Sunday, 27 April 2014

Cardiff v Sunderland, theoretical physicists and the ugly truth. It was horrible while it lasted. City exit the premier league.





So all over now. Maybe there are some theoretical mathematicians who can use a high powered Cray computer to demonstrate that just a single win over Newcastle or Chelsea could keep us up. But to the rest of us, the fat lady has sung and returned home to her reinforced bed.

Miserable. 

Sunderland striker Connor Wickham (left) watches as his header puts his side in front against Cardiff

Cardiff lacked guile and passion. You need both to win matches but either quality would be good. And I am not talking about just this match. We were poor in these last games against the bottom clubs. Poor and second best. Sunderland, Stoke, Palace and West Brom are not top tier stuff and we were always second best.

Ok I was wrong. Solskjaer wasn’t the right man for the job at that time. It couldn’t have been worse with Malky’s two banks of four could it?

But Solskjaer will be good long term. Won’t he? Eh? Surely? When he gets his players in to play his way? All right I don’t know and I am fearful about the championship next year.

Over the season the lack of a goal scorer cost us. Maybe we needed more quality and Tan has a point when he says £30 odd million should have brought us more.

A season that began at home in extraordinary style with a victory over Manchester City is fizzling out like a late night fart. We just want it to go away.

It took us a couple of decades to get here and a single season to be forced out.

It has been a painful lesson. Survival in the premiership requires everything to function well and I am not quite sure what did function well this season. Marshall, Caulker and Medal.

But I bet I wake up on Monday morning saying; ‘well is we were to get 4 points from the next two games  what if …’
Let’s join the theoretical physicists and not the realists. The dream is still on.




2 comments:

  1. Tan brought in a novice manager for a relegation dog fight. The funny thing is (along with the fact that Pulis was available at the time) that Malky would have very likely kept you up because at least Cardiff under him could defend. Ole has certainly changed the team, not only do you struggle to score goals but you leak them at the back without mercy. With an already wobbly defense you are now also deprived of your first choice CB, the team has become more undisciplined under Ole so he carries the can here as well. Furthermore if Ole stays on he will need to totally change that team as the Championship will just eat you up and spit you out.

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  2. jared, Sadly we know all about the Championship. It is a two match a week dog fight that has seen off better resourced teams than us. Not convinced that Malky would have kept us up, teams got used to his two banks of four and there wasnt any room for variability. Are you a Cardiff fan (as you said the 'Championship would eat YOU ...?

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