Went to the Cardiff City – Reading game today. Cardiff just needed to match the result of Fulham to get promoted to the premiership. Fulham lost to Birmingham while Cardiff drew. Cue pitch invasion and a lot of happy fans
Category Archives: football
Man City
Went to see Cardiff play Man City in the FA cup today. Cardiff lost 2-0, was a decent game but Man City always has extra quality. Got to see a De Bruyne goal anyway
City game
Went to see Cardiff City play Preston North End tonight. It was a pretty dire game, with City losing by a goal scored in the last minute.
Wales v Panama
Daughter & I went to see Wales play Panama tonight in a friendly. Was good to see some of the young players
Fifa museum
We left Davos today and had an afternoon to pass in Zurich before catching flight home. Daughter fancied the FIFA museum so we went there. It was quite good, although their coverage of bribery scandals was a bit, well, absent.
City vs Utd
Cardiff v Sheffield that is. Took daughter to the game tonight, Cardiff played well and were deserved 2-0 victors.
Champions league
Went to see the Women’s Champions League final tonight between Lyon & Paris (in Cardiff). There was a crowd of 22,000. Unfortunately it was a rather dull game – one of those where both teams are afraid of losing & defences are on top and you can’t see goals coming. Sure enough it ended 0-0 after extra time & went to penalties, with Lyon winning (deservedly). The Lyon number 3 & 5 were particularly impressive I thought.
City goal
As well as going to Coventry for the ice hockey on Boxing Day another Christmas tradition (i.e. This is the second year we’ve done it) is to see Cardiff City play over the Christmas break. We went to see them against Villa today. It was a good game and they won 1-0. It’s not as good as ice hockey though.
The homecoming parade
Wales had a homecoming parade today after Euro16. We got tickets for the free event in the Cardiff City stadium, and this is the bus arriving with Bale, Ramsay and co on board. The Manics played three songs, and then they interviewed the team and replayed the campaign. It was a very communal, joyous evening. Haven’t had many of those recently.
End game
I was up and down to London today, then rushed home to catch the Wales Portugal game. The Cardiff fanzone had been moved from Coopers Field to the Millennium stadium. You had to get (free) tickets for this which sold out immediately. So we went to the one in Pontypridd instead.
Wales didn’t quite click in this game and their fabulous run came to an end. Personally I think it’s because they moved the Cardiff fanzone. The games have provided some joy in these post brexit days.
