Your fans need you

It’s Friday and I normally write a piece on my precious Cardiff City, but today I just cannot be asked. Some will think that is a blessing, but my reasons are simple. No matter what I write the only thing we need out of this game is three points.

So no speculation about whose fit or who will play. No speculation or predictions about other teams at the bottom of the pile along with Cardiff just lose or draw whatever is best for the Bluebirds.

We need the eleven players on the pitch at Southampton tomorrow to step-up and be counted. A bit of a cliché but its what is needed. There is hero status to be achieved over the next five games. Keep the Bluebirds up now and see your names written into history doing the business on the pitch and become the heroes. At the moment this squad is heading for obscurity and will be remembered as failures, the players who couldn’t cut it with the big boys.

In twenty, thirty, forty years’ time, you want some young lad to be able to recite the team “April 12th, 2014. 4-0 against Southampton Marshall, Theophile-Catherine, Caulker, Turner, Taylor, Medel, Mutch, Daehli, Zaha, Campbell, Jones, or a mixture of other names. Campbell scored two in the 15th and 43rd minute and Jones scored in the 46th minute with Deahli scoring the forth in the 90th minute …. Well you can dream can’t you?

(Fans license was taken with the prediction of the team for tomorrow’s game. No one within the club supplied me with any inside information)

Over 2,400 fans will be making the trip to the east coast for the game, and the management and players owe them the points all three of them. Fans have paid out a lot of money over the season following the club and a lot of time, it’s time for some payback. I don’t think any Cardiff City fan, at the game, watching on an iffy internet stream, listening on the radio or getting updates via a mobile phone would begrudge a boring 0-0 90-minute game if Cardiff were to score the winning goal in injury time.