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Cardiff City v Preston North End
Cardiff City Stadium 10/2/2024

Another long day on the Coach, back in Europe at a ground where our last two league games have ended 0-0, my last visit was a Friday night televised game won 1-0 , 93 rd minute goal by Tom Clarke a result which thoroughly naffed off Sol Bamba's wife

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LAST TIME OUT





FORM GUIDE

CARDIFF 10 PNE 8

IN FORM



HISTORY

The Welsh National War Memorial (Welsh: Cofeb Ryfel Genedlaethol Cymru) is situated in Alexandra Gardens, Cathays Park, Cardiff. The memorial was designed by Sir Ninian Comper and unveiled on 12 June 1928 by the Prince of Wales. The memorial commemorates the servicemen who died during the First World War and has a commemorative plaque for those who died during the Second World War, added in 1949.

Design and construction
Welsh National War Memorial statues

Victory on top of the central stone pylon

Sailor (Navy) surrounding the central stone pylon

Soldier (Army) surrounding the central stone pylon

Airman (Air Force) surrounding the central stone pylon
The Memorial was first suggested in 1917.[3] However, detailed proposals were not established until October 1919 when the Western Mail created a national subscription fund and a committee set up to manage the scheme.[3] There were four designs submitted to the committee and the design selected was by Sir Ninian Comper and approved in 1924.[3] It was sculptured by Henry Alfred Pegram.[4] The stone masons were William Drinkwater Gough and Messrs E Turner & Sons.[4] The bronze statues were cast by A.B. Burton.[4] The memorial is the only 'secular' work by Comper, who was primarily a furnisher of churches. He received much hostility, from the president of the Royal Institute of British Architects and others, for not being a qualified architect, but was supported by the sculptors Sir William Goscombe John and Sir Hamo Thornycroft.

The memorial takes the form of a circular colonnade surrounding a sunken court. On the frieze above the columns are inscriptions in Welsh, on the outer side, and in English, on the inner side. The English inscription was composed by Comper himself. At the centre of the court is a group of three bronze sculptures arranged around a stone pylon. Around the base stand three figures, a soldier, sailor and airman, holding wreaths aloft. There are appropriate inscriptions above the figures e.g. 'Over the sea he went to die', above the sailor. Above them, crowning the structure, is a winged male nude representing Victory.

The memorial's form was inspired by two visits to French North Africa and particularly Tunisia, where the architect was inspired by the public works erected by the emperor Hadrian[citation needed]; it seems that historical and secular architecture and religious design in architecture coincided within the memorials erected in the West, in particular in the 1927 Lorimer War Memorial in Edinburgh where the use of a sword as an element with the Cross of Sacrifice in the cemeteries of the Imperial War Graves Commission is echoed within the central element of the Shrine (this memorial having been opened in 1927 by the Prince of Wales as the Scottish National War Memorial, and consequently presumably in some form associated with that of Wales and possibly others[citation needed]). In order for Pegram to find a model for the bronzes, the crews of two battleships were invited to the Union Jack Club in Waterloo, London. The sculptor selected a young sailor called Frederick William Baker, an Englishman from Brixton, in the nude and in uniform.

The memorial was unveiled on 12 June 1928 by Edward, Prince of Wales.[5] The ceremony was broadcast by the nascent BBC.[5][6]

The Memorial is Grade II* listed.[2]

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Who’s Available?


Duane Holmes, who picked up an injury during the warm-up last weekend, will miss this one, but he could return as soon as next Saturday’s Lancashire derby against Blackburn Rovers.

It was hoped Ched Evans, who hasn’t been available since early January, would return in some capacity to training this week. He’s still in his rehabilitation stages, though, but he’s not expected to be out for much longer.

Manager Ryan Lowe described Kian Best as being “on the mend”, with the left-sided defender having missed the last two games through injury.

Opposition Focus


Heading into the weekend, Erol Bulut’s Cardiff City sit just a couple of points and three places below PNE in the Championship table.

Their 40 points accumulated have been picked up equally home and away, although the majority of those on their own turf were collected towards the start of the campaign when they won five out of six at the Cardiff City Stadium.

Since the beginning of November, though, it’s been one win from seven at home, but good victories on the road against Sheffield Wednesday, QPR and Watford have kept them within reach of the top six.



Match Officials

Referee: Dean Whitestone
Assistant Referees: Daniel Leach and Blake Antrobus
Fourth Official: Ed Duckworth

Dean Whitestone will take charge of his second PNE fixture of the campaign, after being the main official for the home victory over Birmingham City in September.

In total this season, he has shown 67 yellow cards and two reds in 18 matches.

This could be interesting given the housing of poop by the opposition following the first match, did get a little tetchy, should have won that one but Blobby Madley was at his Rebecca Welsh best
Anyway South Wales luckily most of he journey down will be in the light, might even get to see some snow.
Last two at their gaff have apparently been dire suspect this won't be a classic either

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Cardiff City line-up: Alnwick; Ng, Goutas, Phillips (Méïté, 85), Collins; Wintle (Ramsey, 45), Siopis, Turnbull (Colwill, 72); Bowler (Wilson-Esbrand, 45), Etete (Diédhiou, 62), Grant. Subs not used: Horvath, Romeo, Ralls, Tanner.

PNE line-up: Woodman; Storey, Lindsay, Hughes; Potts (McCann, 73), Whiteman, Browne (Ledson, 80), Millar (Brady, 86); Frøkjær (Woodburn, 87), Riis (Osmajić, 86), Keane. Subs not used: Cornell, Cunningham, Stewart, Whatmough.

Attendance: TBC.

Referee: Mr D Whitestone.

A long weary day ended up with three points on our European tour, the 7.30 am coach start seemed a tad early, arriving in the Welsh capital at 12.15pm proved it was. So mate and I wandered into Cardiff, 19 years since I've been that close to the MNillenium stadium, Bobby Zamora shinned it in and the rest as you say is history.
Fair play to the stewards at the ground they were human and friendly compared to some of the stasi that you get at some places.
Unchanged from last week looks more by accident than design Fantastic has found his right eleven, however at times his brand of football at times is dire.
First 30 minutes we were woeful, our inability to pass to a team mate is off the the scale of poor, Our ex Swansea keeper distribution also leaves a lot to be desired in saying that we restricted City to long range efforts, Etete and Grant shots were both easily dealt with by Woodman. Just about managed to keep awake during the first 30 minutes and then boom, smilar to Millwall away two weeks ago, the alarm clock woke them up, Mads ball to Riis, into the box skipped past one defender then another right foot bottom corner, first goal since his ACL


From then this game was ours and just before half time it was two, Potts to Mads, into the box went the Danish god could have shot saw Whiteman better placed ball across face of box and it was two and basically game over. Pushed for the third bfore the break didn't get it.

We managed to survive Fantastic's half time talk which usually tells them to defend on masse strangely we didn't this time, Ramsey came on at half time for his first appearence since September. He probably should have done better with a mistimed header apart from a shot from Grant and a late effort from the big Greek lad at the back it was fairly comfortsble, we thtreatened with Millar down the left but eased to three points.
Apparently Erol thinks we play rugby, he's wrong

Two points from the play offs still in it.

Cardiff manager Erol Bulut:

"We started really well in the first 30 minutes, until we conceded from their first shot. Then our confidence went a bit down.

"For their second goal, I thought there was a foul on Kion [Etete]. The referee allowed a lot of fouls. We don't play rugby - we play football.

"There were more faults from us - we can't say this is why we lost the game - but these are key details. Generally, the game was under control but three shots from the opponent, two goals."

Preston manager Ryan Lowe:

"The first 15 minutes we gave the ball away and we have to give Cardiff a bit of credit but, once we got control of the game, we were fantastic.

"Two good goals and we should have had more. I thought the resilience and desire they showed was excellent.

"We're not going to get carried away. The lads have worked hard on a daily basis and they've been a breath of fresh air to work with. We'll never get too high or low."