It's a pre-season Italian

Cardiff City will play FC Parma at the Cardiff City Stadium has part of the build-up to the start of the new season. The details of the game were revelled on the Parma official website. During the Dave Jones years pre-season consisted of a tour with a number of away fixtures and one home game against a top European club, the only home fixture. Will it stay the same now he has gone maybe the new boss has his own ideas on pre-season?

Serie A side Parma finished mid table last season and the Cardiff game is the first of a four match tour they will also so face Luton Town, QPR and Norwich. It will be a quick return to South Wales for ex-Jack Fabio Borini who spent time on loan to our neighbour in the west before deciding his future rested neither with Chelsea or Swansea, but sunny Italy.

It will be a Saturday afternoon kick-off at 3pm, but according to information Cardiff also have a game with Weston-Super-Mare, same time and day. Wish full thinking by someone at the club with the state of the squad at the moment.