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October 30th, 2009

‘Phew’ at these few

By: Martyn | Comments 7 Comments

By virtue of failing to capture a transfer target last summer, it appears that we’ve had a fortuitous moral escape. Marlon King was briefly lusted after, but thankfully negotiations barely went beyond a few e-mails/faxes/phone calls. Or texts, whatever it is club chairmen do these days (Ridsdale to Dave Whealan: “HI DAVE. CN WE SGN [...]



October 27th, 2009

10 reasons why Peter Whittingham is currently making life more difficult for City’s opponents than trying to pull a condom over Darth Maul’s head

By: Martyn | Comments 4 Comments

12 goals in 17 games, 9 in the last 6, milestone hat-tricks, countless assists: yep, life is sweet for the left-midfielder at present. So pointing and laughing at Iridonian Zabraks aside, here are a full roster of toes explaining how and why Peter Whittingham is currently more potent in attack than the Luftwaffe was over [...]

October 22nd, 2009

No Wanderers, Athletic, or United invited

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Chris Coleman’s dusky complexion and diamond-cut suit lend him an aura (?) that the charcoal bagginess of Dave Jones (and his threads) lacks. Nevertheless, it was the Jones-led City edging it in the alphabetical stakes who came out on top during a meeting the pair’s respective sides on Tuesday evening: a 2-0 margin that wasn’t [...]

October 20th, 2009

‘bird feed

By: Martyn | Comments 1 Comment

Due to being stuck in t’mine shaft with only a canary and baa baa black sheep-coloured sedimentary rock for company, I missed Saturday’s 1-1 draw with Richard O’Brien’s Neil Warnock’s Crystal Maze Palace. Therefore, my usual probing tactical analysis will be absent. However, focusing on that which I have seen, namely, the goals. For what [...]

October 14th, 2009

Whatever happened to…

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A look at where life has taken some of the peripheral signings of the Dave Jones reign.
Jason BYRNE (01/07 – 09/08)
The Irish Gerd Müller was signed for a paltry £100k, and statistically his arrival seemed canny business. Unfortunately for Byrne, Championship-standard football is a pastime played in a vast surface area amongst a plethora of [...]



October 6th, 2009

These little town blues… are melting away

By: Martyn | Comments No Comments

2009/10s Cardiff City are proving to be owners of the most prominent split personality since Dr Henry Jekyll’s. Limp, moribund showings against the likes of Doncaster Rovers and the Parkies have been consigned to a dustbin seemingly reserved for anomalies: unless of course the 6-point-reaping, 10-goals-in-180-minute triumphs of the past week are themselves the occurrences [...]




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