The Cardiff City Miscellany: Bluebirds History, Trivia, Facts and Stats

by Richard Shepherd

Overview

Cardiff City Miscellany collects together all the vital information you never knew you needed to know about the Bluebirds. In these pages you will find irresistible anecdotes and the most mindblowing stats and facts. Heard the one about the striker who bought a round of drinks for the City directors, and cheekily put it on the club's bill? How about the time the first team worked as labourers on a Ninian Park stand? Or the three brothers who appeared in the same City squad? Do you know which City keeper let in 32 goals in a month? When a fan walked to away matches against Chelsea, Liverpool and Newcastle? Or how a Cup tie came against Bristol City lasted 202 minutes? All these stories and hundreds more appear in a brilliantly researched collection of trivia - essential for any fan who holds the riches of Bluebirds history close to their heart.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781905411047
Publisher:	Pitch Publishing Ltd
Publication date:	11/21/2007
Series:	Miscellany
Edition description:	New edition
Pages:	120
Product dimensions:	4.80(w) x 7.50(h) x 0.70(d)

About the Author

Richard Shepherd is the author of several reference books on his beloved Cardiff City, who he first saw play when his father took him to Ninian Park in 1956. Richard went on to become a football reporter and commentator with BBC Radio Wales. He now works for Cardiff City's media department as a journalist and broadcaster on Cardiff City World.

Table of Contents

Full of facts, figures, trivia, stats, stories and anecdotes all relating to the long and colourful history of Cardiff City Football Club. From the club's most memorable matches and the men who matter; to the more gruesome games and the unsung heroes. Written by respected club historian Richard Shepherd, this book tells the tales which have shaped the football club into the force it is today.