Trust News

Supporters’ Trust board members Tim Hartley, Tracey Marsh and Keith Morgan met with Bluebirds club officials Alan Whiteley, Julian Jenkins and Wayne Nash at the Cardiff City Stadium yesterday evening (8 November 2011) in order to discuss a variety of issues raised by the Trust membership.

Topics covered during a productive meeting included the Chief Executive’s position, the recent forensic accounting investigation, loan signings, away travel restrictions, ticket prices for cup matches, empty seats in the Family Stand and the proposed stadium memorial garden.

A full report will be e-mailed to members and appear on the Trust website in due course.

Cardiff City legend Phil Dwyer will sign copies of his autobiography, Mr Cardiff City in the Trust Office at Cardiff City Stadium before the match against Nottingham Forest on Saturday, November 26^h.

Grangetown-born Phil or Joe as he is also known made a club record 471 League appearances for Cardiff City plus another 102 appearances in various cup competitions – a total of 573 first-team appearances over 13 years.

The Trust office, which is close to Gate 5 (Canton/Ninian stands), will be open from 1.30pm until 15 minutes before kick-off.

Come along and meet Phil, get your book signed and chat with a true City legend.

• Mr.Cardiff City is published by Fort Publishing Ltd (£16.99) and is written in collaboration with local author and Cardiff City fan James Leighton, who wrote the biography of Fred Keenor and the autobiography of Christian Roberts. Five pounds from every sale is being donated to the Fred Keenor Statue Appeal.

Dilwar Ali of the Nahin Spice Centre in Caerphilly Road, Cardiff, who is providing the curry at the Frank Hennessy night at the Cardiff City Stadium on November 17th, has donated a signed Cardiff City ball from 2007 to the raffle. Great picture in today’s Echo with the story. See https://www.walesonline.co.uk/cardiffonline/cardiff-news/2011/11/05/curry-guaranteed-to-have-a-kick-91466-29723388/. Thanks again to Dilwar for his continuing support for the statue appeal.

Representatives of the Trust will be meeting the club next week.

If Trust members have any issues they would like us to raise with the club please send them to help@ccfctrust.org

From the Palace game we will be selling old programmes from the Trust office in aid of the Keenor appeal.

Programmes include City homes and aways, Wales homes and aways, FA Cup finals, big games, non-league including Merthyr Tydfil, even Swansea programmes. From 20p upwards. They’ve all been donated to the appeal for fundraising.

Come and have a look and if you’ve got children why not start them on a lifetime of collecting programmes?