Just a quick introduction, seeing as I am new to this forum. It's great to finally connect to a Cardiff City site, something that makes my 5 year daughter really proud. In her whole life, she has spent about 20 minutes in Cardiff, which was last October on the way to the Liberty Stadium for the Wales v Switzerland game. However, despite living near the Kruger Park, South Africa, she has a Cardiff kit and is desperate to go to her first game. Going to make that happen when back in the UK at the end of March. I guess that makes us the South African bluebirds, though we are originally from England.

As I cannot attend games and struggle to see to much football on tv (massively annoying), I started following text updates and collating some stats on the Welsh clubs, as we are passionately Welsh due to our family ancestry. This has lead to me writing a blog on the six Welsh teams in the English football pyramid. Have just the first one on Cardiff, previewing the weekend game with Doncaster, who are just round the corner from Sheffield, where I used to live in England. Had some positive comments from Doncaster fans on this, but the article (and the future articles I will be writing on a regular basis) are done from a Cardiff perspective.

Going to be on here rather a lot in future and will engage with other threads on a regular basis. However, thought I would open up a new thread just to introduce myself and create a place where (if the mods are happy) I can inform people of updates on the blog relating to Cardiff City, which will be about once a week. The blog is however updated with discussion on one of the 6 clubs most days of the week.

The Doncaster v Cardiff article can be found at http://amberarmy.blogspot.com/2012/01/b ... ummit.html If you like it, do let me know. I have tried to use some of the stats I created to write the article so it does create a different feel to general previews and press reports. I research carefully and try to make everything accurate, but obviously being so far away makes it more of a challenge.

Great to be on the forum - looking forward to hopefully getting to know some of you.

Steve

Just a quick introduction, seeing as I am new to this forum. It's great to finally connect to a Cardiff City site, something that makes my 5 year daughter really proud. In her whole life, she has spent about 20 minutes in Cardiff, which was last October on the way to the Liberty Stadium for the Wales v Switzerland game. However, despite living near the Kruger Park, South Africa, she has a Cardiff kit and is desperate to go to her first game. Going to make that happen when back in the UK at the end of March. I guess that makes us the South African bluebirds, though we are originally from England.

As I cannot attend games and struggle to see to much football on tv (massively annoying), I started following text updates and collating some stats on the Welsh clubs, as we are passionately Welsh due to our family ancestry. This has lead to me writing a blog on the six Welsh teams in the English football pyramid. Have just the first one on Cardiff, previewing the weekend game with Doncaster, who are just round the corner from Sheffield, where I used to live in England. Had some positive comments from Doncaster fans on this, but the article (and the future articles I will be writing on a regular basis) are done from a Cardiff perspective.

Going to be on here rather a lot in future and will engage with other threads on a regular basis. However, thought I would open up a new thread just to introduce myself and create a place where (if the mods are happy) I can inform people of updates on the blog relating to Cardiff City, which will be about once a week. The blog is however updated with discussion on one of the 6 clubs most days of the week.

The Doncaster v Cardiff article can be found at http://amberarmy.blogspot.com/2012/01/b ... ummit.html If you like it, do let me know. I have tried to use some of the stats I created to write the article so it does create a different feel to general previews and press reports. I research carefully and try to make everything accurate, but obviously being so far away makes it more of a challenge.

Great to be on the forum - looking forward to hopefully getting to know some of you.

Steve

Good man Steve

Hoe gaan dit Steve ......enjoyed reading that ....welcome to the forum

Just keep an eye on a poster called Nukes, and if he offers to sell you a jacket or get your phone number, just politely decline (not right in the head see)

Hoe gaan dit Steve ......enjoyed reading that ....welcome to the forum

Just keep an eye on a poster called Nukes, and if he offers to sell you a jacket or get your phone number, just politely decline (not right in the head see)

Ek kan nie kla nie, baie dankie. Kan jy 'n bietjie Afrikaans praat?

Thanks Marc. It'll cost him a small fortune if he wants my phone number. Costs to South Africa can rack up pretty quickly

Just keep an eye on a poster called Nukes, and if he offers to sell you a jacket or get your phone number, just politely decline (not right in the head see)

LMAO He don't half get some stick from you and that fecking coat does n all

Good read that mate!!
I didn't know Sharp was on his way to Leicester but more importantly some good facts about the mighty Bluebirds and a good view of the build up to Saturday!
Won't predict though cos whenever I do City lose so I will take a raincheck on that!

Look forward to reading future reviews

Just keep an eye on a poster called Nukes, and if he offers to sell you a jacket or get your phone number, just politely decline (not right in the head see)

LMAO He don't half get some stick from you and that fecking coat does n all

Jules ...He shit on my towel ... He can dish it out as well mind.

Hoe gaan dit Steve ......enjoyed reading that ....welcome to the forum

Just keep an eye on a poster called Nukes, and if he offers to sell you a jacket or get your phone number, just politely decline (not right in the head see)

Ek kan nie kla nie, baie dankie. Kan jy 'n bietjie Afrikaans praat?

Thanks Marc. It'll cost him a small fortune if he wants my phone number. Costs to South Africa can rack up pretty quickly

Steve ...I know little Afrikaans (just a few sentences )....my ex was from Springs (Sharks territory ).... .......

Hoe gaan dit Steve ......enjoyed reading that ....welcome to the forum

Just keep an eye on a poster called Nukes, and if he offers to sell you a jacket or get your phone number, just politely decline (not right in the head see)

welcome mate.

Just keep an eye on a poster called Nukes, and if he offers to sell you a jacket or get your phone number, just politely decline (not right in the head see)

LMAO He don't half get some stick from you and that fecking coat does n all

Jules ...He shit on my towel

Still makes me laugh

Welcome on board Steve, down in umhlanger in Durban at the moment working, great to see the city on live against palace out here. Will be back for the 2nd leg though.

Steve ...I know little Afrikaans (just a few sentences )....my ex was from Springs (Sharks territory ).... .......

Drive past Springs on the way to the airport from time to time, just on the eastside of Johannesburg. Not Sharks territory though. More like Lions territory, though I strongly suspect there will be a few Bulls there as well. Sharks are down in Durban.

Welcome on board Steve, down in umhlanger in Durban at the moment working, great to see the city on live against palace out here. Will be back for the 2nd leg though.

Enjoy it. Given the temps up here in Mpumalanga, I guess you must be steaming down in Durbs. Really looking forward to the semi final 2nd leg. Think City have a great chance to overhaul the 1-0 deficit. Going to allow Kaitlyn (the 5yr old) to stay up until 11:30pm to watch it.