Swansea City striker Oli McBurnie has swipe at Cardiff City

Swansea City striker Oli McBurnie has begun the mind games with Cardiff City already

Virtually saying he has scored against Cardiff before and its easy to score against them.

By Tom Coleman


Tuesday 8th May 2019



Cardiff City 's relegation from the Premier League means that for the first time in five years, we will have a South Wales derby to look forward to next season.

Defeat to Crystal Palace on Saturday confirmed the Bluebirds' return to the Championship, where they will once again go toe-to-toe with bitter rivals Swansea City . You can find out when we will discover the dates of the derbies here .

It's been a somewhat mixed season for the Swans, who under Graham Potter have shown encouraging signs of progress after suffering a devastating relegation of their own from the top flight last season.

One of the big positives has been the performances of striker Oli McBurnie, whose tally of 22 goals has made him one of the Championship's most feared goalscorers.


It's clear he enjoys a bit of banter too, recently reaching out to a Swans fan who had a drink thrown at him in Cardiff city centre , offering to send him a new shirt.

He tweeted at the time: "Anyone know the Swans fan? Tell him to get in touch. Will send him a new shirt to wear around Cardiff. #Jack."

Now, he's decided to have a tongue-in-cheek dig at the Bluebirds once again with a couple of teasing social media posts.

On his official Twitter page , the Scottish international tweeted a picture of him scoring against Cardiff during his loan spell with Barnsley.

And, on his Instagram story, the forward put up the same picture, combined with the caption 'Easy'.

Oli McBurnie posted a cheeky message aimed at Cardiff City on his Instagram story.


The post predictably delighted Swans fans, with several supporters labelling the 22-year old as a 'legend', while another called him 'the best striker in the league'.

However, Cardiff fans couldn't resist taking a swipe back, with many pointing out that the picture was from a game that McBurnie's Barnsley side actually went on to lose 2-1.


One replied: "Love it that your biggest achievement so far is scoring a consolation against Cardiff that wasn’t even for Swansea", while another said: "You literally scored a consolation".

Given the incredible amount of passion both sets of fans have for their respective sides, you suspect this could just be a taste of what's to come next season.

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I wouldn't bite. He's big mates with Paterson. Just banter.

Wait til we stuff them then go in hard!

He's bragging about scoring against cardiff while at Barnsley, a game that cardiff won.

He sounding as stupid as his clubs fans

He's one of quite a few who will no sold to line the American pockets so won't even be at the club next year

He's one of quite a few who will no sold to line the American pockets so won't even be at the club next year

You know that for sure do you?

and that makes news these days

Just banter, but it could comeback to bite him on the ass if he's not careful. He looked good in the Barnsley game fair play.

Just banter, but it could comeback to bite him on the ass if he's not careful. He looked good in the Barnsley game fair play.

Remember watching that game, and he was the stand out player by an absolute mile for Barnsley that day. Shame really i think he'd fit in brilliantly here but hopefully the yanks cash in on him and someone like Sheffield United, Brighton, Fulham or Burnley will sign him for 8-12m

If it was so easy why did the lose that game? absolute tit

Yea keep gobbing off Burnie the more the better, Morrison and Bamba will take your scrawny head off with your first attempt at a header

The next lee trundle

That's if he's there. The yanks seem to want to sell everything that moves

I’d like to see more stuff like this lol. Not enough players seem to care about such things anymore

He won’t be there next season; a bigger club will come in for him. Not sure which but plenty fit that category in the football league

I think WE should buy him. He’s impressed me with his play and is just the sort of striker we need. He’s wasted at a small club like that

Cant even pull his socks up the scruffy Kent.

Probably will be sold as the Merrycans take their money and screw those tramps down the swannie

With a slight tweak of the letters, you get Oli BumNicer..

Little wonder he’s so popular in Swansea..

Been told by a Jack Mate of mine when i asked should we sign him his reply was he's a good player but likes to hit the bottle a bit to hard. Bit of a drink problem.

The next lee trundle

Can't wait for City defenders to do him.

Just banter, but it could comeback to bite him on the ass if he's not careful. He looked good in the Barnsley game fair play.

There seems more pressure down there for them to make anti-Cardiff remarks but generally, it's the really the thick ones like Alan Tate and Fatty Trundle, so I suppose he falls into that category.

Ours tend to only bother when they score against them like Chops and Bellamy, after getting abuse and to wind them up!!!

They are obviously obsessed with us down there, where we don't really give a feck about them!

Just banter, but it could comeback to bite him on the ass if he's not careful. He looked good in the Barnsley game fair play.

There seems more pressure down there for them to make anti-Cardiff remarks but generally, it's the really the thick ones like Alan Tate and Fatty Trundle, so I suppose he falls into that category.

Ours tend to only bother when they score against them like Chops and Bellamy, after getting abuse and to wind them up!!!

They are obviously obsessed with us down there, where we don't really give a feck about them!

Good point that to be fair

Buy him, then stick him in the reserves!

They are boring me already oli is a dickhead