As the full-time whistle blew, the strength of feeling was clear for all to hear.
While players and coaching staff mourned Cardiff City’s relegation to League One at the end of last season, the fans voiced their dissatisfaction, with loud chants of “Vincent Tan, get out of our club” reverberating around the stadium. The Bluebirds’ Malaysian owner may have arrived in the Welsh capital in 2010 with big – and occasionally controversial – plans to establish Cardiff as a Premier League club, but those ambitions have looked fanciful for several years.
