Time is running out for Cardiff City to bring in the one, maybe even two, strikers they appear to need badly considering their meagre goalscoring record this season. With less than a week to go of the summer transfer window now, Steve Morison was saying before and after last weekend’s game that there is nothing to report on the transfer front currently.
Maybe our manager is telling porkies there, but, looking back over how he’s answered questions about transfers during his time in charge, it seems to me that he’s been pretty straight in his dealings with the media on that subject. Either way, it seems to me that we’re probably in a situation where any newcomers will arrive close to when the window closes and, barring someone leaving for a substantial fee, it’s most likely it will be a loan deal – I have heard somewhere that there is a loan window which stays open a while after the transfer window closes, but I’ve not been able to find anything on line to confirm this.
All things considered, it seems likely that our squad which is scoring at a rate of half a goal a game will be entertaining a Preston team which has not conceded a goal in its four hundred and fifty minutes of league action so far on Saturday without the new forward(s) we could really do with. Yet, I’m pretty confident in thinking it won’t be Preston’s fifth 0-0 in six, there’ll be at least one goal scored, but don’t ask me at which end!
Here’s the usual one question on each of the last seven decades quiz with the answer in each case being someone who is playing for or has played for Preston. I’ll post the answers on here on Sunday and I apologise in advance for the higher than normal groan factor in today’s quiz.
60s. Injury cost this forward/winger one winner’s medal with a club from the City of his birth, but he made sure he didn’t miss out on a second one when he made what was a decisive contribution. His one international cap was gained in a win against West Germany and two years after he became a one cap wonder, he moved to Preston for what was a pretty sizeable fee at the time. His first encounter with City as a Preston player went well in the form of what could be called a decent home win given the size of some of the hidings we’ve taken at Deepdale down the years, but his next three meetings with us all ended in defeat. His career didn’t last long into the new decade – he had a season with non league Latics and that was it. Who am I describing?
70s. Described as the “ultimate midfield terrier” by Lee Sharpe, who was a team mate at one of his clubs, he started off with his home town/city club and eventually became a regular starter for them, but he pushed his manager in an altercation following his substitution in a UEFA Cup game and the incident prompted a famous manager who was between jobs at the time to say he enjoyed the episode so much he would sign the player once he was back in work. He was as good as his word as well, but injury meant he played less than ten times for his new club before being sold to Preston. He played four times for Preston against City, scoring once, and was a winner in three of the matches – this won’t help you much, but the exception to the rule was the only game at Ninian Park I missed during this decade (I was on holiday)! Released by Preston after four years, he was up the junction for a couple of seasons before clocking up around one hundred and fifty appearances for a side for which a Football League comeback is a little closer this season. At his final club, he was the gnarled veteran to Sharpe’s precocious teenager, but who is he? .
80s. Oi!Begin a combination here to find Ninian Park loser (3,5).
90s. Sounds like how a moderate kow tow might be described?
00s. Retrace darn ringleader to discover midfielder (6.6).
10s. Middle east car selection defies City during this decade!
20s. Which ever present member of this season’s Preston team had loan spells playing at The Sports Ground (for the Robins), Ladymead (for the Gold Army) and The Avenue Stadium (for the Magpies) while at his first Football League club?
Answers
60s. A scouser by birth, Derek Temple did not receive a winner’s medal when Everton won the First Division in 62/63 because a knee problem meant he didn’t play enough matches to qualify for one, but he got the winning goal in a dramatic 1966 FA Cup which caw his team come back from 2-0 down to Sheffield Wednesday to win 3-2. Temple was sold to Preston for £38,000 in 1967 and was in their team that beat us 3-0 at Deepdale early in 67/68, but his three visits to Ninian Park with his new team in 1968 and 1969 ended in 2-0, 1-0 and 2-1 defeats. Temple was sold to Wigan Athletic and was a regular for them in 70/71 before retiring at the end of that season. Temple’s sole cap for England came in May 1965 when he was in the team which beat West Germany 1-0 at Wembley.
70s. Sean Haselgrave played over a hundred First Division games for Stoke between 1970 and 1976, but a touchline bust up with manager Tony Waddington during a game with Ajax amused Brian Clough so much that he signed Haselgrave for Nottingham Forest in 1976. Sold to Preston a year later, Haselgrave tasted promotion within a few months of signing and was in the Preston side which drew 2-2 at Ninian Park in their first game back in the second tier on the opening day of the 78/79 season. Preston were relegation strugglers for the next few seasons, but generally got the better of City before they went down in 1981 – released on their relegation, Haselgrave signed for Crewe, then York and Torquay before retiring in 1989 having played just short of five hundred league games throughout his career.
80s. Ian Bogie was in the Preston side beaten 3-0 at Ninian Park in November 1989.
90s. Neil Clement – sorry.
00s. Darren Carter.
10s. Jordan Pickford kept a clean sheet for Preston in a draw at Deepdale in 2015 while on loan from Sunderland.
20s. Jordan Storey played on loan at Bideford (the Robins), Tiverton Town (the Gold Army) and Dorchester Town (the Magpies) while at Exeter City.