Never Mind the Bluebirds E-Book

David Collins

• Herausgeber: The History Press
• Kategorie: Lebensstil
• Sprache: Englisch

Veröffentlichungsjahr: 2012

Beschreibung

Here is the ultimate quiz book on Cardiff City. Informative and fun, this is the perfect companion for those long car journeys to Preston, or wet Welsh nights down the local. An ideal gift for Bluebirds fans of all ages, here's the chance to interact with the long and eventful history of the club, from formation and name changes to new stadia and Craig Bellamy. From cryptic to convivial, get your Cardiff thinking caps on – it's quiz time!

Leseprobe

Dedicated to anyone who has ever driven to Mansfield on a wet Tuesday night, watched Cardiff City lose 1–0, then had a puncture on the way home … this book is for you.

Contents

Title

Foreword

Introduction

How this book works

Round 1

The ‘Current Affairs’ Round

Round 2

Singing the Blues

Round 3

You’re Supposed to Be at Home!

Round 4

One-Hit Wonders

Round 5

Early Days

Round 6

Bluebirds Bad Boys

Round 7

Pride of Wales!

Round 8

Stars in OUR Eyes

Round 9

The Road to Wembley

Round 10

Jeux Sans Frontières

Round 11

Connect Four

Round 12

A Cup by Any Other Name …

Round 13

Dad or Chips?

Round 14

Derby Delights

Round 15

The Swinging Sixties

Round 16

The Biggest and the Best

Round 17

Krek Spelin pLeeZe!

Round 18

McBluebirds

Round 19

Anoraknaphobia!

Round 20

Cum On Feel the Noize!

Round 21

Now That’s What I Call Seventies

Round 22

Four Four Two

Round 23

100% City!

Round 24

Team GB?

Round 25

International Velvet

Round 26

Never Go Back

Round 27

Krek Spelin pLeeZe! Harder Round

Round 28

Once a Bluebird, Always a Bluebird!

Round 29

Pot Luck

Round 30

And Finally …

The Answers

Bibliography

Copyright

Foreword

By David Giles

(Cardiff City 1974–8 and 1985–7)

Are you like me when stood at the bar, chatting around the water cooler or kicking a ball around the playground? Do you test your mates with the latest football trivia … who was the biggest … who was the first … who was the last?

Well, if so and if, like me, you are a Bluebird through and through, then this is the book for you. David and Gareth have put together the ultimate Cardiff City quiz book. It’s packed with teasers about players, goals, grounds – the lot. There are questions on songs, kits, obscure players I have never heard of and guys I played with myself.

I hope you have fun grappling with the questions. I was stumped more than once myself … though I know there is one I definitely have right!

Introduction

Be honest, we have all been there. We jump in the car for the long away trip, it’s up north – it’s always up north. Someone is late because he has a hangover but we eventually manage the entire pick-up and it’s excited chatter all the way to Monmouth (maybe even as far as Ross-on-Wye in a good season). Then everyone has their head in the papers.

The driver is staring into space, the navigator is reading last week’s programme, the back seat has unfolded the broadsheets, sweets are being sucked.

‘I see Plymouth are away at Walsall today,’ pipes a voice from the back.

Everyone momentarily gazes out of the window, hoping to spy a convoy of Argyle coaches and vans full of the ‘Green Aaaaarmy’ but … nothing.

‘What’s Walsall’s ground called these days then?’ asks the driver, ‘is it still the Bescot Stadium?’

In a trice, the boredom is gone – the great away-trip-quiz is up and running. As we head north, people are posing questions about Walsall’s nickname (the Saddlers), West Bromwich Albion’s home ground (The Hawthorns) or the name of Stoke’s old stadium (the Victoria Ground). A trip to Preston can pass in the blink of an eye under such circumstances.

If you recognise these events … this is the book for you.

If you have forked out your hard-earned cash, then it is money well spent. If it’s a present from the girlfriend then she wants commitment. If Santa has delivered it to you then clearly, you have been good (for goodness sake!). Open the book – it doesn’t matter if you are in the pub, the playground or the retirement home for the terminally bewildered. There are questions for everyone; there are corny, cryptic teasers; there are mind-boggling questions to invoke silence among the keenest of City diehards. Some rounds are fun, some are straightforward, some are just annoying!

There are eleven questions in each round, just as there are eleven players in a Cardiff City team. Not all the questions are brilliant of course – but maybe not all of the players are either! There are easy questions, there are hard ones, there is one which NO-ONE will get right!

See – Preston isn’t that far is it?

Enjoy the book.

David Collins & Gareth Bennett

(and yeah, we know, Walsall play at the Banks’s Stadium!)

How This Book Works

This is a quiz book. We ask the questions and you shout out the answers. Write them down if you want, we don’t mind. The book is as up-to-date as a quiz book ever could be but inevitably, some answers might change over the years. We may move to a new stadium again, sack the manager, or win the Champions League the day after you buy this book. Anything could happen. So we have had to introduce a cut-off point – think of it as closing the transfer window. All answers are therefore believed to be correct at September 2012. So if, say, we have signed Wayne Rooney after this date, THAT is why he does not feature in any questions we have drafted. It’s because it hasn’t happened yet.

Also, we have constructed the questions and answers ourselves. As far as we are aware, every answer is correct. Where there is doubt, we have checked the information against other, reliable sources. We have consulted reference books, waded through press cuttings and scrapbooks and asked some blokes up the pub. But the answers are ours and if any are wrong, then we will hold up our hands and admit the error.

But if you think that it wasn’t Adrian Alston who scored against Bury in 1976 because from where you were stood it looked like it hit Tony Evans on the way in, hard cheese. The quizmaster is always right!

Round

1

The ‘Current Affairs’ Round

Welcome to our book. We hope you enjoy this meander through the history of our football club, turning stones along the way, with trips and stumbles over how much you really know about Cardiff City Football Club. We start with a straightforward round, all about our recent fortunes. Get stuck into these. But a word of warning, like all things Cardiff City, it gets harder as you go on. Come on City!

1 Who missed a penalty for the Bluebirds against Crystal Palace in the Carling Cup in 2012?

2 Talking of Palace, what was Darcy Blake’s squad number for City during 2011/12?

3 Which team knocked Cardiff City out of the FA Cup during 2012?

4 … and who knocked us out of the Capital One Cup in 2012?

5 Who scored our first league goal of the 2012/13 season?

6 Which former City star both scored and missed a penalty for Team GB in the 2012 Olympics? (in the same match!)

7 Okay, no more putting it off. The rebranding. Which two current Cardiff City players are depicted on the external fascia of the ‘rebranded’ Cardiff City Stadium?

8 Which 85-year-old ex-City manager passed away in September 2012?

9 He turned it down, but Ben Turner is eligible to play for Wales. How does he qualify?

10 He scored his first goal for City away to Millwall, but from which club did we sign Craig Noone?

11 Finally, relive the agony. Can you name the five City penalty takers from the 2012 Carling Cup final?

Round

2

Singing the Blues

Are you a diehard over many years of suffering like us? Through the years, have the antics of the City supporters often provided more entertainment than the players themselves? If so, then this musical round is the round for you. Can you identify the City stars from these chants?

‘Sing when you’re Quizzing!

You only sing when you’re Quizzing!’

No extra prizes for singing along, mind.

1 Early wearer of the Magic Hat. Joined Norwich in 2005. Did he really fancy that?

2 He got the ball and scored a goal. 22 goals in the Third Division during the 1982/83 season if truth be told.

3 Iconic City legend immortalised in melodic allegations around gaming machine irregularities.

4 Who needs Cantona, when we’ve got Stantona?

5 ‘Open the Score Richards.’ A real goal-den oldie this one.

6 31 goals in 75/76. He could walk on water this lad!

7 Took Joe Ledley’s advice and didn’t sign for Celtic in 2010. Remix of question 1. Ah well, if the hat fits …

8 Ah, the love of my life. I want silver hair too!

9 What’s that coming over the hill? An automatic entry in any City hit parade.

10 He had no hair. We didn’t care.

11 Psycho! Psycho! More of a chant than a song. But who was ‘Psycho’ back in the ’90s?