Crystal Palace 1 West Ham United 3

Malky Mackay should face a season-long ban from football for the offensive texts he sent to a former colleague at Cardiff, according to ex-Football Association chairman Lord Triesman.

Summer signing Mauro Zarate volleyed a debut goal in West Ham's 3-1 Premier League victory at Crystal Palace today to ease the pressure on manager Sam Allardyce.

Malky Mackay issued a grovelling apology on Friday evening and vowed he would salvage his career – but hours later faced fresh allegations in the text message scandal.

Malky Mackay has apologised for the discriminatory text messages he sent during his time as manager of Cardiff.

Cardiff have called for League Managers’ Association chief executive Richard Bevan to resign following his organisation’s defence of Malky Mackay’s use of racist texts as ’friendly banter’.

QPR manager Harry Redknapp offered a bizarre defence of under-fire former Cardiff manager Malky Mackay, saying: “He hasn’t murdered anyone, he hasn’t raped anyone and he is not a paedophile.”

Former England striker Stan Collymore has described the League Managers’ Association’s statement which says Malky Mackay’s offensive text messages were part of some “friendly banter” as being “f****** disgraceful”.

Malky Mackay has apologised for sending text messages he admits were ”disrespectful of other cultures” – but claims they were ”part of friendly text banter”.

Malky Mackay is ”very concerned about seriously inaccurate and misleading reports” in the media and has said he will fully co-operate with any Football Association investigation.

Iain Moody has resigned from his role as sporting director of Crystal Palace with immediate effect, the club have announced.

Crystal Palace have been fined by the Premier League over an allegation that information regarding the Cardiff line-up prior to the sides' encounter in Wales last season was leaked to the London side.

Former Cardiff manager Malky Mackay has dropped his legal claim against the club after reaching a settlement on his sacking.

Confusion reigns as to what action may or may not have been taken at Cardiff over the alleged leaking of team information to Premier League rivals Crystal Palace.

Cardiff manager Ole Gunnar Solskjaer has presented a united front at the Welsh club after reports that their starting line-up might have been leaked to Crystal Palace ahead of last Saturday’s Barclays Premier League clash.

Cardiff manager Ole Gunnar Solskjaer is adamant he decides on which players he wants at the club, with owner Vincent Tan simply controlling the purse strings.

Cardiff have claimed that ”imprudent and careless management” has cost them ”in excess” of £8.5m over their signing of unsuccessful striker Andreas Cornelius.

New Cardiff manager Ole Gunnar Solskjaer has summoned the spirit of Alex Ferguson and Roy Keane as he bids to keep the club in the Premier League.

The civil war between Cardiff owner Vincent Tan and Malky Mackay reached its logical and inevitable conclusion yesterday with the sacking of the club’s Scottish manager.

Ole Gunnar Solskjaer has emerged as the leading candidate to succeed Malky Mackay following the Scot’s sacking as Cardiff manager.

The saga over Malky Mackay’s future at Cardiff City FC has come to an end after the club confirmed the Scot had been relieved of his duties.

A small group of Cardiff fans gathered outside Cardiff City Stadium ahead of the St Stephen's Day fixture against Southampton to protest against Vincent Tan’s ownership of the club.

Malky Mackay does not expect crunch talks with Cardiff owner Vincent Tan to take place until the end of the week, saying he has had two attempts to meet with the Malaysian rebuffed.

Cardiff boss Malky Mackay admits he expected to be sacked over the course of the weekend.

The chaos at Cardiff took an unexpected turn today with chairman Mehmet Dalman stating manager Malky Mackay will be in charge for “the forseeable future”.

Another chaotic day at Cardiff ended with manager Malky Mackay still in charge, for now.

Cardiff manager Malky Mackay has been told to resign or face being sacked by the Welsh club’s owner Vincent Tan.

Cardiff manager Malky Mackay has been told “not a single penny” will be allocated to him for January transfer window signings.

Cardiff City 1 Swansea 0

Cardiff 1 Swansea 0

Chelsea 4 Cardiff 1

Chelsea 4 Cardiff 1

Cardiff manager Malky Mackay will have the final say over transfer dealings at the Premier League club, they have announced in the wake of Monday’s lengthy board meeting.