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(Video) Vincent Tan once instructed his Cardiff defenders to shoot from the halfway line

Balls out the bath on this one. We rank Cardiff owner Vincent Tan as one of the most bizarre football club owners in the history of football.

Saying that, there can be no doubt that former Malaysian McDonald’s franchise owner doesn’t give two hoots what anybody thinks of him, as exhibited when he successfully re branded Cardiff from the Bluebirds into the Red Dragons in 2014 despite just about everyone in the world being against the idea.

It’s not just the Marketing department that the Malaysian born Billionaire likes to throw his two cents into.

Here’s former Crystal Palace and Cardiff defender Danny Gabbidon, who rejoined the Welsh club in 2014 to take on a coaching position in Ole Gunnar Solskjaer’s background staff, with a charming, if a little bit frightening, anecdote on the owners tactical input.

With Cardiff defenders struggling to score goals during there first ever stint in the Premier League a couple of years back, Tan told Gabbidon that he wanted defenders to take more shots from the halfway line. Why? well, because he had seen another Cardiff defender score from there once.

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