Crystal Palace chief Iain Moody has defended his time with Cardiff City.
Moody insists he was a success at the CCS, despite the opinion of club owner Vincent Tan.
He told Palace's official website: "In the summer of 2011 Malky (Mackay) was given the opportunity to go down and manage Cardiff and he asked me to come with him.
"It was not a dissimilar situation to Watford in as much as the previous regime had left the club and a lot of people had left.
"When we came in it was a little bit like a blank sheet of paper which, in some ways, is the best situation you can ask for when you're joining a club.
"Malky asked me to come down and we basically started the whole thing from scratch. We had no scouts, we had nothing, so I hired a load of scouts, I put into place all the stuff which I had learned over six years at Watford.
"In the time after that we got to the Carling Cup final and then we got promoted, so by that measure it was a successful time."
