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It promises to be a weekend of home comforts in the Championship with Watford, Leicester, Reading and Bournemouth all backed to win in front of their own fans.

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Watford to beat Blackpool @ 4/5

Vicarage Road has become somewhat of a fortress for Watford in recent weeks after picking up four straight Championship wins in all competitions without conceding a goal.

And despite Blackpool picking up a much needed point against Ipswich in their last away fixture, the Tangerines are without a victory in 10 games on the road and Gino Pozzo’s side can inflict even more misery on the Seasiders.

Leicester to beat Charlton @ 4/9

Leicester have shown plenty of fighting spirit in recent weeks battling back to claim draws with East Midlands rivals Nottingham Forest and an in-form Watford to extend their unbeaten run.

You have to go all the way back to December to find the last time the Foxes tasted defeat and despite Charlton causing the shock of last weekend when beating QPR, Nigel Pearson’s side should be backed for victory.

The Addicks are eight games without a win on their travels and Leicester can extend their 13 game unbeaten run in the league by sealing all three points.

Reading to beat Yeovil @ 8/15

Yeovil have picked up just two victories from their last 15 Championship away games and provide the perfect opposition for Reading, who need to rediscover some form in front of their home fans.

Two successive defeats at the Madjeski Stadium have stalled the Royals play-off push but they can now get back to winning ways against the Glovers.

Bournemouth to beat Doncaster @ 3/4

Only league leaders Leicester have picked up maximum points from a trip to Dean Court in recent weeks, pointing to the size of the task facing Doncaster when they take on Bournemouth.

Donny are struggling for form at the moment having gone four games without a win and 12 matches without victory on the road.

Eddie Howe’s side can put nine points between them and relegation rivals Rovers on Saturday and with that added incentive they are worth backing.

So the ludicrous Vincent Tan reckons Malky Mackay "didn't do very well at Watford" and was lucky to get the Cardiff job where Dave Jones had fared better?

Let's all laugh at Vinny - except Cardiff City's precarious position, propping up the Premier League, is no laughing matter.

A proud club who had waited half a century to return to the top table has become a laughing stock among neutrals. And like England getting rid of Kevin Pietersen as their response to a 5-0 Ashes whitewash, Tan's casting of Mackay as a scapegoat is equally preposterous.

It is profoundly regrettable that Tan has played the race card, claiming the British press are "a little bit racist" by portraying him as a Bond villain, because it is an expedient deflection of the real issue.

Crass attempts to undermine your manager, with public ultimatums to resign or be sacked, are unattractive whatever your colour, race or creed.

If Tan insists on changing the Bluebirds' strip from blue to red, trampling over tradition and his own club's nickname, that is his prerogative. He has bankrolled Cardiff, he owns the club, he pays the bills.

To tuck your replica shirt into your suit trousers in the directors' box just makes it that little bit more tragic.

But did Mackay really "get lucky" by guiding Cardiff to the play-offs in his first season, when there were only nine players in his first-team squad on the first day of pre-season training?

Did he really "get lucky" to take them to a League Cup final in that first season, where it took a penalty shoot-out to separate the Bluebirds from Liverpool?

And did he really "get lucky" to win the Championship last year, clinching promotion which had eluded Jones through a raft of hard-luck stories and near misses, including a play-off final defeat by Blackpool?

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By inference, Tan also managed to insult another club in his birthday 'goodwill' address from Malaysia, namely by claiming Mackay had not pulled up any trees in his two years as Watford manager.

Allow me to put you straight Vinny, old son, and tell you a little bit about Malky's spell in charge at Vicarage Road, since you evidently know sod-all about it.

Mackay landed his first job in management when Brendan Rodgers left the Hornets in the lurch, walking out after just 192 days in charge.

His first task was to preside over the £8million firesale of Mike Williamson, Jobi McAnuff, Tamas Priskin, Lee Williamson and Tommy Smith to save Watford from going into administration. You might remember Smith, Vinny: He helped you to win promotion last year.

Four months later, when the grim reaper came calling again just before Christmas, Mackay joined a late-night vigil of club staff whose jobs were under imminent threat as they waited to find out if Watford had escaped financial meltdown again. His pastoral concern for colleagues backstage went far beyond bibs, cones and training ground drills.

Mackay kept Watford up, on a cabbage-patch pitch, and the following season launched an unlikely play-off charge on one of the smallest playing budgets in the Championship - yes, Vinny, he understands budgets - before they fell away amid a protracted takeover.

As it transpired, the new owner at Vicarage Road was another fascinating character - a discharged bankrupt, Laurence Bassini.

Intreresting chap, our friend Baz. When time was running out on his short-lived reign, he called the police when a female member of the Watford staff refused to hand over the keys to the club safe.

When Watford narrowly missed out on promotion to the Premier League last May, Bassini - forced out of office 11 months earlier - sent gloating text messages mocking their near-miss with the £120 million jackpot to people with long affiliations to the club.

And he complained to the local paper when they kept using a picture of him wearing a yellow helmet outside a pub being refurbished.

Mackay decided to leave Watford when Cardiff, with a larger transfer budget, a shiny new stadium and a new training ground, came calling with a decent pay rise into the bargain. Only a minority of fans begrudged him the move at the time, now the dissenters are invisible and inaudible.

Some might say that Mackay, finally sacked by Tan two months ago, deserves to work under a less exotic owner when he lands his next job.

But on reflection, wouldn't you say he did rather a good job at Watford in the circumstances, Vinny?