WHAT HAPPENED NEXT?
City enjoyed a tremendous spell after World War I, arguably their greatest of the century.
City's first season in the Football League in 1920/21 saw them earn immediate promotion up to the First Division, having finished second thanks to 22 goals from Peter Hooper.
They finished fourth in their first season in the top flight, while in 1923/24 they were runners-up, finishing level on points with Huddersfield Town but agonisingly losing on goal ration - 0.024 no less!
The year following they finished runners-up in the FA Cup before claiming the most coveted of trophies in 1927, with war hero Keenor lifting that famous cup.
World War II (suspended 1939-45)
The outbreak of World War II saw league football suspended for six years between 1939 and 1945.
Many Cardiff City players served for their country during that gruelling and unrelenting war.
Cardiff City agreed a deal with the commanding officer at an army barracks at Rumney Hill that any of his players who enlisted would be stationed there for the duration.
That backfired when the battalion shipped out and Bluebirds players Billy James, Billy Baker, Bobby Tobin, Roy Phillips and Jackie Pritchard were captured by the Japanese.
The regiment was on its way to North Africa when the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbour, subsequently prompting the UK to declare ware on Japan.
The unit unit rerouted to the Dutch colony of Java in the Dutch East Indies where British forces suffered heavy losses and the above were all captured and placed into a prisoners-of-war camp.
Pritchard was the only City player to lose his life in the war, when the Japanese ship which was transporting him to a prisoner-of-war camp sunk.
Others also suffered long-lasting effects.
James in particular was affected badly, having suffered from malnutrition during his time as a POW. He played the 1946/47 season for City, but the damage he had sustained to his eyesight was irreparable and he had to retire at the end of that season.
Cardiff City's Billy James had to retire one season after the war because of eyesight problems, sustained by malnutrition from a Japanese prisoner-of-war camp
Baker and Tobin also returned to play for the Bluebirds when they arrived back on these shores following the end of the war.
WHAT HAPPENED NEXT?
Well, once again, City rose from the wreckage.
The first league season back after the war had ended, the 1946/47 campaign, the Bluebirds stormed to promotion from Divison 3 South, ending the season as champions.
A buzz surrounded the Welsh capital club the following season and attendances averaged more than 36,000 at Ninian Park that season, with 52,000 people turning out to watch the 1-0 defeat against Tottenham.
For the next five years, City were challenging right at the top end of the Division Two, threatening promotion almost every year, including when they claimed third place in 1950/51.
The following campaign, 1951/52 they fulfilled that promise and rocketed back up to the First Division, with Wilf Grant firing 27 goals to help secure promotion.
The Big Freeze (suspended for 10 weeks in 1963)
Liverpool manager Bill Shankly called in Mr John Flood of Queensferry, an expert on ground construction, to get the ground ready during The Big Freeze. Here he is pictured alongside the tractor drawn disc harrower cutting through the ice-covered pitch at Anfield (Image: Mirrorpix)
So, that brings us to the last time football was suspended for considerable length of time in this country.
The winter of 1962-63 was like no other. Temperatures plunged to the lowest they had been for 223 years, at times touching -20 degrees Celsius.
Freezing temperatures began just before Christmas 1962 before 14 inches of snow blanketed the nation in the New Year and conditions didn't let up for three months.
Hundreds of matches were postponed between January 5 and March 11 that year, during which time extreme measures were called upon.
Norwich City used a flamethrower to try to remove the snow, while Liverpool boss Bill Shankly employed a 'ground construction expert', who used a tractor to loosen the ice and snow before getting a bulldozer to clear the Anfield turf.
The postponement meant teams went into overdrive to catch up with the schedule, Manchester United, for example, played 24 games over three subsequent 10 weeks.
For Cardiff, well, that season was their first after being relegated from the First Division. They were in ninth place when the chill hit and when the fixtures piled up, they managed to drop only one place for the rest of the season, beating Huddersfield 3-0 in their final fixture.
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