Six decades of Cardiff City v Burnley matches.

CoymayUsual format, six questions on our next opponents covering a half century or more – I’ll put the answers on here on Wednesday.

60s. Who is this?

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70s. Another player to identify – this one made nearly two hundred appearances for Burnley before leaving the club in the mid 70s. He later returned to Lancashire, via opposite ends of England and the USA, to have a short spell as Player Manager at an acne ridden venue.

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80s. Name this member of a winning City team against Burnley during this decade.

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90s. He didn’t play too often for us, but one of his games for City was at Turf Moor during this decade, do you recognise him?

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00s. Woking really should be one of the former clubs of this long serving Burnley player with a famous namesake, but he barely made it out of Lancashire during his career after leaving Turf Moor in the middle of this decade, who is he?

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10s. Name the players with a City connection who have scored for Burnley in matches at Cardiff City Stadium during this decade.

Answers.

60s. Dave Thomas.

70s. Doug Collins.

80s Alan Rogers.

90s. Gary Bellamy, who played ten times while on loan to us from Wolves in 1992.

00s. Paul Weller.

10s. Matt Connolly with his own goal in November and Steve Thompson scored Burnley’s equaliser in the 1-1 draw between the clubs in February 2011.

 

 

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A very quick message on a couple of things.

CoymayNewer readers of this blog may not know that, rather than the quiz about upcoming opponents I do now in the days before we play them, I used to write about a previous meeting between City and the club we due to play next.

Back in 2010, I did this piece

Brian Myton – a memorable debut for all the wrong reasons.

before a City v Middlesbrough match about a game from 1968 that saw what was a pretty rare thing back in those days – a double sending off.

I was very surprised to receive a reply to the article a few years later from someone who knew Brian Myton (he was making his debut for Middlesbrough that day), who was one of the protagonists in just about the worst on field scrap I’ve seen in the flesh at a professional game, very well.

Well, now I’ve received a message from a relative of the other person involved – City’s Malcolm Clarke. Charlie Jones is Malcolm’s grandson (Malcolm has, sadly, passed away) and is asking whether I could provide him with some more stories about his granddad.

Unfortunately, I included nearly all of my recollections of Charlie’s grandfather in the article I did, so I was wondering if anyone else may be able to help him out.

The other thing I wanted to mention was that the City Supporters’ Trust is conducting it’s annual survey into attitudes towards it and the club. Members will have been informed already about this and given the opportunity to complete the survey, but it’s open to non members as well and, if any of you want to, you can answer the questionnaire by clicking on this link.

 

 

 

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