Today’s visitors to the Cardiff City Stadium are Reading who at the start of the season were heavily fancied to be in the mix promotion. A poor start to the season saw them at the bottom end of the table until mid February, then they when a winning streak which has seen them climb up the table with a strike of the play-offs. Cardiff beat them earlier in the season and took the three points after a 1-0 and Saturday will be looking to do the same as they look to cement their place in the Play-offs.
The Bluebirds are only two wins from a Play-off spot but that depends on other results. If Cardiff was to win Saturday and Blackpool was to lose the Seasiders would have to win their remaining three games while Cardiff would just need a point to finish off the season in the Play-offs.
The nightmare of last season is still fresh in the minds of everyone connected with Cardiff. With four games to go it looked to be sown up then the trip the Preston, it was a massacre, a 6-0 defeat which did not help the goal difference. Next up a trip to bottom club Charlton with should have gone to form and a win for the Bluebirds but it finish 2-2 draw. The next game was the last ever league game to be play at Ninian Park against Ipswich and their new manager Roy Keane. Balloons, a packed stadium, dignitaries and ex-player, it was another car crash of a performance with the visitors winning 3-0 turning the planned celebration to a damp squib.
Everything then rested on the last game of the season an away trip to Sheffield Wednesday with Cardiff needing just one point or three would have been nice. It history now a 1-0 defeat left the Welshman in seven place missing out on a spot in the Play-offs by one goal, just heartbreaking I can still taste it.
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