If I’ve worked this out right, even a defeat in Monday’s home game with Oxford United will not see us relegated, so, strictly speaking, it’s just like our other forty three league matches this season in that it’s not a “must win” game.
However, this time it really does feel like nothing less than a win for City will do. I’m not going to write much here about what may or may not happen when Mark Harris, Ciaron Brown, Will Vaulks and Mark Harris return to Cardiff City Stadium, because I think I’ve made it pretty clear what I think of our survival chances elsewhere on here in recent weeks.
The one thing I will do though is report what ex City player Jobi McAnuff and former Leeds forward Michael Bridges said about our performance last night at Sheffield United That’s pretty damning stuff from a couple of ex pros (I rate Jobi as a good pundit) and, although I’m hardly the most competitive person, if criticism like that was aimed at me, I’d be wanting to answer it with a performance the next time I had the opportunity to do so. Unfortunately, nearly a season of watching this City squad in action makes me think that comments like those will have little effect on them – the phrase ‘going down with a whimper” springs to mind for some reason.
On to the quiz, I’ll post the answers on here on Tuesday.
60s. Born in a place called Clowne, the colour amber featured pretty heavily in this forward’s career which was spent in the lower divisions. His first two clubs wore amber – he was a bit part player with a modest scoring record for Oxford for five years, but he was more successful when he moved to a team that saw survival in the Football League as an achievement at that time. His next move took him not too far from the location of the European Cup Champions of the time, but he was hardly performing at a Theatre of Dreams, more a place that always makes me think of pimples! His record with his third club was pretty good, but he was loaned out to wear amber again, this time in Yorkshire, before a brief spell at a club where he would have had ex City midfielder John Buchanan as one of his team mates. Can you name the player being described.
70s. What’s the connection between pub rock, Johnny Cash’s stepdaughter, Dave Edmunds and an Oxford United defender of the mid 70s?
80s. Orange leg found in Crewe provides winger? (6,8)
90s. Assault cherub?
00s. Public holiday for floor coverings?
10s. Which Gloucester born former City player had a brief stay with Oxford in the middle of this decade?
20s. Which Oxford United player from this decade with a Welsh connection made his one and only league appearance so far for his current club when he came on as an eighty ninth minute sub in a 3-0 win over Union Berlin in the Bundesliga.
