Liverpool beat a courageous Cardiff City side in Sunday’s Carling Cup Final in a penalty shootout, after an extra time equaliser kept City in the game.

Joe Mason opening the scoring for the Bluebirds inside 20 minutes after a great pass by Kenny Miller.
It took Liverpool until the 60th minute to score, with Skrtel equalising to take the game to extra time.

Kuyt score early in the second half of extra time with that looked to be the winning goal. Cardiff City however kept battling, and the equaliser eventually came from Ben Turner from close range.

Unfortunately Liverpool went on to win the Penalty lottery 3-2, despite missing their first two penalties.

TODAY WE WILL REMEMBER THE LOSS OF A GREAT FRIEND TO ALL OF US and A TRUE FOOTBALL FAN WHO SUPPORTED CARDIFF CITY/WALES THROUGH THE 80’s/90’s and up until THE TRAGIC DAY WE LOST OUR FRIEND on the 6th September 2011 ‘ MIKEY DYE GOD BLESS YOU MY FRIEND

Photo: Jon Candy

Following the departure of some of our ‘big’ names from last season new manager Malky Mackay has been busy trying to rebuild a heavily depleted squad.


Jay Bothroyd, Michael Chopra and Chris Burke were just some of the player that needed replacing along with our many loan signings who have returned to their parent clubs.


With the transfer window now shut hopefully Cardiff City can get a couple of extra faces in on loan to strengthen the squad for another promotion push.


Here’s a summary of the summer signings:

	Ben Turner	Undisclosed	Coventry City
	Kenny Miller	Undisclosed	Bursaspor
	Filip Kiss	On Loan	Slovan Bratislava
	Joe Mason	Undisclosed	Plymouth Argyle
	Aron Gunnarsson	Free Transfer	Coventry City
	Robert Earnshaw	Free Transfer	Nottingham Forest
	Andrew Taylor	Free Transfer	Middlesbrough
	Don Cowie	Free Transfer	Watford
	Craig Conway	Free Transfer	Dundee United

Pre order today if you would like to receive a signed copy of the book delivered by the 18th SEPTEMBER 2011, four weeks ahead of the Official Book launch.

The official launch is on OCTOBER 15th 2011 before the IPSWICH TOWN home game (From 12pm) at THE NINIAN PARK PUB, where Annis will be present to sign any copies bought.

“My Story”

Annis is the story of a millionaire who has worked in clubs since the age of 12 and has seen him live and work in clubs up and down the breadth of the Country.
Young entrepreneur,football fanatic, Family man. A revealing story of a man determined to achieve something from his life and lives and works each day to the fullest.
This book documents the never before told story of the forming of the Soul Crew and how it was established, who was involved and how it become known as one of football’s most notorious football firms. Annis gives an honest and frank account of the original members involved and when the Soul Crew became the name that many have tried to tried to keep alive for years since. Soul Crew has been inactive for at least 15 years now but through this book you get right to the middle of the forming of the Soul Crew and how after years of being disorganised, the firm became respected amongst other firms.
In the High courts to the House of Parliament.
Read about when the Abraham family opened the first ever nightclub and casino in Wales, how Peter Stringfellow wanted to go into business with them and names such as Shirley Bassey and Tom Jones worked with them.
Read the stories from behind the scenes at Cardiff City from the years of Kumar, Borley, Hammam and Ridsdale, this book tells the stories of power struggles, back stabbings and the fight to control Cardiff City. Read how Annis Abraham Jnr became a mediator between Peter Ridsdale and Sam Hammam at a time when both men would not talk to each other but only through Annis.

Annis has visited over 345 football grounds and many of these Clubs feature in this book. Local rivals Swansea C/ Newport County and living amongst Bradford’s Ointment for 2 years. The truth behind two BBC Panorama programmes involving Annis.

” MY STORY ”

Malky Mackay has made his first two player signings, along with three new additions to the back room staff.

Mackay’s first signing of the summer was Craig Conway, who signed on a three year contract from Dundee United.

This was then followed by the signing of Don Cowie who’s contract with Mackay’s former club Watford had expired.

The back room staff additions were David Kerslake, Richard Collinge and Joe McBride who are set to become assistant manager, head of performance, and first team coach respectively.

On Friday 17th June 2011 Malky Mackay was named as the new Cardiff City manager, replacing Dave Jones who was sacked at the end of May.

Malky has signed a 3 year Contract wwth Cardiff City after Cardiff agreed a deal with Watford to allow Malky to join Cardiff for an undisclosed fee.

With the arrivals of loan players Aaron Ramsey and Jay Emmanuel Thomas, and permanent signing Dekel Kienan from Blackpool over the last couple of days, here’s a little summary of our 2010/2011 signings to date.
Hopefully we may still see some more activity before the end of January.

Youth Loans

Aaron Ramsey
Danny Drinkwater (Season)
Jay Emmanuel Thomas (Season)

Senior Loans

Andy Keogh
Craig Bellamy
Seyi Olofinjana
Jason Koumas

Permanent

Jon Parkin
Dekel Kienan
Lee Naylor
Tom Heaton
Martin John
Chris Riggott

Since the lifting of the transfer embargo, the club have been busy in the transfer market.
Several players have left the club, which freed up some much needed funds, and of cours allowed us to strengthen.

Last Tuesday City completed the signing of the century by bringing Craig Bellamy on a season long loan from Man City.
The club have already seen the benefits of the move, with thousands of replica shirts sold, and a full house on Saturday to watch the bluebirds beat Doncaster 4-0.

Cardiff have also recently announced the signing of ex Celtic player Lee Naylor, who made his debut on Saturday against Doncaster.

Here’s a rundown of the summers transfer activity.

Hopefully we’ll see a couple of additional new faces before the transfer window ends!

IN:
Tom Heaton
Lee Naylor
Craig Bellamy
Daniel Drinkwater
Jason Koumas
Seyi Olofinjana

OUT:
Mark Kennedy
Darren Dennehy
Peter Enckelman
Warren Feeney
Joe Ledley
Josh Magennis
Aaron Morris
Tony Capaldi
Riccardo Scimica

Newly released:

The Soul Crew – Complete Chronicles

available now for £8.99

http://www.annisabraham.co.uk/books/buy-books/

Cardiff City Fans have already made the news in Malaysia.

Read the article from the Malaysian star below:

http://thestar.com.my/news/story.asp?file=/2010/5/30/nation/6369210&sec=nation