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We have to nominate everyone involved with Cardiff City who voted for Peter Ridsdale to take control of the club when Sam Hamman moved on at the end of 2006. Like him or loathe him Sam had taken Wimbledon from nowhere to a Cup win, and 1st division residency. He had left and then taken Cardiff from the backwaters to the top of the Championship and a serious challenge for a place in the Premiership. So why drop Sam and go for Ridsdale – the man who had single handed wrecked Leeds Utd, taking them a regular position in the top league to a team that is probably going to drop to the equivalent of the old third division. The reason seems to be that the source of some of the money that Sam brought into Cardiff was “unclear”. That was it – only Sam knew he had borrowed money from. But what was the problem. If the backers backed out, it was Sam who was going to carry the can, no one else. And Sam has no history of failing on debts. So what was the problem? What Ridsdale and his team of Leeds-wreckers did was to persuade Cardiff council that there was indeed something amiss, and that the white-knight on this occasion – the man who was above suspicion, the man who could the Premiership to Wales was none other than Ridsdale, the man who had led Leeds into utter and complete disaster. If it weren’t true, you would never believe it. |
