Product Description

This is the true story of a group of Cardiff City fans, who formed a travel club and tried to work with the authorities. It tells the tales of their many political battles, to the friendships they formed and the trials and tribulations they had along the way. It talks about fans from different backgrounds all coming under one banner. Included in their journeys are their visits to Leeds, Sheffield, Wolves, Hull, Millwall, Huddersfield, Mansfield, QPR, Bristol City and Spurs.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #222300 in Books
• Published on: 2009-09-20
• Binding: Paperback
• 180 pages

About the Author
Gwyn Davies has been a Cardiff City fan for over 40 years, he was born in 1955 in Aberdare, heart of the South Wales Valleys. He was the founder of the Valley Rams supporters club which eventually had a membership of over 5000 fans. Whilst football was a massive part of his life, playing sport was also a big part, he went to the Moscow Olympics representing Team GB in Judo, at the age of 29 he retired from Judo at the top level and started to play Rugby and with a height of 6'6" and 20st he was built for Rugby not football and eventually played for Potypridd. But during all this he still kept his passion for Cardiff City FC and eventually becoming a close friend of Sam Hammam.

Customer Reviews

A must read for any real football fan !
This book is a must read for any real football fan, especially those who have followed their club away from home. The armchair fan, could learn a lot from this book too. They could learn what it is like to really love your football club regardless of who owns it, who they are playing, what league they are in or what nonsense the old bill can throw at you after travelling 4 hours to watch your team. Having experienced travelling to away games with the Valley Rams to watch Cardiff City, I can vouch that the stories in this book truly reflect and epitomise the salt of the earth characters thrown together by one love; the love of their football team.

It's a 5 star must read.

Very Hilarious and smart!
I bought this book on the day it was launched(last event at Ninian park with Abraham's 'City through the years' book) which I also got signed by the authour aswell as Corky who both worked their hearts out running the valley rams which was founded in the Hamman era for the Club as a way of keeping the mad fans behaving while having a beer to keep things sweet, However things don't smoothly!:

It talks about organising coaches for away games and orgainising tickets for people who never collected them, then of course there is the west midlands and south yorkshire police who just seem to hate Cardiff fans pesonally that you'd think that they were deliberatly trying to cause trouble just so they could automatically ban them as an excuse read Huddersfield chapter and that incident at Wolves away 2006(I was at Wolves that day), the Leeds FA cup incident (a storm in a tea cup) and getting a radio broadcaster back for slating City by licking his arse at first and then turning things around.

On the funny side there are incidents involving boozed up situations, common mistakes, pranks on the on each other and an incident with a coach and a goat!

Excellent book only wish it could have been longer there is also an interesting foreward by Dr Clifford Strutt which talks about the way people see the game.

cracks me up every time I read it
never mind the game, some of the characters unearthed in this book should be the subject of a hollywood film script