The Bitter and Twisted Cardiff Fans

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Liverpool supporters love describing their rivals across the part as ‘bitter and twisted’. If you spent more than ten mind numbing minutes in the company of an Everton supporter you would know why.

Every ungiven penalty, every own goal, every game against Liverpool, all the biased reffing. It goes on and on until it reaches how Everton were the best side in England in the 1980s at the very same time English teams were banned from Europe - following the antics of you know which team.

I now have complete sympathy for the rancorous Everton fans. With the premiership curtain about to fall on Cardiff City, may be for a long time to come, I am officially bitter and twisted.

Last night Swansea played Arsenal and drew. Forgive me. They played an Arsenal side depleted of Ramsey, Özil, Wiltshire and Walcott. No such luck for us. The Arsenal midfield trio played such scintillating football at the Cardiff City Stadium we almost felt honoured to be beaten by them.  Cut the almost, I would pay good money to watch the sublime trio of Ramsey, Özil, Wiltshire interplay, cut back and fore across the field carrying a ball connected to their feet as if by an elastic band. Maybe the nearest I will get to watching Barcelona.

Why can’t Cardiff play against an Arsenal B team?

Swansea equalise with a ball that bounces off the keeper’s feet rebounds off Flamani and rolls into the goal. Two deflections. When will Cardiff get one deflection or one own goal?

Penalties! Cardiff remain the only side not to be awarded a penalty this season. What is that about? When Cardiff played at Anfield Skirtle took less than ten minutes to realise the ref was not going to give city a penalty. Thereafter he spent every corner and free kick wrestling Cardiff players to the ground. Every corner was a cast iron penalty, not one was given.

Everton, of the bitter and twisted fans fame, beat us with two impossibly fluky goals. One deflection and the other a sliced shot that somehow span into the only area of the goal where there  wasn’t a Cardiff player - and it was pretty much the last kick of the match.

Someone up there has got it in for us.

You’d think Solskjaer is due a mammoth amount of good fortune as a balance against the iniquities of the season. Well good, let them start at West Brom on Saturday. I want one deflected goal, one own goal and a goal scored in the final minute.