For Ramsey, still registered as a player and without experience in training, there was the opportunity to improve the state of his hero by inspiring an improbable escape act.
And despite the high bets, he was relatively free of risks for his reputation because he had already done too much damage to blame him on him.
As for so, President Mehmet Dalman and executive director Ken Choo, things could not get worse.
The final stages of the reign of the previous manager Omer Riza had deepened the wounds that have harmed this club in recent years, particularly their always adjusted disconnection with their followers.
Then, because of the globel that seems, the guiding principle of Ramsey’s appointment was simply: why not?
Cardiff could only improve the sad end of Riza’s mandate, and that is precisely what they did under Ramsey.
With only one day to prepare for the Oxford game, he had gathered a new training team and instilled on his side an intensity and a purpose that had been lacking under his predecessor.
A conversation with Wales manager, Craig Bellamy, helped. The former teammates for the club and the country, the two men see football in the same way, and the influence of Bellamy was clear not only in the way Ramsey had established his team, but in the way he talked about the game later.
“I talked to Bellers (Craig Bellamy) enough. It has helped me a lot in those 24, 48 hours,” Ramsey said.
“We didn’t have much time to work on tactical things, so I didn’t want to overload players with too much information.
“We had a day to do that. We had to take a bit of the meetings, but it was more about trying to convey their principles and habits.”
In such a short time, some familiarity can be useful. Ramsey needed to rely on the people he could trust, as well as those he described.
He brought his great friend and former teammate of Wales, Chris Gunter, together with the Captain of Cardiff Club Joe Ralls, such as Ramsey, currently injured, and Ryland Morgans of Wales as his assistant coaches.
As the beginning approached, it was Gunter to whom Ramsey turned to a hug and some words of breath.
After promoting the youth ranks in Cardiff, Ramsey and Gunter had been inseparable as fourths of Fourth of Wales and neighbors of northern London with the transfer of the first to Arsenal that arrived only a few months after the transfer of the last one to Tottenham Hotspur.
Now they gathered in the shelter, responsible for the team they supported as children.
