Miserable weather, miserable game, miserable performance, but it’s a point for Cardiff City.

2 Responses to Miserable weather, miserable game, miserable performance, but it’s a point for Cardiff City.

1. Graham says:

   November 24, 2024 at 12:23 pm

   I wasn’t there but watched on television and kept remembering when I used to actually enjoy watching football. But our performance was, as you say, Paul, miserable, and I suppose our interim manager had to try to find something fairly positive to say that would retain the support of the players who it seems want the word ‘interim’ removed from his job title. You were 100% correct when you wrote “City were unable to get much going in attacking terms over the whole ninety minutes.” And that was because most of our players are obsessed with “possession” – I know that is regarded as an important statistic in a game, but what matters is what is done with possession. What we have is just passing the ball across and across again and back, often, no usually, without even looking to see if a team-mate has managed to find open space further upfield. More often than not, keeping possession, and so often in our own penalty area, ends with the ball being thumped away and often straight back it comes. How we miss a creative mid-fielder looking for the forwards who have found the open spaces which time and again Sheffield Wednesday players looked for and found.
2. Dai Woosnam says:

   November 24, 2024 at 2:14 pm

   Thanks Paul, as ever.
   Re the Hillsborough game: I still think it was an Ng own goal. Certainly the main contact seemed to be with HIS boot and not that of the Wednesday centre back… though it is just possible that after leaving Ng’s boot, it might have brushed the shin of the Wednesday man.
   In an otherwise fine report, you omit to say what caused the free kick that ultimately led to the Wednesday goal. It was of course a stupid off the ball incident when Ng determined to continue his running feud with Wednesday’s Marvin Johnson, by delivering a forearm smash to Johnson’s chest to cause a totally unnecessary free kick… one that had fatal consequences., coming as it did after we had just taken the lead. Had we been able to hold on to that lead for more than 2 minutes, our confidence might have grown.

   Also, re the game… proof that O’Dowda is better played as a left wing back… and Bagan should get the left back starting slot asap. He defends better.

   Oh and changing the subject… a friend who is one of your readers just wrote to me regarding my reference to Valentino’s (Sardinian) restaurant in Windsor Place. He asked how it was that myself and the son of the boss discussed Craig Bellamy.

   That is easy to explain.

   Knowing the owner was Sardinian, made me wonder if Joe Calzaghe and his late dad had ever been customers. Turned out they had indeed, and they were held in high esteem. But then totally voluntarily and unexpectedly, the gent said that of the famous sportsmen who were regulars, his favourite by a country mile was Craig.

   Seems like he is adored there… just like Neil Jenkins is in Caesar’s in Efail Isaf.

   TTFN,
   Dai.