Nobody rates us but I don’t care - Cardiff City

The Premier League kicks off tonight but if you are a Cardiff fan, your fate is sealed for this season… Just don’t bovver turning up you a relegated before a ball is kicked in anger. Why you may ask! because every football pundit says so and not forgetting the bookies.

This must be a red rag to Cardiff manager Neil Warnock, his players, and the fans. It has made me put a £10 bet on them staying up and I’m going to chuck a quid on Bluebirds topping the ruddy lot. A ten-pound bet is big for me as I normally bet only a pound. I can’t wait for the end of the season hoping I can shout from the rooftops “Told you, I believed”.

During an extensive search around the internet, I couldn’t find anyone willing to back Cardiff to stay up this season sighting mostly the lack of players with Premiership experience. Cardiff have spent over £28million on their squad on six players not a great amount but look at last season play-off winners Fulham £110million I so hope they are relegated. Last season championship winners Wolves splashed out £50million. Below are some of the UK papers and there predictions.

It does not stop there around the world the Bluebirds are earmarked for the drop. For example Fox Sport (Australia) every pundit as Cardiff back in the Championship next season the same when you look at that football giant of the football world India, Cardiff City no chance.

Guts and belligerence were the raw materials behind Cardiff's outstanding Championship campaign. They have plenty of experience, but there is a dearth of quality and not even the wise old head of Neil Warnock will be able to bridge the gap between the Bluebirds and their competitors. Courtesy of ESPN

In the Sunday Mirror, columnist Andy Dunn gives Cardiff the thump is down and predicts they will finish bottom of the pile, twentieth, last. Former Cardiff City player and columnist for the same paper puts the knife into the Welshman – thank you Robbie Fowler and he said,

“The promoted sides always struggle because the rest are financially stronger and have the advantage, so one of them will probably go down”. Wait for it “It’s Cardiff City who seem to have the least resources and, over the whole season, they are bound to struggle”.

The Daily Mirror, it is more of the same “who will be relegated” these so call experts shout in unison “Cardiff ruddy City!” They suggest manager Neil Warnock is in for a tough time but I say wait and see.

I give you another reason to hate the Daily Mail of the eleven pundits asked everyone gave the Bluebirds no chance just more relegation news keeping in order with the others. A fan was asked his hopes and fears for the upcoming season,

Callum Ellis (Inside Wales Sport) via the Daily Mail 

BIGGEST HOPE: I hope we can remain competitive throughout the campaign and get a few positive results against the top six, just as we did in the 2013-14 season.

GREATEST FEAR: After our last Premier League outing ended in relegation, the dreaded drop zone is my greatest fear again this season.

KEY PLAYER: Captain Sean Morrison led by example last season and managed to score seven goals. He is a key figure in the heart of defence and always poses a threat from set pieces.

Football Editor Paul Hetherington Sunday Daily Star predicts Cardiff will be relegated and so does Harry Pratt follow foot and so does every other football reporter asked. No, surprise there every bookies I have checked are the same Cardiff one hit wonders again.

The website Eurosport have their tenpenth predicting a twentieth finish and looking speculative in to their crystal ball announced a season ending on 34 points for Cardiff and what do they have to say,

Neil Warnock is back, but not for long. Cardiff were not even supposed to challenge for promotion in the Championship last season but upset all the odds. The chances are they will not be able to do so this season though. Cardiff seem like the weakest side in the division by some distance and their recruitment has seen them take Championship players.

Cardiff will go down - but claim a few scalps. The Daily Telegraph

An (un)welcome throwback to football's times of old, Cardiff and Neil Warnock won't be popular this season with a direct style of play that is reflective of the limitations in their squad.

What they do won't be pretty but it will be difficult to play against and they'll make their home a really tough place to go.

Finally, we have to finish somewhere as I could go on forever but I cannot but look for hope with the local press. Wales Online football writer Dominic Booth opens the order and comes in with an end of the season prediction of a seventeenth finish, just above a relegation spot. He said I am not going to change my mind now. If Cardiff can so dramatically defy the odds to win promotion, they are capable of surviving. It will be tough, it will be ugly, but the Bluebirds have a man on a mission in Neil Warnock.

He has a record to put straight in the Premier League and I believe Cardiff will stay up by the skin of their teeth. You heard it here first. Now to me this smacks of not having the bottle to say relegation.

Other sports writers like Ian Mitchelmore when for seventeenth while Tom Coleman and Ben James both have stated Cardiff will be for the drop back to the Championship come the end of the season. Not feeling the love here or maybe, they are calling it how they see it and something a fan can’t bring themselves to say… RELEGATION.