Cardiff City will take it to a baker’s dozen of games without a win and the run without a three pointer will stretch beyond three months if they don’t win at Hull on Saturday. The Humberside club don’t have a great home record, but then Luton didn’t either and yet that didn’t stop us losing again – Hull are also like Luton in that they are a team we used to beat more often than not, but now we’re on a run of consecutive losses against them, a sure sign of how far we’ve fallen in the last two seasons.
With just one, fairly desperate looking, loan signing made through January, those in charge of the club continue to give the impression they wouldn’t mind if we went down, but you can be sure that if we do, it will be others who end up carrying the can for it. With Hull having a big win last week and no midweek game (there’s only one Championship game been played since last weekend – why on earth did City agree to playing on Tuesday instead of letting the new manager have a week to get to know his squad? It might also have helped not to have been playing on the night the transfer window was closing!), you’ve got to fancy them for another victory.
Anyway, here’s the usual quiz with the answers to be posted on here on Sunday.
60s. This Hull born defender played over four hundred league matches in amber/yellow, but just under half of them were for his second club well to the south of his home city. After eight trophyless years at Hull, he was able to pick up a league winners medal at this second club as they earned the right to play City, among others, towards the end of this decade. He played for one other league club where he won the Watney Cup, this time wearing blue for a change. Dropping into non League football, he had a spell as Player/Manager of Eagles who play(ed) at a very appropriately named ground and then turned out for Essex boys who now ground share with Barking – who is he?
70s. This Scot spent all of his playing career in England. He was signed first by a future City manager as a left winger, but the man in charge quickly decided that that he was better suited to playing in another position – he soon acquired the nickname “Yuri” because of his change of position. Although never a regular starter during his six years at his first club, he did play twenty odd First Division matches for them and even faced the great Real Madrid in a friendly. He never played for them again though after being dropped following their first ever game in a UEFA sanctioned tournament and eventually moved to the coast to play for a team whose nickname is derived from a local maritime industry. Moving north to Hull, he gave them stalwart service over eight years which stretched into this decade – not all of his visits to Ninian Park went well, but he was able to gain his fair share of wins here before dropping out of the full time game, only to surface again outside the UK as a manager for the Bit o Red who play at the Showgrounds. Who am I describing?
80s. In charge of fuel by the sound of it.
90s. Latin feast for an international (4,6).
00s. Designate the person with the multi coloured fleece maybe?
10s. This defender visited Cardiff City Stadium as a Hull player during this decade, he captained Canada to a win over England in an Under 20 international and has scored for his current club against Liverpool in the Champions League, who is he?
20s. Thaw on the roof perhaps?
Answers.
60s. Brian Garvey played over two hundred league games for Hull between 1958 and 1965, before signing for Watford where he was a member of their Third Division title winning team in 1969. Garvey had two seasons at Colchester in the early seventies before playing for and managing Bedford Town (who last two grounds have been called the Old and the New Eyrie) and then finishing his playing career at Romford.
70s. Then Arsenal manager George Swindin decided that Ian McKechnie’s career would be played in goal rather than on the wing and his penchant for the spectacular earned him the nickname Yuri (first man in space). McKechnie signed for Hull in 1966 after two years at Southend and was a regular visitor to Ninian Park until he left the full time game in 1973 (he let in fourteen goals in three games at the ground between 1968 and 1970). After his retirement. McKechnie had a short spell as manager of League of Ireland side Sligo Rovers in 1970.
80s. Pete (as he was known by Hull fans) Skipper.
90s. Alan Fettis.
00s. Marc Joseph (and the amazing technicolour dreamcoat).
10s. Fikayo Tomori was in the Hull side beaten 1-0 in Cardiff in December 2017. Qualified to play for Nigeria, England and Canada (the country of his birth), he played for the latter in a victory over England at age group level, before opting to represent England and he’s gained three senior caps for them. Tomori also scored for AC Milan in the Champions League against Liverpool in December 2021.
20s. Regan Slater (John Thaw played DI Jack Reagan in the Sweeney).