Dramatic Saturday sees Cardiff promoted thanks to amazing goal 150 miles from where they were playing!

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1. Steve Perry says:

   April 19, 2026 at 9:22 pm

   As usual, thank-you Paul for your report. I agree with you. Even for a promotion winning season, we have scored a remarkably high number of excellent goals. Let’s hope Osho also manages to get on the scoresheet before the end of the season.

   Yesterday afternoon found me, in a strange situation. Much as I would have liked to have been at Reading watching City seal promotion, it was not to be. In one of those strange situations that life occasionally throws up, I was within walking distance of St James’ Park, Exeter, where the home keeper scored his heroic goal.

   So we are up; a prospect I dearly wanted but daren’t think about last summer. Against all odds we are thankfully alongside the two other Welsh clubs again, should Wrexham fail in their play/off efforts.

   Of the game proper, Colwill Snr’s header, as rare as a Bobby Charlton one, eased the emotions before that lovely constructed and executed Kellyman effort found the net. For a full-back, Ng can certainly hit a ball. What a strike. What a goal for #3.

   So what of the season? Following the turgid Football of the late 20thC, “Mad Mick’s,” Football Odyssey and the possession for possession’s sake football (?) of the Bulut and Riza eras I have nothing but praise for BB-M’s football revolution, carried out with many youngsters after the Club jetisoned 17 players last summer. True City stuttered in those 3 recent home games and that afternoon in Plymouth, but that had more to do with Tan not sanctioning a second striker last August. The youthfulness of the squad, many playing their first proper full season at first team level, has also made the season so much more pleasing. Anyone who has witnessed the away-day demolitions of Rotherham, Doncaster and Exeter plus the ease with which City dispatched Bolton should be happy. Those who bring up the fact that City’s football is negative, after amassing a goal difference of +36, open themselves up to a charge of living in an alternative universe.

   True, there have been times where we could be criticised but for the overwhelming majority of this season we have been, if not irresistible, then certainly the best footballing team in this league. The respected, ‘Not the Top 20,’ YouTube vlog thinks so. Though, it is true that all this has been done only at the Third Tier level is a valid point but that’s where we found ourselves following the poor off-field management of the Club by Tan, Dalman & Choo. Now its down to Tan to release some finance for next season. Will he?

   That BB-M has forged a successful unit with the players he was dealt is worthy of great credit. As I said early on in the season, BB-M’s mantra is possession with purpose, not possession for its own sake. Give me this over, “Mad Mick’s,” five centre halves any day.