Has the old fashion ‘smash and grab’ team returned to Cardiff City? The saying harks from the 70’s and was given to a striking partnership, the first time I remember hearing about it was when it was linked to Liverpool’s John Toshack and Kevin Keegan who formed a lethal striking partnership, I had the picture of the two on my wall dressed as Batman and Robin I recall.
A description of the term is basically an old-fashioned No 9 who tends to be the taller of the two was used as a battering-ram to mix it up with the defenders are the ‘Smash’ while the smaller of the two would pick up the pieces and would normal score the goals he was the ‘Grab’. Ex-Cardiff City player Alan Warboys was part of a famous partnership at Bristol Rovers with Bruce Bannister and I believe they were the originals
Back then Cardiff had their own ‘smash and grab’ team, Adrian Alston (Smash) and Tony Evans (Grab) with were not together long. Alston join at the end of October 1975, so after the season was nothing to get excited about three wins out of 13 off the back of relegation last season and ever reducing crowds. Evans was a summer signing in 1975 teaming up with Brian Clark after arriving from Blackpool he had ready score five goals before Australia international Alston joined the Bluebirds from Luton Town for a fee of £20,000
Their partnership brought a changed in fortune strait away in their first game was a 4-3 victory at Ninian Park against Chesterfield Alston scoring twice and the others down the Evans and Willie Anderson. From there on both were regular scorers Evans with 25 league and cup games, plus the five from early in the season and Alston 20goals that helped Cardiff to promotion.
Have we got a new pairing in Michael Chopra and Jay Bothroyd it looks like but the game is not the same has the old days with whistle happy refs so there is really little hope of mixing it up with the defenders. Chopra is hot at the moment but I cannot see the wait for Bothroyd to have a few to the pot being far away.
A description of the term is basically an old-fashioned No 9 who tends to be the taller of the two was used as a battering-ram to mix it up with the defenders are the ‘Smash’ while the smaller of the two would pick up the pieces and would normal score the goals he was the ‘Grab’. Ex-Cardiff City player Alan Warboys was part of a famous partnership at Bristol Rovers with Bruce Bannister and I believe they were the originals
Back then Cardiff had their own ‘smash and grab’ team, Adrian Alston (Smash) and Tony Evans (Grab) with were not together long. Alston join at the end of October 1975, so after the season was nothing to get excited about three wins out of 13 off the back of relegation last season and ever reducing crowds. Evans was a summer signing in 1975 teaming up with Brian Clark after arriving from Blackpool he had ready score five goals before Australia international Alston joined the Bluebirds from Luton Town for a fee of £20,000
Their partnership brought a changed in fortune strait away in their first game was a 4-3 victory at Ninian Park against Chesterfield Alston scoring twice and the others down the Evans and Willie Anderson. From there on both were regular scorers Evans with 25 league and cup games, plus the five from early in the season and Alston 20goals that helped Cardiff to promotion.
Have we got a new pairing in Michael Chopra and Jay Bothroyd it looks like but the game is not the same has the old days with whistle happy refs so there is really little hope of mixing it up with the defenders. Chopra is hot at the moment but I cannot see the wait for Bothroyd to have a few to the pot being far away.
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