End of season predictions

Posted by Andy Rose on March 16, 2007 4:49 PM

Sometimes in this job you have to put your head on the block, say what you think and then wait for the inevitable moment when you are proved wrong.

So here goes.

I predict the following:

1. Cardiff City will fail to reach the Championship play-offs.
2. Swansea City will sneak into the League One play-offs on the final day of the season.
3. Wrexham will survive and avoid relegation with games to spare.
4. Wales will lose at Croke Park against Ireland next week.

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Touching the nerve

Posted by Andy Rose on March 7, 2007 11:48 AM

Not many Cardiff City fans were too pleased with the comments of Birmingham City co-owner David Sullivan in last weekend's edition of Wales on Sunday.

Here are a few alternative and unedited views from the unofficial Cardiff City messageboard.

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Stay-away Cardiff

Posted by Andy Rose on March 3, 2007 11:52 AM

DAVID SULLIVAN has warned Cardiff City that the Premiership does not want them to win promotion.

The flamboyant Birmingham City co-owner insists the Premiership’s top brass are quaking in their boots at the thought of his hometown club reaching the top flight for the first time in 45 years.

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Forgiven but not forgotten?

Posted by Andy Rose on March 1, 2007 3:36 PM

It may have taken a few years but there could be a thaw developing in the Cold War between Leeds United fans and former chairman Peter Ridsdale.

Ridsdale may be seen as the saviour of Cardiff City right now but he remains the chief culprit in many people's eyes for the financial collapse of Leeds a few years ago and everything that has gone wrong at Elland Road ever since.

But that could be changing even though Leeds are on the verge of being relegated to League One level for the first time in their history.

"We got to the play-off final (last season), seemed settled and were looking forward to a couple of additions but it hasn't developed and you can't blame Ridsdale for that," said Ray Fell, the chairman of the Leeds United supporters' club.

"We have got over that stage. The finances, whether they are right or wrong, is not what's keeping us at the bottom."

That is not to say that Ken Bates is about to let him back into the Leeds boardroom though.

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