0:00:03 > 0:00:07At either end of this 40 mile stretch of road are two cities.
0:00:07 > 0:00:11Two neighbours that have a history forged by coal, steel and rugby.
0:00:11 > 0:00:13He may well get there! And he has!
0:00:13 > 0:00:17But now, their football clubs are leading the way.
0:00:17 > 0:00:20Cardiff City and Swansea City play in the richest
0:00:20 > 0:00:24league in the world, where winning and pride are everything.
0:00:24 > 0:00:27It's a chance for us to confirm that we are the capital city.
0:00:27 > 0:00:29It's first city and second city.
0:00:29 > 0:00:33It's the feeling that maybe you are 40 miles down the M4
0:00:33 > 0:00:36and 40 miles away from anybody's consideration.
0:00:36 > 0:00:40And now they are set to meet on the biggest stage.
0:00:42 > 0:00:44To a football fan it means everything.
0:00:44 > 0:00:45Complete passion.
0:00:45 > 0:00:50This is a story of respect. And the fight to be the top club in Wales.
0:00:50 > 0:00:54The derby game is a leveller.
0:00:54 > 0:00:58But behind the glare of the floodlights is a darker tale.
0:00:58 > 0:01:03A bitter rivalry between fans, which spilled over into violence.
0:01:03 > 0:01:05INDISTINCT SHOUTS
0:01:05 > 0:01:09Hate is not a nice word to use but, yeah, I'm afraid that it is.
0:01:10 > 0:01:13It is the story of how both clubs dragged themselves
0:01:13 > 0:01:19out of a troubled past, and took their fans into a bright new future.
0:01:19 > 0:01:21It is THE game.
0:01:29 > 0:01:32In less than a weeks' time, Cardiff City
0:01:32 > 0:01:35and Swansea City will play each other for the first
0:01:35 > 0:01:37time in the English Premier League -
0:01:37 > 0:01:40the most watched football league in the world.
0:01:40 > 0:01:43With a global audience of 4.7 billion,
0:01:43 > 0:01:48it will be one of the biggest ever sporting events to be held in Wales.
0:01:48 > 0:01:50It's amazing that you've got two Welsh clubs now who,
0:01:50 > 0:01:56on 3rd November, are going to be on a prime-time 4.00 slot
0:01:56 > 0:02:01on Sunday afternoon, being beamed to 220 countries all around the world.
0:02:01 > 0:02:05I think the Assembly Government are realising the power of football,
0:02:05 > 0:02:08and what that can do to raise the profile of the country.
0:02:08 > 0:02:11It's certainly going to put Wales on the map.
0:02:11 > 0:02:13It's going to surpass anything we've known, really.
0:02:13 > 0:02:16When we got promoted, one of the first messages
0:02:16 > 0:02:18I had was from Lee, saying,
0:02:18 > 0:02:22"Welcome to the Premier League. Now the fun starts."
0:02:22 > 0:02:26It started when we were playing an audience that covered Wales.
0:02:26 > 0:02:30Then as the clubs went through the divisions, it covered all of the UK.
0:02:30 > 0:02:31Now this one in the Premier League.
0:02:31 > 0:02:33It's going to be a worldwide audience.
0:02:33 > 0:02:37It's all about, first and foremost, not losing.
0:02:37 > 0:02:39And if you can win, all the better.
0:02:39 > 0:02:43But thought of losing that game is absolutely awful.
0:02:43 > 0:02:47The first of the two games will take place in Cardiff.
0:02:47 > 0:02:49I can't stand the derbies
0:02:49 > 0:02:54because they generally have a good record at our ground, Swansea.
0:02:54 > 0:03:01I just wish we could not play them but finish above them in the table.
0:03:02 > 0:03:06These old rivals have a history that spans a century.
0:03:06 > 0:03:11Lord Ninian - an MP who gave his name to Cardiff's former ground,
0:03:11 > 0:03:16Ninian Park - led a battalion from Swansea during the First World War.
0:03:16 > 0:03:19After the war, football grew in popularity.
0:03:19 > 0:03:22Swansea reached the FA Cup semifinal in 1926.
0:03:22 > 0:03:27And by 1927, Cardiff had captured the most famous cup of all.
0:03:27 > 0:03:29There was pride in both teams.
0:03:29 > 0:03:32And the evidence suggests that a lot of Swansea fans went to
0:03:32 > 0:03:35Wembley in 1927 to support Cardiff.
0:03:35 > 0:03:39There are reports of Cardiff narrowly missing relegation
0:03:39 > 0:03:41one season in the '30s.
0:03:41 > 0:03:44When it was announced at the Vetch, there were cheers and applause.
0:03:44 > 0:03:48Ivor Allchurch shoots. It's a goal!
0:03:48 > 0:03:50I don't think you got it, you know.
0:03:50 > 0:03:53The fans would turn up to games and stand next to each other.
0:03:53 > 0:03:57A little bit of banter, but there was nothing more than that.
0:03:57 > 0:04:01Cardiff's FA Cup win was the biggest achievement for South Wales
0:04:01 > 0:04:04football in the early 20th century.
0:04:04 > 0:04:08In 1964, Swansea had another stunning FA Cup run,
0:04:08 > 0:04:11beating Stoke and the mighty Liverpool.
0:04:11 > 0:04:15They made the semifinal, but lost narrowly to Preston,
0:04:15 > 0:04:18breaking the hearts of the 30,000 Swansea fans.
0:04:18 > 0:04:21Cup success was sporadic but infectious.
0:04:21 > 0:04:24Clark! Yes!
0:04:24 > 0:04:29And by 1971, Europe's most famous club, Real Madrid,
0:04:29 > 0:04:31would fall in the Welsh capital.
0:04:32 > 0:04:33In the domestic league,
0:04:33 > 0:04:39the Bluebirds fiercest rivals were a team from across the River Severn.
0:04:39 > 0:04:42Bristol City were the big opposition and the local rivalry.
0:04:42 > 0:04:46I even once came down with my father to watch Swansea in a league game.
0:04:46 > 0:04:51To support them. I try not to think about it too much now but...
0:04:51 > 0:04:54Because they were just a side we never played,
0:04:54 > 0:04:55other than in the Welsh Cup.
0:04:55 > 0:05:00A star of Welsh football at the time was John Toshack.
0:05:00 > 0:05:04One of Cardiff's greatest players who found fame at Liverpool.
0:05:04 > 0:05:08But when he came back to Wales, it wasn't to his hometown club.
0:05:08 > 0:05:10He headed for Swansea,
0:05:10 > 0:05:14where he would become the greatest player-manager in their history.
0:05:14 > 0:05:17It's rumoured that Tosh offered to come here first
0:05:17 > 0:05:20and Cardiff turned him down. And we all know his history.
0:05:20 > 0:05:23He went to them in the Fourth Division and took them to the First.
0:05:23 > 0:05:26Toshack wanted to come back to Cardiff
0:05:26 > 0:05:29and then manager Jimmy Andrews wouldn't take him
0:05:29 > 0:05:32because he felt he was going to be a threat to his own position.
0:05:32 > 0:05:34And so, Tosh went down the road
0:05:34 > 0:05:38and took Swansea from the Fourth Division to the First Division.
0:05:38 > 0:05:41The equivalent of the Premier League now.
0:05:41 > 0:05:44And unfortunately, we were on the slide the other way.
0:05:44 > 0:05:49Toshack's Swansea were now the hottest property in Welsh football.
0:05:49 > 0:05:52John Toshack, you came on again and you did it again. That's right, yes.
0:05:52 > 0:05:53A few people sweating there.
0:05:53 > 0:05:55I don't know what all the fuss was about really.
0:05:55 > 0:06:00One of the stars of Toshack's team was David Giles, who had
0:06:00 > 0:06:05gone from the blue of his hometown club to the white of Swansea.
0:06:05 > 0:06:09Playing for Swansea against Cardiff, it was hard really.
0:06:09 > 0:06:10Cos I'm a Cardiff boy.
0:06:10 > 0:06:13But I was a Swansea City footballer, being paid by Swansea,
0:06:13 > 0:06:15and I had to do my best.
0:06:15 > 0:06:18In 1980 Swansea and Cardiff were set to
0:06:18 > 0:06:21play against each other for the first time in 15 years.
0:06:21 > 0:06:25This was THE most eagerly awaited game in the calendar.
0:06:25 > 0:06:28And more than 21,000 would squeeze into the Vetch
0:06:28 > 0:06:30just to say they were there.
0:06:30 > 0:06:32And the nature of the derby was changing,
0:06:32 > 0:06:36it was getting serious, uncompromising, hostile.
0:06:36 > 0:06:38When he got off the coach, it was like banks of people.
0:06:38 > 0:06:40You'd have to walk through people,
0:06:40 > 0:06:43and they're all tapping you on the shoulder, wishing you the best.
0:06:43 > 0:06:46And then you'd noticed the Cardiff side coming through,
0:06:46 > 0:06:48and I knew all the boys in the Cardiff team as well.
0:06:48 > 0:06:51And I spoke to one or two of them, or tried to.
0:06:51 > 0:06:52But then a couple Swans went,
0:06:52 > 0:06:55"Hey, hey, that's the opposition, you don't speak to them.
0:06:55 > 0:06:56"Not now, after the game."
0:06:57 > 0:07:01Half the crowd was Cardiff, half the crowd was Swansea.
0:07:01 > 0:07:04Two ex-Cardiff players scored for Swansea.
0:07:04 > 0:07:06One of them was in the last minute.
0:07:06 > 0:07:09David Giles scored a last-minute winner in a 2-1 defeat for us.
0:07:09 > 0:07:13And that was the day where there was a lot of trouble.
0:07:13 > 0:07:16Running back to the halfway line
0:07:16 > 0:07:19and looking at the Cardiff fans on the far end.
0:07:19 > 0:07:22you realise,
0:07:22 > 0:07:26"Oh, I think I've upset him here. I'd better keep quiet."
0:07:26 > 0:07:30The player said, "Hey, Giley, you'll have to go out the back.
0:07:30 > 0:07:32"You better not go through the front."
0:07:32 > 0:07:33So I borrowed somebody's coat.
0:07:33 > 0:07:37Walking out with a couple of players, I just put the coat over my head.
0:07:39 > 0:07:44The rivalry was changing. And Wales was changing too.
0:07:44 > 0:07:48Unemployment and strikes marred much of the '80s.
0:07:48 > 0:07:50And the unrest caused by the miners' strike
0:07:50 > 0:07:55moved from the pits to the pitch and onto the terraces.
0:07:55 > 0:07:57As society deindustrialised,
0:07:57 > 0:07:59there was a disillusionment, an alienation.
0:07:59 > 0:08:04An enormous element of our identity in Wales has been stripped from us.
0:08:04 > 0:08:07You know, we were heavy industry. We had a key role in global terms.
0:08:07 > 0:08:10We gloried in the fact we produced the best steel,
0:08:10 > 0:08:11the best coal and so on.
0:08:11 > 0:08:14All this kind of identity has gone and we're left with football.
0:08:14 > 0:08:17COMMENTATOR: Now Robbie James, with space. Charles...
0:08:20 > 0:08:23That's surely the First Division signed, sealed...
0:08:23 > 0:08:26Meanwhile, Swansea had gone from strength to strength
0:08:26 > 0:08:30and were promoted to the top division. This was dreamland.
0:08:30 > 0:08:33I can assure you that this is only the start.
0:08:33 > 0:08:37But for some Cardiff fans, it was a nightmare scenario.
0:08:37 > 0:08:39It was a sense of injustice. "This should be us," you know.
0:08:39 > 0:08:42This should be Toshack coming home to his home club
0:08:42 > 0:08:43and, you know, it should be us.
0:08:43 > 0:08:46So there was an anger about Cardiff's board and chairman at the time.
0:08:46 > 0:08:50It was typical of us to sort of, you know, allow this to happen.
0:08:50 > 0:08:54The jealousy aspects from Cardiff fans got involved
0:08:54 > 0:08:59because Cardiff have always been perceived as Wales' number one club.
0:08:59 > 0:09:02We think we are.
0:09:02 > 0:09:08But for them to rise up the tables,
0:09:08 > 0:09:11that was a bitter pill for people to swallow.
0:09:11 > 0:09:15Swansea's top league status would be short-lived, and as the decade
0:09:15 > 0:09:18wore on, both Swans and Bluebirds slid down the football league,
0:09:18 > 0:09:22colliding with each other along the way, with ugly consequences.
0:09:22 > 0:09:25Big trouble at games I saw was in '87,
0:09:25 > 0:09:28the second game of the season that we were in Cardiff.
0:09:28 > 0:09:31There was one guy on crutches. He was fighting with his crutches.
0:09:31 > 0:09:35And the police didn't have much control that day.
0:09:35 > 0:09:37The corner between the Bob Bank and the Grange End stand,
0:09:37 > 0:09:39they had kept a free area
0:09:39 > 0:09:42and the police had divided the fans apart.
0:09:42 > 0:09:45There was one policeman in the no man's land in-between.
0:09:45 > 0:09:48And the fans attacked the policeman.
0:09:48 > 0:09:49I remember saying a prayer.
0:09:49 > 0:09:53From a police background, you know, we've got to protect our police.
0:09:53 > 0:09:56I thought his time had come. They were kind of horrible days.
0:09:56 > 0:09:59If you followed Cardiff in the old Fourth Division,
0:09:59 > 0:10:02there wasn't much football to appreciate.
0:10:02 > 0:10:06So I think the...erm...
0:10:06 > 0:10:08the violence came naturally.
0:10:08 > 0:10:11And in 1988, there was
0:10:11 > 0:10:14one incident that is still talked about to this day.
0:10:16 > 0:10:20The skirmish had spilled onto the beach there on Swansea Bay,
0:10:20 > 0:10:24and some Cardiff fans apparently retreated into the sea,
0:10:24 > 0:10:30hence the "swim away" song that Swansea sing at Cardiff.
0:10:30 > 0:10:33And, ever since, some Swans fans and players have
0:10:33 > 0:10:37mocked their players with a swim away goal celebration.
0:10:37 > 0:10:39A dark moment remembered with light humour.
0:10:39 > 0:10:41It's a myth!
0:10:41 > 0:10:43LAUGHTER
0:10:47 > 0:10:49It's a myth! It's a myth.
0:10:49 > 0:10:51It is probably best left as a myth, I think!
0:10:51 > 0:10:55To do that to the other fans, obviously, winds them up instantly.
0:10:55 > 0:10:59Of course, what you do then is make yourself an instant legend with your own fans, you know.
0:10:59 > 0:11:03Back down the M4, Cardiff fans would revel in a gesture
0:11:03 > 0:11:06of their own, a badge of honour known as the Ayatollah.
0:11:08 > 0:11:13It was at the time of the Ayatollah Khomeini passing away in Iran.
0:11:13 > 0:11:17It was seen all across British television with mourners
0:11:17 > 0:11:21hitting their heads, you know. Bereavement, that was how they coped.
0:11:24 > 0:11:27A band called U Thant, a Welsh-speaking punk band,
0:11:27 > 0:11:29and they were fanatical Cardiff fans.
0:11:29 > 0:11:31And they went to an away game and they dressed as Arabs
0:11:31 > 0:11:34and hit their heads like what they must have seen on television.
0:11:34 > 0:11:37CROWD CHEERING
0:11:37 > 0:11:40The whole Ayatollah dimension,
0:11:40 > 0:11:42there's not many football teams where the goalkeeper is asked to
0:11:42 > 0:11:46do the Ayatollah even if the other team are attacking or the manager's
0:11:46 > 0:11:49asked to do it even as he is arguing with the fourth official.
0:11:49 > 0:11:51And as those rituals caught on,
0:11:51 > 0:11:55the South Wales derby ended its darkest era.
0:11:55 > 0:11:571991 in the FA Cup down there,
0:11:57 > 0:11:59it was famously the great line that Cardiff fans caused more
0:11:59 > 0:12:03damage in an afternoon than the Luftwaffe managed in three days in Swansea.
0:12:03 > 0:12:06It was kind of seen as things had gone too far.
0:12:06 > 0:12:09I think a lot of people were saying that Cardiff-Swansea was literally
0:12:09 > 0:12:13the most vicious derby in Britain, if not the world.
0:12:13 > 0:12:15I mean, there was trouble every single game.
0:12:17 > 0:12:21In 1993, violence between the two sets of supporters reached
0:12:21 > 0:12:22a brutal tipping point.
0:12:24 > 0:12:28We treated Swansea fans really kind and gave them
0:12:28 > 0:12:32Block A in the Grandstand, or Block F in the Grandstand at Ninian Park.
0:12:32 > 0:12:35And, unfortunately, they ended up wrecking it.
0:12:35 > 0:12:38I had been to Ninian Park on many occasions.
0:12:38 > 0:12:42That night was a completely different environment.
0:12:42 > 0:12:45There was no women there in the Swans' support at all
0:12:45 > 0:12:49and there was nobody over 40 and under 18.
0:12:49 > 0:12:54It was a mass of probably 1,500 Swans fans who...
0:12:57 > 0:12:58Yeah.
0:13:04 > 0:13:07There was seats and anything being thrown, and that is the dark,
0:13:07 > 0:13:09dark days of the derby.
0:13:11 > 0:13:15There was families and that involved, which the
0:13:15 > 0:13:20authorities, they frowned upon. People went to prison for that.
0:13:20 > 0:13:22Quite worrying for me was, my wife was there.
0:13:22 > 0:13:25So, if you can imagine, you are being professional about your job
0:13:25 > 0:13:29and you're playing, and I have to say, I had one eye on that Grandstand.
0:13:30 > 0:13:32Ninian Park and been vandalised,
0:13:32 > 0:13:35and the fixture had become a national disgrace.
0:13:35 > 0:13:39Something had to change, so the football authorities took
0:13:39 > 0:13:43the extreme measure of banning away fans from the fixture.
0:13:43 > 0:13:45They did stop the supporters coming.
0:13:45 > 0:13:50It wasn't as intense... You know, if both sets of supporters were in,
0:13:50 > 0:13:53it was a better atmosphere and, yeah, you know,
0:13:53 > 0:13:56with the crowd trouble, it was a little bit disappointing,
0:13:56 > 0:13:58but you just had to expect it in them days.
0:13:59 > 0:14:02Four years would pass with no away support allowed.
0:14:02 > 0:14:06Eventually, a plan was devised to bring the fans back.
0:14:06 > 0:14:09Time is right to get back to that normality. After all,
0:14:09 > 0:14:13this is supposed to be a football match between two of our top teams.
0:14:13 > 0:14:17The vast majority of football supporters just want to watch the match.
0:14:17 > 0:14:20The away fans returned,
0:14:20 > 0:14:23but they would only be able to go on so-called bubble trips on buses.
0:14:25 > 0:14:28They were escorted down the M4 by the police,
0:14:28 > 0:14:31a practice which exists to this day.
0:14:31 > 0:14:35I do actually believe that the bubble matches are the only way
0:14:35 > 0:14:36to police it.
0:14:36 > 0:14:41And I am pleased that they're going to do it and they will do it,
0:14:41 > 0:14:45because it will avoid the opportunity for Welsh football to be
0:14:45 > 0:14:48seen in a bad light.
0:14:48 > 0:14:50As they approached the new millennium,
0:14:50 > 0:14:54both clubs were looking to leave the troubled past behind.
0:14:54 > 0:14:56But both were still in the lower leagues
0:14:56 > 0:14:59and needed more fans through the turnstiles.
0:14:59 > 0:15:02Cardiff have always had this big pool of fans.
0:15:02 > 0:15:05They've had Cardiff in itself, the capital city, and the valleys.
0:15:05 > 0:15:08You know, people from the valleys come down to watch.
0:15:08 > 0:15:12Rhondda, Aberdare, Taff, Romney valleys, Western Gwent valleys,
0:15:12 > 0:15:15fed into Cardiff. Cardiff City, I think,
0:15:15 > 0:15:18are as much a product of the valleys
0:15:18 > 0:15:22as they are of Grangetown and Canton.
0:15:22 > 0:15:24As Cardiff looked to the valleys and the east for new followers,
0:15:24 > 0:15:27Swansea looked to the west.
0:15:27 > 0:15:29An enormous number of Swansea fans from Pembrokeshire, which is
0:15:29 > 0:15:32of course, a great soccer area, Carmarthenshire
0:15:32 > 0:15:35and Cardiganshire, there is a West Wales feel.
0:15:38 > 0:15:43Both clubs embarked on a dramatic journey to the Premier League.
0:15:43 > 0:15:45As both sets of fans toasted success,
0:15:45 > 0:15:49some of the bitterness and resentment of the past decades
0:15:49 > 0:15:53disappeared, enabling some even to cross the great divide.
0:15:53 > 0:15:58Take Paul, the Swansea fan, running a pub in Cardiff.
0:15:58 > 0:16:00Initially, I was sort of apprehensive,
0:16:00 > 0:16:03because as you say, it is like the boogie man, isn't it?
0:16:03 > 0:16:05You hear all these stories off your parents
0:16:05 > 0:16:08about the Cardiff fan, but I was sort of apprehensive
0:16:08 > 0:16:13about going up, but so, I've been here seven years and it's cool.
0:16:13 > 0:16:16We have good Cardiff supporters here, a gentleman comes in here,
0:16:16 > 0:16:18he's the mascot for...
0:16:18 > 0:16:20Barclay Bluebird, I think they call him, or Redbird,
0:16:20 > 0:16:23or whatever they're calling themselves now.
0:16:23 > 0:16:26But, he's in here as well, and again, a really nice guy,
0:16:26 > 0:16:29and we've always had great banter when he comes in.
0:16:29 > 0:16:33Yeah, can't fault him! THEY LAUGH
0:16:33 > 0:16:36But if the clubs were truly going to reach their potential, there would
0:16:36 > 0:16:40need to be success on the pitch to attract a new legion of fans.
0:16:40 > 0:16:44In 2001, Swansea City looked a long way from achieving that,
0:16:44 > 0:16:47under unpopular chairman Tony Petty.
0:16:47 > 0:16:49The fans don't particularly want me here.
0:16:49 > 0:16:52I'm in it longer than this takes.
0:16:52 > 0:16:53As far as I'm concerned,
0:16:53 > 0:16:59if I can get a deal done in the next 24 hours, then so be it.
0:16:59 > 0:17:03Everyone on the board earned the supporters' trust
0:17:03 > 0:17:05and we own 20% of the club.
0:17:05 > 0:17:08The rest of the shareholders are all local businessmen,
0:17:08 > 0:17:13fans who have stood out in the rain, stood in the North Bank.
0:17:13 > 0:17:17Ten years ago, we had bad times.
0:17:17 > 0:17:20We have a model club in a way with the chairman
0:17:20 > 0:17:22and board which is rooted in our character.
0:17:22 > 0:17:24We speak the same language.
0:17:24 > 0:17:26The football team is more important than anything else.
0:17:26 > 0:17:29And there was a clear understanding from the directors
0:17:29 > 0:17:32and Swansea, that if they were going to put money into the club,
0:17:32 > 0:17:36if they were going to build up the club, they had to do it hand-in-hand with the fans.
0:17:36 > 0:17:38They've done that from the beginning.
0:17:38 > 0:17:41As those die-hard Swansea fans fought to seize control,
0:17:41 > 0:17:46there was barely a thought about the rivalry with Cardiff City.
0:17:46 > 0:17:50With everything that was going on, we just... There was no looking
0:17:50 > 0:17:53envious at anyone, other than the fact that the only envy was the
0:17:53 > 0:17:56fact that they had a football club, and we were close to losing ours.
0:17:56 > 0:18:01So, we had more, more bigger things or bigger fish to fry than
0:18:01 > 0:18:03worry about anybody else at that time.
0:18:03 > 0:18:07It was only when we got ourselves on an even keel that the rivalry started to come back.
0:18:07 > 0:18:11Slowly, results improved and Swansea started climbing the league.
0:18:11 > 0:18:15Thomas against the keeper! Chips in! Oh, yes!
0:18:15 > 0:18:18Superb goal by James Thomas!
0:18:18 > 0:18:20They would find their form
0:18:20 > 0:18:24and leave the Vetch for a new home at the Liberty Stadium.
0:18:24 > 0:18:28Swansea are back in the championship!
0:18:28 > 0:18:31They're there for the first time in 24 years!
0:18:31 > 0:18:33It was a model to be admired.
0:18:33 > 0:18:37Everybody looks at the Swansea model and wishes they could,
0:18:37 > 0:18:39they could copy it.
0:18:45 > 0:18:48Cardiff City's road to the top took a different route.
0:18:48 > 0:18:51Various owners came and went.
0:18:51 > 0:18:53HE CHEERS
0:18:56 > 0:18:57That's until the arrival
0:18:57 > 0:19:00of a Lebanese businessman called Sam Hammam.
0:19:01 > 0:19:07He had plans for the Bluebirds, which included a new ground.
0:19:07 > 0:19:11And on the field, results improved. For a time.
0:19:11 > 0:19:13Campbell! He's onside!
0:19:13 > 0:19:17It's Andy Campbell! They got themselves to within one
0:19:17 > 0:19:19promotion to the Premier League.
0:19:19 > 0:19:22But bills were mounting and star players were sold
0:19:22 > 0:19:25and the fans were turning on their saviour.
0:19:25 > 0:19:28You will not sell nine or ten players next week!
0:19:28 > 0:19:30No, I will not sell...
0:19:30 > 0:19:32Well, that is what everyone else is saying!
0:19:32 > 0:19:35I have to continue fighting for this club until I get them
0:19:35 > 0:19:36out of this problem.
0:19:36 > 0:19:39In stepped the former Leeds chairman, Peter Ridsdale.
0:19:39 > 0:19:41He took over at the Welsh capital
0:19:41 > 0:19:46and took on the dream of top-flight football in a brand-new stadium.
0:19:46 > 0:19:52But that final step to the promised land still eluded them. It's there!
0:19:52 > 0:19:53To achieve that goal,
0:19:53 > 0:19:57Cardiff felt they needed a man with a serious amount of cash.
0:19:57 > 0:20:01He arrived in the shape of a Malaysian billionaire.
0:20:01 > 0:20:05Vincent Tan was a very, very brave individual to take on
0:20:05 > 0:20:06a basket case of a club.
0:20:06 > 0:20:08When you looked at the debts we were carrying,
0:20:08 > 0:20:14the hangover from the Hammam days in terms of loan notes
0:20:14 > 0:20:17and the sort of ticking time bomb of that particular debt,
0:20:17 > 0:20:20and we were, you know, as a club, we were bouncing from one
0:20:20 > 0:20:24transfer window to another transfer window for survival.
0:20:29 > 0:20:33Cardiff City fall in the play-offs for the second year running.
0:20:33 > 0:20:37Year after year, they came close. They were the perennial nearly men.
0:20:37 > 0:20:40The Premier League dream, it seems, was forever on hold.
0:20:40 > 0:20:43And it seemed as if we were the eternal bridesmaids
0:20:43 > 0:20:45and football fans are football fans, that's why I love them so much.
0:20:45 > 0:20:48They remind you constantly at all clubs, you know?
0:20:48 > 0:20:50And especially Swansea!
0:20:50 > 0:20:55And while Cardiff looked on enviously, Swansea got there first.
0:20:55 > 0:20:59Goal! They can start planning their trips to the Premier League now!
0:20:59 > 0:21:03We felt that we had to be the first ones there
0:21:03 > 0:21:07and if Cardiff had moved up into the Premier League before us and taking
0:21:07 > 0:21:11with them the media and etc, that would have happened at the time,
0:21:11 > 0:21:13I think it may have set us back a year or two.
0:21:20 > 0:21:23It was a bit like your bumpkin country cousin turning up
0:21:23 > 0:21:26at a wedding, and he's turned into Brad Pitt.
0:21:26 > 0:21:28It was a bit like, how the hell did that happen?!
0:21:28 > 0:21:31How does Swansea go from being a team that left the league to
0:21:31 > 0:21:33playing some of the best football in Britain, you know?
0:21:33 > 0:21:37It was quite, yeah, it was hurtful.
0:21:37 > 0:21:39I was here when they were playing in the play-offs.
0:21:39 > 0:21:42They won 4-2, and I was running up and down the stairs every time.
0:21:42 > 0:21:44Every time I came down and went back up, they scored!
0:21:44 > 0:21:47So, they were wondering why I was running up and down?
0:21:47 > 0:21:50Since then, it's been success all the way for the Swans -
0:21:50 > 0:21:54sell-out crowds, top-flight survival under Brendan Rodgers,
0:21:54 > 0:21:58the arrival of Michael Laudrup, a football superstar as his successor,
0:21:58 > 0:22:03and then they won their first-ever major trophy - the League Cup.
0:22:03 > 0:22:05They were leaving their rivals behind.
0:22:05 > 0:22:09The pressure on us to get up - the idea that we had to get there -
0:22:09 > 0:22:11was almost overwhelming last year.
0:22:11 > 0:22:14It was kind of almost to the point where it didn't matter how we did it,
0:22:14 > 0:22:17we just had to make the Premiership, because Swansea were in there.
0:22:17 > 0:22:20Cardiff's owner felt a new approach was needed,
0:22:20 > 0:22:22but his investment came at a price.
0:22:22 > 0:22:27To the horror of many fans Vincent Tan changed the club's colours from blue to red.
0:22:27 > 0:22:30We pay our respects to Mr Tan,
0:22:30 > 0:22:36a man who clearly wants the club to succeed, internationally,
0:22:36 > 0:22:38and domestically,
0:22:38 > 0:22:42but a man who, it seems to me, often can deliberately alienate the fans.
0:22:42 > 0:22:45We've got to appreciate that he has come along and saved the club,
0:22:45 > 0:22:50but in return we have obviously had to have the rebrand of the shirt and the badge.
0:22:50 > 0:22:53Which has been a bitter pill for some people to swallow.
0:22:53 > 0:22:56But it's something we've had to take on the chin
0:22:56 > 0:22:58otherwise we would not have had a football club.
0:22:58 > 0:23:01You become a plaything for a multi-millionaire.
0:23:01 > 0:23:05You're the football team they've got to tell their mates back home.
0:23:05 > 0:23:07And they can do with you what they want.
0:23:07 > 0:23:10They can change colour, your badge, do anything - change your name!
0:23:10 > 0:23:13I don't know whether we are playing in November,
0:23:13 > 0:23:16the Dragons or the Bluebirds or some other name.
0:23:17 > 0:23:19And that's quite sad.
0:23:19 > 0:23:22Despite the protests around the rebrand,
0:23:22 > 0:23:24red turned out to be a lucky colour.
0:23:24 > 0:23:27The Bluebirds finally made it to the Premier League.
0:23:27 > 0:23:28I suppose we were quite proud
0:23:28 > 0:23:31that we were the only Welsh team in the Premier League.
0:23:31 > 0:23:32That we'd got there first.
0:23:32 > 0:23:35And we'd done it, and we were standing alone for Wales.
0:23:35 > 0:23:38And all of a sudden, the noisy neighbours from down the road
0:23:38 > 0:23:40managed to gate-crash the party.
0:23:40 > 0:23:43Having said that, it's fantastic for Wales, isn't it?
0:23:43 > 0:23:4510% of the Premier League is Welsh.
0:23:46 > 0:23:50Thought it might take a bit of the shine off what Swansea did,
0:23:50 > 0:23:55so I guess there was a little bit of disappointment there.
0:23:55 > 0:23:59I also immediately thought about the prospect of two derby games to cover,
0:23:59 > 0:24:02and so much resting on which way it goes.
0:24:02 > 0:24:05I wasn't happy because I was enjoying our little bit of peace
0:24:05 > 0:24:08in the Premier League, without derby games.
0:24:08 > 0:24:11So, you know, you knew it was coming.
0:24:11 > 0:24:14They'd had an absolutely amazing season.
0:24:14 > 0:24:17They deserved their promotion.
0:24:17 > 0:24:21They haven't played the attractive football we've done to get there,
0:24:21 > 0:24:22but they're still there.
0:24:22 > 0:24:25And give them credit - they did win the championship,
0:24:25 > 0:24:27and won it quite comfortably.
0:24:27 > 0:24:31All fans have got something to judge themself against,
0:24:31 > 0:24:33and now with the both of us in the Premier,
0:24:33 > 0:24:35it gives us that extra edge again.
0:24:35 > 0:24:37It had been a dramatic journey.
0:24:37 > 0:24:39The clubs had changed,
0:24:39 > 0:24:41Wales had changed.
0:24:41 > 0:24:43There was almost slightly the feeling in Swansea
0:24:43 > 0:24:46that Wales was a plot invented by Cardiff.
0:24:46 > 0:24:48That this new Welsh identity -
0:24:48 > 0:24:50devolution as we eventually came to call it -
0:24:50 > 0:24:53was something that Cardiff invented.
0:24:53 > 0:24:56Swansea votes yes for devolution, Cardiff votes no -
0:24:56 > 0:24:59they get the Senate and we get a swimming pool.
0:24:59 > 0:25:03And that, in basic terms, probably sums up where Swansea feels
0:25:03 > 0:25:05in its relationship to the capital city.
0:25:07 > 0:25:11Now, together, the two football clubs are about to make history.
0:25:11 > 0:25:14Their first ever derby in the Premier League.
0:25:17 > 0:25:21As football players, if you can't enjoy a game of that intensity and passion...
0:25:23 > 0:25:24..you shouldn't be playing.
0:25:24 > 0:25:27Two different styles come together in this derby.
0:25:27 > 0:25:30A locally owned team or a team that's owned by someone who
0:25:30 > 0:25:33doesn't come from the area, a team which is owned
0:25:33 > 0:25:38by 20% of its fans, um, a team that still plays in the same colours.
0:25:39 > 0:25:42You've got a lot of city rivalries, where you've got Liverpool
0:25:42 > 0:25:46and Everton, Bristol City and Bristol Rovers, you know, Sheffield.
0:25:46 > 0:25:48A lot of them do tolerate each other cos
0:25:48 > 0:25:50they live on each other's doorstep.
0:25:50 > 0:25:53I think we've had that barrier of 40 miles.
0:26:00 > 0:26:03People here do look and see all the things that Cardiff get
0:26:03 > 0:26:05and the money that's being spent there
0:26:05 > 0:26:10and I think there is a feeling that Swansea gets forgotten about.
0:26:10 > 0:26:12They get all the good publicity, according to them.
0:26:12 > 0:26:17It's hard to tell it from the other side but I think Cardiff is the biggest city.
0:26:17 > 0:26:20It's the capital, at the end of the day.
0:26:20 > 0:26:22Some Swansea supporters tell me
0:26:22 > 0:26:25they just don't want to go up to Cardiff unless they absolutely
0:26:25 > 0:26:29have to, which basically means if the Swans are playing.
0:26:30 > 0:26:34Football is an easy decider of who's got the best argument,
0:26:34 > 0:26:36who's got the best players, who's got the best team.
0:26:36 > 0:26:38Who's got the best city!
0:26:38 > 0:26:41It's a wonderful rivalry and Abertawe town have done
0:26:41 > 0:26:45wonderful in the last two or three years, you know.
0:26:45 > 0:26:48But they'll always be in the shadow of their capital city.
0:26:48 > 0:26:53I have a season ticket for both. I watch them both, I support them both and you know, I relish that.
0:26:53 > 0:26:56I always feel we've got more of a right to be bitter about things than they have
0:26:56 > 0:26:59but they probably would say the same thing.
0:26:59 > 0:27:02Disliking your rivals is part of being a football supporter.
0:27:02 > 0:27:07The teams that you don't like almost define you as much as the team that you support.
0:27:08 > 0:27:11At the end of the day, we've got more in common with Cardiff
0:27:11 > 0:27:13and their supporters than we have any other club.
0:27:13 > 0:27:16And yet, we treat each other as the biggest enemies in the world.
0:27:16 > 0:27:18But we've got far more in common with one another
0:27:18 > 0:27:21than with certainly anyone else in English football.
0:27:30 > 0:27:33They have had the best of times, they've had the worst of times.
0:27:33 > 0:27:37These two Welsh cities. One built on copper, the other, coal.
0:27:37 > 0:27:4038 miles separate them geographically,
0:27:40 > 0:27:44but culturally and mentally, it's a whole different story.
0:27:44 > 0:27:47Cardiff - the capital, the heartbeat of business, culture, media,
0:27:47 > 0:27:52education and government. This city that voted no but got the Assembly.
0:27:52 > 0:27:55Swansea - the city that said yes but got nothing.
0:27:55 > 0:27:58The Assembly, the Ayatollah, the Swans and "swim away."
0:27:58 > 0:28:01The Bluebirds, the Jack Army, SA1 or Brains SA.
0:28:01 > 0:28:04Swansea Bay, the Mumbles Mile, the Gower,
0:28:04 > 0:28:07Dylan Thomas' "ugly, lovely town."
0:28:07 > 0:28:10Cardiff Bay, the Millennium Centre, the Millennium Stadium,
0:28:10 > 0:28:13the Liberty Stadium. Catherine Zeta and John Charles.
0:28:13 > 0:28:15Shirley Bassey and Gareth Bale.
0:28:15 > 0:28:19The FA Cup - Cardiff have won it, they've even hosted it.
0:28:19 > 0:28:21The top-flight - Swansea stormed it.
0:28:21 > 0:28:23What a shot and what a goal!
0:28:23 > 0:28:26And very nearly fell out of the league altogether.
0:28:26 > 0:28:28John Toshack the player or Tosh the manager.
0:28:28 > 0:28:32Ivor Allchurch, Alan Curtis. Michu. Cliff Jones.
0:28:32 > 0:28:33Nathan Blake and Bellamy.
0:28:35 > 0:28:38It's city versus city, a tale of two.
0:28:38 > 0:28:40The best of times, the worst of times.
0:28:40 > 0:28:44It was this season of light, this season of darkness.
0:28:44 > 0:28:46It's the season for South Wales derbies.
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