With My Little Pick and Shovel - A Cardiff City Story

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EUROPEAN CHAMPIONSHIP KNOCKOUTS
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We face a huge test against Portugal in the Second Round (A team we lost to 3-0 in a pre-tournament friendly), the winner of this tie will face Greece or Croatia in the Quarter Final

EUROPEAN CHAMPIONSHIP SECOND ROUND
Wales 2-0 Portugal
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Morris, Pugh, Giggs, Walsh, Thompson, Grant, Felgate (Huws 45), Ramsey, Cook, G.Williams (Bale 74), Thomas (Sampson 87)
What a performance! We revered to our 4-5-1, having ditched it for a 4-2-3-1 against Scotland and Sweden and it worked a treat, nullifying Portugal's various attacking threats before hitting them with devastating counter attacks. Portugal, like Italy before them, didn't create much and were stopped by the "Red Wall" as we handled them superbly. Jamie Thomas scored a great breakaway goal to give us the lead before Gareth Bale and Danny Sampson played an excellent one-two to guarantee us passage into the Quarter Finals

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Greece in the Quarters, interesting....

EUROPEAN CHAMPIONSHIP QUARTER FINAL
Greece 0-1 Wales
After Extra-Time
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Morris, J.Williams, Giggs, Bellamy, Fox, Grant (McCoubrey 110), Felgate (Ramsey 76), Huws, Cook (G.Williams 107), Bale, Sampson
The name Danny Sampson will be sung in pubs for years! The game was extraordinarily cagey but it was obvious we were the better side as we created more than Greece. The goal just didn't come though and it took us until extra time when Aaron Ramsey slipped through Swindon Town's Danny Sampson, whose powerful effort put us in the Semi Finals

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We will face Denmark in the semis, Denmark beat Germany 1-0 in their Quarter Final so are obviously a good side​
 
EUROPEAN CHAMPIONSHIP SEMI FINAL
DENMARK V WALES
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Both Wales and Denmark have performed well above expectations in reaching the Semi Final of this year's European Championship. For Wales, this is the first time since 1958 that they have progressed beyond the group stage, whilst Denmark will be thinking of their historic triumph in this competition back in 1992

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Both sides have gone for slightly defensive formations, with Denmark's appearing the most attack-minded of the two

KICK-OFF
38th Minute-Pugh with throw, inside to Lloyd, plays the ball to the pack post for George Williams!! Oh he'***** the post!
43rd Minute-Wales win the ball back in their own half, they'r playing the ball around nicely, it's played back to Grant, forward to George Williams, infield to Emyr Huws, he spots Gary Lloyd in acres of space, he finds him, Lloyd sets up the cross, he's whipped in towards Thomas... THOMAS!!!! 1-0 TO WALES!!!

HALF-TIME
Denmark 0-1 Wales
A very tight, cagey affair so far
SUBS-Denmark have made all of their substitutes, bringing on Mikkel Duelund, Yussuf Poulsen and Andre Romer to replace Soren Johansen, Pione Sisto and Alexander Munksgaard. Wales remain unchanged

SECOND-HALF
55th Minute-Emyr Huws is replaced by Chris Pennock for Wales
62nd Minute-Mitchell Grant stands over the free-kick for Wales, he's about 20 yards out, he steps up.. it hits the post and... GOAL!! 2-0 TO WALES!!!
69th Minute-Jordan Williams replaces Aaron Ramsey for Wales
77th Minute-Duelund stands over the corner, its flicked on by Poulsen.. ZOHORE!!! 2-1!
92nd Minute-Kirk with the free-kick, headed away by Williams, Duelund is in acres of space, he hits it!! Over the bar! And that's it! Wales are in the Final!

FULL-TIME
Denmark 1-2 Wales
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Not the most exciting game but who cares?

Who do we play in the Final?
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We will play France, who beat England 1-0 in their Semi-Final clash​
 
Sorry for the delay, I had to go out for a while, game finished and update up soon though
 
EUROPEAN CHAMPIONSHIP FINAL
FRANCE V WALES
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ROAD TO THE FINAL
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[TD]FRANCE[/TD]
[TD]WALES[/TD]
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[TD]MD1[/TD]
[TD]Israel 1-1 France[/TD]
[TD]Wales 3-2 Italy[/TD]
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[TD]MD2[/TD]
[TD]Switzerland 1-2 France[/TD]
[TD]Scotland 2-2 Wales[/TD]
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[TD]MD3[/TD]
[TD]Denmark 0-0 France[/TD]
[TD]Wales 2-1 Sweden[/TD]
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[TD]GROUP FINISH[/TD]
[TD]2nd[/TD]
[TD]2nd[/TD]
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[TD]SR[/TD]
[TD]Spain 1-3 France[/TD]
[TD]Wales 2-0 Portugal[/TD]
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[TD]QF[/TD]
[TD]France 3-2 Belgium[/TD]
[TD]Greece 0-1 Wales[/TD]
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[TD]SF[/TD]
[TD]France 1-0 England[/TD]
[TD]Denmark 1-2 Wales
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France have an endured an arguably harder route to the final than Wales have, facing some top teams like Spain, Belgium and England while Wales will be attempting to channel the so called "12 Year Rule" in their hunt for a first ever major international title

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Both sides are lining up fairly defensively, with France the more attack-minded of the two

KICK-OFF
28th Minute-Bourdin picks the ball up for France he turns and plays a long ball out wide to Coman, Coman takes a touch inside, he beats his man, takes a strike that goes harmlessly over the bar
42nd Minute-Griezmann, in to M'Changama, he holds it up well, turns and hits it! Good save by Morris

HALF-TIME
France 0-0 Wales
0-0, but France have been the better team so far
SUBS: Dominique Senechal replaces Kurt Zouma for France. Aaron Ramsey replaces Adam Felgate for Wales

SECOND-HALF
56th Minute-Florian Thauvin replaces Kingsley Coman for France
62nd Minute-Anthony Martial replaces Samir M'Changama for France. [FONT=&quot]Danny Sampson replaces Jamie Thomas for Wales

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FULL-TIME
France 0-0 Wales
The referee finally brings a drab second half to the close, Wales have held out extremely well against their more illustrious opponents

EXTRA-TIME
94th Minute-Chris Pennock replaces Emyr Huws for Wales
101st Minute-Thompson, throws the ball inside to Sampson, back to Thompson, back to Sampson, he beats his man and takes the ball to the byline, pulls it back for George Williams!!! GOAL!!!! 1-0 TO WALES!!!
105th Minute-Pogba, out wide to Griezmann, he whips the ball in for Thauvin, its a bit of a scramble it falls to ANTHONY MARTIAL!! WHAT A SAVE BY RIKKI MORRIS!

HALF-TIME
France 0-1 Wales
France seem stunned and continue to fail to create many chances

SECOND-HALF
105th Minute-Varane, infield to Pogba, forward to Martial, he's fouled by Mitchell Grant who's already been booked, he's beckoned over b the referee, and he's off! An early shower for the Premier League winner as he trudges off the pitch with tears in his eyes, he knows how costly this could be
120th Minute-Its now or never for France as Sampson holds the ball up for Wales, he's lost it and its played forward, Danny Bellamy takes control of it, he's hassled by Martial but coolly plays it back to Morris who smashes it forward.. and that's it!!! Its all over here in Barcelona and it has finished Wales 1 France 0

FULL-TIME
France 0-1 Wales
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An incredible defensive display gets us over the line in Barcelona

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2023/24 SEASON REVIEW
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This season has been nothing short of amazing with us winning the Premier League for the first time in our history and becoming the first Welsh club to win it in the process

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A top season from us in both the league and the FA Cup

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We returned from awards night with a whole host of awards, including Top Goalscorer, Players' Player of the Year, Goal of the Season, Golden Glove, Players' Young Player of the Year and even Manager of the Year!

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In our own awards night, Greig Boyle won Player of the Year and Young Player of the Year, Aaron Ramsey won Signing of the Season and Alfredo Martinez won Goal of the Season

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Greig Boyle was out Top Goalscorer with a huge 52 goals in all competitions, Andre Green had the most assists with 25, Greig Boyle had the highest Average Rating with 7.94 and had the most Man of the Match awards with 13

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RETURN OF THE KING
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Cardiff City have today announced the return of Aaron Ramsey, having joined from Arsenal on a free transfer

Ramsey, 33, has returned to the club for his fourth spell at Cardiff, with this being his second permanent spell with the club.

The Caerphilly-born midfielder started his career with the Bluebirds making 16 appearances before leaving for Arsenal for £4.8m at the age of 17

The Wales captain returned to Cardiff on a month-long loan spell in 2011 to regain fitness after suffering a horrific injury against Stoke City in 2010

He spent last season on loan at the Bluebirds, making 9 league appearances in Cardiff's historic title win

"Rambo" made 374 league appearances for Arsenal, winning the FA Cup three times as well as one Champions League with the club

The midfielder is also one of his country's most-capped players, making 112 appearances for the national side
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ZIELINSKI JOINS RAMS
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Derby County have today announced the signing of Polish central midfielder Daniel Zielinski from Cardiff City for a fee of £29m

Zielinski, 23, has signed a deal worth to be around £180,000 per week at Pride Park, a huge increase on the wage he earned at Cardiff, a club he has publicly addressed his love for.

The midfielder, who has made 57 appearances for his country, became an icon with the Bluebirds faithful as he lifted six trophies with the club, including the Premier League, a Europa League and 2 FA Cups

He made 240 appearances in all competitions for the Bluebirds after joining from Lech Poznan for just £2.5m in 2017
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BLUEBIRDS BAG CROATIAN DUO
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Cardiff City have today announced the signing of two of Croatia's brightest young stars for a comined fee of £7.5m

The Premier League champions, who are known for splashing the cash on younger players, have shown that despite their recent success and takeover, their focus is still on long-term success

The most expensive of the duo was striker Mirko Mesaric, who has joined the Bluebirds from Croatian champions Dinamo Zagreb for a fee of £4m

Mesaric, 17, made headlines when he became the youngest goalscorer in Dinamo's history when he struck against Inter Zapresic at the age of just 16 years and 330 days
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The other player to join was 16 year old midfielder Mihael Vuljanko, who has signed from NK Lokomotiva for £3.5m

The playmaker made 6 league appearances for Lokomotiva last season, scoring 2 goals and bagging an assist in his debut season

Vuljanko, like Mesaric, becme his club's youngest ever goalscorer when he scored against Inter Zapresic, with Vuljanko scoring t the age of just 16 years and 39 days
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CARDIFF SIGN TWO
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Cardiff have today announced the signing of two players for a combined fee of £11m

The first player signed and the most expensive was Wales star Danny Thompson, who has joined from Hull City for £6m

Thompson, 24, can play in a variety of positions, including each defensive position and in midfield and was a vital part of Hawkins' European Championship winning side, for whom he played as a left-back

Thompson, who was born in Cardiff, began his career at Newport making a total of 62 league appearances before becoming their record sale when he joined QPR for £700,000 as an 18 year old

He made 61 league appearances for QPR before joining Hull for £2.1m, making 98 league appearances for the Tigers, he is also an integral part of the Wales team and has earned 22 caps for his country
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The second to sign was German youngster Christian Ludwig, who has joined the Bluebirds from Bayer Leverkusen for £5m

Ludwig, 16, has made 1 appearance for the German Under 21 side and is held in high regard in his homeland
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BLUEBIRDS IN HUGE DEADLINE DAY DEAL
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Premier League champions Cardiff Cit have lit up an otherwise drab deadline day with a record breaking transfer

The Bluebirds have splashed the cash and finalised their defence for the foreseeable future by buying 24 year old Pangiotis Koulopoulos for a club record fee of £42m

Koulopoulos arrived from Gelsenkirchen earlier this morning for a medical before signing his £110,000 per week contract, becoming Cardiff's record signing in the process

The defender, who has 48 caps for Germany, spent 10 years at Schalke after joining from boyhood side Dusseldorf, who are in line to make over £8m from his transfer to Cardiff

Koulopoulos made 180 league appearances for Schalke, winning the European Golden Boy award during his time there. He has been a long-term target of the Bluebirds, with Cardiff having many bids knocked back over the years

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[FONT=&quot]Koulopoulos a german player...... hummm he's got nationality but I think he from greece too[/FONT]​
 
AUGUST
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Following an unexpected European Championship winning campaign with Wales, its back to club football with the Premier League champions

COMMUNITY SHIELD
Manchester City 0-0 Cardiff City
Manchester City win 3-0 on penalties
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Meret, Krejci, Jair, Tausendpfund, Gunter, Brown, Martinez (Grant 69), P.Boyle, Pritchard (Oliver 59), Angerschmid, G.Boyle
A poor match to kick off the season as both sides attempted to shake off rustiness. To keep a clean sheet wasn't bad but to miss all three penalties is completely inexcusable

BARCLAYS PREMIER LEAGUE
Cardiff City 2-0 Derby County
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Meret, Krejci, Tausendpfund, Jair, Nakagawa, Brown, Grant, Martinez (Felgate 65), Oliver (Pritchard 80), Block (Lacazette 65), G.Boyle
A lack of wingers meant we had to deploy a narrow 4-3-1-2 today and it worked pretty well in a routine victory over Derby. Two goals in three minutes from former Bayern Munich teammates Max Block and Gunther Tausendpfund gave us an early lead which crushed Derby's spirit and provided us with the perfect start to our league campaign.

BARCLAYS PREMIER LEAGUE
Leicester City 0-0 Cardiff City
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Meret, Krejci, Jair, Tausendpfund, Nakagawa, Brown, Grant (Ramsey 65), Martinez, Oliver, Block (Angerschmid 65), G.Boyle
A dominant performance which lead to... a 0-0. We had 20 shots but only 2 were on target which just isn't good enough

BARCLAYS PREMIER LEAGUE
Cardiff City 0-1 Wolverhampton Wanderers
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Meret, Krejci, Jair, Tausendpfund, Nakagawa, Brown, Martinez (Ramsey 71), Oliver, Pritchard, Angerschmid, G.Boyle (Block 71)
We had 19 shots, with 6 on target, Wolves had... 1. An absolute joke as we failed to put away chances, Greig Boyle really has to buck his ideas up

LEAGUE TABLE
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Not the best start, we really need to start scoring goals

TOP SCORER: MAX BLOCK +GUNTHER TAUSENDPFUND (1 GOAL)​
 
SEPTEMBER
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A shaky start to the season which we have to improve on this month

BARCLAYS PREMIER LEAGUE
Southampton 0-1 Cardiff City
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Meret, Krejci, Jair (Grant 84), Koulopoulos, Nakagawa (Gunter 84), Angerschmid, Brown, Martinez, Oliver (Ramsey 59), Block, G.Boyle
A solid start to the month with a dominant performance and win over Southampton, still using the 4-3-1-2 due to the injuries to Andre Green and Paddy Boyle

BARCLAYS PREMIER LEAGUE
Cardiff City 0-1 Watford
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Meret, Jair, Koulopoulos, Tausendpfund (Lacazette 74), Krejci, Brown (Block 84), Nakagawa, Grant, Martinez, Pritchard, G.Boyle
A dominant performance with the opponent getting 1 shot on target, this is getting frustrating now

LEAGUE CUP THIRD ROUND
Cardiff City 3-1 Manchester City
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Meret, Krejci, Jair, Koulopoulos, Nakagawa, Brown, Martinez (Felgate 85), P.Boyle (Lacazette 61), Oliver (Pritchard 85), Angerschmid, G.Boyle
A very good performance sees us progress into the next round of the League Cup, one of the few competitions I am yet to win as Cardiff City manager

BARCLAYS PREMIER LEAGUE
Manchester United 2-0 Cardiff City
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Meret, Krejci, Jair, Koulopoulos, Nakagawa, Brown (Grant 62), Martinez, P.Boyle, Oliver, Angerschmid (Pritchard 62), G.Boyle
A poor performance away to United where we really didn't get going. A poor performance all round which sums up our season so far

LEAGUE TABLE
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We haven't really got going yet this season but I'm confident we will eventually

TOP SCORER: JAIR, GREIG BOYLE, MARCO ANGERSCHMID, PADDY BOYLE, GUNTHER TAUSENDPFUND + MAX BLOCK (1 GOAL)
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WALES
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Two European League games to tide us over until the World Cup Qualifying draw in December

EUROPEAN LEAGUE DIVISION C
Wales 3-1 Cyprus
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Darlow, Pugh, Giggs, Bellamy, Thompson, Ramsey (Huws 83), Felgate, Lloyd, Pennock (Cook 67), James, Roberts
A good performance as we get three points on the board in our first game. We took the lead only to be pegged back but fortunately we managed to grab two more goals, albeit late goals, to get the win

EUROPEAN LEAGUE DIVISION C
Latvia 1-5 Wales
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Darlow, J.Williams, Grant, Bellamy (Barlow 45), Thompson, Felgate (John 67), Huws, Cook, Pennock, James (Owens 67), Cullen
Latvia somehow made the Euros and were smacked about a bit in their group, which included Germany and Russia. We continued the smacking around of Latvia with a huge 5-1 win away from home, with Mitchell Grant grabbing an unlikely hat-trick

LEAGUE TABLE
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Its between us and Norway for top spot, the games against Norway are the only games of importance for us in this group

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**** yeah​
 
OCTOBER
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Our porr start is seriously threatening our chances of even European qualification this season, we need to start improving

BARCLAYS PREMIER LEAGUE
Cardiff City 0-0 Liverpool
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Meret, Krejci, Jair, Koulopoulos, Nakagawa, Brown, Martinez (Felgate 64), Green, Oliver (Pritchard 64), Angerschmid G.Boyle
A frustrating match as we never really got going against Liverpool, who never got going either which lead to a drab, disappointing performance from both sides

BARCLAYS PREMIER LEAGUE
Arsenal 2-1 Cardiff City
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Meret, Krejci, Jair 60, Koulopoulos, Nakagawa, Brown, Martinez (Grant 60), Green, Oliver (Pritchard 58), Angerschmid, G.Boyle
A fairly evenly-matched game that we probably would have won had Jair not had a moment of stupidity and screwed us over with a red card. Things really aren't going our way at the moment

BARCLAYS PREMIER LEAGUE
Cardiff City 1-1 Chelsea
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Meret, Krejci, Koulopoulos, Tausendpfund, Nakagawa, Brown, Martinez, Green, Oliver (Pritchard 60), Angerschmid, Carlos
A performance typical of our season as we dominated Chelsea only for them to score their only shot on target late on and look ike they were going to win, and they would of had it not been for Marco Angerschmid's spirit as he pegged them back almost immediately

LEAGUE CUP FOURTH ROUND
Cardiff City 3-1 Liverpool
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Meret, Krejci, Jair, Koulopoulos (Grant 64), Nakagawa, Brown (Felgate 64), Martinez, Green, Pritchard, Angerschmid, G.Boyle (Block 64)
Finally! A win! A pretty convincing victory puts us through into the next round. Hopefully our League Cup form will translate into the Premier League

LEAGUE TABLE
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We need to improve

TOP SCORER: GREIG BOYLE + MARCO ANGERSCHMID (2 GOALS)
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WALES
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Norway at home and Cyrpus away in our toughest duo of fixtures of this European League campaign

EUROPEAN LEAGUE DIVISION C
Wales 3-1 Norway
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Ward, Pugh, Grant, Bellamy, Davies (Knight 82), Ramsey, Jordan Williams (McCoubrey 60), Cook, Lloyd (Bale 57), G.Williams, Thomas
We dominated early on and took an early lead but allowed them back into the game and they soon scored their equaliser. Fortunately two goals in 4 minutes from Jamie Thomas and George Williams showed the Norwegians who's boss

EUROPEAN LEAGUE DIVISION C
Cyprus 1-3 Wales
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Ward, Pugh, Grant, Bellamy (Barlow 68), Knight, Felgate, McCoubrey, Cook, Bale (Lawrence 80), G.Williams (Harris 56), Roberts
An early wobble as we conceded a penalty which lead to the Cypriots' goal. Fortunately we pegged them back 6 minutes later but couldn't score again for some time, which lead to worried looks in the dugout as it looked like we might lose our 100% record. Fortunately we scored straight after half-time and doubled our lead 12 minutes later to confirm the victory

LEAGUE TABLE
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1 more win confirms first

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**** yeah​
 
NOVEMBER
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Its time to get going, we have a decent run of fixtures which should help us get on the right path

BARCLAYS PREMIER LEAGUE
Leeds United 0-3 Cardiff City
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Meret, Krejci, Jair, Koulopoulos (P.Boyle 82), Nakagawa, Brown (Grant 68), Martinez, Green, Oliver (Pritchard 55), Angerschmid, G.Boyle
A solid away victory as we smash Leeds, a good performance and hopefully we can get more results like this as the season goes on

BARCLAYS PREMIER LEAGUE
Cardiff City 1-0 Burnley
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Meret, Krejci, Jair, Koulopoulos, Nakagawa, Brown (Grant 65), Martinez, Green, Oliver (Pritchard 65), Angerschmid, G.Boyle
A sole Greig Boyle goal was enough for us to grab another three points as we dominate Burnley, nullifying them and doing just about enough to win

BARCLAYS PREMIER LEAGUE
Nottingham Forest 0-2 Cardiff City
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Meret, Koulopoulos, Jair, Tausendpfund, Nakagawa, Brown (Grant 66), Martinez, Green, Oliver (Pritchard 57), Angerschmid (P.Boyle 83), G.Boyle
A goal from Greig Boyle just before half-time gave us the lead we deserved, we had to wait a bit longer than I would have liked for our second but fortunately we got it through Gareth Pritchard which allowed us to cruise through the rest of the game

BARCLAYS PREMIER LEAGUE
West Ham United 0-1 Cardiff City
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Meret, Krejci, Jair, Koulopoulos, Nakagawa, Brown, Martinez, Green (P.Boyle 84), Oliver (Pritchard 59), Angerschmid, G.Boyle
A good performance where we managed to bag the victory through a second half header. We should have scored earlier and had more than 1 but 1 will do

LEAGUE TABLE
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A few ground out victories has propelled us up the league and that will do me nicely!

TOP SCORER: GREIG BOYLE + MARCO ANGERSCHMID (4 GOALS)
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WALES
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Two more games to round out our European League campaign

EUROPEAN LEAGUE DIVISION C
Norway 1-2 Wales
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Morrish, Pugh (Gunter 83), Giggs, D.Bellamy, Thompson, Grant (C.Bellamy 70), Ramsey, Felagte, Lloyd, James, Roberts (Williams 49)
Goals in the first and last minutes of the first half were enough for us to beat Norway and to secure promotion to Division B, Sam Williams and Christian Bellamy made their debuts

EUROPEAN LEAGUE DIVISION C
Wales 3-0 Latvia
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Morris, Pugh, Grant, Bellamy, Thompson, Felgate (Gunter 80), Jordan Williams (Ramsey 57), Cook, D.Thomas, G.Williams, Roberts (J.Thomas 45)
Two early goals killed the game as a contest as we just passed the rest of the 90 minutes away. Jamie Thomas' 92nd minute goal added a cherry on our Latvian cake, Dale Thomas made his debut for us today and Tyler Roberts scored his 30th goal for Wales as he rapidly closes down Gareth Bale's record of 39. Roberts is already the second highest goalscorer in Wales' history at the age of just 25, ahead of players like Ian Rush, Craig Bellamy and John Charles

LEAGUE TABLE
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A very good campaign with 6 wins and a lot of goals. Brilliant.​
 
DECEMBER
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A strong November has seen us rise up the league, hopefully it has a knock on effect into this month

BARCLAYS PREMIER LEAGUE
Cardiff City 2-0 Sheffield Wednesday
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Meret, Krejci (Gunter 66), Jair, Koulopoulos, Nakagawa, Brown (Ramsey 89), Martinez, Green, Oliver, Angerschmid (Parry 66), G.Boyle
A comfortable 2-0 victory in my 500th game as manager of Cardiff. This win continues a long line of victories and is the kind of game we probably would have lost at the beginning of the season. Youngster Jamie Parry made his debut
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BARCLAYS PREMIER LEAGUE
Newcastle United 0-4 Cardiff City
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Meret, Krejci (Gunter 62), Jair, Koulopoulos, Nakagawa, Martinez, Brown, Green, Oliver (Ramsey 79), Angerschmid (Parry 62), G.Boyle
A 4-0 away win is a good win wherever we go, especially when its away to Newcastle. Our top players were on form today and we battered Newcastle to a pulp, these wins really help our goal difference

LEAGUE CUP QUARTER FINAL
Cardiff City 2-0 Derby County
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Meret, Krejci, Jair, Koulopoulos, Nakagawa, Brown (Miller 65), Martinez, Green, Oliver (Pritchard 65), Angerschmid (P.Boyle 65), G.Boyle
A routine 2-0 victory over a disappointing Derby County sides sees us into the Semi Final of the League Cup (The only domestic cup I'm yet to win), where we will face Manchester United... yay

BARCLAYS PREMIER LEAGUE
Cardiff City 4-0 Manchester City
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Meret, Krejci, Jair, Koulopoulos, Nakagawa, Brown, Martinez (Grant 60), Green, Oliver (Pritchard 60), Angerschmid (P.Boyle 85), G.Boyle
A HUGE win as we absolutely dominate a Man City side who have been incredibly poor so far this season. 4 goals in the first half allowed us to kill the game and rest key players in the second half

BARCLAYS PREMIER LEAGUE
Everton 1-1 Cardiff City
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Meret, Koulopoulos, Jair, Tausendpfund, Nakagawa, Brown, Felgate, Green, Pritchard (Block 79), Parry (P.Boyle 61), G.Boyle
One shot, one goal for Everton as fitness issues for us to field a rotated side that just didn't have the cutting edge of our first team. Very disappointing as we lose ground on our rivals

BARCLAYS PREMIER LEAGUE
Cardiff City 5-2 Tottenham Hotspur
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Meret, Krejci, Jair, Koulopoulos, Nakagawa, Brown (Grant 65), Martinez, Green, Oliver (Pritchard 65), Angerschmid, G.Boyle
The perfect response to our draw with Everton! We were 5-0 up at half-time and took our foot off the gas in the second half, allowing Spurs to score two and take the gloss off of the result. Our attacking players were on fire which gave Spurs no chance

LEAGUE TABLE
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Second is probably as high as we'll get as United just don't lose

TOP SCORER: GREIG BOYLE (11 GOALS)​
 
I'm thinking of making this my final season at Cardiff and joining a club in Scotland to challenge Celtic, would anybody be interested in reading that?
 
CHAMPIONS LEAGUE GROUP STAGE
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Our first season as a top seed in the Champions League gives us a group with trips to Greece, Spain and Portugal

MATCHDAY 1
Cardiff City 2-0 Olympiakos
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Meret, Jair, Koulopoulos, Tausendpfund (Bellamy 69), Krejci, Grant, Nakagawa, Brown, Felgate, Oliver (Pritchard 69), G.Boyle
A dominant display in our first Champions League game of the season. We kept 62% of the possession and didn't allow them a shot on target, converting 2 of ours to grab the three points

MATCHDAY 2
Sporting CP 1-0 Cardiff City
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Meret, Krejci, Jair, Koulopoulos, Nakagawa, Brown, Martinez, P.Boyle (Block 70), Oliver (Pritchard 53), Angerschmid, G.Boyle
An incredibly poor match decided by an unfortunate error from Mr.Consistent, David Krejci. Very disappointed to lose this one

MATCHDAY 3
Cardiff City 4-0 Atletico Madrid
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Meret, Koulopoulos, Jair, Tausendpfund, Nakagawa, Brown (Felgate 68), Martinez, Green, Oliver (Pritchard 68), Angerschmid, G.Boyle (Block 45)
An early goal from Marco Angerschmid gave us the perfect platform to build from which we did. Greig Boyle's penalty before half-time killed the match and allowed us to pass the game away in the second half

MATCHDAY 4
Atletico Madrid 3-3 Cardiff City
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Meret, Krejci, Jair, Tausendpfund, Nakagawa, Brown, Martinez (Grant 67), Green, Oliver (Felgate 67), Angerschmid, G.Boyle
A strange game where we dominated and were cruising at 3-1 but were lucky to get away with a 3-3 draw as Atletico pushed and pushed

MATCHDAY 5
Olympiakos 0-5 Cardiff City
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Meret, Krejci, Koulopoulos (Miller 69), Jair, Thompson, Brown, Martinez (Grant 58), Green, Oliver (Prithcard 58), Angerschmid, Block
A slightly rotated side did the business in Greece as we smashed Olympiakos 5-0 on a wet night Tuesday night, with German youngster Max Block bagging a brace to compliment David Brown and Andre Green's goals, as well as Olympiakos' own goal

MATCHDAY 6
Cardiff City 4-0 Sporting CP
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Meret, Krejci, Koulopoulos, Jair, Nakagawa, Brown, Martinez (Grant 61), Green, Oliver (Pritchard 61), Angerschmid, G.Boyle
A brace apiece from our two main goalscorers puts us through into the First Knockout Round as group winners. It was a dominant display that has banished memories of our loss in Portugal

LEAGUE TABLE
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A strong performance in the group stage sees us through as winners, we will play Sparta Prague in the First Knockout Round

TOP SCORER: GREIG BOYLE (6 GOALS)​
 
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