CARDIFF CITY - 14 games unbeaten in the league…. Could it continue v Blackburn?

Glik signed today and arrived in Cardiff 20 minutes before kick-off

 

Before tonight’s showdown – Cardiff v Blackburn – Cardiff had been squeaky clean, 14 leagues games unbeaten, pushing for the play offs and in Kenwyne Jones a striker as good as any in the division against a Blackburn side who for the last 7 days have been beset by a little controversy.

Last Saturday they dominated Sheff Wed to only see a late penalty given against them (a shocking decision). This was followed by a disappointing cup defeat at Stoke where they were robbed by some shocking more refereeing. Then there was the infamous Pisano Gate scandal and a shocking 3-0 defeat against the ‘Good Doctor Fox’ whose advice Beddows had said had given him very poor advice.

Instead of getting ‘checked’ he elected to go to Cardiff a day early (Friday morning) in order to do some team activities in Snowdonia, paintballing to be precise to increase shooting accuracy and horse riding for the goalkeepers.

Beddows was delighted that his parcel from UPS containing new signing Kamil Glik from Torino arrived just in time for Kick off and he not only included him in the starting line-up but also gave him the captaincy on his debut.

And the team delivered 1 minute gone and Petersen scored (24^th of the season). 4 minutes gone Mark Noble made it 2. Birgimana made it 3 before half-time and great goalkeeping from Zoet (also known as Zeus) kept the score to 0.

Beddows then made his usual changes on 60 minutes and Rivas (the best player in GC279) came on and on 60 minutes with his first touch made it 4-0. Bertrand scored next, then Rivas (21 goals in 9 starts (33 as a sub)) again and Lowe 7-0…

"We knew that they were 14 games unbeaten... but we also knew that the individual socres from paintballing proved we were better than them. We were confident and expected to score goals tonight... just not so many. Well done to the lads. Instead of going home to their WAGs we are going to go directly to Ipswich... another tough but very important tie on Monday."

Great response by Blackburn. Beddows though whilst pleased with the performance and scoreline was more delighted with the fact that his good friend Kinnear dropped points again. Promotion is getting closer. Shame that ‘Dirty Leeds’ won again though.

Post match Beddows refused to confirm the rumours that he'd been asked by several Division Two managers that are currently in crisis including Doctor Fox and Kinnear that they too had requested the contact information of the Paintballing centre in Snowdonia as both sides look to find a solution to their own inability to score goals.