Six decades of Cardiff City v Sheffield Wednesday matches.

Posted on October 18, 2016 by The other Bob Wilson

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A question on our next opponents from every decade since the sixties, with the answers to be put on here tomorrow.

60s. Where was this photo from 1967 taken?

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70s. Although he wasn’t playing for Wednesday in this picture, this striker was at that club when he was picked by then England manager Sir Alf Ramsey for a trip to Gibralter in 1973 that he took charge of, who is the player in the photo?

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80s. What links these lyrics from a song that reached the top ten during this decade with Sheffield Wednesday and Cardiff City from around the same time?

“When I stole all the apples that our neighbour grew,
So one must have told ’cause she knew”

90s. Another musical question, there is a common misconception that a former England player’s father was in this band, but the father of this player, who had an injury wrecked spell at Sheffield Wednesday during the late 90’s, was – who is the player and what is the band in question?

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00s. It happened once during Joe Ledley’s Cardiff City career and it was at Hillsborough during this decade, to what am I referring?

10s. Which player(s) currently under contract at City has/have played for Sheffield Wednesday?

Answers.

60s. The Azteca Stadium in Mexico City – Wednesday played five matches there in the summer of 1967, three years before it hosted the World Cup Final.

70s. Dave Sunley, who was a member of a Football Association tour party to Gibralter under the management of Sir Alf Ramsey.

80s.The lyrics are from Intuition by Linx, whose singer David Grant shared his name with the full back we signed from Sheffield Wednesday in the early 80s.

90s. Scott Oakes’ dad Trevor was in 70s pop sensations Showaddywaddy – I used to hate them!

00s. He was sent off in our 3-1 defeat in 09/10.

10s. Joe Bennett and Deji Oshilaja have both played Championship football for Wednesday while on loan there.

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Under 23s in drab stalemate.

Posted on October 17, 2016 by The other Bob Wilson

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Very occasionally on here I’ve said that the piece I was about to write would be a short one and then a while later I’ve thought “well, that’s 2,000 words I’ve done, I’d better bring it to a close now” – rest assured, that will not happen here!

Even if I was minded to give the development team’s 0-0 draw with Charlton at Leckwith this afternoon the 2,000 word treatment, I’d have to quickly admit defeat because there was nothing that happened to justify a quarter of that amount.

City included, Brian Murphy, Semi Ajayi, Matt Kennedy and Kenneth Zohore and there were one or two names I recognised in the Charlton line up as well and, for a short while, it looked as if it could be an entertaining affair as both sides showed a willingness to attack early on.

Indeed, City had the ball in the net twice in the first five minutes only for both goals to be disallowed for offside. While the second one was an obvious offside, Tommy O’Sullivan’s flicked close range finish for the first one was a tight, but probably correct, decision by a linesman who acted as good barometer for the match. Early on, he was eager to get his flag up in the air as soon as possible and there were a couple of decision which looked wrong to me, but, as time went on, you saw less and less of his flag being raised – no bad thing in truth, but it gave the impression that, just like so many of those present, he was losing interest in the game being played out in front of him.

It was mentioned around the twenty minute mark that Charlton looked the more likely scorers and that was the feeling I had for about the next fifty minutes of the game, but, looking at it now, I’m struggling to think of many times when they did suggest they had a goal in them – Murphy reacted well to get across his goal to block a far post effort in the second half, but mainly it was all about promising positions which fizzled out for the visitors.

City finished the stronger side and, on an afternoon when the back three of Ajayi, Tom James and Ashley Baker were the most impressive part of the team, it was the first two named who came closest for them in the second half as Ajayi headed a Marco Weymans free kick straight at the keeper from close range and then nodded not too far wide from a corner. James’ poor touch cost him a good chance after City had attacked well down their left, but then came as close as anyone to ending the deadlock with a volley which flew just wide inside the last ten minutes.

That’s about it really – much ado about nothing I’m afraid.

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