These two sets of supporters just don’t get on at all. Chelsea boss Frank Lampard admits their rivalry with Leeds United may be lost on his new players.. Lampard also questions whether Leeds will … David Giles played, and scored, for Cardiff, Wrexham, Swansea City, Newport County and Wales. England captain John Terry is also subjected to the same treatment. Takes it on the chin, turns it around, and demonstrates a not inconsiderable lack of verbal and lyrical dexterity. “Swim Away.” Ok, let’s get this one out of the way first. Just a few comments on your map, which for the most part seems to be covered by the four teams you mentioned. To any students of the South Wales derby, it is essential reading. Bielsa, Lampard and 'spygate' Their glee at the sight of an ex Cardiff hero now putting the Bluebirds to the sword was simply uncontainable. As a penalty shoot out unfolded though, sections of the home support could not resist reminding him of his 124 appearances for Swansea City. Cardiff City (44) Swansea City (36) 28. At one time Chelsea couldn’t beat Arsenal for love nor money. Curtis later scored an almost identical goal at The Vetch Field in a Welsh Cup Final against Wrexham for Cardiff City. They taint each result with “yeh, but how did that lot down the road do today?” They throw our fortunes together, in ever decreasing circles. Chelsea FC - Cardiff City FA Cup Cardiff soul crew vs Chelsea headhunhters 13 02 2010 Lampard Admits Pulisic May Be Required to Play Out Of Position, Former Chelsea Goalkeeper Courtois Makes Sensational Claim, Chelsea Star Scores Double For England Under 21s, Chelsea Defender Set to Exit Stamford Bridge for Galatasaray on Loan, Chelsea FC Legend Signs Brand New Deal with Asia Casino BK8.Com, Sorry Cahill Situation Comes to an End as Defender Fires Parting Shot at Sarri, Sarri Urges Hudson-Odoi to “Respect” Chelsea. AVL on March 26, 2020: Aston Villa 4 -2 Birmingham City. Third biggest: Chelsea (17%) Lastly, Cardiff City supporters nominated Chelsea to complete their top three with teams coming from the “Big Six”, in absence of their traditional rivals. It will be our first ever meeting with Morecambe who are currently 15th in their division. Obviously, though, Chelsea still has the stardust: the best part of the greatest city in the world. Traditionally Chelsea’s main rivals are their nearest and dearest Queen’s Park Rangers and Fulham and that will never change in the minds of the more senior fans. Player of the Year in 2000 as relegation climaxed 15 years of failure and average home attendance stalled at 6,895. Rivers even describes how teams such as Millwall and Wrexham have sung about it against Cardiff City to try and provoke a reaction – which worked. But which team do Chelsea fans consider their biggest rivals? We have an old rivalry with Chelsea as well as Millwall and Cardiff, but that’s off the pitch stuff. Liverpool vs Chelsea: the birth of a very modern rivalry By Leo Moynihan 26 September 2018 As Liverpool and Chelsea prepare to face one another … Chelsea moved top of the Premier League after coming from behind to beat Leeds 3-1 on the night 2,000 fans returned to Stamford Bridge.... more » 05.12.2020 14:26 Lol Even Messi doesn't sound his humble self when he talked about Chelsea recently. ... Cardiff City, Swansea City. Leicester City fans have had their fair share of run-ins with Chelsea down the years and then there’s Tottenham Hotspur. The art of a throw has long been undervalued, but statistics show they are the worst performing side for it Curtis was a stylish and graceful player, the ball seemingly tied to his foot at times. Which team do Chelsea fans yearn to see beaten? This is a far cry from a tale Legg himself tells, of how he once had to wash his hair at half time while playing on the wing for Swansea at Ninian Park, such was the amount of phlegm deposited on his golden locks by the home fans. My God, Chelsea fans are so unbelievably obsessed with Spurs to the point that they look desperate to have a proper rivalry. Chelsea have been drawn at home against League Two Morecambe in the third round of this season’s Emirates FA Cup. Community Shield: Goals from John Arne Riise and Peter Crouch gave Liverpool a comfortable victory over Champions Chelsea in Cardiff. Following his career as a media pundit, he tells of the grief he attracts from Swansea fans who think he is pro Cardiff and Bluebird supporters who can’t forget his feats as a Jack. His non football writing includes the whimsical yet informative “Little Book of Cardiff” . This year it has to be tottenham what with AVB and all but in europe, ya its definitely barca! Alli hits the nail on the head as the bitter rivalry between Tottenham and Chelsea has increased relentlessly in recent seasons as they’ve battled it out in cup semifinals and finals on top of fighting for top four places. 2008 - 2015 Klopp Finally, there’s a striker who has scored for Cardiff against Swansea, and for Swansea against Cardiff. This is some feat. Beautiful. The first round of the FA Cup threw the great South Wales rivals together in November 1991. Bowen scored with a diving header. More recently, clubs that have been challenging for the honour of being called Chelsea’s main rival are Arsenal, Manchester United and Liverpool. Inevitably though, two worlds sometimes collide. There are plenty of reasons for Chelsea to class all of the before mentioned teams as rivals, but who would you say is our main rival and why? Bowen looked incredulously at the skies. Well, that's if you don't count throw-ins. ya its manu and barca bt particularly in those matches coincidentally the biggest rival turns out to be the referee. Three days after returning to Warwickshire he was loaned to Cardiff City. Have your say on the game in the comments. Tosh tells a lovely tale of how, as a talented Cardiff City apprentice, he was asked to help move a piano from the social club at Ninian Park to a supporter’s house in nearby Grangetown. Cardiff fans like commitment. Although both sides have made their own version of each other’s anthems, and bellow them out with gusto in the stands, I don’t think Chelsea see the Hammers as a real rival. Cardiff recorded two early-season wins against Chelsea in September 1961, winning 5-2 at Ninian Park and 3-2 at the Bridge but the Welsh side were relegated along with us at the end of the 1961/62 season and didn’t regain their top-flight status for over half a century. ... Cardiff Swansea rivalry Originally Posted by SLUDGE FACTORY. Jonathan Taylor (“Twenty Seven Years in a Black and White Scarf”) writes gleefully of how he managed to sneak onto the infamous Grange End at Ninian Park, Cardiff, to quietly enjoy watching the home side exit the FA Cup at the hands of Everton back in 1977. Sad innit? 2017 - 2018 Stöger El Classico divides a nation. Toshack likes his piano stories by the way, often recalling how Bill Shankly used to say “A football team is like a piano. #SVWBVB Jimmy Gilligan. He also talks of dodging the “Cardiff City psychopaths” at a 1984 encounter between Newport County and the Swans. The most heated new rivalry for the Premier League may be the oldest rivalry of them all, with Cardiff City and Swansea City set to reignite the South Wales derby after a few seasons apart. A Season Ticket holder at Cardiff City, he is a member of Cardiff City Supporters Club and Cardiff City Supporters Trust, having sat on the Trust Board in recent times. Chelsea . Police forces from Gower to Gatwick might puff out their cheeks with unwitting relief. I swear that my son’s first word was Gilligan, such was his status in my house in 1988. Some of these boys are viewed as traitors. Who is Edin Terzic? “Judas 30” on their shirts. Chelsea 1 - 2 Liverpool. But romances do not always last for ever. Many years ago I recall being especially impressed by a young lad tearing things up down the wing for Swansea at Ninian Park. Lampard vs Bielsa: 'Spygate' breathes new life into Chelsea-Leeds rivalry; More teams. The statue of Graham Taylor outside Vicarage Road showing a sign of the times, Dortmund coaches since 2000: Liverpool vs Chelsea has grown into a fierece modern rivalry but it's a contest that doesn't quite compare to the great traditional battles of the British game, the ones akin to … In 1988, a number of Swansea based fans chased their capital counterparts after a game. Both are held in high affection down west. Can Sabri Lamouchi find the morning after remedy for Nottingham Forest? It’s worth noting that the rivalry with QPR has flared up considerably over the last year (what with the John Terry-Anton Ferdinand saga) but QPR are still not a club that can challenge for even a top 10 League finish. And when they see such enthusiasm in a blue shirt from a guy who played 200 times for Swansea, well, respect is due. 2000 - 2004 Sammer Just one touch was all the striker needed to score from 25 yards. They cannot escape one another. Liverpool fans couldn’t stand the way Chelsea and Roman Abramovich were buying, rather than earning, success (the fact that Fernando Torres, their once-beloved-now-passionately-hated #9 made the move to Stamford Bridge has added fuel to the fire). Such antics make them heroes to fellow Jacks of course. 2018 - 2020 Favre 2015 - 2017 Tuchel In this topical piece, David examines the links between two great South Wales football rivals, drawing on anecdotes and recollections from across the 40 mile divide, players and places remembered and recounted. Over the years I have occasionally watched reserve matches at Cardiff, even the odd youth game. But come the 80s, the football hierarchy had changed. Chelsea head coach Frank Lampard has already defended Mount, while England manager Gareth Southgate has been mocked for supposedly favouring the … The Cardiff lads ended up fleeing into the sea. I used to love Gilligan in his Ninian Park days. Barcelona definitely hates us and my friends are all their fans,it makes me sick. You just can’t win can you? He played 207 games for Swansea and 209 for the Bluebirds and is arguably the most popular player to have bridged the divide. In the 60s and 70s, it seemed that many former Bluebirds ended their careers down at The Vetch, Don Murray above for instance. manure and maybe manshitty coz they are the team we battle with for the EPL title. A wonder goal against Leeds is cemented forever into the Swansea legacy as Curtis led the club’s transformation through history. You may prove me wrong. You need eight men to carry it and three who can play the damn thing.”. Honest. The Hammers hate former midfielder Frank Lampard for supposedly “turning his back” on them and they give him dog’s abuse every time they meet. John Toshack had seen to that. Manchester United, like Leeds United, will always be disliked, mainly for the adulation they receive in the Press and the fans’ cocky attitude, but you can’t argue with their ability to win silverware. Sometimes fierce, yet sometimes forgiving. At one stage the two sides clashed in every competition and it was certainly a battle of the fresh upstarts against the past masters. In South Wales though, the rivalry has a mindset of its own. Rmadrid have the right to call themselfes rivals with barsa because ronalde could beat messi, iniesta, xavi, puyol any day and that is a fact !!!!!!!!”Q. https://m.dw.com/en/bundesliga-can-edin-terzic-bring-heavy-metal-football-back-to-borussia-dortmund/a-55940013, #SaintsFC have been flawless this season. The writing was on the wall. The suburbs of Surrey were empty that evening ... Whilst us Londoners laughed at them. Although based in Wales, both clubs play in the English football league system and have won English honours: Cardiff the FA Cup in 1927 and Swansea the Football League Cup in 2013. Premier League Match Report for Cardiff City v Arsenal on 2 September 2018, includes all goals and incidents. The South Wales derby is a local derby between Welsh association football clubs Cardiff City and Swansea City.The fixture has been described by The Independent as one of the fiercest rivalries in British football. https://www.prostinternational.com/2020/12/15/lets-talk-southampton-and-throw-ins/, Here are a few photos from Melissa Levin from last week’s Western Conference Final. However, when you have two top sides up there battling for the main silverware year in, year out, then they instantly become rivals. All Rights Reserved. However you need to be playing each other on a regular basis in order to host a healthy rivalry and QPR haven’t been in Chelsea’s league for a long time, while Fulham have hardly been a threat to Chelsea over the past decade. The 2007 Football League Cup Final was a football match between Chelsea and Arsenal on 25 February 2007 at the Millennium Stadium, Cardiff.It was the final match of the 2006–07 staging of the Football League Cup, and last to be staged at the Millennium Stadium.Chelsea were making their fifth League Cup final appearance to Arsenal's sixth. Two goals against Swansea City and the second in that “Curtis Goal” 1988 Welsh Cup Final described above, all helped cement his place in my heart. Spurs real rivals are chelsea , not arsenal Uniteds main rivalry is liverpool Man city's main rivalry is united Liverpool's main rivalry is united Everton's main rivalry is liverpool 23-07-20, 20:19 #76. A 2008 report showed that West Bromwich Albion vs Wolverhampton Wanderers was the number one rivalry in English football. Can Chelsea Win the 2020/2021 Premier League? Jimmy peeled away to the ecstatic home supporters piled onto the mighty North Bank. I kept a close eye on that lad over the years and it came as no surprise that Jason Bowen went on to enjoy such a fine career. The supporter was Alan Giles whose son David went on to join Cardiff City and later played under Tosh at the Vetch. Art & Architecture Health & Fitness Automotive Books Education and Academia Finance, Investing & Economy Food & Travel ... Chelsea - Cardiff ::: highlights. Some are born of envy, history, even politics. Cardiff City and Swansea City though, the rivalry is characterised by an animosity rarely seen in other aspects of Welsh culture. 2000 - 2000 Lattek Women's Rivalry Forum NSR. Fate intervened to add yet another twist to the tale. © 2011 - 2020 Chelsea FC 360. If I am honest he never quite fulfilled his true potential for me but, when he joined the Bluebirds in 1999, his quality was there for all to see. 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Stories differ as to the numbers involved but the overall gist of the tale is true. 2006 - 2007 Röber He had earned promotion three times with the Bluebirds and scored more goals for them than for the Swans. Mick Schumacher: Can he follow in his father’s footsteps and become F1 Champion in the future? this is one of the very few griefs of a Chelsea fan…lack of strong cut throat rivalryI really believed the rivalry between arsenal and chelsea will flare up…for being the top London club and also both being in the right end of table. In a rare outing against, I dunno, Barnsley or Doncaster, the fans had chance to really taunt the ex-Swansea keeper. Mourinho's shushing of the Liverpool fans in Cardiff and his continued bitterness about Luis Garcia's so-called ghost goal at Anfield kickstarted the rivalry between the two clubs. "The stereotypes that fed into the rivalry are largely irrelevant." He seemed several passes ahead of most of our lower league stars in his 134 appearances. Those hardy souls would have seen 59 full blooded appearances from Leggy that year and four goals. He had made five appearances for Swansea City on loan from Coventry City. Everyone in Cardiff knew about it. How The Chelsea-QPR Rivalry Has Re-Emerged Since The Last Season, Manchester City move was not a plan, assures Frank Lampard, Chelsea confirm the signing of Cesc Fabregas, Jose Mourinho presser: Another dig at Wenger and Arsenal ahead of London Derby, Match Report: Manchester City 2-0 Chelsea – FA Cup 5th Round. In the Premier League it's definitely our top four rivals. Chelsea star Mason Mount has played down any rivalry with Jack Grealish. 1 in every 2 throw-ins are being wasted - I took a look why: What remains evident though, is that these rivals, are now joined at the hip. David Collins is a South Wales based football writer, broadcaster and author. 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A Welsh speaker, David is also a keen follower of his national team. Tottenham ground out a 0-0 draw at Stamford Bridge that lifted them top of the Premier League on goal difference. Grimes deflected effort enough for Swans as Rotherham hard done by. Andy Legg joined the Bluebirds in relatively dark days. So we see above, many examples of the great rivalry. Covid-19 would put this behind locked doors. But memories fade fast in football. Robbie James was also a fine supporting actor, contributing over a century of goals as these boys led the Swans from Under Milk Wood to the highest echelons of the game. Some though, remain figures of lasting affection in both camps. But no. Listen to this chant from the home fans – to the tune of Karma Chameleon……, “Dimi, Dimi, Dimi, Konstantopoulos…..he Swam Away….to Cardiff Bay.”. ONE EXCEPTIONAL MAN CHANGES THE HISTORY OF THE RIVALRY. The Neath born battler also earned the POTY award the following season. Sometimes.“Dad, do you know the Piano’s on my Foot? Terrace culture rose above such shenanigans in 2009  when the home side featured one Dimitrios Konstantopoulos in goal. The Gunners held the Indian sign over the boys from the Bridge, but that has all changed in recent seasons. BONUS NON-EXISTENT RIVALRY… MAN CITY V CHELSEA. There is a clamour among England fans to see Grealish with the national team and in the starting lineup. Tim Hartley: Golwg o Gymru- The dream of an all Welsh promotion final lives on, “We’re not just Little Swansea” – Angry Cooper vows to take ref protest ‘beyond online form filling’, The view from Wales as the Wednesday Championship showdown looms. He is a regular guest pundit on the Cardiff City Phone In and pops up on various digital platforms. 2004 - 2006 v. Marwijk For lovers of the oval ball, it’s a case of “As Long as we Beat the English we Don’t Care.”, [As Long as we Beat the English  – by the Stereophonics, See Also: It’s not fair but I don’t care, as long as we Beat New Zealand]. County won on penalties. Manchester clubs,Arsenal and maybe Tottenham. Chelsea’s success over the past decade or so has seen many clubs stake a claim to being Chelsea’s “biggest rival”. Discussion in 'Soccer Videos' started by banok, Feb 13, 2010. banok Member. Follow @e46K !function(d,s,id){var js,fjs=d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0];if(!d.getElementById(id)){js=d.createElement(s);js.id=id;js.src=”//platform.twitter.com/widgets.js”;fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js,fjs);}}(document,”script”,”twitter-wjs”); Should Maicon's "Snub" Really Bother Chelsea? The rivalry really took centre stage and in … A bust of James was unveiled outside Swansea’s Liberty Stadium in 2007 following his sad death in 1998. https://twitter.com/blackyellow/status/1338125713883492354, A beginner’s complete guide to the Swansea/Cardiff rivalry, “Cardiff City and Swansea City though, the rivalry is characterised by an animosity rarely seen in other aspects of Welsh culture.”, Previous encounters between Leicester and Everton makes their clash at the King Power one to look forward too, Palace aim for series of hat-tricks in visit to West Ham, Stoke held to goalless draw at out of sorts QPR. ... Chelsea vs Tottenham. Forst and Derby aren’t particularly fond of us either. Then there’s Liverpool. Chelsea FC 360 - Latest Chelsea News and Gossip. In 1989, Cardiff boss Frank Burrows left the Ninian Park hot seat for Portsmouth, quickly taking Gilligan with him for £215,000. 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