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Q. How many Jack Bar-Stewards does it take to change a lightbulb? A. It doesn’t matter, they’d all be too occupied trying to smash it.
By: Martyn |Swansea City is a horrible football club and the city itself is host to horrible people. Firstly, the Jack goalscorers celebrated with the infamous ’swim away’ motion, a rite of passage for all Swansea folk and players that relates to an incident a few decades back when Swansea hooligans – who far outnumbered their counterparts [...]
Dawn French, Kenneth Branagh, Marianne Faithful, Ricky Gervais, Lenny Henry, Chris Tarrant, Kate Winslet… your boys took one hell of a beating for like, 15 minutes
By: Martyn |A draw at home with a team reduced to 10 men in the first half is not normally considered an alright result by any stretch of the imagination. Reading stretch the imagination beyond normal grey matter boundaries mind, so there are I suppose some positives to take from earning a point against a team we [...]
Cardiff worthy of their punch in the Plymouth.
By: Martyn |Unfortunately (or fortunately) I missed Saturday’s Bluebirds game as I was in Florence watching Fiorentina beat Udinese 4-2. The latter was a game so exciting that it sent Lippi loopy! The Plymouth-Cardiff game was being screened on Sky Sports, but the only bar we could find that was open and showing football had opted instead [...]
Ambition, ambition, ambition, ambition, ambition, ambit… (repeat ’til it finally sinks in)
By: Martyn |I hereby offer a short posting. Which is something of an anomaly. It delivers tremendous news too. Which is also something of an anomaly. Cardiff City FC are showing ambition. Now hear me out, please. I’m not using such soccer rhetoric in the usual mindless and misguided way managers and players do. Nope, the big [...]
Cardiff’s bite proves more potent than its bark (just).
By: Martyn |Cardiff City beat Crystal Palace 2-1 to ensure that rivals Swansea City didn’t leapfrog them in the table. Phew! Palace’s goal came from the ultimate usage of route one; a long punt upfield and two seconds later the ball is buried by the lone striker. Oh so simple, but oh so aesthetically wrong. Our central [...]
FA “Referee” Lee Probert 1-0 Cardiff City
By: Martyn |Cardiff City were robbed of taking anything from a game they were never out of by some farcical and diabolical refereeing decisions. The Bluebirds had been forced to play(/toil) with 10 men for the bulk of the match and then 9 for the closing stages, were denied an absolute clear-as-Volvic-or-Evian penalty kick midway through the [...]
It’s like the exciting bit of one of those manager simulation games except that erm, this is actually real
By: Martyn |As the world news radar is currently consumed by some election result in a big country the other side of the Atlantic Ocean, reports that Cardiff City’s only two strikers Ross McCormack and Jay Bothroyd are sidelined for one and two months respectively have been relegated to non-existent status. It’s Wednesday afternoon right now and [...]
Sky get their prayers answered as 3 of the Championship’s Big 4 strikers score and the Wolves juggernaut goes marching on. As for the City vessel…
By: Martyn |… well the rats aren’t quite fleeing just yet, but they’re designating the toothbrushes and rifling through the wardrobes and cupboards as I type. However, the laissez-faire attitude they are currently adopting towards their escape will soon be given an injection of speed should we see defending, team-play and incision as hapless, useless, lethargic, apathetic [...]






