FA Cup Replay: Cardiff City 0-2 Stoke City (AET)
One of the sure-fire signs of the arrival of the New Year, along with even guiltier than usual looking smokers, piles of reduced Thorntons chocolate reindeer and streets littered with...
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2010: A Football Financial Review
You could frame it. If you wanted a short, pithy representation of all that has been wrong with football finance in 2010, you could do no better than quote a...
Clubs In Crisis: How Time Flies (Part One)
Mark Murphy has been away, but returned to find that some things haven't changed in English football. ...
Motherwell vs Cardiff City: Venue – Hamilton Sheriffs Court
There was something about the loan transfer of Craig Bellamy from Manchester City to Cardiff City that was always going to cause a fuss. Cardiff’s financial travails have been well...
At The Sharp End… Dispatches From Southend, Cardiff, Watford, Preston & Portsmouth
One of the most useful research tools for football finance writing is the “Football Management” site run by Dr. John Beech of Coventry University. Dr. Beech took ten days off...
Match Of The Week: Crystal Palace 1-2 Cardiff City
For supporters of both Crystal Palace and Cardiff City, 2009/10 has been a season that has taken a turn for the strange. Both clubs are in mortal peril. Crystal Palace...
Cardiff & Southend vs The High Court: Round Three
Cardiff City and Southend United were both given a stay of execution recently by the High Court in their bids to stave off winding up petitions brought against them. Mark...
Bournemouth & Cardiff’s Risky Strategies
Two clubs that haven't yet resolved their differences with the taxman are AFC Bournemouth and Cardiff City. Mark Murphy has been taking a look at both clubs, and finds a...
Lies, Damned Lies & The Words Of The “Official Club Spokesman”
As football sinks further and further into the financial mire, the official statements made by clubs themselves are becoming more and more odd, and more and more telling. Mark Murphy...
Peter Ridsdale: Chairman Turned Repeat Offender
Cardiff City are due in court in a couple of weeks fighting off a winding up order, and the man in charge is a rather familiar one to supporters of...
HMRC Go For The Jugular, And The Clubs Only Have Themselves To Blame
The cold air that is whistling through football isn't solely as a result of the recent wintry weather. HMRC are on the move, and their aim is to recoup taxpayers'...
2009 – Year Of Missing The Point
2009 was the year in which the wheels constantly threatened to come completely off football's financial wagon without actually doing so. Mark Murphy takes a look over the great and...
Match Of The Week: Peterborough United 4-4 Cardiff City
Peterborough United came from 4-0 down to manage a draw against Cardiff City yesterday, a result that said something about the spirit of their team and about the shortcomings of...
The Championship – The Final Day
They’ve been stumbling, lurching and tripping on their shoelaces, but Birmingham City are a Premier League club again. As it turned out, it was a surprisingly untense day. Kevin Fahey’s...
The Promotion Jitters
Burton Albion lost 2-1 at Ebbsfleet United in the Blue Square Premier on Wednesday night. There was, in itself, nothing extraordinary about this, but this defeat marks the third successive...
The FA Cup Final – Live
Well, I’ve managed to work myself up into a frenzy over this year’s FA Cup final, and we’re doing it live. Live commentary from the comfort of my living room...
The FA Cup Final 2008
In an age in which football has become almost wearily predictable in many respects, this year’s FA Cup has been a breath of fresh air. Whether we’re talking about Havant...
Bluebirds Into Europe?
It was always likely to cause something of a shit storm, and now it’s likely to get completely out of hand. All of this is happening, as well, whilst the...
When Cardiff Won The Cup
Over the next couple of days, we’ll be looking at the previous FA Cup exploits of this year’s four semi-finalists, starting with Cardiff City, who take on Barnsley at Wembley...