adminHundreds of Cardiff City fans staged a pre-match protest against owner Vincent Tan before the club’s Boxing Day game with Southampton.
Supporters said they were angry at the way the Malaysian billionaire is running the club.
It follows his “resign or be sacked” ultimatum to manager Malky Mackay before a U-turn at the weekend.
Fans, many carrying banners, gathered outside Cardiff City Stadium chanting slogans against Mr Tan.
An estimated 500 people took part singing their support of Mackay and the club’s traditional blue home colours, which the owner had changed to red before the start of last season.
Lee Spear, 21, from Penarth, who took a banner to the protest saying “Tan out”, said he was not happy with how the club was being run. “We understand that what we’re doing today will probably not matter at all but all you can do is your best,” he said.
Clare Lecrass, from Swansea, was protesting with her nine-year-old son Owain, who she said was unhappy with Mr Tan’s switch of the club’s main colours from to red.
She said: “He is obsessed with them staying blue but he still wants to keep supporting them.” Owain added: “I just want the club to play in blue because that’s the right colour. I don’t like the red.”
Ian Meadowcroft, from Llandaff in Cardiff, said: “It’s outrageous. It’s great we have an owner who’s got the money but I just want him to stay an owner who’s got the money and not try to run the club.
“They should leave that to people who know about football.”
The protest has been organised through forums and social media, and follows on from fans’ vocal backing of Mackay at Cardiff’s game at Liverpool on Saturday.
The vast majority of the 3,000 travelling supporters chanted in support of the manager, who had earlier reportedly received an email from the owner telling him to either resign of face the sack.- BBC.
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