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Hi, I'm Kosack. I originally joined Wikipedia back in 2007 and my made my first edit in May of that year. After drifting away from the site for a few years in 2010, I rediscovered the place in 2016. My main area of editing is football with particular focus on Cardiff City and any of the club's players, managers and history. I also take an interest in most areas of Welsh football.
What I get up to[edit]
As you can probably guess from above, the majority of my time is spent on football articles, whether that be expanding information or counter-vandalism. Any article I manage to majorly improve will likely come from one of the following categories:
Category:Cardiff City F.C. players
Category:Cardiff City F.C. managers
Category:Cardiff City F.C. seasons
I have been trying to expand my scope further in recent months in an attempt to broaden my horizons and will likely have a crack at most subjects, although I remain largely focused on anything related to my great home nation of Wales.
Featured content[edit]
Pages taken to featured article status
- Cardiff City F.C.
- Fred Keenor
- Ninian Park
- 1927 FA Cup Final
- Wales national football team home stadium
- History of the Wales national football team (1876–1976)
- Cardiff City F.C. 2–1 Leeds United F.C. (2002)
- 2010 Football League Championship play-off Final (co-nom)
- 1925 FA Cup Final
- 1920–21 Cardiff City F.C. season
- 1876 Scotland v Wales football match
- Johnny Owen
- 1921–22 Cardiff City F.C. season
Pages taken to featured list status
- List of Cardiff City F.C. seasons
- List of Cardiff City F.C. players
- Cardiff City F.C. league record by opponent
- List of Wales national football team hat-tricks
- List of Republic of Ireland national football team hat-tricks
- List of Wales international footballers
- List of Azerbaijan international footballers
- List of Andorra international footballers
- List of Albania international footballers
- List of Armenia international footballers
- List of Cardiff City F.C. players (25–99 appearances)
- List of Cardiff City F.C. managers
- Cymru Premier Golden Boot
- List of international goals scored by Gareth Bale
- List of Austria international footballers
- List of Cardiff City F.C. records and statistics
- List of Cardiff City F.C. internationals
- Wales national football team results (1876–1899)
- Wales national football team results (1900–1914)
- Wales national football team results (1920–1939)
- Wales national football team results (1946–1959)
- Wales national football team results (1960–1979)
- Wales national football team results (1980–1999)
Pages taken to good article status
- Stuart O'Keefe
- Neil Alexander
- Miguel Comminges
- Harry Beadles
- Trevor Ford
- Lord Ninian Crichton-Stuart
- 1876 Scotland v Wales football match
- 2003 Football League Second Division play-off Final
- 2010 Football League Championship play-off Final
- Alex Raisbeck
- Ian Feuer
- John Toshack
- Ivor Allchurch
- Mark Hudson (footballer, born 1982)
- Darcy Blake
- Byron Anthony
- Adrian Alston
- Trézéguet (Egyptian footballer)
- Mark Aizlewood
- Kahraba (footballer)
- 1902 Ibrox disaster
- Ramy Rabia
- Ahmed Hassan Mahgoub
- Mark Bonner
- Sol Bamba
- Rhys Weston
- Nathaniel Mendez-Laing
- Harry Arter
- Jazz Richards
- Neil Etheridge
- Tom Adeyemi
- Sammy Ameobi
- Pádraig Amond
- 1920–21 Cardiff City F.C. season
- 1921–22 Cardiff City F.C. season
- Hubert William Lewis
- Craig Bellamy
- Joe Bennett (footballer)
- Lee Peltier
- 1922–23 Cardiff City F.C. season
- Josh Yorwerth
- Leon Barnett (co-nom)
- Bartley Wilson
- 1923–24 Cardiff City F.C. season
- 1924–25 Cardiff City F.C. season
- Sean Morrison (footballer)
- Tom Farquharson
- Wales national football team home stadium
- Aneurin Bevan
- Uganda at the 1968 Summer Olympics
- History of Cardiff City F.C. (1899–1962)
- South Wales derby
- Uganda at the 1972 Summer Olympics
- Cardiff City F.C. Under-23s and Academy
- History of the Wales national football team (1876–1976)
- Johnny Owen
- Cardiff City F.C. 2–1 Leeds United F.C. (2002)
- 1925 FA Cup Final
- 1958 FIFA World Cup qualification (CAF/AFC–UEFA play-off)
- Phil Dwyer
- 2006 Football League Trophy Final
- 1925–26 Cardiff City F.C. season
- 1926–27 Cardiff City F.C. season
- 1927–28 Cardiff City F.C. season
- 1928–29 Cardiff City F.C. season
- 1929–30 Cardiff City F.C. season
- Tom Watson (footballer, born 1900)
- Jimmy Nelson (footballer)
- 2008 FA Cup Final
- Tom Sloan (footballer, born 1900)
- Billy Hardy (footballer)
- Ernie Curtis
- Fred Stewart
- Sam Irving
- Hughie Ferguson
- Len Davies
- Jamie Arthur
- 1930–31 Cardiff City F.C. season
- George McLachlan
Did you know...
- ...that Welsh footballer Trevor Ford once stepped in as a replacement fielder for Glamorgan County Cricket Club during a match, at the age of 45?
- ...that association football player Gary Bennett was one of the first players to become involved with the Show Racism the Red Card campaign?
- ...that after joining the club in 1947, Tommy Best became the first black player to represent Chester City in the Football League in a match against Oldham Athletic?
- ...that the footballer Mark Bonner was forced to retire after suffering a broken arm during a league match against Port Vale in September 2005?
- ...that the footballer Frédéric Gounongbe originally regarded tennis as his preferred sport?
- ...that while working as a commercial manager at Chesterfield, footballer Jim Brown collected financial records that were eventually used to prosecute club chairman Darren Brown for fraud?
- ...that the footballer Joe Cassidy lost 22 lb (10 kg) during the 1924–25 season, due to a severe case of influenza?
- ...that the association footballer Fred Keenor captained the only non-English team to win the FA Cup Final?
- ...that the footballer Jordan Green worked as a supermarket shelf-stacker before earning his first professional contract?
- ...that the association footballer Willie Carlin accepted a transfer to Derby County after his wife declared that she wanted to move away from Sheffield?
- ...that the Irish footballer Jeff Chandler was "never the same player" after suffering a knee injury in Bolton Wanderers' fourth game of their 1987–88 season?
- ...that in 2010, the association footballer Neil Alexander came on as a substitute for Queen of the South in a friendly against his own team, Rangers?
- ...that the footballer Billy James was forced to retire after playing just six league games due to the physical effects of his time in a Japanese prisoner-of-war camp?
- ...that the association footballer Albert Barnett was one of five brothers who played for Altrincham F.C.?
- ...that the association footballer Harry Beadles was awarded the Serbian gold medal for bravery during World War I?
- ...that as a teenager, association footballer Frank Dudley gave up on turning professional due to his height—and then experienced a 6-inch (15 cm) growth spurt?
- ...that Cardiff City F.C. is the only non-English team to have won the FA Cup?
- ...that the footballer George Poland was rejected by Cardiff City F.C. as an outfield player before making his debut two years later as a goalkeeper?"
- ...that footballer Laura O'Sullivan made her international debut for Wales as a goalkeeper less than 18 months after converting to the position?
- ... that Lord Ninian Crichton-Stuart was the only serving Welsh Member of parliament killed during World War I?
- ... that footballer Gordon Coleman scored the winning goal in a match against Blackpool in 1982 while sitting on the floor?
- ... that the footballer Howard Spencer was the first Aston Villa player to captain England?
- ... that footballer Callum Hendry gave up playing for a year before turning professional?
- ... that the footballer Stanley Kane gave up playing in order to join the Liverpool City Police?
- ... that footballer John Robson was forced to retire after being diagnosed with multiple sclerosis at the age of 28?
- ... that the English footballer Danny Lloyd sold bins for a waste management company before turning professional in 2017?
- ... that Ninian Park, the home stadium of Cardiff City F.C. for 99 years, was built on the site of a former rubbish tip?
- ... that the Welsh footballer Syd Thomas impressed Fulham so much in a trial match that he was offered a contract at half-time?
- ... that the night before the 2003 Football League Second Division play-off Final, the Queens Park Rangers' team hotel was targeted by a malicious false fire alarm?
- ... that fourteen players have scored an international hat-trick for the Wales national football team?
- ... that in 2006, footballer Steve Flack scored the fastest hat-trick in Exeter City's history?
- ... that footballer Paul Giles suffered an injury during a match in March 1982 after being fouled by his brother?
- ... that footballer Chris Stringer made his professional debut as a substitute after the starting goalkeeper received the fastest red card in English Football League history?
- ... that footballer Alex Raisbeck joined Liverpool after Stoke manager Horace Austerberry failed to arrive at an arranged meeting?
- ... that footballer Hugh Lester was the first non-British player to represent Liverpool?
- ... that Neville Southall is the most capped Welsh footballer of all time?
- ... that Blackpool were described as the "smallest club to reach the Premier League" after they were promoted by virtue of winning the 2010 Football League Championship play-off Final?
- ... that at the time of his appointment at Stockport County in 1999, footballer Andy Kilner was the youngest manager in the English Football League?
- ... that footballer Chris Sander was the first Cardiff City player to save two penalties during the same match?
- ... that in 1956–57, footballer Ray Straw equalled Derby County's club record for most league goals in a single season?
- ... that footballer Wayne Entwistle played for more FA Cup-winning clubs than any other player?
- ... that footballer Joe Mayo "never really thought about" turning professional, and was training as an accountant when offered his first professional contract?
- ... that the footballer Ken Hodgkisson was the first player ever to be used as a substitute by Walsall?
- ... that footballer Nathan Wigg retired from playing after his knee was described as looking like it could have "been in a car crash"?
- ... that the footballer Gary Gill suffered a broken leg during a match in 1989 but carried on playing after being given the magic sponge?
- ... that the footballer Irvine Thornley's benefit match raised £1036, a record at the time?
- ... that footballer Ian Feuer played a Predator in the 2007 film Aliens vs. Predator: Requiem
- ... that the Welsh footballer John Toshack authored a book of poems entitled Gosh, it's Tosh
- ... that the footballer Albert Shepherd was the first player to score a penalty in an FA Cup final?
- ... that the 1902 Ibrox disaster was partly blamed on the crowd surging forward in excitement at seeing Bobby Templeton dribble with the ball?
- ... that Ivor Allchurch was known as the "Golden Boy of Welsh football"?
- ... that footballer Hossam Ashour is the most decorated Al Ahly player in the club's history?
- ... that during the 2017–18 season, Moroccan-born footballer Walid Azaro broke the Egyptian Premier League record for most goals scored by a foreign player?
- ... that footballer Youssef "Obama" Ibrahim was given his nickname due to his likeness to Barack Obama?
- ... that footballer Ali Ghazal was the first Egyptian player to be appointed captain of a top-tier European club?
- ... that Welsh international footballer Darcy Blake left the professional game at the age of 25 and later played amateur rugby?
- ... that Rashad Sadygov is the most capped Azerbaijani international footballer of all time?
- ... that the footballer Kahraba ("Electricity") was given his nickname due to his pace and energy?
- ... that footballer Mohamed El-Shenawy declined to accept his man of the match award after Egypt's opening match of the 2018 FIFA World Cup?
- ... that footballer Adrian Alston performed the Cruyff Turn at the 1974 FIFA World Cup, before Johan Cruyff made the move famous?
- ... that the Egyptian footballer Trézéguet was given his nickname due to his resemblance to former footballer David Trezeguet?
- ... that footballer Colin Hudson scored in a 6–1 victory for Cardiff City on the same day he was married?
- ... that footballer Eddie Jenkins turned down a move to Tottenham Hotspur because he thought that "there were better prospects in the milk business"?
- ... that the footballer Mark Aizlewood once celebrated scoring a goal by flicking the V at fans of his own team?
- ... that most of footballer Laurence Abrams's transfer fee for his move from Hearts was never paid, after Chelsea claimed it would force them to fold?
- ... that footballer Willie Anderson agreed to join the Portland Timbers despite not knowing where the team was based?
- ... that footballer Sandy Allan was the first player to score a headed hat-trick in a European club competition?
- ... that the £2,000 fee paid by Blackburn Rovers in 1921 for the footballer Fergie Aitken was the record amount Bury had ever received for a player?
- ...that the English amateur footballer Reg Anderson was killed during World War II when his aircraft was shot down?
- ... that footballer Óscar Sonejee scored the goal that won the Andorra national football team their first-ever point in a competitive international fixture?
- ... that despite playing as a defender, Ildefons Lima is the leading goalscorer in the history of the Andorra national football team?
- ... that footballer Bob Jones was signed by Everton as a goalkeeper, despite originally playing as a left half, after the original goalkeeper failed to arrive at a trial?
- ... that Welsh professional footballer Stan Griffiths was given a medical discharge during World War II due to injuries suffered during his playing career?
- ... that following his retirement from playing, footballer Andy Kerr became a financial advisor in the Far East?
- ... that when footballer Wyn Griffiths suffered an injury during a 1945 friendly match for Arsenal, he was replaced by a player from another club who had attended the game as a spectator?
- ... that footballer Neil Matthews was the first Rochdale player to win an international cap at any level?
- ... that Filipino footballer Neil Etheridge is the first Southeast Asian to play in the Premier League?
- ... that Bryn Davies was one of the first footballers to enlist during World War II?
- ... that the footballer Ted Gorin scored Scunthorpe United's first goal in the Football League?
- ... that the footballer Sammy Ameobi scored the fastest goal by a substitute in Premier League history?
- ... that the footballer Wayne Matthews started his own manufacturing business by embroidering sportswear in his bedroom?
- ... that Cardiff City lost £200 from a deal signed with Joe Hillier's transfer to Middlesbrough in 1930 after the club's manager wrote down the wrong sum?
- ... that Lorik Cana is the most capped Albanian footballer of all time?
- ... that Tom Adeyemi turned down a place at Cambridge University in order to become a professional footballer?
- ... that the footballer Owen McNally scored eight goals in a single match, which remains a joint record for the Scottish Football League?
- ... that actress Naomi Watts is honorary president of the Welsh football club Glantraeth F.C.?
- ... that Henrikh Mkhitaryan was the first player to score a hat-trick for the Armenia national football team?
- ... that footballer Emiliano Sala is the most expensive signing in the history of Cardiff City F.C.?
- ... that footballer Pádraig Amond represented Carlow at hurling under a false name to avoid being discovered by his club?
- ... that by winning promotion during the 1920–21 season, Cardiff City F.C. became the first Welsh club to reach the top tier of English football?
- ... that during Cardiff City F.C.'s 1921–22 season, trainer George Latham became the oldest player in club history when called into action after members of the first team fell ill?
- ... that footballer Chris Summers set a Welsh Premier League record during the 2003–04 season by scoring in 11 consecutive matches?
- ... that during the 1923–24 season, Cardiff City F.C. finished as runners-up in the closest title race in First Division history?
- ... that in 1948, footballer George Hazlett was punched in the face after fans invaded the pitch?
- ... that Leicester City F.C. manager Norman Bullock banned his players from riding motorbikes?
- ... that Rhys Griffiths has won the Welsh Premier League Golden Boot more times than any other player, winning for seven consecutive seasons between 2006 and 2012?
- ... that during the 1924–25 season, Cardiff City F.C. became the first Welsh team to reach an FA Cup final?
- ... that footballer Alice Griffiths represented Wales for the first time after playing as the only girl in an otherwise all-boys league?
- ... that Lauren Price was the first Welsh woman to win a Commonwealth Games boxing medal?
- ... that Alice Evans was the first British female professional futsal player?
- ... that Welsh international footballer Peyton Vincze discovered she was eligible to represent the nation only when a Welsh football club visited her town in the United States?
- ... that Hubert William Lewis was awarded the Victoria Cross after capturing three enemy soldiers and carrying an officer to safety despite being wounded twice?
- ... that footballer Rachel Rowe made her international debut for Wales while still working as a guard in the prison service?
- ... that footballer Craig Bellamy has scored for seven different teams in the Premier League, more than any other player?
- ... that Agnes Twiston Hughes was the first woman in Wales to qualify as a solicitor?
- ... that Andi Herzog is the most capped footballer in Austrian history and the only player to win more than 100 caps?
- ... that footballer Jordon Garrick nearly gave up the game as a teenager to pursue a career in rugby league before being persuaded to change his mind by his mother and his coach?
- ... that footballer Carrie Jones made her international debut for Wales despite being too young to play for her club side?
- ... that footballer Megan Wynne played for Tottenham Hotspur while also working full-time in the club's human resources department?
- ... that footballer Josh Yorwerth received what is believed to be the longest doping-related ban in English football history?
- ... that footballer Sean Morrison was described as being "45 minutes from death" before undergoing emergency surgery?
- ... that Cardiff City F.C. founder Bartley Wilson's headstone was discovered in bushes near his grave, which had lain unmarked for more than 40 years?
- ... that footballer Tom Farquharson was believed to carry a gun in his kitbag?
- ... that the Racecourse Ground, which has hosted more Wales home international matches than any other stadium, is the oldest stadium in the world still hosting international football fixtures?
- ... that Aneurin Bevan led the establishment of the National Health Service, which was inspired by the Tredegar Medical Aid Society in his hometown?
- ... that Neil McLaughlin started boxing "by mistake" after an argument with his gymnastics coach?
- ... that Ralph Evans is the first Welshman to win an Olympic medal in boxing?
- ... that Ugandan boxer Leo Rwabwogo is the only athlete in the nation's history to have won more than one Olympic medal?
- ... that Fred Evans is the most successful Welsh boxer in Olympic history?
- ... that sprinter Judith Ayaa, the first Ugandan woman to win a Commonwealth Games medal, later lived in poverty, begging on the streets of Kampala?
- ... that Uganda's delegation at the 1972 Summer Olympics included both the nation's oldest and youngest athletes ever to compete at an Olympic Games at the time?
- ... that Uganda's delegation at the 1968 Summer Olympics included boxers Leo Rwabwogo and Eridadi Mukwanga, who won the nation's first Olympic medals at the Games?
- ... that boxer Charles Lubulwa is the youngest Ugandan athlete ever to compete at the Olympic Games?
- ... that field hockey player Avtar Singh Bhurji was shot in the leg during a robbery in 1996?
- ... that Ted Robbins was the longest-serving secretary in the history of the Football Association of Wales?
- ... that the residents of Ely, Cardiff, rioted over the sale of bread in 1991?
- ... that Welsh boxer Steve Sims has trained for fights by running up and down the 290 steps of the Newport Transporter Bridge ten times a day?
- ... that the Merthyr Mawr Sand Dunes in Wales doubled for the deserts of the Arabian Peninsula during the filming of Lawrence of Arabia?
- ... that the Aberbargoed Grasslands in Wales were designated a Special Area of Conservation primarily due to their population of marsh fritillary butterflies, which had been threatened by an arson attack?
- ... that Lluest-wen Reservoir was once dubbed "the wettest place in Wales"?
- ... that Laura Knight's painting Ruby Loftus Screwing a Breech Ring was painted at ROF Newport in Wales and features one of the factory's workers?
- ... that the history of the Wales national football team includes the first substitution ever used in international football?
- ... that boxer Johnny Owen was so dedicated to his career that he never drank alcohol nor dated?
- ... that after his side defeated Leeds United in the FA Cup, Cardiff City chairman Sam Hammam had two BBC reporters forcibly removed and had an altercation with the opposing manager?
- ... that the 1925 FA Cup Final was the first in the competition's history to feature a Welsh team?
- ... that during their 1925–26 season, Cardiff City suffered the heaviest league defeat in the club's history, losing 11–2 to Sheffield United?
- ... that, during their 1928–29 season, Cardiff City F.C. were relegated from the First Division of the Football League despite conceding the fewest amount of goals in the league?
- ... that the 2008 FA Cup Final between Cardiff City and Portsmouth holds the record for the highest attendance for a football match at the new Wembley Stadium, with 89,874?
- ... that footballer Billy Hardy is Cardiff City F.C.'s record appearance holder, having played in 590 matches between 1911 and 1932?
- ... that, during his time in a Japanese prisoner-of-war camp, footballer Ernie Curtis would obtain extra food by teaching his captors how to play with a ball made of paper?
- ... that when Fred Stewart was appointed the manager of Cardiff City F.C., he paid the transfer fee of his first signing himself?
- ... that, such was his popularity with the club's supporters, when footballer Hughie Ferguson was sold by Motherwell F.C., the local steel works closed to allow workers to wave him off?
- ... that water polo player Jack Ferguson performed in a circus throughout Britain as a child?
- ... that, at the 2002 Commonwealth Games, Jamie Arthur became the first Welsh boxer to win a gold medal for more than 40 years?