Cardiff City fans make another trip to the North East to visit Sunderland’s neighbours and rivals Newcastle. Travelling fans can have a bit of a lie in with a more respectable kick-off time of 3pm compared with mid-day last weekend.
It’s not impossible for Cardiff to escape relegation if they beat Newcastle tomorrow and Chelsea the following weekend at the Cardiff City stadium. Six points would see Cardiff safe. Even three points could work if Sunderland and Norwich were to lose their final games. It all depends on other results going our way making it not a happy place for any fan to be.
The current form of both teams (last six games) shows Cardiff have managed 5 points compared to Newcastle who have failed to register a single point.
A good omen for this critical clash for the Welshman while Newcastle bask in mid-table security. They might be safe for another season in the Premier League but the fans are not happy with the owner and manager, sounds familiar but for the manager bit. They, the fans, plan to protest during the game tomorrow with a mass walkout on the 60th minute while Cardiff fans are expected to hold their ongoing protest on the 19:27 minute with the ‘We will always be BLUE’ chant. Be interested to see if it happens, with the walkout.
That is the politics out of the way so what about team news. Well there has been no reported problems leaving Cardiff boss Ole Gunnar Solskjaer plenty of options. Of course that doesn’t include the Spaniard Juan Cala who was charged with improper conduct by the FA following the red card that he received at Sunderland. It would seem that relegation or not Solskjaer would be the manager of the Bluebirds next season.
Meanwhile at Newcastle manager Alan Pardew will have striker Luuk de Jong available for the Cardiff clash.
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