Cardiff City 2-3 Hull City: Vincent Tan watches on as Bluebirds fall to defeat in second half capitulation

Vincent Tan watched on as his Cardiff City side capitulated against Hull City, with Regan Slater scoring two goals in the space of a minute to consigned the Bluebirds to a 3-2 defeat in front of their owner.

Cardiff started in the worst possible manner, with Dimitrios Pelkas scoring with the first real chance of the game just four minutes in.

After a woeful first half, City hit back through Callum Robinson and Gavin Whyte, but in the 76th and 77th minute, Mark Hudson's side were sent crashing back down to earth thanks to a double from Slater.

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Ahead of kick-off, the big news was that Tan was in attendance, having held a meeting with Hudson to offer him the job until the end of the season.

However, after watching how Cardiff started the match, he might have found himself wishing he never made the trip in the first place.

It was encouraging to see Callum Robinson come straight back into the starting lineup, while Rubin Colwill was named among the replacements.

But that early boost was sucked straight out of the air as City's abysmal start was typified by the lax defending for the Tigers' fourth-minute strike.

Jacob Greaves was afforded time on the left to look up and placed a perfectly-curled cross across the face of the box, which allowed Pelkas to cut in front of Curtis Nelson and poke home the opener.

Hardly the start Hudson wanted in front of his boss, who had taken his seat in the directors' box ahead of kick-off.

The early goal, coupled with Cardiff's uncharacteristically sloppy and laboured passing served to sink Cardiff City Stadium into a bad atmosphere, with inaccurate passes and concession of possession greeted with