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…easy as 123, simple as Do-Re-Mi!
By: Martyn |Prior to the start of the 2008/09 campaign, I compiled an A-Z list of what I suspected would be people, elements and facets germane to Cardiff City during that forthcoming August-May period. So while my predictions or high hopes of and for John Brown, Darcy Blake, Tony Capaldi, Stephen McPhail, promotion, Riccy Scimeca, a steady [...]
Bagel-bagel with the club of Keane, van Hooijdonk and O’Neill. “‘oo, Forest?!”
By: Martyn |As ever, I don’t post for a week or so and the club continues to pile up stories like an African warlord stacks up blood money notes. So much for the supposed off-season. They may only be bits n’ bobs, but the Bobs at this club aren’t of the Hoskins variety: See Tekken 6 or [...]
Hoopla!
By: Martyn |Penciled into City fans’ diaries on Wednesday of this week is a match against 1967 European champions Celtic. So ahead of City’s first proper friendly game during what American soccer terminologists like to call the ‘off-season’, here are Celtic blogger Matt’s answers to some questions I posed regarding the class of 2009. Bon AppĂ©tit!
p.s. the [...]
Rap to clap to crap
By: Martyn |Football clubs dabbling in the world of pop music always equals notoriously miss or miss results. Perhaps not primarily, but one major problem is that they tend to date awfully easily. Let’s begin with the Anfield Rap.
If you saw this after viewing one of Goldie Lookin’ Chain’s – how to put it – culturally [...]
The BBC continues its sorry decline
By: Martyn |I’ve lifted most of this introduction from Wikipedia, but it perfectly details the history of the license fee-funded British Broadcasting Corporation and all that it stands for in less words and more detail than I could ever hope of achieving.
The original British Broadcasting Company was founded in 1922 by a group of six telecommunications [...]
Old, new, borrowed and blue
By: Martyn |For once, borrowed isn’t a term applicable to the players recruited by the club thus far. However, I’m sure that’ll change come the last day of August when through the usual combination of sheer amateurism and blind panic we bring in the 2009/10 model of Eddie Johnson on weekly wages that amount to the accumulative [...]






