9th Oct - Michael Dye Memorial Cup - Cardiff fans v Swansea fans

[editor]

CARDIFF CITY FANS V SWANSEA CITY FANS charity match in memory of Mike Dye.

Nice gesture.

09 October · 14:00 - 18:00

Bryntirion FC
Llangewydd Road
Bridgend CF31 4JU
https://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=131496993616464

 

[1927]

This is a bit like the British and German troops meeting at xmas 1914 for a kick about in No Man's Land.

 

[Corax]

This should be in the team thread.

 

[1927]

This should be in the team thread.

I know youre just being facetious, but it actually has nithing to do with Cardiff City, so actually doesnt belong in the team thread at all!

 

[editor]

This should be in the team thread.

It was, you useless, stirring div.



Well, it was in the CCFC thread. It may also have been in the SCFC thread too but I rarely look there. Maybe there's already a big discussion going on there right now too, but no one but the small amount of people reading that thread would know.

Anyway, this is off topic. Continuing moaning in the appropriate thread please.

 

[kabbes]

Sorry for my ignorance, but who is Mike Dye?

 

[editor]

Sorry for my ignorance, but who is Mike Dye?

The Cardiff fan who got murdered at the Wales v England game at Wembley recently.

 

[kabbes]

Blimey, I wasn't even aware that anybody got murdered at that game. That's horrible.

 

[ddraig]

Blimey, I wasn't even aware that anybody got murdered at that game. That's horrible.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-14887516

RIP Mike

 

[Corax]

It was, you useless, stirring div.

Not stirring, just being my usual really-not-very-funny self.

You'll come to love me eventually.

 

[Clint Iguana]

match report

 

[ddraig]

guilty plea
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-15743406

Michael Dye, 44, who was also a Cardiff City fan, died of head injuries.
Ian Mytton, 41, from Redditch, Worcestershire, pleaded guilty at the Old Bailey via video link from jail.
Mr Dye, a father-of-three from Cardiff, suffered a fractured skull on a concourse next to the stadium. Mytton will be sentenced on 21 December.

 

[editor]

It seems he may have been a Welsh Villa fan. I'm glad that most of the press hasn't tried to make this a Cardiff v Jacks thing, but it would be good to have it cleared up and the motives for the attack explained.

 

[OneStrike]

edit:deleted, posted in other thread.