By Paul Jones Mick McCarthy has conceded Cardiff City’s play-off dream is over, barring some kind of miracle. The straight-talking Bluebirds manager admitted only an unforeseen meltdown by a number of clubs above his team would enable Cardiff to finish in the top six following their 2-2 draw at home to Blackburn. Adam Armstrong scored […]

Blighted by tragedy, embroiled in legal disputes, and facing an uncertain financial future, Cardiff City are currently unable to sign any new players. That problem will soon resolved but the club has plenty of others still to overcome as Alex Bywater reports. Cardiff City may soon have their transfer embargo lifted in time for some summer recruitment, but a key lawyer at the centre of the ongoing Emiliano Sala row has admitted that particular dispute is no nearer to being settled. The club are one of half a dozen in the Championship who have admitted they are prevented from signing players at present due to their accounts not being filed with the Football League.

Mick McCarthy admitted Cardiff City’s 5-0 thrashing by Sheffield Wednesday was the worst display of his reign as manager. The Bluebirds defeat left them eight points off the play-offs with just six games left this season.

Mick McCarthy says how Cardiff City overcome the disappointment of the home defeat by Nottingham Forest will decide if they win their play-offs fight. The Bluebirds job of making the top six is a lot harder after the 1-0 home defeat to a stubborn Forest side, with James Garner’s first half goal  enough for the visitors to claim all three points.

Mick McCarthy has told his Cardiff City players the derby win at Swansea City will mean nothing if they do not back it up against Nottingham Forest. The Bluebirds go into the Good Friday clash at the CCS eighth in the Championship but just four points off sixth-placed Reading.

Joe Ralls has told his Cardiff City teammates it is time to draw the Mick McCarthy six-shooter in order to fire themselves towards promotion. The Bluebirds’ 1-0 Welsh derby victory at Swansea City has re-ignited their play-off campaign, but Ralls says it must prove more than a one-off as they seek the momentum that can close a four-point gap between themselves and sixth place. The midfielder – pressed into wing-back duty at the Liberty Stadium on Saturday night – knows it is vital Cardiff try and gain some sort of repeat of the momentum they enjoyed at the start of McCarthy’s stint as manager when he won an extraordinary six matches in succession.

Mick McCarthy reckons Cardiff City have got their promotion mojo back after their gritty 1-0 win at Swansea City in the Welsh derby. The Bluebirds now sit four points outside the top six after Aden Flint’s early header clinched derby delight for McCarthy’s men, but left Swansea City in danger of losing touch with the automatic promotion slots. Cardiff faced the prospect of a relegation battle when McCarthy took over from Neil Harris, but they are now looking up after an important battling triumph over their fiercest rivals.

Matt Grimes insists Swansea City are ready to pen the great unwritten chapter in Welsh derby history. Famously, neither Swansea nor Cardiff City have ever managed a league double over the other in the same season. That’s a sequence of evenhandedness that goes all the way back to the first south Wales derby in the old Division Two of the 1929/30 season. Today, at the Liberty Stadium, will be their 60th league meeting.

Cardiff City manager Mick McCarthy has praised the work Steve Cooper has done at Swansea City – but that’s the only compliment he will dish out before the South Wales derby. The Bluebirds chief says Cooper has done a great job to have the Swans challenging for promotion again after the heartache after last season’s play-offs heartache.

Mick McCarthy admitted he had to read the riot act to his Cardiff City players as his side’s play-off hopes suffered a blow. The Bluebirds draw goal-less draw at home to Stoke City saw them drop to ninth six points behind sixth-placed Barnsley who have a game in hand.

By Paul Jones Mick McCarthy accused Watford’s Francisco Sierralta of “cowardice” after the Cardiff City manager suffered his first defeat as Bluebirds boss. McCarthy was distinctly unimpressed by Watford’s exuberant celebrations at the final whistle after a 94th minute winner from Adam Masina gave the Hornets a 2-1 victory. Words were exchanged between players at […]

Mick McCarthy reckons Cardiff City are facing an acid test in their promotion hopes – but insists he will not be fooled by injury doubts surrounding Watford skipper Troy Deeney. The Bluebirds face second-placed Hornets at home on Saturday with McCarthy knowing victory would be a huge boost to his side.