I had a beer or 2 with a couple of die hard Cardiff fans. What rankled them [and they are intelligent professional types] was not Wilf's game - they were more than aware that they were bl00dy awful. No, it was his refusal to "do the Ayatollah" when the fans chanted for it [!?].

I am aware that this is going to appear absurd and will no doubt produce some choice responses to this post; but this tradition is apparently a big thing in Cardiff. It is a great deal more [I am told] than "Stevie give us a wave" or whatever. Actually, I don't think we have any comparitive tradition. When the crowd demand it, as a Cardiff player you MUST do it.

The thing is [and I am not taking any sides on this wierd point] he will have been with the club for some time; he will know that it is a sort of screwed up honour to have this request thrown at him; and he will know that the crowd were testing his loyalty. I don't know why he refused, but it sent out a bad signal to the home fans.

I feel that a lot of this sensitive little man's angst is that he failed to pass the loyalty test. Proof positive in his warped tiny mind that Wilf deliberately played badly as his primary loyalty was to his old club.

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who the f*** would want to do that?