Monthly Archives: August 2009

A real turning point or just more Ridsdale spin?

Posted on August 11, 2009 by The other Bob Wilson

Well the hope expressed in my last post under this category that it would be the only one about Boardroom matters that I would do all season lasted just three days! However, whereas normally any news regarding finance and Cardiff City is a cause for worry, this time it is good news all the way as the club announced a link with Malaysian based company Football Focus Asia which comes under the auspices of a property company called Central Malaysian Properties. In particular, it would appear that a relationship has been formed with the company’s Managing Director Dato Chan Tien Ghee who Peter Ridsdale met last week on his visit to the Far East. Continue reading →

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A perfect day.

Posted on August 9, 2009 by The other Bob Wilson

Teams sometimes have problems settling into a new ground and results suffer as the supposed home team find their new surroundings as strange as the visiting side (for example, it took Colchester until 25 October to win their first game at their new stadium last year and they only won there seven times all season). However, you have to wonder if there has ever been a more successful baptism for a new stadium than the one Cardiff City provided yesterday – the sun shone as the goals flew in to leave a crowd of 22,264 (the best opening day home crowd since 1971, the best crowd for a home Cardiff City league game since 23,438 watched a game with Swindon on 17 April 1976 and certainly two or three thousand more than I was expecting) in happy mood and dreaming of what might be possible over the coming nine months. Continue reading →

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