Being a Cardiff City fan can be depressing and over the years, we fans have suffered for our love affair. However, I have felt myself more detached over the last few years than I ever felt.
This morning when I found I missed ‘The Football League Show’ because it made way from its normal time for the tennis I just sat back. Normally I would go off on one and curse the BBC but I actually didn’t care. It got me thinking about the relationship with my boyhood club.
I don’t frequent the Cardiff City message boards these days like in the past when I posted daily on various sites. Long gone are the days I would wake up, switch on my laptop, and check out the latest news on the Bluebirds. I pick up breaking news on social media these days if I am interested and I noticed I don’t post much on social media about the City anymore.
This is the first thing I have written about the City in a while and remembering when it was a daily task when I had a dedicated blog/website about Cardiff City.
I could have watched the Football League show on the iPlayer but why bother! Derby win, scored twice, and Cardiff were shit, which saved me a few minutes of highlights. Being back to blue as not turned our season around and for me I was never expecting it to; the rot has been set in all season. It’s the manager I am afraid to say, the one before, and the lack of passion on the pitch that is rubbing off on the fans who boo the team off the pitch and who leave the stadium full of negative vibes.
The league table don’t lie. We are a massive 20 points off an automatic promotion ship and 13 points of a play-off spot and more worrying only a slender 7 points from a dreaded relegation place. I think we can forget any idea about finishing in the top six we would need many teams above us to implode which is just not going to happen.
In his after match conference manager Russell Slade said about the play-off,
"It's not impossible. It's becoming a little less realistic that's for sure, with the amount of points we've got to make up" he said.
"But that's not to say that we've given up.
"There's no reason why we can't go and win our next game and then gain some momentum over the coming weeks.
"It's been a tricky period, a difficult period to navigate through.
"We've played some good teams and we've shown that we are short of that level at this moment in time."
My crystal ball tells me it’s not going to happen mid table is about the best on offer even if we dump Slade.
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