Foregin Owners

[Duncer]

Am I alone in thinking the owners of Cardiff City have completely and utterly lost the plot by changing the famous Bluebird's colours to red? This dsiplays a flagrant disregard for the history of the club and I feel sorry for all Cardiff City fans as I can only imagine how I would feel if someone came in and changed Linfield's colours to something quite alien. It defies words.

[SeaJayPea]

You're right, of course. But the football fan is a fickle beast, and if the reported £100 million investment that goes with the re-brand turns into promotion, then all will become, quite magically, well.

[FredPuli43]

In May, Dato Ghee, the new owner, was saying that the plan had been leaked but had been dropped because of 'vociferous opposition'. Is it now finalised? He was sill complaining that the club needed more money then, so he may have changed his mind. Either way, it shows how out of touch foreign owners with no experience (Indian ones come to mind) can be.

[Hopkirk]

I think they already play in red for their away kit, and are just switching the two round.

Wouldn't most fans accept this, as a necessary evil to gain funds for success?

[Duncer]

Ask 100 average footie fans what colour they associate with Cardiff and I doubt very many would say red, if any. Selling your history and you soul is a personal choice, but it's not for me.

Sports psychologists have long pontificated that red is the "dominant" colour but a lot of non-reds have won the European Cup like Inter, Celtic, (spit), Ajax, (ostensibly white with a red stripe), Feyenoord, Villa, Hamburg, Juventus, Steau Bucharest, Porto, Marseille, Borussia Dortmund and, finally, Barca - a mixture of blue and red.

The UEFA Cup is even more non-red with the top winners being Juventus (3), Internazionale (3), Liverpool (3), Borussia Mönchengladbach (2), Tottenham Hotspur (2), Parma (2), Porto (2), Real Madrid(2), IFK Göteborg (2) and Feyenoord (2), with only one famous Red among them.

Personally, I believe that the best team wins in 99% of cases, and red is more a common choice rather than a dominant colour. The lack of it certainly hasn't held Brazil, Italy Argentina or Germany back in the World Cup, or have Wales been holding out on us?

By the way, I meant foreign as I have no idea what foregin is.

[FredPuli43]

Foregin? A form of gin drunk by foreigners, like a double gin? I once asked for a double gin and tonic in a bar at the old Ninian Park and the barmaid didn't know what a double was. Then I knew the club was in a bad way!