Turner: Survival bid must take centre stage

Cardiff City 2 Sunderland 2

Cardiff’s managerial soap opera been played out in public in recent months. But Ben Turner, the Cardiff defender, later claimed his team-mates had been left in dark throughout with the in-fighting between owner Vincent Tan and Malky Mackay.

Make no bones about it, the uncertainty would have filtered down to the players. Whether it will have a terminal effect on Cardiff’s survival hopes remains to be seen.