For around twenty years, Nick Fisk believed that one day he would find a letter on his doormat from Cardiff City FC requesting his services on the football pitch. When he realised it was unlikely he was ever going to be offered the role of groundsman, he decided the next best thing would be to write about the club instead.A former member of the not especially notorious non-hooligan gang, The Sad Crew, Fisk has plenty of experience to draw from, in terms of going to football matches, and coming up with ridiculous chants that nobody ever joins in with.In The Blues Are Back in Town Nick charts the 2014/15 season, following the team and its fans, and trying to rediscover his passion for the recently relegated club, while at the same time, reflecting on the good old days. The blog he kept, The Fisk Report, gave an insight into not just what it's like to be a typical fan, but what supporting The Bluebirds is like through the eyes of a Fisk.It is a funny, enigmatic and personal book about the passion and belief of being a football fan.
- 250 pages
- English
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Print ISBN
9781910409824
Table of contents
- Cover
- Contents
- Dedication
- Title Page
- Introduction
- Section 1: Season 2014/15 – August-December
- August/September 2014
- October/November
- December
- Section 2: The Battle For Blue: Looking Back on Two and a Half Years of Protest
- Section 3: The Sad Crew: The Untold Story of the Ordinary Cardiff City Fan
- Introduction
- The Early Days
- Meeting Neil (If Found, Please Return to the Back of F Block)
- Three Aways (Cambridge, Torquay and Blackpool)
- My Year As a Programme Seller
- Sam Hammam, My Lord, Sam Hammam
- The Nightclub Years With Nigel and Blakey
- Scary Moments
- I Didn’t Predict a Riot
- Harry & Wembley
- The Sad Crew Finally Make it to Millwall: Millwall 3-3 Cardiff: A Classic Remembered
- Section 4: Season 2014/15 – January-May
- January/February 2015
- March
- April/May
- Copyright