Cardiff, West Ham:why Cardiff City are not allowed to have Penalties

Cardiff, West Ham and why Cardiff City are not allowed to have Penalties 

Caulker tries to jump for the ball but is mugged by a pack of yobbish Londoners. They duff him up, haul him to the floor. They drag off his shirt, beat him with baseball bats and threaten him with a Tommy gun and a rusty butter knife. What does the ref do: nothing. What does the linesman do: nothing.

Now you may feel I am exaggerating. That surely no footballer would be allowed on the pitch with a Tommy gun or even a baseball bat. But teams facing Cardiff city can do as they please and the refs will not ever, not once, award a penalty.

Fatty Sam, Allardyce to his mate, had studied previous games such as Liverpool. There Martin Škrtel got away with more thuggery than Al Capone as he followed the rules of World Wide Wrestling in man handling Caulker.

When Sam told his thugs this in the prematch plan they didn’t believe him. Then he showed them how Cardiff are the ONLY Premier League team not to have been awarded a penalty. The only one. THE ONLY ONE.

I sat the same distance from the penalty area as the linesman for the West Ham match. Watching as time and time again he followed FA rullings in not awarding Cardiff a penalty.

Oh and the match? Well Cardiff had a perfectly good goal disallowed because their goal keeper, Adrian, almost fell over when he was almost touched by Campbell. Almost making contact with a keeper who almost falls over will always be seen as a foul by referees. Goalies are like baby seals, a protected species.

Cardiff played a clever trick of shooting straight at Adrian who lacked the good manners to step away from the middle of the goals. I counted 5 shots straight at him. There were more.

What did we learn?

One: Cardiff are slow in bringing the ball forward. Bellamy once again reminded everyone how it should be done, with direct and impressively creative runs but no one seemed in the mood for learning.

Two: Wolf, I cannot type Eikrem, was cool on the ball and must learn not to  shoot straight at a goalkeeper, it upsets them. Makes them feel as if everyone is patronising them. He must understand his team mates are doing it wrong, you must aim the ball for the netting either side of their keeper.

Three: Solskjaer needs to get a winger and a forward. Ok Maybe a couple of wingers.

Four: Cornelius would have been over valued at 5 million let alone ten million and did someone say his fee could be twenty million by the time all the costs are added together? IN fairness he may prove me wrong, but he is far from doing that right now – and I hope he does prove me wrong.

Losing Rude Gestede was as unwise as buying Cornelius.

Anything good we can take from the Cardiff v West Ham game? Yep at least we don’t have to play with Andy Carrol a man who makes Cornelius look as sublime as Chelsea’s Hazzard on a good day.