Last season Bohemians 1905 got relegated and Cardiff City reached the FA Cup final. This season, both armed with season tickets, we, Jonas (Cardiff) and William, plan to chronicle our experiences attending the games of the respective clubs.

For Cardiff, it is particularly emotional as this is their last season at Ninian Park, a ground they have lived at since 1910. For Bohemians the pressure is greater as their fans expect an immediate return to the top flight.

Our hopes for the season include lots of flowing football, some cracking goals, a promotion-a-piece, the odd fit streaker (female) and, ultimately, a pre-season friendly between the two clubs in the summer of 2009 (preferably over two legs and involving some kind of trophy named in our honour.)

Thursday, September 18, 2008

A week is a long time

An opening day win followed by 4 draws is not the greatest start to the season. Yet when you remain unbeaten after the first 5 games, it's not a bad start. The latest draw was home to Bristol City. Nil nils are not known for being great entertainment but this one was actually very good. The least we deserved was a point, after Bothroyd had 2 great chances, but it wasn't to be. Bristol hit the crossbar so it could easily have gone the other way.

This Tuesday we were away to Barnsley and got our 2nd win of the season, 1-0 with a goal from Peter Whittingham. We now sit 6th in the league with 10 points, and noone is talking about us. Thats good, everyone is talking of Wolves, Reading, Birmingham....but not Cardiff. I think a play-off spot is achieveable, especially if Bothroyd can actually get his eye to foot co-ordination back!

The week prior to the Bristol City game started bizarrely with Cardiff's Paul Parry retiring from international football with Wales at the age of 28. For some reason it seems he believes that he isn't valued enough at Wales - a place on the bench against Azerbaijan, and what would've been a starting place against Russia wasn't enough. I don't know who he thinks he is. A few years back he was playing non league football for Hereford - international football a mile away - then he decides he's better than the current Welsh players, and the impressive kids coming through. Well screw you Parry. The arguement got out of hand when John Toshack (Wales) confronted Dave Jones (Cardiff) about comments made to the media about him. Not sure who my money's on to win that fight...

As this is the final season at Ninian Park I have decided to keep every ticket from every game played this season. Luckily I went to the Carling Cup game against MK Dons, so I have every ticket so far. Wales U21 play England U21 at Ninian next month so I will get to go to that too, and then frame all my tickets from the 08/09 season.......yes I'm that sad.

Ledley passing to Commingues - Bristol City game 13th September
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2 comments:

William said...

Do you have a ticket from the Norwich game since you flounced off to London that weekend?

September 20, 2008 at 3:56 AM
Jonas said...

of course I do. Instead of the going rate of £10, I only got £5 for it, because I had to pay for the guarantee I'd get it back in mint condition!

September 21, 2008 at 12:30 PM

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