From one extreme to another in the possession stakes, but City still fail to convince.

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1. Dai Woosnam says:

   August 17, 2014 at 2:00 am

   Dear Paul,
   A very interesting report as usual. Much thanks.
   Just two slight points from me.
   No difference of opinion on Pilkington other than the fact I will not need to look at YT: I have seen enough evidence on MotD in the past 3 years to know that this boy “has it” in spades.
   Big difference of opinion though on the red kit. I really ADORE it and genuinely think it THE best City kit of my long lifetime.
   You are normally such a moderate and decent guy! Yet you calling it “pathetic” strikes me as pandering to the Blue mob as nakedly as your Echo boss Delme Parfitt.
   He has – judging by the ABC figures of the past 10 years (available online) – a disastrously haemorrhaging circulation to worry about: but there is no explanation as to why YOUR normally so astute critical faculties have momentarily deserted you!
   Look: I get it that you prefer blue. No problem with that other than the obvious psychological one: i.e. how can one expect the City players to die for the shirt, when many of the fans evidently despise it?
   But please do not go from an anti-red position, to then calling this new strip “pathetic” (as you did in your photo caption above).
   I would submit that anyone calling that strip “pathetic”, is telling me that their aesthetic judgment is (hopefully temporarily!) out to lunch.
   And if Vincent or any of his cohorts are reading this, let me please apologise for the ingratitude of my fellow South Walians. And urge you not to pull the plug …which is what I would have done some time ago had I been Vincent, given the shameful negativity of The South Wales Echo.
   Do you remember when journalism was all about LEADING public opinion, and not about FOLLOWING …like so many SHEEP ??!!
   I have now – almost against myself – become “RED until I die!”. At first I was quite neutral about Vincent’s admittedly daft initial idea. But I believe in fairness…and this is just not FAIR.
   What City need is Ole to “front up” on this issue and support the boss: do not do what the egregious Malky did i.e. his usual trick of running with the fox and simultaneously hunting with the hounds.
   Don Revie silenced all protests on the change to the all white iconic strip of Real Madrid: now is your turn Ole to step up to the plate.
   And THEN, soon the “back to blue” will be as irrelevant as the blush on a dead man’s cheek.
   Remember the green-and-yellow everywhere at Old Trafford 5 years ago? Where are they now?
   Will sign off now that I have got all that off my chest. Gosh these things are better out than in.
   Finally thanks to you Paul for your absolutely rock-like belief in “freedom of expression”. You should be proud that you have always printed 100% of my words, and have never ever censored a single one, even though they often run counter to your own belief.
   God Bless you.
   Kindest,
   Dai.
2. The other Bob Wilson says:

   August 17, 2014 at 5:12 am

   It is a pathetic kit Dai. Look at virtually every picture from famous moments in the club’s history and, apart from ones where they changed kits because of a colour clash or when they, for some reason, wore black against Barnsley in the FA Cup Semi Final in 2008, City are in the colour that they wore for over a century – now, because of one man, all of that has changed and the longer time goes on, the more I resent it.
   Tan’s rebrand is pointless – it has created division and disunity where there was none before, there is still no evidence that the club have profited financially from it and it is at least a contributory factor in the gradual transformation of Cardiff City Stadium into a noise free zone (the atmosphere was awful again at yesterday’s match).
   As for this year’s kit, it’s bland and lacks distinctiveness – I wouldn’t be calling it pathetic if it was blue not red, but I still wouldn’t like it.

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