The Cardiff City Herald
Squad31 Mar 2036
A knee injury of the worst kind for Maciej Krzempek
38 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Cardiff City lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.
Squad31 Mar 2036
Tempers go at Cardiff City
Nicholas Young was at the centre of it, and by the time it was pulled apart there were three or four others involved. Training grounds are small places and long seasons make them smaller.
Squad31 Mar 2036
Felix Horn Myhre is slowing down
At 37, 3 points below where he was, and a body that has started charging interest. It happens to all of them and it is still the hardest paragraph on this page.
Squad31 Mar 2036
Isak Brusberg falls out with a teammate over standards
The oldest argument in any dressing room and the only one that is genuinely about football: one man thinks another is not putting enough in. It is also the row a manager privately does not mind having happened.
Market31 Mar 2036
The Roko Šimić story refuses to die
It has been denied twice and printed three times, which is the usual arithmetic. Until Roko Šimić signs something — a contract at Cardiff City or anywhere else — this column belongs to him.
The dugout31 Mar 2036
The manager makes an example of Lovro Fanjak
“If you cannot run for the shirt, somebody else will wear it.” No name was used and none was needed; every player in that room knew who it was for.
Match31 Mar 2036
Cardiff City in the hunt for Europe
Position 5, 65 points, and a run-in that decides whether next season has Thursday nights in it. Nobody is calling it a race yet, which is what people say during one.
Market31 Mar 2036
Daniil Shamkin runs his contract down
3 months remain and no agreement is close. Every week without a signature costs Cardiff City money.
The dugout31 Mar 2036
A door opens for Peter Butler
He asked about his future and was given an answer with minutes in it. The manager has now made a promise in a building where promises are remembered, and the clock on it has started.
In brief
- Market Cardiff City put Joseph Thompson up for sale
- The dugout Daniel Wright knocks on the manager’s door
- Boardroom The Cardiff City academy earns its keep