Vincent Tan emerged as Cardiff's pantomime villain even before he sacked Malky Mackay, but given his wispy moustache, leather gloves and occasionally sinister smile, he also resembles a James Bond villain.
No one is quite sure whether those are steel hands under his gloves, and it is not a stretch to imagine one of his conversations with Mackay mirrored that scene in Goldfinger.
"Do you expect me to walk?"
"No, Mr Mackay, I expect you to die!"