Waynne Phillips and Nathan Blake came up against each other another in Wrexham-Cardiff games.<\/p>\n
Former Wrexham midfielder Waynne Phillips was part of the Wrexham side that beat Cardiff City in the Welsh Cup Final in 1995.<\/p>\n
“Cardiff is a derby because of the rivalry between two clubs – and it will always be that,” he said.<\/p>\n
“Until now Wrexham have been behind Cardiff for the last 20 years and Cardiff have played in the highest league.<\/p>\n
“They will both argue the case but with everything that’s going on, Wrexham is the biggest club.<\/p>\n
“We haven’t played each other too often over the last 15 or 20 years and this one is special because there’s a place in the last eight up for grabs.”<\/p>\n
Ex-Wales international Nathan Blake was a member of the Cardiff side which pipped Wrexham to the Division Three title in 1994, scoring in a win at the Racecourse.<\/p>\n
“Looking back at the nineties, it was a derby,” Blake said.<\/p>\n
“Joey Jones would get the Wrexham boys all wound up and both teams travelled to the other in big, big numbers and I think that says it all.<\/p>\n
“There are four Football League clubs in Wales and they’re all vying for the number one spot.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Waynne Phillips and Nathan Blake came up against each other another in Wrexham-Cardiff games. Former Wrexham midfielder Waynne…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":243824,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[563],"tags":[64,63,596,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-243823","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-football","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-football","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243823","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=243823"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243823\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/243824"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=243823"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=243823"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=243823"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}