Six decades of Cardiff City v Birmingham City matches.

Another quiz based on questions about our next opponents going back six decades to the 60s – answers to be posted on here tomorrow.

60s. Aurally top up seasonal malady?

70s. Do you recognise this player from the description below?

Starting off with a club from the city of his birth, he had to become a bantam weight to get his first taste of senior football as he established himself as a defender with an eye for a goal. His next move saw him go further north to what is something of a football outpost and it was here that he experienced the first of three promotions in his career. His next club was so keen to sign him that their chief scout sat outside his old team’s ground all night to make sure of his signature and they were rewarded with over two hundred appearances, a promotion and an appointment with Princess Michael of Kent on the greatest day in their history. Birmingham were his last league club as his career ended through injury, but there was a spell as player manager for what was then a non league club with a reputation for giant killing and a later reunion with an old playing partner, who would become well known to City fans, in a manager/coach arrangement.

80s. The man in the darker shorts seen scoring in the picture below played for both City and Birmingham (he was in our side in a defeat by Brum during this decade), but who is he?

90s.  Who is the player described here?

Something of a Martyr, this forward started his career under the management of someone who figured in an earlier question and, after picking up a winner’s medal at a Wembley Final, he would swap one second city for another one when he moved to Birmingham in the middle of this decade. He played the only Premier League football of his career during a short loan spell at a small wooded valley under the management of someone who would later be in charge at Cardiff and then fell out with Mr Burns. He crossed the border then to play for some sialia and overcame initial difficulties to do with his past to become a popular and entertaining performer. Next up was a move down the road to non league neighbours, but he made a successful return to his old stamping ground when his goal helped his new team towards a cup victory over his previous employers.

00s. Who played for Birmingham against us twice in this decade and may just be rooting for a Cardiff win tomorrow after the news he received this week?

10s. Can you name the player pictured – he’s played for Cardiff and Birmingham during this decade.

Answers

60s. Phil Summerill.

70s. Former Everton, Bradford City, Carlisle, Swindon and Birmingham centreback and Yeovil player/manager Stan Harland who was presented with the League Cup by Princess Michael of Kent after Swindon’s win over Arsenal in 1969. Frank Burrows played alongside Harland that day and they reunited when the former was manager of Portsmouth.

80s. Kevin Summerfield.

90s. Ex Swansea, Birmingham, Southampton, Reading, Cardiff and Newport forward Jason Bowen.

00s. Lee Carsley lost his job as Birmingham’s Assistant Manager a few days ago following the appointment of Gary Monk.

10s. Kerim Frei.