Mackay Beaten By Former Club Cardiff City

Cardiff deepened Wigan’s relegation worries with
a 1-0 win at the DW Stadium as manager Malky
Mackay lost to his former club.
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Aron Gunnarsson scored the game’s only goal after
20 minutes when he slotted in following Kenwyne
Jones’s assist.
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The result is another setback for Mackay, who was
sacked as Cardiff boss in December 2013.
Cardiff board members did not witness the win,
boycotting the match in protest at alleged racism at
Wigan.
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Wigan owner Dave Whelan was fined £50,000 last
year for making racist comments about Jewish and
Chinese people and served a six-week ban from
football.
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Relations between Mackay and Cardiff’s Malaysian
owner Vincent Tan are strained, with Mackay under
investigation by the Football Association regarding
allegations he sent “sexist, racist and homophobic”
text messages during his time in charge of the Welsh
club.
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The Wigan manager handed debuts to former
Liverpool winger Jermaine Pennant and Cameroon
defender Gaetan Bong, but the new faces could not
arrest the Latics’ slide.
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Wigan have failed to record a home win in six
months and remain nine points from safety in 23rd
place.
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Cardiff meanwhile are up to 13th and are now
unbeaten in their last five matches.
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Wigan Athletic manager Malky Mackay on Cardiff
fans singing his name: “To get that response was
something that will live with me. It was terrific.
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Overall, I’m obviously disappointed we lost the game
but I’m very proud of my team.
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“The head of the referees’ association texted me
yesterday to apologise on behalf of the linesman for
the first goal at Bournemouth, that he got it wrong.
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Then there’s two tonight that are wrong as well and it
cost us.”
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Cardiff City manager Russell Slade: “It was a
difficult surface for both teams to play the football
they ideally want to play. It was who dealt with those
conditions best and whose decision-making was the
best out there, and there wasn’t much in it.”