+ Visit Cardiff FC for Latest News, Transfer Gossip, Fixtures and Match Results |
For a Saturday 3pm game in February all these would be valid points. However Sunday will be absolutely unprecedented. Biggest ever crowd, unparalleled tension.
Even if we go 1 up and news comes through Fulham are also 1 up the tension will rise and everyone will become edgy. If we haven’t scored after about 10 minutes it will be very very tense!!! Tension does strange things to teams- and to referees!
Nobody is saying reading will turn up and play us off the park but there’s every possibility it could all go very wrong. Football is most popular sport in the world because of it. Margin for error is tiny in a one off game. Early red card, penalty etc..... and it all flips on it’s head.
If it was a test match that couldnt happen of course. Over the full 5 days the best team will win, or at least not lose. You wouldn’t have amateurs beating top players in test match cricket- it could never happen, never has and never will.
However in football upsets like that happen all the time.
Warnock’s record against us is dire with just 5 wins in 29 games.
This Fulham chap has been decent enough, but this reverse psychology type post and dismissal of reading in a one off game is rather stupid.