Six decades of Cardiff City v Barnsley matches.

After a false start with Brentford (I’ll do another quiz when we play the rearranged match with them), I’m assuming tomorrow nights game with Barnsley will go ahead, so six questions on them, with the answers to be posted on match day.

60’s. The man pictured had a career which almost exactly spanned the decade. Always employed by teams that wore red, he started off at Oakwell, making over one hundred and thirty appearances for Barnsley before moving twenty miles down the road to a club where, among others, he was managed by the man credited with first using the line that he’d had more clubs than Arnold Palmer. His performances for his new team attracted the attention of bigger clubs and, as the decade was ending, another short(ish) journey secured him a place in the top flight where he established himself as a first team regular for a season, before being forced to retire with an injury not normally associated with ending a football career – who is he?

70s. Another player to identify from a picture and some clues. Given that he worked as a miner before his football career started, it was somehow appropriate that this striker should start off at Barnsley, but he was to leave them without scoring a goal. With his character, it was ironic that his career took off at a club whose nickname was suggestive of a Society of Friends with peaceful principles. He was signed by a Second Division team of old fogeys, but when they made it to the top flight, that was where he tended to stay while playing for a variety of clubs over the next decade or more. A scorer of a hat trick at Wembley, he ended his career playing for Rainworth Miners Welfare some twenty nine years after it started.

80s. Rated as a Barnsley great, the man pictured, who won a single cap for his country, was a scorer for them at Ninian Park during this decade, who is he and who were the three players making their City debuts in the game he scored in?

90s. Which member of the Barnsley squad which was promoted to the Premier League with a City connection manages one of the teams which actually got to play in the Football League on Saturday?

00s. A game between us and Barnsley from this decade featured a goal which won a Goal of the Season award, who scored it and name the player in the Barnsley team that day who is currently playing for Newport County?

10s. Which Barnsley player, who established a Football League record as soon as he stepped on to the pitch for his debut with the club in 2008, was in the Barnsley side on the day Liam Lawrence scored his only goal for us?

Answers.

60s. Former Barnsley, Rotherham and Forest keeper, Alan Hill – his career was ended by a broken arm.

70s. David Speedie played for nineteen different clubs including Darlington and Chelsea.

80s. Ronnie Glavin scored two of Barnsley’s goals in a 3-0 win over City in October 1983 – Karl Elsey, Nigel Vaughan and Phil Walker all made their first appearances for us that afternoon.

90s. Former City coach Paul Wilkinson was caretaker manager of Grimsby for their 2-0 defeat at Carlisle on Saturday.

00s. Joe Ledley’s goal in a 2-1 win at Oakwell on the opening day of the campaign in 06/07 was voted as best goal of the season – Paul Hayes is the current County player who was in the Barnsley side that day.

10s. Reuben Noble-Lazarus, who became the Football League’s youngest ever player when he came off the bench for Barnsley in their 3-0 defeat at Ipswich in September 2008, was in their starting line up for a game at Oakwell in April 2012 which we won thanks to Liam Lawrence’s goal.