Cardiff or Montpellier? Supporting is not a crime.

You don't have to spend a fortune to be successful football team. The combination of greed and incompetence that City have suffered under successive (no surprise) greedy and incompetent ego-maniacs like Hammam and Ridsdale has seriously damaged the club. The amount of money both have taken OUT of the club is a disgrace (forget what the players are earning), and the stupidity of those running the stadium project (Ridsadale, Borley) and getting the club further into debt when it couldn't afford it is beyond any level of acceptability in a normal company (banks excepted). Ridsdale pays himself a million a year, Hammam took out millions in fees and god knows what else. The stadiujm project was under-budgetted for by AT LEAT £7 million and relied on unrealistic projected retail investments. (Monorail, monorail, monorail).


Our crowds of 19,000 every game SHOULD be generating a profit - and would be if it were not for the debts that need servicing. IF we make it to summer without going into administration, our best players will go, and PMG (who own most of the club and have borrowed on the back of some players' transfer values) will get some of their money back. Our team will be severely weakened and we will be lucky to be challenging for anything other than relegation. 


To see how it should be done read http://www.wsc.co.uk/content/view/4764/38/. Thank god I now live nearer to Montpellier than Cardiff so can get to watch some decent football while those buggers in Cardiff break my heart.


To add to the WSC story Costa is a SERIOUSLY good player with an alarmingly hard shot, the ability to skip past players like they aren't there. Spahic is the sort of sweeper you rarely get to see - one who can read the game so well it doesn't matter that he is slow. Jeunechamp is a terrific left-back, wearing number 27 (of course) so you can fantasize that he's a City fan, whilst Pitau is a ringer for Craig Middleton.

Meanwhile Montpellier's young players are well represented by Ait Fana, representing the young local community's multi-cultural nature, French mixed with north African. Just like the crowd (incidentally a few less than who go to cardiff's home games - 17,000 odd): the Ultras who sing behind the goal all match long, letting off flares behind a banner that says "supporter n'est pas un crime" - "Supporting is not a crime".


Viva la Paillade, but viva les Oiseaux Bleues.