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'I could have killed him!' Mick McCarthy's verdict on Cardiff City's hero at Nottingham Forest

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Vincent
Published date12 September 2021
Publication titleWalesOnline (Wales)
The Bluebirds youngster came off the bench just before the hour and scored his first goal in a Cardiff shirt less than a minute later, bundling in from a goalmouth scramble.

His second was pure class. He attacked the box, dragged the ball on to his left and smacked his shot low and hard into the bottom corner .

And McCarthy, whose tongue was planted firmly in his cheek, said Colwill netting that second saved him from some post-match hairdryer treatment after he had earlier bungled a chance to put City into the lead.

But the Bluebirds manager is delighted the 19-year-old has signed a new contract with the club, because he believes rivals would really be sniffing around him after the week he's just had.

"I'm so pleased he's signed a new contract, because if he hadn't they'd be all over him like a rash now, having got his Welsh cap and that," McCarthy said of Colwill.

"His second goal was difference class.

"I'll tell you now, I was going to kill him when he cut that [chance] back. Just before that [second goal], he got in and he should have put it across the six-yard box.

"He cut it back and they ended up having a shot at our goal. And I can't tell you how many times we tell them [not to do that].

"But I'm going to forgive him, because he scored such a wonderful winner."

Colwill's rise has been nothing short...

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