If you would like to help out at the Trust office (near Gate 5), before games at the Cardiff City Stadium, we’d be delighted to hear from you.
The office, managed by Trust board member Brian Mertens, opens at 1.30pm and closes 15 minutes before kick-off.
If you can help please e-mail help@ccfctrust.org
The Trust is delighted to support Cardiff City’s Christmas presents initiative for needy children.
Read more at https://www.cardiffcityfc.co.
Cardiff City fans had an away game of their own on Saturday, even though City’s league match against Sheffield Wednesday was not until Sunday.
Members of the Supporters’ Trust and Supporters’ Club took the M5 north to renew our friendship with Chasetown FC. We have maintained our friendship with the Staffordshire club since our 3rd round FA game against them in 2008, the year we reached the final.
Following that game Chasetown were invited to play the first official friendly at the Cardiff City Stadium and since then Cardiff fans have made regular trips to the Scholars Ground and groups of Chasetown fans have travelled to Cardiff to watch games.
Saturday saw a dozen City fans make the trip to see Chasetown take on second-placed Stamford AFC in the Evo-Stik Division 1 South. After a little over a minute we were a bit worried after the Scholars conceded an early goal. However, Chasetown battled back strongly and won 3-1, helped we would like to think, by the Welsh led chants of “We love you Chasetown” and “Blue Army” from the Church End enclosure.
Before the game Chasetown Supporters’ Club organised a buffet for us and presented each Cardiff fan with a memento of our visit – an engraved silver hip flask. The presentations did not stop there and we were invited onto the field at half-time and presented with a massive blue and white flag with the words ‘Friendship Through Football’. We hope to be able to hang this flag up at games in the future.
Trust Chair Tim Hartley said, “We were overwhelmed by the welcome we got at Chasetown and our thanks go to John Franklin, Trevor Youngmans and everyone associated with the club for giving us such a superb day out. We may not like everything in modern football but this visit really showed what a force for good the game can be and we look forward to welcoming Chasetown to Cardiff next year to maintain our ‘Friendship through Football.’”
Tim also thanked Vince Alm of the Supporters’ Club for organising a coach.
The Fred Keenor Fundraising Committee would like to thank all fans for their kind comments about the statue, unveiled earlier this month.
We’re absolutely thrilled that you love the statue – as we do. We feel privileged to have been given the task of turning the dream of a statue to reality. It is a fitting tribute to a true legend of Cardiff City.
Below are some of the comments we received by email, Facebook, Twitter, messageboards and other means:
“Saw the Keenor statute for first time today. Awesome. Post-match, in the dark, children were reading, staring & touching it.”
“Massive thanks to all those that have dedicated their time and their money to this cause. Things are changing, too fast for some, but this is a positive step. Maybe in generations to come there will be statues all around the ground commemorating our glorious, and not so glorious past.”
“The statue is a wonderfully striking addition to our Club in no small measure to the hard work of the Trust.”
“Well done to everyone who made this happen, especially the organising committee.”
“The statue looks very impressive indeed – better than I thought it would look, in fact. Neil Kinnock’s speech at the unveiling was terrific.”
“The statue is brilliant, a fantastic piece of work. It will be a fitting legacy to all who contributed so much time and energy to get it from petition to the unveiling yesterday.”
“Last Saturday saw the unveiling of a statue of Fred Keenor, a great Welsh sporting hero, at the Cardiff City Football Club ground—a statue that is there partly as a result of a contribution from the Welsh Government to the appeal fund. I was joined at the ground by my fellow association football experts Jenny Rathbone and Julie Morgan. It was a great occasion. It would be excellent to have an opportunity to debate the work of the sports council in helping to create the sporting heroes of the future in Wales.” – Cardiff West AM Mark Drakeford in aquestion to Welsh Finance Minister at the National Assembly.
And don’t forget you can join the Trust from just £12 a year at the office near Gate 5 or online at www.ccfctrust.org. We look forward to welcoming you as a member.
Cardiff City Supporters’ Trust has welcomed the club’s decision to back the campaign for the UK Government to hold a pilot scheme on safe standing at football grounds.
The Trust brought a demonstration of safe standing to Cardiff last year and the club also saw how standing safely has been accommodated in Germany.
Please click on the Football Supporters’ Federation link for full details https://www.fsf.org.uk/news/Cardiff-City-back-Safe-Standing-Campaign.php