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Fri Feb 15, 2013 12:19 pm
Just looked this up on his facebook page and just thought if anyone takes to his strong belief and opinion of the scarf give away?
Below is the email the by the current owners of Cardiff City sent to supporters...I won't take a scarf and I won't ever have my photograph taken....I'll tell you my reasons why...my great Uncle's name was William Owen. He was my grandfathers oldest brother. He fought on the Somme. He was injured dreadfully when a horse panicked as a bomb exploded and bit him on the lower jaw. When he came home his wife was waiting loved him despite his disability and he ended up in Caerphilly working as a miner and later for the county council. When I was a nipper I remember visiting him and I would be fascinated by his false teeth in a glass...(he always laughed at me staring at them and would then pick them out and pretend to chase me!!
he had the most amazing hand writing Ive ever seen and I used to watch him when he would write postcards and letters. It was so neat and perfect. He used ink and a well...he could draw too. He used to do little doddles...I suppose he could easily have gone to some kind of design college today but because he was born in 1890 he went to work in a mine and then war. One of the things he would draw perfectly was a Bluebird. He was a life long fan you see. His hero was Fred Keenor (fellow Somme veteran) but he would chuckle that supporting Cardiff City was a curse. He loved Merthyr too..he told me how they went bust but thousands would stand outside the ground as the couldn't afford to go in. So....you have my reasons for never wearing red or having the dragon as the symbol of Cardiff City....because it's not just the clubs emblem...it's ours. People have had it tattooed on their bodies...people have been buried in the top...people have the Bluebird on their grave. To throw it away so frivolously is not just a slight to the living Bluebirds but the thousands that have passed...it's our history and without it we are nothing....DON'T TAKE THE SCARF....you are better than that. You are a Bluebird....always.
Fri Feb 15, 2013 12:58 pm
Hahahahahahah
Fri Feb 15, 2013 1:07 pm
What's so funny dow? Just wondering if there's fans out there which have the same tradition and belief as he does?
Fri Feb 15, 2013 1:15 pm
Always thought Jon to be a Merthyr fan. Never used to see him down the City in the 90s but always see him up Penydarren Park.
Fri Feb 15, 2013 2:08 pm
Didn't he do a documentary on ninian park and his love for the club? I can remember him on soccer am aswell saying how much he's a city die hard! But this opinion of his about the scarf is rather deep if you ask me but I also understand his traditional thought of it
Fri Feb 15, 2013 2:16 pm
Monkey86 wrote:Didn't he do a documentary on ninian park and his love for the club? I can remember him on soccer am aswell saying how much he's a city die hard! But this opinion of his about the scarf is rather deep if you ask me but I also understand his traditional thought of it
Yes he has a lot of media connections
Fri Feb 15, 2013 2:32 pm
Hes a good guy had a drink with him and a crowd a few times
Fri Feb 15, 2013 3:37 pm
Great post by Jonny Owen. I will never give in to the red nonsense.
Fri Feb 15, 2013 3:51 pm
He tweeted my table.
Proper bluebird through and through.
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Fri Feb 15, 2013 3:51 pm
enjoyed that little read, and stand by it 100%
Fri Feb 15, 2013 5:26 pm
Nice write up that
Fri Feb 15, 2013 7:10 pm
None of my 3 kids will ever wear anything with that badge on it, they will only have shirts and polos with the bluebird crest.
Fri Feb 15, 2013 7:43 pm
That film was cracking prior to cup final . Summed it all up very nicely
Fri Feb 15, 2013 8:08 pm
Top bloke Jon, genuinely a nice chap and not a bad actor either, the svengali stuff is top, looking forward to the film
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