The wait is painful for Bluebirds fans and it risks losing the positivity which had taken so long to build up throughout the campaign
I doff my cap to Cardiff City fans. They once again find themselves throwing their arms up in the air, shaking their heads and begging for a manager update which never comes.
Some of that will be because City fans are jaded by these all-too-familiar feelings of purgatory and silence when it comes to following their team. Others are so scared that their club will find itself in the even more worrying situation of searching for a new manager in June that they don’t want to rock the boat or jinx it, in fear of it all going wrong.
We have been told for a month that things are close, that details need to be ironed out, that the ball is in Erol Bulut’s court, that the ball is in Vincent Tan’s court, that this cannot go on for much longer. But it has gone on, longer and longer, seemingly endlessly. A battle of attrition in which the spoils of the victor are diminishing with each passing day.
Last season was not perfect, for large periods it was anything but, but it was at least a step in a positive direction after four successive seasons of finishing in a lower league position than the year before. Cardiff won 19 games, finished slap-bang in the middle of the table in 12th and a manager started and ended the season in charge. That’s a good starting point.
But the risk of undoing all that goodwill is real and present. There wasn’t enough credit in the bank to leave this situation dangling for as long as it has been. The supporters’ trust even hit out at the decision-makers, finally calling the situation “unacceptable” after being left in the lurch for so long. Sign up to our Cardiff City newsletter here.
