The Cardiff City Herald
Squad13 Sep 2038
A fracture rules Gabriel Osho out for 54 days
Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Cardiff City will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.
Match11 Sep 2038
7 matches without a win for Cardiff City
The run now stands at 7, and the questions being asked around Cardiff City are no longer polite ones.
Player ratings13 Sep 2038
Cian Ashford, 33, rolls back the years — 8.52
There is an age at which every good afternoon gets described as a throwback, which is unfair and also accurate. 8.52 at 33, and nobody on the pitch was better.
Squad13 Sep 2038
Tempers go at Cardiff City
Dan Ballard 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.
Squad13 Sep 2038
Words at Cardiff City training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Matthew Young is at the centre of it, and the squad will now find out whether the standard rises or the pair of them simply stop speaking.
Match11 Sep 2038
Cian Ashford’s goal not enough for Cardiff City
Cian Ashford scored, and precious little else went right: 1‑2 to Chelsea, and a quiet walk to the dressing room.
Squad13 Sep 2038
No hiding place for Matthew Young
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Matthew Young, and the manager let it.
Player ratings13 Sep 2038
Nobody could get near Alex Castiello
Successful dribbles: 19. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Market13 Sep 2038
The Ollie Tanner question follows Cardiff City around
Every press conference now starts and ends the same way: with Ollie Tanner’s future. The manager has run out of new ways to say nothing.
In brief
- Player ratings Renzo Cupla never got going
- Player ratings An afternoon John Marshall will want back
- Market Cardiff City put Sebastian Berggren up for sale