Birmingham 0 Cardiff 0. City are the Abba and Radio 2 of the football world.

Cardiff City are a middle of the table team sitting in the middle of the table playing middle of the table football.

 Right in the middle. Position 12 out of 24. 

We are the middle of the road team of the division. The Abba of Football. The Radio 2 of soccer. 

From two poor teams in the bottom four we have taken exactly one away point.

We were clearly the better side at Birmingham but then the brummies were so bloody awful. Not so much Peaky Blinders as Blindingly Poor.

They couldn’t hold the ball, barely pass and until the final twenty minutes were convinced that the long ball was the only means of attack.

Cardiff were better through the middle but we don’t have goal scorers. No we don’t! Stop pretending. 

Yes I know we seemed to have every striker in the championship when the season began. Solskjaer was like a wife with a lottery win purchasing all the forwards going. Where are they now?

Neither Macheda nor LeFondre look as if they can score. I don’t know what’s happening to them. Both had chances and both looked like they had legs of jelly.

Fabio was dropped because of a bad game and true he can be found terrifyingly out of position at times. But without him we seemed to lack anyone who could unlock their defence. 

Matts Daehli wants a game? Then put him between the striker and midfield. 4-4-1-1. It is nearly 4-4-2 so it shouldn’t upset Russell’s lunch too much. He can pretend it is his usual formation but with an extra man in midfield when things get tense.

We were getting the ball into their box against defenders who had the same lack of confidence as our forwards yet still we couldn’t score - apart from one which was just offside.

Fabio does offer us another dynamic in attack. It means we have to allow for a three man defence at times. But how else are we going to unlock their defence? If he was being punished for Bolton then fine but get him back for Reading.

I thought we would come away with 4 points from lowly Bolton and Birmingham and am now relived that we have a single point from the two games.

We need to average 2 points a game to get promotion and we are not doing that. And we don’t look like we are going to do that.

The forwards aren’t working, so where are all the others we bought? 

We need Kenwynne back double quick. Kenwynne and Matts up front. They couldn’t be any worse?

Even if we beat Reading on Friday we will only crawl up to 11^th place. Then it’s high flying Watford away. 

Need some senseless cheering up? Uhm … still a long way to go. Lots of matches. Bournemouth flew from bottom to top in what seemed like days. No one is running away with the Championship yet. 

But twelfth! 

Middle of the road football team.