Who is Cardiff’s Player of the Year thus far?
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. I’m partly writing this to jog my own memory. Who is Cardiff’s Player of the Year thus far, for example? Here, I shall make a case for three of this […]
Remembering Blackpool, 10 Years On
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, taken from behind him. You can see that the ball is heading in and I can see me in the crowd. My head is just above the crossbar in the […]
Malky Mackay on Peter Whittingham
When I arrived at Cardiff and looked at the squad, Peter was one of the players I was very interested to see up close at training and was genuinely excited that he was still at the club. I had known him from playing against Villa and Cardiff. I realised the danger he possessed with that […]
VFTN x Andy Legg – Part Two
Part two of our exclusive chat with Andy Legg, on his time in charge of Cardiff’s Under-23’s, his departure, his thoughts on the club’s youth development and what the future holds for him. Two and a half years ago, you returned to the club to work with the under-23’s. What’s your view on the situation […]
VFTN x Rabbi Matondo
Your moves to Manchester City and Schalke are well documented, but I was hoping to find out more about how you got in to football and how you ended up at Cardiff. You were born in Liverpool, so what age did you move to South Wales? Around two-years-old, so I basically grew up in Cardiff. […]
Why Cardiff should go all out for Lyle Taylor
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. That is both on the pitch, where behind closed doors games (something I am very much opposed to) are being proposed, but also off it too. We do not even […]
VFTN x Glyn Chamberlain – Part Three
In the third and final part, Glyn Chamberlain, now Head of European Scouting at Blackburn Rovers, but currently grounded like the rest of us, reflects on his final transfer window with Cardiff and his time at the club as a whole. Curtis Nelson and Gavin Whyte also both arrived from Oxford. They felt like a […]
VFTN x Glyn Chamberlain – Part Two
In part two of our exclusive interview with Glyn Chamberlain, we talk about Lee Tomlin, Gary Madine and his remit for a surprise promotion to the Premier League, including a failed move for Tammy Abraham. The signing in that window that everyone was excited about was Lee Tomlin. It was strange though because his long-standing […]
VFTN x Glyn Chamberlain – Part One
Glyn Chamberlain was Cardiff’s Head of Scouting during Neil Warnock’s reign and certainly has a tale to tell. In the first of three parts, he talks about taking charge, overhauling the scouting network and his first transfer window. How did you end up at Cardiff? Was it due to an existing relationship with Neil (Warnock)? […]
What happens when the football stops?
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 time soon. All games are off until at least the start of April, but if the expected trajectory of the Coronavirus continues, and it is thought to peak somewhere around […]