How good is good enough?
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 getting on at Middlesbrough, the answer would be very well, thanks. In roughly the same amount of time, he has taken Boro from 15th to 6th. It’s a tangible, clear […]
When loan signings leave you wanting more
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 a big, long term financial commitment, which is both a risk and a burden, but you have the security of ownership. If you borrow, you have more flexibility, but it’s […]
Leandro Bacuna – Public Enemy Number One
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 Ryan Giggs. A vocal minority of you, that is admittedly growing in to a vocal majority, thinks that he is not very good at football, but he is. Everyone playing […]
VFTN x Craig Bellamy – The Future
Steve Morison has stepped up from a very successful Under-23 side and has managed to instil some of the academy methods with some success. You played with Steve for Wales. How did you find playing with him and was he someone you expected to move in to coaching and management? I played with Steve and […]
VFTN x Craig Bellamy – The Present
I’ve been wrestling recently with whether the current crop of players are breaking through because they’re so much better than what has gone before, or is it just a culmination of circumstances and they’re finally giving them a chance? When I was at the academy, we had very limited resources. From day to day, we […]
VFTN x Craig Bellamy – The Graduates
You worked with all of the academy graduates that have broken through this season. All of them have impressed and I just wanted to ask you about each of them in turn. Kieron Evans had a taste of first-team football and impressed in his brief cameos, but others have overtaken him in recent weeks. I […]
VFTN x Craig Bellamy – The Academy
So, you’re back in Cardiff. When I spoke to you last Christmas, you rang me out of the blue because you were back home, at a loose end and we were all locked down, so there was no golf! When I posted our chat though, some people were suspicious of the timing. Neil Harris was […]
VFTN x Craig Bellamy – Coming home
First and foremost, how are you? I read your recent interview with Oliver Holt for The Mail on Sunday and you talked about struggles with your mental health and feeling isolated in Belgium due to Covid restrictions. You mentioned in that piece that you could feel your anxiety levels rise when you came home last […]
VFTN x Mark McGuinness
VFTN were lucky enough to chat to Mark ahead of the trip to Birmingham, where he popped up with a late, trademark towering header to secure an unlikely point. Undoubtedly Cardiff’s Player of the Year to date, McGuinness is now one of the first names on the team sheet and he talks here about his […]
VFTN x Danny Ward
You moved to Cardiff in the summer of 2017, having been relegated from the Championship with Rotherham and you were joining up again with Neil Warnock, who briefly managed you there. Was he a big incentive to join Cardiff? He didn’t need to sell it to be honest. Cardiff is such a big club and […]