Since being sacked by Cardiff City in the summer, Dave Jones has spent a surprisingly long time unemployed. Sheffield Wednesday have finally given him a route back into management, with the Owls currently lying third in League One and owner Milan Mandaric desperate for promotion to the Championship. So what can Jones bring to the Steel City? Here are six things (one for each of his seasons with the Bluebirds) Wednesday fans can expect: three that might frustrate, followed by three that are more positive. 1. Professional Detachment In his last job, Jones refused to play the sort of lip-service…
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Should the rest of the Football League be proud of Cardiff City?
In his first post since taking on the role of co-editor on the site, Cardiff City fan Joe Harrison asks whether the nature of Liverpool’s Carling Cup triumph last weekend provided plenty of pride for the Football League. About an hour after Anthony Gerrard had swept his penalty wide, I tweeted that I’d “never been more proud to be a Bluebird”. This prompted a number of responses, commiserating and congratulating in equal measure, largely from fans of others teams. A number of these messages made reference to Cardiff being “a credit to the Championship”. This leads to a question: were…
The team-by-team Football League tactics bible - #1: Cardiff City
I’m going to get the hang of these ambitious 72-part series ideas soon, I promise. I think the key is not to promise them every week, but just throw an idea out there and see what contributions come in. So here’s number one in a series that could run for months, but might not. I think it’s got potential though and gets off to a great start with Joe Harrison giving us a brief guide to how Cardiff City strut their stuff. Current formation and variations Having started the season using a 4-4-2 with a diamond in midfield, a move…
The 25 Best Players in the Championship - as voted for by you: Part 22 of 25
Although this list is in no particular order from numbers 1 to 24, many Cardiff City fans will think it is a gross error of judgment that this former Aston Villa player’s name is appearing before Christmas Day. He actually came second in the voting by quite a distance in both directions, but he’ll always be Joe Harrison’s number one. Peter Whittingham (Cardiff City) YouTube scouting has become a serious affliction for football fans in recent years – not least because in the vast majority of cases it seems to raise hopes and expectations to a quite ridiculous level. A…
The 25 Best Players in the Championship - as voted for by you: Part 21 of 25
If form is temporary and class is permanent, then we shouldn’t worry too much about Nottingham Forest’s current league position when considering whether Northern Ireland’s number one is among the best players outside the Premier League. You decided he is and voted him one of the 25 best players in the Championship, which means Joe Harrison had to write about him. Lee Camp (Nottingham Forest) Lists of this type rarely feature an abundance of goalkeepers. Goalscorers or creators tend to grab both the headlines and the majority of positions in compilations such as this. Those charged with preventing their success,…
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