Still a lot to play for

If I had one wish it would be that we were celebrating promotion last night and not Newcastle. To guarantee promotion you have to take one of the two automatic places’ to the Premiership, the play off are a lottery where form is thrown out the window.
When we were promoted to the Championship we finish sixth and were promoted after a play off final win over QPR. Last season fifth place Burnley were the winners of the play-off’s like I said earlier, a lottery.
It was a hard game at Forest yesterday and the point for a draw was fair City were on the back foot a lot but held their own. It was another TV game Cardiff televised three times in just over a week a joy for the armchair fans. Cardiff could have moved up to third with the right result over Forest but it was not to be. The two teams below Cardiff, Swansea and Leicester both won yesterday and is four and five points behind the City. Seventh place is still occupied by Blackpool some six points behind with four games to play.
Joe Ledley got a start for the first time since January after his hip operations but the team is still carried players will niggles. From my spot in my living room Cardiff looked to be hurry to seal the game has they won corner after corner and the wide man were feed in crosses into the Forest box. Chances were few but of those there were poor but for Ross McCormack who had a free kick had to be scrambled off the line.
Forest start to get there head around the game and had one of the best chances went ex-Cardiff strike Rob Earnshaw profited from a Darcy Blake mistake. But the Cardiff keeper Marshall blocked a poor effort from the striker. Most of the best football came in the first half the second was basically a half the odd break has both teams looked to be happy to collect a point.
The second half did liven up with a players bust up problem was it was two players from the same team, City keeper Dave Marshall and defender Anthony Gerrard. The argument kicked off over a cross they both when for, Marshall grabbed Gerrard by the throat and the defender move towards him. Team mates rushed in to separate the pair, a lot of shouting a bit of handbags but there was still a game to play.
Minutes later the two players were brought together again when a ball was floated into the Cardiff box but it was a Forest player who came off worst when Marshall accidently punched him on the nose. The game end in a bit of a furry but end all square a point apiece with still the need for more points to seal a play off place.