The Riverside Football Club, founded in 1899, played some matches at the Arms Park until 1910, when they moved to Ninian Park, and later became Cardiff City Football Club.

Thomas Randolph, 1st Earl of Moray, commanded the vanguard, which was stationed about a mile to the south of Stirling, near the church of St. Ninian, while the king commanded the rearguard at the entrance to the New Park.

The final game played was a 2 – 0 defeat against Cardiff City at Ninian Park on 20 March.

His full debut came 12 months after arriving in Liverpool, in a World Cup qualifier against Wales at Ninian Park.

* Barrow Island ( Queensland ), part of the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park in Ninian Bay, Queensland

However, the derby game at Ninian Park was marred with controversy as referee Mike Dean was struck by a coin from a Cardiff City supporter.

He remained at Ninian Park for a further two years before being shunted aside in May 2005.

Charles in 1954, Wales versus Scotland, Ninian Park

However shortly after the draw with Wales at Ninian Park on 10 September 1985, Jock Stein died of a heart attack, and his assistant Alex Ferguson took charge for the World Cup campaign.

Busby made only one official international appearance for Scotland ; he played in a 3 – 2 British Home Championship defeat to Wales at Ninian Park, Cardiff, on 4 October 1933.

Having beaten Israel 2 – 0 at the Ramat Gan Stadium and 2 – 0 at Ninian Park, Cardiff, Wales went through to a World Cup Finals tournament for the first and, so far, only time.

Wales lost the first leg 2 – 0 in Zagreb and were knocked out of the competition having only managed a 1 – 1 draw in a bad-tempered return leg at Ninian Park, Cardiff which was marred by crowd trouble.

However, Toshack resigned after just one game – a 3 – 1 defeat to Norway – citing problems with the FAW as his reason for leaving, although he was sure to have been shocked at being booed off the pitch at Ninian Park by the Welsh fans still reeling from the dismissal of Yorath.

) He regularly turns out for ' The Bluebirds ' charity teams, and played in both of the ' Legend Matches ' which marked the team's last game at Ninian Park and first game at the Cardiff City stadium.

11 suspected members of the Soul Crew were detained before the start of an FA Cup replay against Reading at Ninian Park in February 1998.

Ninian Park, where Stein died while managing the Scotland national team on 10 September 1985.

On 10 September 1985, Scotland drew 1 – 1 with Wales at Ninian Park in Cardiff, securing a play-off against Australia which would lead to qualification for the 1986 FIFA World Cup.

Hughes scored his only international goal against Wales ; the opening goal of a 3 – 0 Home International victory at Ninian Park in 1972.

Beardsley scored his first goal for the Magpies on 19 October 1983 in their 2 – 0 victory over Cardiff City at Ninian Park.

The rise of England great Bert Williams at Wolves after the war limited his chances, this included a notable international match between England and Wales at Ninian Park where Wolves supplied both the England Keeper ( Williams ) and Welsh keeper ( Sidlow ).

* Ninian Park, a football stadium in Cardiff

In 1997 Gavin Tait, then Cardiff City youth team coach, invited Earnshaw to training and, on 1 August, he signed a one-year YTS contract at Ninian Park.

Ninian Park was a football stadium in Leckwith, Cardiff, Wales.

Lord Ninian Crichton-Stuart | Lord Ninian after whom Ninian Park is named, in Cathays Park, Cardiff

Saint Ninian ( traditionally 4th-5th century ) is a Christian saint first mentioned in the 8th century as being an early missionary among the Pictish peoples of what is now Scotland.

In Scotland, Ninian is also known as Ringan, and as Trynnian in Northern England.

Nothing is known about his teachings, and there is no unchallenged authority for information about his life, although it is accepted that Christianity originally reached Ireland from Scotland, from which Saint Columba hailed, making Ninian the grandfather of Christianity in Scotland and more important figure in Scottish ecclesiastical history-and arguably a far better candidate for Patron Saint than Saint Andrew.

A link between the Ninian of tradition and a person who actually appears in the historical record is not yet confirmed, though Finnian of Moville has gained traction as a leading candidate.

The Southern Picts, for whom Ninian is held to be the apostle, are the Picts south of the mountains known as the Mounth, which cross Scotland north of the Firths of Clyde and Forth.

There is as yet no unchallenged connection of the historical record to the person who was Bede's Ninian.

The earliest mention of Ninian of Whithorn is in a short passage of The Ecclesiastical History of the English People by the Northumbrian monk Bede in ca.

However, there is no unchallenged historical evidence to support any of their stories, and all sources had political and religious agendas that were served by their accounts of Saint Ninian ( discussed below ).

Tradition holds that Ninian was a Briton who had studied in Rome, that he established an episcopal see at the Candida Casa in Whithorn, that he named the see for Saint Martin of Tours, that he converted the southern Picts to Christianity, and that he is buried at Whithorn.

Ailred claimed that much of his information for his Life of S. Ninian was taken from a source written in a " barbarous language ", but there is no knowledge of it other than his own claim.

It is also noted that Ailred wrote his Life of S. Ninian at a time when he was living under Scottish rule and had close connections both to Fergus of Galloway ( who would resurrect the Bishopric of Galloway ), and to the Scottish royal family, all of whom would have been pleased to have a manuscript with such a glowing description of a Galwegian and Scottish saint.

In addition, Skene attributes the " traditional " date of Ninian's death ( 16 September 432 ) ultimately to Ussher's Life of Ninian, noting that the date is " without authority ".

The anonymously written 8th century hagiographic Miracula Nynie Episcopi ( Miracles of Bishop Ninian ) is discounted as a non-historical account, and copies are not widely extant.

When her brother-in-law's brother, Ninian, comes to visit, there is a certain attraction between them.

However, within a month, Lulu is back home, having discovered that Ninian was already legally married: 18 years prior he had wed a girl who left him after 2 years, and he had actually forgotten about the whole thing.

The church is also remarkable for its high quality fittings such as the 1783 organ by James Davis and 1810 chamber organ ( also by James Davis ) and the splendid gilded reredos or altar screen, one of the largest works of Sir Ninian Comper.

The wooden panelling was designed by Ninian Comper and was erected in 1911 in place of some previous 19th-century Gothic type, though even earlier panelling, dating from 1710, is evident in the Buttery.

According to another theory, the name is a corruption of two words which mean the Friars ’ Hill ; those who favour this idea allege that St. Ninian, by planting a religious house near the head of what is now the Friars ’ Vennel, at the close of the fourth century, became the virtual founder of the Burgh ; however Ninian, so far as is known, did not originate any monastic establishments anywhere and was simply a missionary.