Tuesday 23 December 2014

He's Gone...


He's gone... 


City's best youngster since Rambo has been sold for buttons in the reduced section.  

Friday 19 December 2014

CVDJs Christmas Soundtrack MP3 Mixes!


For all your festive soundtrack needs be sure to check out the CVDJs vault and Soundcloud page. Seasonal tidings to all. 

Monday 8 December 2014

Cardiff City 0 Rotherham 0 - Fan Resists Nap Urges!


I limped into the ground Saturday following a night shift with the baby, weary and carrying little patience levels but psyched for the game nonetheless.

Although it was a pleasure to spend an afternoon not rocking a baby or talking about poo, what the Bluebirds served up on the grass was a miserable performance at best. It’s not good for an underslept man to be subject to such a dreary game but I’m chuffed to say I resisted a nap in the stands (just) thanks only to industrial strength coffees.

Many would disagree, but there are positives to come from this disgraceful Rotherham snooze draw. City are now unbeaten in four matches and have kept three clean sheets during this run.

The booing at full time was a bit dramatic if you ask me. 

Who is booing the players you f**king knuckle draggers? It seems, if they’re not winning, the team takes the flack for the other bulls**t going on in the corridors of power at the club, notably Evil Lord Vincent Tan and his evil endeavors. 

I didn't understand how Cardiff City supporters could boo the players after the decent run they've had. This was one bad game at home and City still sucked a point out of it.

Granted, everyone can see it’s not like watching a free flowing Real Madrid team every week at the moment but when has it ever been? We all know Kim Bo Kyung is not worthy of a professional footballer contract (nevermind a starting spot in the team) and there’s a lack of creativity all round. 

... But don't boo the team. 

Here (below) is an example of the creativity of show Saturday... 


The next two games are against Bournemouth and Brentford, both teams in the top four. City have struggled against the bottom clubs so far, but have shown better form when it comes to in-form teams like those two. 

Given this latest result though.... anything could happen. 

Monday 1 December 2014

BREAKING NEWS - Bluebirds No Longer Pussies!


Woah. Just as I’d begun writing off City’s season on account of them laying down for tummy tickles when they play away games, they go and bring the points back from Watford in a gharly 0-1 victory .

My brain had not registered this outcome as a possibility AND it was a fixture-less weekend for my team Llantwit Fardre FC 2nds so on Saturday afternoon I found myself in Mothercare buying baby bottles instead of following the match. Judge me accordingly.

I would have rather been purchasing pink baby accessories at the retail park than putting myself through another infuriating stint on BBC Radio Wales hearing that City had laid down and died at an away game again.

Then, I tuned in via an FM frequency in my kitchen with 30 minutes to go…

It seemed that Adam Le Fondre (below), who has been working hard like a dog lately but playing like a broken man who’d smashed a mirror with the ladder he’d just walked under, had scored a goal (A GOAL!!!) 


To say Le Fondre needed a goal was an understatement along the lines of saying my Mum is bad with technology and hopefully A.L.F has now bitch-slapped the monkey on his little back.   

The team had rode their luck but defended like beavers and stuck to a plan to gather up a morale boosting win in tricky conditions in London.

It’s 16 points out of his first 8 games in charge now for new manager Russell Slade and whichever way you look at it that's strong. If the Bluebirds can harness the positive vibe from the away victory it could see them push into the top six going into the impending festive football frenzy.

The Championship table is as wide open as it’s ever been - like the mouth of Santa when I asked for a 4K TV. Here we are In December and no team looks like they can run away with it. Derby looked strong but lost again at the weekend, Norwich and Watford appear to have pussed out and can anyone see Bournemouth or Brentford sustaining their form? Me neither.   


City are giving themselves a chance. 


Monday 24 November 2014

Cardiff City 2 Reading 1 > Bore Win!


At home, the Bluebirds don’t lose games (that’s five straight wins now) which is probably for the best given the away form is the opposite.

Are fans getting complacent?  Friday night the atmosphere was as flat as a fillet of sole and so was the game with City cruising so much in the second half I was nodding off

(Watching a drab game is not a good place for an under-slept man to be).     

We felt the Reading fans singing about the stadium being a library was a complete disservice to libraries. There were numbers in the ground (20k) but no sound. Was it the grim football? (Pulses were not exactly racing) Was it the impending rugby the following day? Or has everyone just had a f**k full of all the disenfranchised soap opera bulls**t?

Against an average Reading team, City were decent at times but played the tedious safe pass too often and conceded another comedy goal late on. A win's a win though yeah? 


With away trips to both Watford and Bournemouth coming up we will find out more about whether Cardiff can amount to anything this season. A clean sheet last time on the road at Birmingham is a start but can Sladey turn the away day pussies into men and nick more points with backs to the wall? My optimism is plagued with doubt.


Kudos to Peter Whittingham (The Enigma) though for bagging us a staggering £28 loot at the betting kiosk **

** = CV does not condone betting on CCFC. Do this at your own risk. 

ON THE CHARGE! > Llantwit Fardre 2nds 7 (SEVEN) v Pontypridd Town 1 (ONE)


The Fardre 2nds are on the charge after another resounding victory in the mud, making it seventeen goals scored in two games. 

Perhaps the turning point came just after half time...

At 2-0 down Pontypridd Town made a game of it pulling one back and their coaches boldly screaming ‘There’s only team in this!’ from the touchline.

Ironically, the excited visitor’s coach’s observations galvanised us and prompted a frantic five goals in fifteen minutes mauling leaving things at 7-1 on the whistle. 

Scarier tests against the league's big guns loom for the Fardre though and this form might have come at a good time.  


Post match nutrition: 


'Can we have a side salad please?' said nobody to no-one. 

Monday 17 November 2014

ROAD TRIP! > Nelson Cavaliers 1 (ONE) v Llantwit Fardre 2nds 10! (TEN)



This Saturday the Llantwit Fardre 2nds were on the road for a potentially tricky trip to mid table Nelson Cavaliers FC. 

Last time out the 'Cavs' proved a tough test in a gross scrappy game we ended up winning 1-0 on home turf back in August thanks to a dramatic penalty save from our keeper Ian Sweeney. 

This time out things were different… 

With our squad sprinkled with Fardre first team galactico dust, from the off the boys were foaming at the mouth for goals, going 0-4 up within fifteen minutes. The Cavs were dazed and on the ropes. By half time it was 0-8 with our front players twisting the host’s blood.

After six weeks out, missing three games and becoming a zombie insomniac since Gwen was born in early October, I (thankfully) started from the bench.

I managed to get on up top and within thirty seconds was presented with a chance to score with my first touch. With fellow sub / all round worthy human James Pickett bursting into the box from full back like a young Cafu, he selflessly slid me in. Whilst internally planning my goal celebration mid-stride I went for power, only to see the Cavs keeper raise an arm and deny what would have been an outrageous intro. The football fate gods had sadly not sanctioned this.    

(I owe you a goal James). 

Moments later, I then had a downward header saved miraculously in Gordon Banks style. The Cavs were having a grim day but the keeper was a pretty handy shot stopper in the sticks to be fair. 

The next chance came on the break in injury time when the ball zipped across the penalty box mud to me for a one-on-one and this time I gave the keeper the zombie eyes and side-footed one into the top corner.     


This win will hopefully breathe new life into the Fardre 2nds campaign with a clash next week at home against Pontypridd Town.

Still lots of work to be done (especially on my lungs). With my goal tally now on two (2) though I'm on course for my season target of five (5)! 

More to follow. 

Monday 10 November 2014

GAME CALLED OFF! - Rain issues deny Llantwit Fardre FC 2nds v Talbot Green



After missing what felt like three years (it was three games) in the aftermath of my daughter being born I was finally back in the match-day squadron this weekend as the Fardre 2nds aimed to continue our unbeaten home record at (fortress) Tonteg Park against our local rivals. 


The game though was unfortunately called-off due to what can only be described as RAIN falling on our pitch making it all wet, muddy and even creating puddles and the like (sigh). 

Pre 2008, this would've meant a bonus beer day at the bar with the boys... but in 2014 it means I was at home rocking the baby, changing nappies and wrestling with my older one. 

We'll try again next week. 


FAO Cardiff City Strikers

Lads, you know who you are 

This below is a barn door. 

We feel you practicing hitting a ball against it will help you hit the target in a 'proper' game. 


Wednesday 5 November 2014

Bolton 3 Cardiff City 0 - Pussies Strike Again!

Why isn't this man aloud to play anymore? 


&... why are City such a bunch of pussies on the road? 


Time to get this beast back in the defence... 


Monday 3 November 2014

Cardiff City 3 Leeds 1 - Haters Gonna Hate (Peter Whittingham)


Sir Peter of Whittingham has again found himself bitched about and trash talked in the press again this week following City’s defeat at Millwall last Saturday where they got roughed up by some douchebags in London. Granted, the Bluebirds played like a bunch of pussies that day but why do some (even 'professional' 'journalists') see this as an opportunity to make one of Cardiff’s best players a scapegoat dragging his name through the dirt? That day, Whittingham wasn’t on form but neither was any other player.

He’s the type of footballer who fans will often moan about if they’re not seen making or scoring goals (in Whitts’ case from outside the box!) or sprinting around the whole pitch tackling like a lunatic for the entire game.

After a flat game the haters are quick to forget his dead ball delivery which is outrageous for the Championship and one of the Bluebirds most deadly weapons – and don’t forget he’s also got a fierce shot in his arsenal.

The most valuable thing he does though is keep the team ticking over with a steady stream of short possession, an overlooked skill harder than it looks to maintain over the course of a game… and a series of games… and a season.  

Whitts’ function in the team machine is similar to a bass player in a band, he will subtly keep things moving in the background, keeping time and getting a rhythm going. He won’t slide on his knees and pull out a hair-metal guitar solo but without him in the equation the whole operation falls apart.

It’s not unlike my own function in my household at the moment after our daughter was born a month ago. I’m not the star of the show giving birth to babies, but I do load / unload the dishwasher, put the bins out and make tea for visitors.  

In Cardiff’s case, fans (especially the fickle f**ks who sit by me) may not appreciate Peter Whittingham's worth until he’s gone. 

Everyone has an opinion on football, it’s just a shame we have to listen to the people who have a meatball brain instead of a football one.    

Anyway, onto Saturday's game against Leeds... 


Away form and clean sheets might continue to be a problem for City at the moment but home form isn't with four straight wins in a row now.

After our weird pre-game burger and a dire first half, we can only assume Russell got stuck into the boys at half time because the second half was played at a higher tempo and more oomph. 

In end City could and should've scored more. 

Leeds may have been a physical beast but not much more and this week City stood up to the task. Adam Le Fondre in particular took a thankless pummelling up front and Aron Gunnarsson threw his weight around in the middle to good effect. 


Sorting out the attitude and performances on the road could go a long way to the outcome of this season and, with two away games at Bolton and Birmingham this week, City have a chance to push things forward. 


Worth noting at this point is Slade (above) regenerating the once joyous Malky Mackay post match victory fist pump. Can we see it at away grounds too please sir?  

Monday 27 October 2014

A Game of Inches


Football can be a mother**ker sometimes as we all know. Just as it can make you higher than Afroman with joy one week it can frustrate you into a week-long grump the next - spitting your dummy out and drop-kicking your cat (poor Diego). 

This weekend was a mouth-watering one for me with the Bluebirds going to Millwall live on Sky following two back-to-back wins, then there was my personal return to football action for Llantwit Fardre FC reserves after a few weeks on paternity duty. AND, for fun, the fate gods had even laid on an ‘El Clasico’ on TV that evening.

So, in the early hours of Saturday morning while changing nappies and surviving sleep deprivation, I dreamt of another gnarly City away win.

While my five year old climbed into our bed and onto my face asking me to read a Lego book at 7AM I dreamt of scoring a goal on my return for Llantwit, of FC Barcelona beating Real Madrid and then a Chinese takeaway and beer to top off a day of glory.

What transpired though was a rather grim reality on all three fronts. 


Firstly there was Cardiff City falling on old habits, playing like a bunch of pussies at Millwall. 

After their last two games they should have been confident but there was no answer to the physical battle from the hosts. 

Granted, If Adam Le Fondre had taken his chances in the first-half it would’ve been different but he didn’t and Millwall went on to bully the points out of City.

The game was dog ugly but the margins were slim.

Russell Slade, who it turns out is NOT the messiah, now has the task of stopping the players sulking about this set back and picking them up for another war against Leeds this weekend.

Do the Bluebirds believe they can get promoted? Slade needs to reboot a few of the lads brains.

Coinciding with Cardiff’s defeat was me ending up withdrawing from the Llantwit Fardre squad for the game that afternoon to help out at home – There were to be no goals. 

Then there was FC Barcelona rolling over for a tummy tickle in the ‘Clasico’ and add to that a lack of Chinese takeaway that evening and you've got a pretty weak day all round. 


As a final kick in my ballbag, that night the baby didn't feel like sleeping leaving me walking around Sunday like a goth zombie. 

I love football. 




Monday 20 October 2014

Cardiff City 2 Nottingham Forest 1 - NEW DAWN!


The new dawn has begun with a pleasing grubby win against a Forest team unbeaten and flying high in the table.

It seems there’ll be no more f**king about as new coach Russell Slade means business. With training sessions doubled in the week, and suggesting he will demand blood from the players, things are certainly changing at Cardiff City.

Although many fans turned their nose up at his appointment (including this blog!) questioning his CV, Russ has made a solid start. 

There's a long way to go of course but this opening performance was full of his buzzwords: ‘Character’, ‘Togetherness’ and ‘Desire’. City fans need this medicine after putting up with almost a year of the previous regimes hair-fairy prima-donna ego s**t. 



The ante had even shot up in the technical area with Russ prowling his zone with authority barking orders and hairdryering the officials, opposition and even his own players at every opportunity. 

After an age of Solskjaer sitting detached in the home dugout emotionless day-dreaming, this was a welcomed site. 

We even got to hear Russ call the lino a ‘F**king bottler’ which was a personal highlight of mine.


The work continues as City face another ruck against Ipswich tomorrow night and then Millwall away on Saturday. 


Saturday 11 October 2014

International (Blog) Break

This week our daughter Gwen was born. 

Blog action will return here following the 'International Break'.

(By then I might have washed the puke off me)

Stay tuned. 


Hopefully, when I return to the pitch in a few weeks, I will get chance to do the Bebeto baby rocking celebration! *




* = wishful thinking 

Monday 6 October 2014

Cwrt Rawlin FC 4 v Llantwit Fardre 2nds 2



The Fardre 2nds perplexing losing streak now spans three matches, with the latest coming this weekend in Caerphilly (see above) against Cwrt Rawlin FC, as we exited the cup with but a shrug and a whimper.  

With our latest opposition currently ripping s**t up in our league table, it was to be a tough game. Perhaps the kind not suited to an ageing hungover team on a bad run carrying injuries. 

In a classic 'game of two halves' scenario we stormed into a slick 0-2 lead leaving the hosts in a bit of a tizz at half time with their panties in a right bunch. 

With the game appearing to be the game of Cwrt Rawlin's lives though they upped the ante after the break, running around ALOT and asking questions of our desire to hold onto the lead and stamina to see it through.  

Before we could blink it was 2-2 with our Goalkeeper Sir Ian Sweeney losing his mind and then having to go off injured due to severe stress. 

Fardre morale dropped like a stone (a massive heavy one) as the hosts surge continued taking them into an incredible 4-2 turnaround. 

So, after snatching defeat from the jaws of victory, the Fardre 2nds can now concentrate on resurrecting our form in the league table. 

Who's up next? Cwrt Rawlin FC away :) 

Wednesday 1 October 2014

Brighton 1 Cardiff City 1 - Refreshing Ugly Points


Caretaker Managers Scott Youngy Young & Danny Gabbs Gabbidon are steering the CCFC ship rather pleasantly through choppy seas picking up another point on route to a three game unbeaten run.

As new manager in waiting Russell Slade waits in the shadows for the nod on his looming appointment the temporary coaching team continue to get team selection and tactics bang on the money.

Under Ole Gunnar Solskjaer last night’s result simply wouldn’t have happened with the Norwegian probably making his default ring of team changes and playing nine up front. Youngy and Gabbs though are showing us they aren’t mugs and for once the football and results are doing the talking.

Digging deep and suffocating the life out of away games is the way to climb the Championship table and add home wins to that and you’re on the right path.

With the quarrelling between City top brass and Leyton Orient over new Manager Russell Slade’s employment looking like dragging on until at least 2017, the temporary coaching brotherhood may need to carry on their productive ugly magic. 


At this point a nod should also be given to big Ken for that header. 

Monday 29 September 2014

Cardiff City 2 Sheff Wed 1 - Winning IS FUN!



The Pops pulled out of this one suffering from what can only be described as C.C.A.D (‘Cardiff City Aided Depression’). 

He says 'Man Flu' but we all knew what he meant.

Given how dire visits to the stadium had been lately, luckily pre match myself and his replacement Sam had Prozac to hand (if required) and loads of Werther's Originals / Cookies.

Pre match over a brew we noted the arrival of proposed new manager Russell Slade strolling through the corporate area of the ground unnoticed. In a giant room of a few thousand City fans, nobody bar me batted an eyelid as Russ strutted through with a bodyguard. 

Perhaps this will change soon if he ever gets appointed.  


The Bluebirds were a revived different team from the helpless drips that played midweek in the cup and it seemed that Youngy and Gabbs’ (above) subsequent hairdryer treatment had worked. 

A few minutes in, Fabio busted a lung to clear a shot off the line with a shin to prevent us going behind and this moment turned the game. After a month of laying down to die, City were finally fighting.

It was two lads who we've been on the backs of lately who came up trumps with the goals, Sean Morrison (who also scored an own goal after the restart to pull Wednesday level) and Anthony Pilkington whose sharp volley secured City's first league win since mid August.  

It could've been more of course with the introduction of loan signing lunatic Ravel Morrison who had a slick thirty minutes from the bench (below). 


City have lacked a nasty streak for some time and to see a player who would happily turn up to fight Gary Medel in a car park coming off the bench is a breath of fresh air.

Ravel might be a nutter (potentially carrying a knife in his sock) but he’s got the toes to win games too and drag our sorry rears up the table. 


As we know, in the Championship, there are seven hundred games a week, and this week is no different with tricky away games at Brighton and Blackpool coming up.  

Will Russell Slade be appointed by then? The way it’s gone so far I would say no. It seems City are struggling to finalise the deal for Slade for whatever reason. 

With Youngy and Gabbs laying into the team and getting results though it isn't a massive problem is it? 

Wednesday 24 September 2014

Cardiff City 0 v Bournemouth 3 - Too Much To Stomach



We left in rage on 70 minutes. 

Not since the infamous play-off defeat to Reading during the DJ era have I witnessed a performance with such little fight from a City team and we are now a club in crisis. 

Crisis of leadership, crisis of values and crisis of confidence. Who knows where this turmoil will end but it will not be promotion. 


The depths to which the so-called 'strongest squad in the Championship' sunk in the gruesome opening half hour was too much to stomach. 


Football (particularly Cardiff City FC) makes you suffer on times and right now I cant even look at it, never mind contemplate turning up for more on Saturday v Sheffield Wednesday. 

The City admin crew need to get this new coach appointed sooner rather than later to give them time to sort this lifeless s**t out.

Tuesday 23 September 2014

CCFC Manager Hunt Gets Weird!


Well everyone, it appears it’s pretty darn easy to get an interview for the current Cardiff City Manager’s vacancy.

A decent record on ‘Football Manager 2014’ will apparently make you a contender for the role in Vincent Tan’s eyes as the City board attempt to further understand what football actual is.

The list of supposed ‘candidates’ to succeed Ole Gunnar Solksjaer and drag our sorry backsides up the league is uninspiring at best with almost each subject requiring a thorough googling. 

In fact, given the substandard quality on said grim list of doom I'd even prefer to stick with caretaker managers and club men/legends Scott Young and Danny Gabbidon. 

These lads may be inexperienced but do actually give a shiznit. 


So, why haven’t City identified local warrior Tony Pulis as a candidate? If not only for the way he pronounces the word ‘mark’ (‘Maaaaaaaaark’!). 

An obvious capable successor is ready and waiting for a call but the board are too clueless to see what’s in front of their eyes. 

The Premier League manager of the year is apparently not good enough but the League One equivalent is? 



Another classic facepalm moment is imminent for City fans. 

Brace yourselves.