TEARS ARE SHARED IN MISERABLE STALEMATE

WEST Brom relegated Cardiff from the Sky Bet Championship after drawing 0-0 in a game that also ended their play-off hopes.

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The Bluebirds' return to the third tier of English football for the first time since 2003 was sealed on an anxious afternoon in the Welsh capital - six years after Cardiff had been playing in the Premier League.

Aaron Ramsey, the Wales captain and Cardiff midfielder currently out injured, was in interim charge for the second time but no blame can be attached to him for the Bluebirds' fall from grace which, in truth, has been a long time coming.

Albion had sacked Tony Mowbray after Monday's home defeat to Derby - their fifth in six games - and put James Morrison in command for the final two games with play-off ambitions all but over.