My twitter feed has pictures from the celebrations at the Cardiff City Stadium last night - and I know there are pictures of me celebrating too, somewhere.
Last week at the launch of the Cardiff City House of Sport Phase 2 I said that, without pre-empting fate, everyone in the Welsh Government understood what Premier League football could do for our Capital city.
I also said this - it was the day after the Barnsley game, remember- :
I will only be about 5 minutes.
And unlike last night's referee, I know what 5 minutes looks like.
I first saw Cardiff City play 45 years ago. I was ten years old. It was the 1967-68 season.
I saw us beat Torpedo Moscow in the quarter-final of the European Cup-Winners Cup, then
tragically lose in the semi-final to SV Hamburg.
I have been a season ticket-holder since I came back to South Wales to live in the mid 1990s.
If you had told me when I was amongst crowds of about 2000 on a miserable November
Tuesday night as we scrapped in the dungeon for a point, that in the space of 5 years
I would see City in an FA Cup Final, a League Cup Final - or whatever that cup is called
nowadays - a play-off final for the premiership, and that finally we would be at the top
of the Championship with 5 games to go, 6 points ahead of second and nine points
ahead of third, then I wouldn't have believed you.
And nor would any other City fan.
So can I start by saying thanks to those who have helped bring us to where we are now.
Thank you Malky, Craig and all the players for what you have brought to the club
over the last couple of seasons.
But can I also thank in particular, Steve Borley, for the way he has stuck with the club
in what has often been a turbulent period.
Without Steve and his family, this club would not be in the position it is today.
I was first elected to the National Assembly ten years ago. My first speech in the
Assembly was just a few days before our play-off final to get into the Championship
against QPR.
I said in that speech that for me, Cardiff City was not just a football club, it was a
symbol of the unity between our capital city and the South Wales Valleys. As the
song says, 'when the coal comes from the Rhondda, I'll be there. with my little pick
and shovel, I'll be there'.
Well. coal doesn't come from the Rhondda to the capital city any more, but thousands
of my Rhondda constituents come to home games.
We don't have many symbols that unite the Capital and the valleys these days, but
Cardiff City is one of them.
And can I thank my constituent Scott Young for his work for the club.
And for that goal that dumped Leeds out of the FA Cup just over ten years ago.
I still have the video.
Today we are here to mark again the fantastic work that Cardiff City does in the
community and in education.
Well, a new chapter has opened now in the Cardiff City story.
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