Lockdown quiz number 5.

After last week’s picture quiz, it’s back to the format used previously this time – twenty questions on Cardiff City from the past sixty years with the answers posted on here on Friday.

1, Who are the two members of the current City squad to have played first team football for City this season whose first professional club have played in a major European Final at Wembley?

2. Born close to a seat of Government, he was a record breaker very early on at his first club and then moved on within a few years to a place not far from another seat of Government where he took a while to establish himself. While he was doing so, there were loan moves to a place known for its synthetic polymers as advertised by an Australian disc jockey and a northern town team which numbers a famous official from another sport among its supporters. He became a regular for his contracted club under a new manager and his most memorable game was probably a high scoring away win where he managed a couple of goals. He now plays for striped birds, but who is he?

3. He scored the only two goals of a City career which included well over one hundred matches in successive home matches and Brazil were the opponents when he first made the squad of the country he represented for the first team at senior level (he gained seven caps in all). While he was on international under 21 duty, he was once sent home early with two other City players for a breach of discipline. Today he sometimes works as summariser on Talksport, can you name him?

4. Can you name the season in which one City player scored more than half of the club’s league goals and who was that player?

5. Loaned out to two sides at his first club, Cardiff were the only other team this man, who represented his country at Wembley for one of the two caps he gained, played for – he was awarded a testimonial by City in which we were beaten 5-3 by Wolves, who is he?

6. A native of a place better known for three rugby players than any footballers, he signed for City from a local non league club and was making his first team debut in a high scoring defeat in London within a matter of months. He didn’t score too many goals for us, but one of them went down in City folklore and it could be said he won his three international caps on the back of it – my main recollection of his international career now is of a bemused Emlyn Hughes diving headlong into him because he had no clue where this talented dribbler of a ball was going next! He left the professional game having played just over a hundred matches for his two clubs far too early given his ability, but can you name him?

7. Making his City debut along with a new goalkeeper, this full back’s first match ended in a 5-1 win on New Years Day. Steady rather than eye catching, he was what was needed at a time when the team was shipping lots of goals as he played a part in a slow, but gradual improvement over the following seasons and he was a victim of his own success in some ways because a better defence resulted in there being a need for someone more adventurous in his position. His first attempt at being a manager was a bit of a disaster, but he did better a decade later when he succeeded a Knight – who am I describing?

8. A replete lie for someone who never scored for us?

9. Servant larceny?

10. Capped internationally in the past year, this current City player has turned out for a side that plays in red and black hooped shirts and black shorts and another that plays in all black during his short career, who is he?

11. Signed from Street, this defender scored at both ends of the pitch during his relatively short first team career with us. Besides his time at Cardiff, he’s played by a motorway, at a railway town, at an  up market location, for makers of handware and for a team that “embarrassed” us in the FA Cup quite recently. Currently, he seems a cert to be playing non league football for the first time since he left us whenever the 20/21 season begins if he stays with his club, can you name him?

12. Currently employed in “kiss me quick” country for a second time, this player has had a much longer career than appeared likely when he left us more than a decade ago without having played a league game. He never saw senior action for his first side either, but they were reaching Champions League Finals while he was there, so it’s not surprising really that he had to go across a border on loan to see some first team football while he was there. His one senior appearance for us came when we were victims of a “giant killing” at Ninian Park in a cup match and his release saw him crossing two borders, this time to become a Buddie. He must have done pretty well there because past European trophy winners took him on next and since then he’s played nearly one hundred times for a side doing very nicely in the Premier League at the moment and a team that were fixtures in that division for a while before falling on hard times which show no sign of ending yet – recently, he’s also helped out the Class of 92, but who is he?

13. Cardiff was the thirteenth of fourteen sides this man with an avian surname played for. He started off with one of the teams in a city which has two sides (he played more times for them than anyone else) and finished off with the other one, but in between was associated with Spurs, Southampton and Middlesbrough among others. He played for us in Europe when we were on the wrong end of a heavy defeat, but his most memorable match at City was probably a goal filled affair on the south coast which saw a hat trick from an unusual source – who is he?

14. He scored twenty odd times for us, but far more than that at two of his other teams, so, it was not too much of a surprise to learn that he scored two hundred and eighty times for Corinthian Casuals Veterans a decade after he left the professional game – who am I describing?

15. He had two spells with City and made his first appearance for us in Jimmy Scoular’s last ever match as City manager, but can you name him?

16. Forced to retire from the game before he was out of his teens, he scored his final goals for City in a game which produced eleven of them, who is he?

17. Lead reporter nears prude and a captain emerges from the mix.

18. Overcooked fish dish?

19. Who is the only player to make just the one appearance for us last season?

20. On a similar theme to the last question, who are the two young players who made a single appearance each in the 17/18 season?

Answers.

1. Robert Glatzel’s first club Munich 1860 played West Ham at Wembley in the Final of the 1965 Cup Winners’ Cup and three years later, Tom Sang’s first team, Manchester United beat Benfica in the European Cup Final on the same ground.
2. Westminster born Kadeem Harris was Wycombe Wanderers’ youngest ever first teamer before Jordan Ibe took that record from him. He joined City in 2012 and was loaned out to Brentford (home of the nylon company as advertised by Alan Freeman) and Barnsley (supported by cricket umpire Dickie Bird) before becoming something of a regular at City under Neil Warnock in 16/17 – he scored twice in a 4-3 win at Derby that season and now plays for Sheffield Wednesday.
3.  Rhys Weston scored in successive home matches against Tranmere and Peterborough in 2002, they were the only ones he scored in one hundred and eighty two league appearances for us. He played seven times for Wales at senior level and was a non playing sub when they faced Brazil in 2000 – in that year he was sent home from a Welsh Under 21 squad along with Kevin Evans and Lee Kendall for returning to their hotel late after going for a drink following a game with Armenia.
4. In 1995/96 Carl Dale scored twenty one of City’s forty one league goals.
5. Ron Healey signed for City in 1974 from Manchester City having also played for Coventry and Preston on loan. He was famously chipped by Kevin Keegan for a spectacular goal when he came on as a sub at Wembley for the Republic of Ireland against England and left City in 1982 – in November 1983, a City team were beaten by Wolves in his Testimonial game.
6. Pontypool born Tony Villars was signed by City from Panteg in 1971 and appeared for the senior team for the first team in a 4-3 loss at Fulham. Villars is best remembered for his brilliant performance and goal in a relegation shoot out game with Crystal Palace in 1974 and his three Wales caps came within a week shortly afterwards. Very inconsistent and suffering with injuries, he left City in 1976 and dropped out of the pro game after a season at Newport.
7. Bobby Ferguson made his debut for City, along with goalkeeper Lyn Davies, in a victory over Plymouth Argyle on New Years Day 1966 and played nearly one hundred and twenty matches in all competitions for the club before leaving to become Player Manager at Newport in 1969. A record breaking run of matches without a win at the start of the 1970/71 season for County saw Ferguson dismissed, but he did well as an Assistant to Bobby Robson at Ipswich subsequently and he took over as manager when Robson left to take over the England job in 1982 and remained in place for the next five years.
8. Lee Peltier.
9. Rob Page was the player I had in mind when I set this question, but it’s been pointed out to me that the clue applies equally as well to Robin Friday, so I’d accept that as well. It’s also been mentioned that Alfred Steel, a goalkeeper who played for us in 49/50 is a correct answer on the grounds that Alfred was Batman’s butler- if you got all three of those, then you truly deserve a better prize than my admiration!.
10. Northern Ireland international Ciaron Brown has played for Bedfont Sports (red and black hoops) and Livingston (all black) during his fledgling football career.
11. Ben Nugent scored in a win at Barnsley and put through his own net against Bristol City during our 12/13 promotion season, he had loan spells at Brentford, Peterborough and Yeovil while with us and joined Crewe permanently in 2015. Two years later he signed for Gillingham and is now with Stevenage who were a long way adrift at the bottom of League Two when football stopped being played (I daresay there are Stevenage fans who say that happened long before the lockdown!).
12. Mark Howard started off at Arsenal in the 05/06 season and played a few games for Falkirk on loan before signing for us. He was in goal when Barnet beat us 2-0 in the League Cup in 2006 and returned to Scotland to play for St Mirren and then Aberdeen before his first spell with Blackpool. It was probably at Sheffield United where he did best though and a move to Bolton in 2016 would have represented a step up for him at the time, now back with Blackpool, he has spent some time on loan at Salford City this season.
13. Phil Kite started off with Bristol Rovers and finished his career at Bristol City after leaving us in 1994. He was in goal for us in the 5-2 defeat at Standard Liege in 1993 and a few months later was beaten three times at Brighton, but a hat trick from Paul Millar helped us run out 5-3 winners.
14. Peter Kitchen scored ninety times for Doncaster and forty nine times in two spells at Orient as they were called then as well as twenty one in sixty odd matches for us – during the nineties he scored nearly three hundred times in just two hundred and twenty matches for Corinthian Casuals veterans.
15. Peter Grotier was in goal for City against West Brom at Ninian Park in November 1973 after he was signed on loan from West Ham  by Jimmy Scoular who left the club after the gane was lost 1-0. Grotier signed for us permanently some six years later.
16. Tony Pickrell had to retire from the game at the age of nineteen because of a serious chest illness, he last two goals for us came in an 8-3 defeat against Everton at Goodison Park in April 1962.
17. Darren Purse.
18. Chris Pike.
19. Matt Connolly’s only appearance for City last season came when he played the full ninety minutes of the League Cup defeat by Norwich City.
20. Ibrahim Meite was one of four subs used in the 2-1 extra time win over Portsmouth in the League Cup First Round and Cameron Coxe started in the 2-1 defeat by Burton in the Second Round of the same competition.