In one of Craig Bellamy’s pre-match press conferences for Wales a little while ago, he said something unrelated to football that has stayed with me ...

As a very satisfying season draws to a close, a sole issue remains. Three of this season’s star performers will walk away from the club ...

It stands to reason that during a promotion season, there are lots of potential Player of the Year candidates. When the winner is announced, I ...

The EFL is back and it’s the home stretch now. Cardiff have a few more days to wait before they return to action, but their ...

Setting aside the match itself, Saturday was a great occasion. To see 27,280 at a Cardiff league game, in the third tier, was very satisfying ...

I’m not used to this. Sitting at my laptop and writing about yet another positive Cardiff display. Usually, I’m really trying to accentuate the positives, ...

As Cardiff enter the final third of the season, the finish line is fast approaching and you can see they’re starting to believe. In recent ...

Top of the league at Christmas, after a celebrated cup run, with a central striker that has already reached double figures. A manager lauded inside ...

Despite Wales being guaranteed a play-off berth, this international break felt a bit like make or break for Craig Bellamy. The expectation was to fill ...

There was a moment in the game against Burton Albion last night, a rare moment, when Cardiff broke the lines. Callum Robinson, who was not ...

It started with the old Sean Dyche trick of winning the toss, turning your hosts and making them attack the opposite end first. It ended ...

Cardiff fans have had a lot to complain about in recent years, but now they’re top of the league, with a good manager in place ...

Let’s be honest, things couldn’t have gone much better for Brian Barry-Murphy to date. Bearing in mind he was picking a group of players up ...

Last night was always going to be the greater measure of Cardiff’s current standing in League One and where expectations should be pitched for the ...

As far as first games go, it couldn’t have gone much better for Brian Barry-Murphy. Rubin Colwill, his choice as deputy captain, ran the show ...

If we were to reflect and assess Aaron Ramsey’s return to Cardiff, in all honesty, it panned out exactly as most people feared and expected ...

Joe Ralls has been around forever. So long in fact, that when he made his league debut, he came on for Kenny Miller, who is ...

After a lengthy, elongated search, the Brian Barry-Murphy era begins in earnest. Why independent assistance was required to identify Barry-Murphy, Nathan Jones and Aaron Ramsey ...

Like Liam Neeson in the Taken film franchise, a Cardiff manager requires a very particular set of skills. With the club looking for their ninth ...

You will have read plenty of hit pieces in the last few days. People are understandably angry and every word written will have been deserved. ...

Cardiff need a new manager. What normally now happens is the club seemingly invites applications, like they’re looking for someone to work in the club ...

Omer Riza has finally lost the loneliest job in football. By the end, he was asking for it, calling out supporters and snapping at post-match ...

There is an ongoing blame game amongst Cardiff fans, as they attempt to explain away yet another difficult season. Omer Riza’s credentials are often questioned, ...

Make no mistake, it’s crunch time. With seven games remaining, there is no longer any margin for error or room for excuses. Cardiff are in ...

There are bad days, then there are losing to Luton, Derby winning and Aaron Ramsey hobbling off days. Cardiff’s luck appears to have dried up ...

They say that success has many fathers, but failure is an orphan. The latter certainly seems to apply to Roko Simic, who appears to be ...

The Championship is carnage this year. It always is, but this year in particular, the division is particularly fierce and as it currently stands, every ...

No, seriously. How? Once upon a time, football players and celebrities in general existed in a bubble. We were very much on the outside looking ...

Saturday was special. You don’t get to experience too many perfect performances, so drink it in. Remember everything about it and store it away for ...

There was a passage of play in the recent draw with Coventry that typified Joe Ralls and his time at the club. Cardiff had dominated ...

QPR fans hate Chris Willock. They hate him because they loved him and he left. There is rarely scorn for players that were average or ...

Last season, Cardiff fans were able to enjoy a rare season where the same manager that started the season, also ended it. I say enjoy, ...

It’s that time of year again. No, not the build up to the January transfer window, although that line of questioning is now officially open ...

If you advertise a position at your company and are underwhelmed by the calibre of applicants that express an interest, chances are that your company ...

Outside of the 24 managerial posts, the next best gig in the Championship is the man next to the man at Cardiff. Paul Trollope, Steve ...

Cardiff don’t need a new manager, they need a hero. They’re not like other clubs. They don’t operate the same way, unfortunately, and its just ...

It feels like the writing is on the wall now, but maybe it was all along. The amount of time it took a seemingly reluctant ...

This time it will be different. With new players and a new approach, this time Cardiff would not only match Swansea, but better them. Lay ...

A youthful Sunderland side against a toiling Cardiff. An early goal conceded, a 2-0 defeat and familiar frustrations, but enough about last March! A new ...

This is the time of year when optimism is through the roof and bold claims are made. Every new signing at every club is greeted ...

Warning – The following contains plenty of speculation and hypothetical pondering! As Cardiff head into August, with the start of the season fast approaching, the ...

Robert Page is a terrible manager, but still the most successful manager Wales has ever had. Can these two statements coexist? For some, seemingly so. ...

Erol Bulut is the sixth longest-serving manager in the Championship and the 3rd of June will mark the one-year anniversary of his appointment. Is he ...

It’s that time of year again. Almost twelve months to the day, we were put out of our misery having waited beyond the conclusion of ...

If Cardiff beat Rotherham on Saturday, assuming the game isn’t rained off (never forget!), they will have recorded 20 wins for the season and 21 ...

The January transfer window was going to be a game changer. After a partial embargo, with a sustained diet of freebies and loans, Cardiff could ...

Cardiff need more goals in their team, but who doesn’t. Kieffer Moore was and will forever remain the silver bullet, but in the likelihood that ...

You put your left arm in, left arm out. With sights already firmly fixed on next season, we’re all doing the Erol Bulut Hokey Cokey ...

Now we know. That win earlier in the season was not the turning of a page, it was simply the confluence of exceptional factors in ...

What would constitute progress this season? It’s up to the individual, I guess. Anything higher than 21st is literal progress, but expectations, especially under the ...

Cardiff had a good week last week, and it’s been a while since the last one. The goalless draw with Blackburn will not win any ...

After a pair of identikit 2-0 defeats, Cardiff have now recorded a return of 17 points in 17 games, failing to find the net in ...

It’s taken Rubin Colwill a long time to become an overnight sensation, but maybe he has finally arrived. Having made his senior debut almost exactly ...

I don’t think I’ve ever known another transfer window quite like this one, for so many different reasons. Firstly and most importantly, spending was way ...

The January window has only been open for about three weeks, but it feels like we’ve all been talking about it since June. As soon ...

It’s that time of year again, the window where everyone gets all excited and not much of note ever actually happens. This year it may ...

The signs were not good as Cardiff headed into the congested Christmas period. With a daunting four games in nine days, it looked like they ...

As 2024 fast approaches, Cardiff are in a sticky spot. They’ve overachieved until now, but they’ve starting to stall. Whether that’s due to gravity, an ...

Cardiff are starting to struggle. That might seem like a daft statement while they’re currently sat in ninth place, a mere win away from the ...

The continued absences of Callum Robinson and Rubin Colwill had turned into a soap opera. Aaron Ramsey’s cruel injury curtailed Cardiff’s impressive start to the ...

Ramsey; two months, maybe five. O’Dowda; three months. Meite and Etete; a month a piece. Erol Bulut delivered the injury bulletin from hell at his ...

Drink it in, fill your nostrils and luxuriate in what has been a perfect week for Cardiff City FC. It doesn’t happen very often, as ...

A solid transfer window, under very difficult circumstances and plenty of promise, not yet reflected in results or league standing. It all feels a bit ...

They say never go back. They don’t know what they’re talking about. Had they never returned, you would never have got Craig Bellamy leading Cardiff ...

When the fixtures were released, Cardiff were immediately paired with an old foe and scheduled for an opening day trip to Leeds. It’s been a ...

Its nigh on impossible to predict the Championship ahead of a new season. You can expect the recently relegated Premier League teams to be there ...

Enthusiasm is a given. You expect that those involved with your football club will be enthusiastic about their task because working in football is the ...

This time last year, Rob Edwards was briefly celebrating winning the League Two championship with his swashbuckling Forest Green Rovers side. I say briefly because ...

At this stage, does it even matter who manages Cardiff? The turnover is so high that anyone joining is merely passing through and has very ...

Is Cardiff’s squad as bad as some seem to think? After a summer of massive upheaval, it was always going to be a season of ...

As Cardiff approach another summer with one arm tied behind their backs, they’re left once again with no option but to operate in the super-competitive ...

Cardiff are nearly home and dry. Even by the Championship’s wild and crazy standards, a six-point cushion with two to play should be enough to ...

Cardiff could be forgiven for having a full-blown existential crisis with regards to their academy. Having seen Charlie Crew and Gabriele Biancheri picked off by ...

Is Joel Bagan good enough to play for Cardiff City? This is the sort of question that will illicit very definite answers, one way or ...

Don’t get me wrong, the South Wales derby remains Swansea’s easiest game of the season, but maybe there are signs that Cardiff are finally ready ...

Last season, on the 9th April, Cardiff won at Reading to mathematically secure their Championship safety. It was a few days after a home trouncing ...

We’re cursed! There’s no other way to process the news that Callum Robinson is sidelined for the next month. Cardiff’s mini revival suddenly feels in ...

Cardiff win! This is not a drill! Two great goals, a clean sheet and a battling performance away from home has finally broken a rotten ...

It looks like Connor Wickham is coming, and that’s a great start, but Cardiff’s post-window recruitment drive shouldn’t end there. It’s time to load up ...

Such is the sliding doors nature of football that if Cardiff had held on to beat Leeds and Wigan, Mark Hudson may well have been ...

It’s that time of year, again. Cardiff need a new manager, again, but they don’t really need a manager. They need a hero. A mere ...

There appears to be a phone at the club and when it rings, you know what to do. If the order is shoot, you fire. ...

Brexit has a lot to answer for and you can add to the mix Cardiff’s chances of producing the next Rubin Colwill or Isaak Davies. ...

If you write about football, expect to be considered an idiot from time to time. It happens to the best of them, the worst of ...

If you ever encounter a fire, my advice to you is not to pour petrol on it. You risk making the situation a whole lot ...

Like Donald Trump supporters who insist the election was stolen and that their man was wrongfully overthrown, some Cardiff fans still insist that Steve Morison ...

Communication is key, in any walk of life. Whether in a relationship, a business or between a football club and its supporters. In this regard, ...

It’s that time of year again, and this year it will be all hands to the pump. With the majority of the squad set to ...

Cardiff and the ball have not always seen eye to eye. It’s very much a love/hate relationship. A can’t live with you, can’t live without ...

I get a lot of grief on social media for being critical of Steve Morison, but I think he’s doing a really good job. Criticism ...

How is Steve Morison getting on? It should be a simple enough question, but it’s anything but. Were you to ask how Chris Wilder was ...

The transfer market is a lot like the housing market. You always have the option of either temporary or permanent. If you buy, you make ...

Before we start, let me just remind you that Leandro Bacuna is not a criminal. He is not a threat to society. He is not ...

If, as expected, Steve Morison is named Cardiff’s manager for the foreseeable future, then the academy is indeed truly having a breakthrough year. With a ...

My first encounter with Mehmet Dalman was on January 8th 2015, at a meeting arranged to discuss a return to Cardiff playing in blue. In ...

I’ve seen a few programmes recently highlighting the cruel, harmful way celebrities, and women in particular, were treated during the late nineties and early noughties. ...

Oh Mick, You’ve really gone and done it now. Where do we go from here? It beggars belief that he looked at the Blackburn game ...

Rubin Colwill is a notable, undoubted talent. On that I’m sure we can all agree, but what happens next? That is a little bit trickier ...

Sometimes you need to take a step back in order to move forward. I’ve thought this on several occasions already watching Cardiff this season. They’ve ...

In the 69th minute on Saturday, Barnsley hit a diagonal ball from deep in their own half, 50 yards from left to right. Joel Bagan ...

Maybe you have a vacancy for your new favourite Cardiff player. It could have been Sol Bamba or Joe Bennett, significant players in Cardiff’s recent ...

Zero. And yet… Look, this is not intended as an exercise in pissing on anyone’s chips. Its nice to dream, especially during times like this, ...

While we all await the release of next season’s fixtures, our first glimpse of the new kit and the identity of those two players Mehmet ...

It would appear that only Dylan Phillips, Curtis Nelson, Joel Bagan, Perry Ng, Leandro Bacuna, Rubin Colwill, Kieffer Moore, Tom Sang, Max Watters and Gavin ...

Remember Junior Hoilett? Canadian guy, about 5’8, used to patrol the left side of the team. He used to be a regular, but was last ...

Hey guys, it’s that time of year again! The clocks have gone forward, the football season is limping towards the line and players are running ...

Aden Flint was shit. Too slow, too old and not good enough for Cardiff City. Except now he’s a legend, an undroppable asset that is ...

Kieffer Moore will break. it feels inevitable. His workload is unsustainable and it’s already happened once before. The last time Cardiff faced Swansea, Moore tore ...

Kieffer Moore may prove to be the first striker in 10 years to match Jay Bothroyd and reach 20 goals in a season, but the ...

Remember when right back was Cardiff’s problem position? Not anymore. It already feels like a while ago now, such has been Perry Ng’s instant impact. ...

When you spend time in Craig Bellamy’s company, two things strike you. The first one is that he’s different. When you regularly speak to football ...

Farewell, sweet prince. As Filip Benkovic joins a suspiciously, ever-increasing list of players that can be loosely termed ‘Cardiff rejects,’ we’re left to wonder what ...

These days, you never know what you’re going to get from Cardiff. Not just from game to game, but also between individual passages of play. ...

In football, we all know when we’re being lied to.  When Neil Warnock used to say that Bobby Decordova-Reid couldn’t get in the side because ...

If you’re talking about Cardiff’s best players thus far this season, Marlon Pack has to be in the conversation. Yet most conversations about Marlon Pack ...

Watch how Harry Wilson scurries across the pitch. The first time I saw him do it in a Cardiff shirt. It felt like I was ...

Cardiff are not going to find another Lee Tomlin. He’s a rare beast and if you had one, why would you let them go?  There ...

If you think football behind closed doors is a bit flat and lifeless, you should see WWE wrestling without fans. The artifice is heightened and ...

As expected, Kieffer Moore is Cardiff’s first signing of the summer, and there are several reasons why that is reason to celebrate. Firstly, he’s a ...

“They were better than us, much better than us. We have been beaten by a very, very good side.”  “We were far too passive in ...

Hull are not down yet, but they are really. Three points adrift at the foot of the table with a horrendous goal difference, their defeat ...

As Cardiff set about tacking on an extra month to Danny Ward’s dwindling deal, and not affording Omar Bogle, Jazz Richards or Matthew Connolly the ...

Well it looks like the season will soon return, rightly or wrongly, and it’s not the easiest of tasks to recall what has gone before. ...

There is a famous photograph of Charlie Adam’s goal for Blackpool in the play-off final against Cardiff that is almost a point of view shot, ...

We do not know when football will return, but it is safe to say that it will look very different when we next see it. ...

So, the football stopped then!? The sport that never really stops has ground to a halt and there is no sign of it resuming any ...

Neil Warnock was on fine form recently, filling in as a pundit on Soccer Saturday. A born raconteur, he had the panel in stitches with ...

Here we go again. On a rather dire night all round, where Nottingham Forest (NOTTINGHAM FOREST!) departed Cardiff with all three points, Josh Murphy, who ...

At the top of the football food chain, Erling Haaland was this season’s must-have accessory. If you were not already aware of his work, you ...

Cardiff City, HUH!, what is it good for? Well… After a nothing transfer window, expectations are rather low for the rest of the season. The ...

There is an ongoing situation in the NFL relating to the Washington Redskins. The club are coming under increasing pressure in relation to their name ...

Not only is Michael Calvin a brilliant football writer, with several great books to his name, he is also a Millwall supporter and spent a ...

The January transfer window is rubbish. Every year is the same, yet it always seems to come as a surprise. It’s nothing like the summer ...

Farewell goal machine. Gary Madine is gone and the less said about him the better, but his release got me thinking because it all felt ...

Lee Tomlin is the success story of Cardiff’s season. He’s always had the ability, his talent has never been in question, but the application side ...

Neil Harris has his hands tied in the January transfer window. He has been restricted to temps and sloppy seconds, which may not be such ...

Cardiff have significantly underperformed this season and in this scenario, it seems that someone always needs to pay. When times are tough, there is always ...

I think most people expect Nathaniel Mendez-Laing to go in to hibernation during the winter months. He has developed a bit of a reputation for ...

Remember October? The international break has afforded VFTN the opportunity to reflect and last month already feels like a world, and a Warnock, away. Whereas ...

As is customary, here are five things to expect from our new leader Neil Harris and its mostly all positive stuff, apart from the first ...

Who knows what sort of shape Cardiff will be in come January and having spent a fair whack in the summer, it remains to be ...

Not all Swansea fans are knuckle-dragging neanderthals. VFTN know a very nice one, and Guto Llewellyn also lives behind enemy lines, so has more riding ...

Tonight will see Kadeem Harris return to the Cardiff City Stadium and come face to face with his replacement, Gavin Whyte. It will be an ...

The fact that Will Vaulks has more chance of playing for Wales these days than Cardiff is a bit weird. After all, it’s not like ...

Leandro Bacuna is the worst player I’ve ever seen in my life. Remember that? Only a few weeks ago, some were going in on Bacuna, ...

Alex Smithies has had to wait a long time for his chance and he’s done OK, but Neil Etheridge walks straight back in to the ...

When we decided to introduce a VFTN Player of the Month for this season, we expected it would be fiercely contested and fiercely argued, but ...

With Marlon Pack not expected to play again this side of Halloween, Cardiff are sifting through the existing raft of free agents. Here are our ...

Cardiff fans certainly have a type and if you’re not that type, you’re destined to be in for a rough ride. I remember Gareth Ainsworth ...

The Emiliano Sala tragedy still has the power to take your breath away and every revelation, like the recent carbon monoxide claims, just feels like ...

I know no one else still cares about this, but I often wonder what might have happened had Tom Ince joined Cardiff. I’ve been thinking ...

Look, Gareth Bale wants to come home and it’s up to us to make it happen. Alright? He’s not loved like he should be in ...

No longer quite as urgent as it may once have been, Neil Warnock has stated that a winger was on the list and with Kadeem ...

A central midfielder is central to Neil Warnock’s plans, so we’ve identified three options worth a ponder; Scott Johnson – James McCarthy http://gty.im/1145197895 James McCarthy ...

What is better than one Murphy? Two. Just think about it; interchangeable Murphys. One on each wing. Imagine the telepathy. Seriously though and lazy stereotypes ...

The Championship displayed a wealth of fearsome attackers last season. The likes of Neal Maupay, Che Adams and Olly McBurnie are sure to be very ...

Most people will have barely noticed Cameron Coxe until recent reports of Manchester City interest. If true, surely Cardiff are missing a trick? The right ...

Remember Lewis Holtby? A few years back, he was the cat’s pyjamas. Back when England were in desperate need of more technically gifted players, they ...

A couple of games ago, Oumar Niasse simply vanished and no one really noticed. That just about says it all really. Neil Warnock’s undisputed first ...

Cardiff ended the season with an unexpected flourish, beating Manchester United, albeit a shadow of the former titan, in their own backyard. It was deserved ...

As the market becomes awash with free agents, clubs will also start to target players that are heading in to the final year of their ...

After the heartbreak of a controversial, late loss against Chelsea, attention quickly turns to the daunting trip to face Manchester City on Wednesday. It is ...

Free agents tend to fall between two stools; either injury prone former prospects or players very much in the twilight of their career. Every now ...

What to say about Oumar Niasse. I’m really rather fond of him, but he’s one of those that also gets my back up a little ...

Everyone is pondering how to fix Cardiff. How to bring back that loving feeling. Woah, that loving feeling. Now it’s gone, Gone, GONE! One of ...

Rafael http://gty.im/1023142488 Of course, like most of these suggestions, dependent on whether or not Cardiff City are a Premier League side come the summer, but ...

As Rabbi Matondo becomes the latest British prospect to head for the Bundesliga, Cardiff fans en masse wonder: ‘yeah, what happened there?!’ A Tremorfa boy, ...

The January transfer window is upon us and Cardiff City are seeking reinforcements. An area of concern for Neil Warnock is the centre of midfield, ...

Cardiff are currently scouring Europe for upgrades, but maybe they need look no further than La Liga. After all, if they can find a few ...

The January transfer window is nearly upon us and Cardiff City are in desperate need of a striker. A goalscorer is hard to come by. ...

Callum Paterson – Ben James http://gty.im/1077337604 When you think of players that sum up the season so far, only one man truly springs to mind. ...

As I write this, I’m acutely aware that I may get some stick. Yet, I’m still going to write it and send it out for ...

It’s time to head to the roof and light the signal. Cardiff need Batman and Robin right now. Fortunately, they already have a dynamic duo ...

On Thursday January 8th 2015, I was fortunate enough to attend a meeting at the Cardiff City Stadium to discuss the future of the football ...

The need for Cardiff to sign a striker in January is glaringly apparent, but who are the viable options? We can all rattle off the ...

Without a Premier League budget, chances are that Cardiff’s January shopping will be conducted in the Championship. Fear not though, as Josh Murphy and Bobby ...

You can picture the scene. The Cardiff City Stadium, its dark, someone is rummaging through the bins. “Who goes there?!” cries a caretaker. “It’s me, ...

As attention turns to the looming January transfer window, I’ve given some thought to the players that might be up for grabs and attainable for ...

I was so excited when Cardiff signed Lee Tomlin. Neil Warnock and Tomlin seemed like the perfect marriage. A father figure for the wayward genius, ...

Scott Johnson Football fans never cease to amaze me. Never in a million years did I expect that Joe Ralls challenge on Lucas Moura would ...

Greg Cunningham is not good enough. I know this because the internet told me so. Social media’s hive mind has passed judgement based on two ...

With Cardiff Premier League bound, summer thoughts turned to which members of the promotion-winning squad were capable of making the step up. A mean defence ...

10 – Kelvin Etuhu on loan from Manchester City, 2009 http://gty.im/99158334 Picture the scene; a sweltering Wembley, 22nd May 2010, Jay Bothroyd pulls up lame ...

Yes, I know it’s a bit mean, but we’ve already covered Cardiff City’s best 20 signings! Look, if you’re getting it right 50% of the ...

“Everyone knows we’re probably one player missing,” claimed Neil Warnock in his post-match press conference after Cardiff bombed out of the Carabao Cup on Tuesday. ...

After a strong start, Cardiff have lost their way a little bit in the transfer market recently. The early bird catches the worm and Neil ...

With the Marko Grujic saga dragging on and Cardiff in the hunt for two central midfielders, VFTN have surveyed the options and come up with ...

As everyone awaits the big unveil of next year’s strip, I have delved through nearly twenty years worth of kits and rated them based on ...

What Neil Warnock achieved with Cardiff last season was remarkable, but maybe he deserves even more credit than he has already received. Outperforming far bigger ...

Cardiff have done great business already this summer. They’ve brought in a quality goalkeeper as back up to Neil Etheridge. I was slightly concerned that ...

Junior, what took you so long?! #CardiffCity are delighted to announce that @jnrhoilett has today signed a new three-year contract! 💙 👉 https://t.co/9HaY71d2fJ#CityAsOne 🔵⚽️🔵⚽️ pic.twitter.com/d9DZXsBbxO ...

10 – Jay Bothroyd from Wolves, 2008 http://gty.im/109352052 It’s hard to picture Jay Bothroyd in a Cardiff shirt without also picturing Dave Jones on the ...

It’s that time of year again. The transfer window is open and the new signings are starting to arrive. It’s always more fun in the ...