Ninian Nights. Will never be the same again

Those midweek winter evenings bring back some of my earliest Ninian memories. The story went that Cardiff had the best floodlights in football apart from Wembley. I don't know how true that was but in the 70's it was a legend I grew up with and now still believe we have the best there is after Wembley's destruction.

There are several areas of Cardiff where you can see the huge pylons that illuminate Ninian Park, it's a piece of our history that will disappear when Ninian Park as we know it is mothballed, then destroyed and we move across the road to our new stadium.

With spring firmly upon us there will be no more Saturday afternoon floodlights as the light is good until at least 6pm now. There's one more sure fire chance of a Cardiff City home game under the lights and that's when City
play Derby on April 8th, ko 7:45pm, the last regular league home evening
game of the season. We may get a midweek play off match but we may not.

Images like those in this article taken last night at the Watford game will become memories viewable only in photographs and described to kids and grandkids as we sit in the new ground with it's built in roof lined lights.

It's progress and I'm for progress but there's still a piece of history and a piece of me that will never be the same again.

So farewell to the best floodlights in football.