Cardiff City manager Mackay happy to silence 'background noise'

[YahooNews]

Cardiff (United Kingdom) (AFP) - Cardiff City manager Malky Mackay hopes his side's 1-0 victory over Swansea City in the Premier League's first ever Welsh derby will distract attention from the club's off-field problems. Two non-English teams met for the first time in the 125-year history of the English top tier on Sunday and Cardiff prevailed thanks to a 62nd-minute header from one-time Swansea defender Steven Caulker. Victory lifted Cardiff above their south Wales rivals to 12th place in the table, after a testing series of events that had called into question Mackay's authority at the club. His trusted head of recruitment Iain Moody was sacked by owner Vincent Tan and replaced by Alisher Apsalyamov, a 23-year-old friend of Tan's son with no prior experience in elite-level football.