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 MONTHLY NEWSFILE |
Monday 31st August 1998 DARLINGTON 3 - 0 CARDIFF CITY. Match Report. Darlington added insult to last Saturdays injury at Feethams today. Two goals from Roberts and a third from De Vos condemned Cardiff to their heaviest defeat so far this season. Poor defending, lacklustre midfield and a poor attack were to blame. Saturday 29th August 1998 CARDIFF CITY 0 - 1 ROTHERHAM. Match Report. City again played for only one half. The first half they were in total command. Matt Brazier was brilliant on the left and at 0 - 0 at half time a goal for the City was bound to come. Whatever they had in their tea at half time it changed them completely. The shape had gone and all the play was on the right which was not as good as the left. Rotherham snatched a winner with a breakaway goal. Just as they had promised to do. Friday 28th August 1998 Matt Brazier signs for City on loan. 22 year old left sided midfielder / wing back has signed for cardiff on a one moth loan. Brazier will cover for Mike Ford. There is no news as to the long term plans for Brazier. Brazier made 7 appearances for Fulham last season and scored 1 goal. Here is a view of Brazier from a Fulham
website. Rotherham preview. Teamtalk from Bily Ayre. Saville transfer complete. Andy Saville has completed his £20,000 move to Scarborough. Thursday 27th August 1998
Andy Saville's transfer is expected to be completed today. Saville is moving to Scarborough for £20,000. Again good luck to Andy as well. Both he and Penney still live in Yorkshire and have decided to stay in the North of England rather than moving to S.Wales. Scott Young has extended his current contract at Ninian Park. Young has signed a new three year deal to replace the 12 months he had left on his old contract. Tuesday 25th August 1998 CARDIFF CITY res 0 - 1 SWANSEA res Competitive reserve team football
returns to Ninian park. Earnshaw scores for Wales. Saville transfer imminent. Monday 24th August 1998 Cardiff failed today to sign Notts Forest winger Chris Allen. Allen is on the transfer list at Forest but refused to come to Ninian on a 3 month loan. He cost Forest £400,000 from Oxford. Cardiff are about to launch a £740,000
youth initiative which Frank Burrows says is "The biggest revoloution in the youth
set up at Ninian park ever". The Cardiff City School of Excellence which currently runs one night a week will now be open three nights a week and throughout the holidays. This will give youngsters the chance to train with Cardiff City all the time and not look for other alternatives when the school is closed. City will also be appointing an assistant to Physio Jimmy Goodfellow. Goodfellow at the moment looks after the first team but City feel it vital to have experienced Physio's available for all matches from the juniors up. Cardiff City Yth 1 - 0 Torquay Yth. FAW fixtures. New shirts for FAW
Matches. Cardiff will have a new shirt for the FAW games. It will be based on the shirt originally worn in the 1969/70 season. It will be blue the word Bluebirds across the left hand side. They will be sponsored by Steve Borley's company CMB Engineering. Friday 21st August 1998 SHREWSBURY 0 v 3 CARDIFF CITY. Match report. Cardiff have pulled off a fantastic away win at Gay Meadow tonight. Goals from Jeff Eckhardt and new signing Dai Thomas in the first half was followed by a Kevin Nugent strike on 76 minutes. Just the tonic we needed. Tom Ramasut, a left winger, who is 21 next week, has been signed today on non contract terms with a view to a permanent signing. Frank Burrows has given him one month to prove himself. Ramasut has been with the Bluebirds for the past few weeks and he scored against Cwmbran in the friendly on Wednesday night. Below is a brief history of Tom thanks to Bristol Rovers.
Carl Dale is to recieve a benefit match from Cardiff City. Dale, who was with Bluebirds for 8 years is officially two years short of a testimonial but the Club are going to ggive him a benefit match at the end of the season because of his service to the Club. Dale hopes to field a side made up of '93 Championship players as well as the current squad. It is hoped the match could be against West Ham or other Premiership opposition. Craig Middleton has shown his loyalty to Cardiff City. Middleton who signed a new 2 year contract in the summer is moving from his Leicestershire home to Penarth. Just the sort of passion to want to play for Cardiff that Frank Burrows is looking for. It's good to see a player leave his roots to come to Cardiff. Cardiff are also looking at 18 year old Shane Small. Small has impressed in trial matches and we wait to see if Burrows wants to sign him. Cardiff have agreed a £20000 fee for Andy Saville. Its now down to the player to agree personal terms with Scarborough. Other possible departures are who is interesting Conference team Doncaster. Penney is in the squad for tonights game to cover for jason Fowler who has a slight injury. Lloyd Lislevand has left the club after struggling with fitness. City were interested in him but he has accepted an offer from Cyprus. Preview of tonights game. Thursday 20th August 1998
Theres a report tonight
that Andy Saville is on the verge of signing for Todays Echo implies that David Penney's future at Ninian park is in doubt. Penney played most of the friendly game at Cwmbran last night but will not be included in the squad for the trip to Shrewsbury tomorrow. They say that he is likely to be on his way soon as he ties to resurrect his career. CWMBRAN 1 - 4 CARDIFF CITY. Cardiff triumphed in a friendy at Cwmbran last night. City were four goals up thanks to goals from triallist Shane Small, former Bristol Rovers player Tom Ramasut, Craig Middleton and a second half goal from Christian Roberts. Cwmbran pulled one back when Ian Mitchell scored direct from a free kick with Seamus Kelly will feel he should have saved. City were without Lloyd Lisevand who was injured and Rob Earnshaw, Nathan Cadette and Phil Owen who are with the Wales U18 squad. jarman played well, while 16 year old YTS trainee Ian Skelly had a comfortable game in defence. The full team from last night. S. Kelly, Parnall, Derbyshire, Skelly, Jarman, Ramasut, Small, Penney, Roberts, Williams, Midlleton. Subs (all used) Loveless, P Kelly, harris, George, Radaman. Wednesday 19th August 1998 Frank Burrows has blasted his teams
performance last night. Tuesday 18th August 1998 CARDIFF CITY 1 - 2 FULHAM. Match Report. Cardiff went out of the Worthington Cup tonight after another Jeckyl and Hide performance. Click on match report for my full views of the game tonight. Worthington Cup preview. Cardiff go into tonights game one goal down but with an important away goal scored at Craven Cottage last week. City will need to improve on last Saturdays performance if they are to progress in this competition. Fulham will be no pushovers as they bring a team worth millions of pounds to Ninian Park. Andy Saville and Mike Ford will be missing through injury. If Frank Burrows is to continue with a 4-3-3 formation then either Robert Earnshaw or Christian Roberts will play alongside Kevin Nugent and John Williams up front. The defence will have to concentrate for 90 minutes tonight and not let Fulham into score as they let Perterborough in to find the net three times on Saturday. A 1-0 win will be enough to see City through on the away goals rule. (I think that applies after extra time but I'm not 10% sure). After the let down of Saturday City need to put in a credible performance tonight. Everyone needs a lift, the fans as well as the players. Frank Burrows is continuing his search for two new players. He is hoping to sign a wide man and a striker. Frank is looking at young Premiership players that he could possibly sign on a three month loan deal. He would like have the players to be able to play against Shrewsbury on Friday. Monday 17th August 1998 Andy Saville will miss the Worthington Cup game against Fulham tomorrow. Saville picked up an injury against Peterborough and is ruled out of tomorrows match. Mike Ford is still recovering from a hamstring problem and will not play either. City have three players representing the Wales U18's in a tournament next weekend. First team members Robert Earnshaw and Nathan Cadette are joined by youth team member Phil Owen. The only downside is that Earnshaw will miss the first team trip to Shrewsbury on Friday. Saturday 15th August 1998 CARDIFF CITY 1 - 3 PETERBOROUGH. Match Report. City were given a lesson in finishing by Boro' in a dissapointing match at Ninian today. An eventless first half saw Cardiff leading 1 - 0 but the second half was a different matter as Boro put away three chances. Mike Ford is hoping for a return after finding his hamstring injury is not as bad as first thought. Jeff Eckhardt is pushing hard for a place in the defence. Kevin Nugent is putting Andy Saville under pressure and Robert Earnshaw and Jason Fowler are back in the squad after missing the trip to Fulham. Friday 14th August 1998 The following fixtures have been changed
to avoid clashing with a football international. Thursday 13th August 1998 Congratulations to Kevin Nugent. Our sponsored player Kevin Nugent celebrated the birth of his first child on Wednesday. Wednesday 12th August 1998 A squad of players travelled to play
L.O.W Barry Town on Wed 12th August. Tuesday 11th August 1998 FULHAM 2 - 1 CARDIFF CITY. Match Report. Monday 10th August 1998 Vouchers were issued to fans at the Wrexham v Cardiff FAW Invitation Cup game giving free entry to a midweek Nationwide League game. The vouchers will be valid for the Cardiff v Barnet game on Tuesday September 8th 1998. Season ticket holders should use their voucher for a friend. Saturday 8th August 1998 HARTLEPOOL 1 - 1 CARDIFF CITY. Match Report. A superb equaliser from Robert Earnshaw earned Cardiff a point at Victoria Park this afternoon. With both teams equalling the league draw record last season todays result is unsuprising. After a poor first half Cardiff came back well to share the points. Friday 7th August 1998 Six out of the seven new signings are expected to make their league debuts tomorrow. Only reserve keeper Seamus Kelly will miss out. City will probably start with Mark Bonner, Mark Delaney, Mike Ford, Graham Mitchell, Richard Carpenter and John Williams in the starting line up. Christian Roberts and Andy Saville are likely to play alongside Williams in a 4-3-3 formation. Jon Hallworth is fit and will be in goal. Jason Fowler and Scott Young will make up the XI. Frank Burrows will name his team before kick off tomorrow. Jason Fowler finally signed his new two year contract. Thursday 6th August 1998 Jason Fowler agrees to new contract. Jason has agreed to sign a new 2 year contract. The signing will be completed late on Thursday and I will bring you final confirmation tomorrow. Coca Cola have signed a sponsorship deal with the Bluebirds. An agreement worth more than £25,000 will mean Coca Cola hoardings and averts on the Bob Bank and Coca Cola will also update all the food and drink outlets at the ground as well as installing drinks coolers. The open day at Ninian Park is on Sunday August 16th. Ninian Park is open from 2pm to 5pm where supporters will be taken on tours of the ground. There is also a fashion show and the Miss Junior Bluebird Competition. Players and staff will be present. The Club have decided to reduce
childrens prices for both the first home Wednesday 5th August 1998 Caerau (ELY) 1 - 4 Cardiff XI A City youth XI comfortably beat Caerau (Ely) last night. Over 300 watched the game in which City youngster Warren Givans scored a hattrick. Nothing to report on at the moment. As you can see below City have played a couple of friendlies while I have been away. Nothing else is for certain. Frank Burrows is still hoping to make 1 or 2 more signings before kick off on Saturday. Names have been rumoured, Dai Thomas especially but nothing yet. Tuesday 4th August 1998 CARDIFF CITY 1 - 2 COVENTRY CITY A late strike from Darren Huckerby gave Coventry victory over Cardiff. Phillipe Clement scored for Coventry but was later taken to hospital with a fractured cheekbone. Jason Fowler levelled for Cardiff in the first half before Huckerby hit the winner 4 mins from time. Saturday 1st August 1998 HUNGERFORD 0 - 2 CARDIFF CITY XI Two goals from Robert Earnshaw ensured victory for Cardiff in a team mixed with first teamers and youth players. |
Copyright Michael Morris 1998.
