Cardiff City’s never-ending season, that has plumbed new depths, is finally drawing to a close and we can soon all set about trying to block most of it from our collective consciousness. It wasn’t without some rare pleasures, but suffice to say, the negatives snuffed out the odd positives.
It was one of those campaigns that feels like three combined. If you can remember as far back as August, it actually started quite well. Cardiff took the lead in their opening game against Barnsley through Marlon Pack (remember him?), before being pegged back by the Tykes. Seeing as Barnsley had finished in the top six a few months earlier, it felt like a decent point, but little did we know that they were on their way towards plummeting back to League One.
Cardiff then won at Blackpool, with a lovely winner from a floated Ryan Giles cross, powerfully headed home by Kieffer Moore (remember them?). Aden Flint soon took charge, scoring four in the next two games, briefly winning over plenty of non-believers in the process. Then came the first and probably least painful of four derby defeats and a failed Moore transfer to Wolves right at the end of the window, from which he never appeared to recover.
