The decider was the best goal of the game as Andy Preece rose high above the Cardiff defence to head home 12 minutes from the end. Bury's ground-breaking signing, the Indian skipper Baichung Bhutia, came on as substitute for the injured Lawson at half-time and within two minutes he had been booked for not retreating from a free-kick. Bhutia showed a fine turn of speed and had a hand in Bury's second goal but the pace told, and with five minutes left -- and Bury under considerable pressure -- he was substituted.