Weekly review 20 June 2026.

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1. Dai Woosnam says:

   June 24, 2026 at 11:54 am

   Paul, compadre,
   I note you give the new strip 5/10. That seems generous. Pray tell me what distinguishes it from any other Royal Blue shirted club… other than the ‘Visit Malaysia’ message.
   [Hey Dai… that’s the whole point surely? The Malaysian Tourist Board would thus give the strip a 10/10 rating.]
   Yeah maybe… but let’s see what mark they’d give it if we ship a shedload of goals, because we refuse to buy a warrior centre half…
   I predict now, if we are needing a Don Murray type, that by mid November we will be calling for us to buy one desideratum in the January window.

   Re your comments on the white shorts: I am so pleased that our women – who I can safely say are all premenopausal – are sufficiently disdainful of the ghastly woke modern attitudes that have gripped amongst others, the England Women’s national team, and made them switch to blue.

   I really applaud the Arsenal Women’s team bucking the trend and this comment from a now ex-player: Arsenal and England’s Beth Mead speaks on normalising periods: “In football, we wear our stains with pride — they show our commitment and passion for the game. That should be the same for all blood stains, regardless of where they come from – because they are part of the game”.

   Fantastic. But she’s now gone to the woke Etihad Stadium, where possible bloodstains are a no-no, as they’ve recently switched to burgundy.

   Still, at the time of writing, all the 4 home rugby union national teams are holding out… hopefully all using that thrilling Mead ‘wear our stains with pride’ quote as their template. But I fear for them as we live in an age of ‘let’s all be lemmings together’.

   But for the moment, let us applaud the bravery of our Cardiff City women resisting modern trends. Indeed, could someone in our club’s marketing department see if we can get their kit sponsored by Always Ultra?!!

   And here before signing off, mentioning ‘modern attitudes’ makes me think of last night’s borefest from Boston. Pass sideways from A to B to C…. and then back again from C to B to A… and guess what… (yep you’ve got it…)
   … England have not got a yard nearer the Ghana goal.
   Dear Pep Guardiola, I so admire one of your political views… but keep me away from your footballing ones. The game has been ruined by you being deified.
   I don’t know if the late Charles Hughes was a Roman Catholic or not, but on the offchance he was, can I ask any reader of that faith, to write to Pope Leo to suggest he starts the ball rolling on making Dr Hughes ‘ST. CHARLES of POMO’…? For what that man went through in his declining years (in terms of gross personal vilification and absurd misrepresentation of his footballing philosophy)… well, no man should be subjected to it.
   TTFN,
   Dai.