Archive for March, 2008

To be honest, I've always liked ex-player and now Sky Sports pundit Chris Kamara. He certainly knows his Football League onions and more often than not, he speaks a lot of sense.

But I read one of his comment articles the other day about this season's FA Cup and how it has shown the quality of the Championship.  According to Kammy, there is plenty of life beyond the Premier League.

The appearance of three Championship clubs in the …

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In their previous match against Colchester, the Canaries delivered a polished 90-minute performance.

It was, of course, against the league's weakest team that had relatively nothing to play for save professional pride, but nevertheless City impressed on the day with a credible work ethic and, in particular, their creativity in the final third of the pitch.

In fact, given the relative mediocrity of the standard of football in the Coca-Cola Championship, it …

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Veteran City hero Dion Dublin added to the chorus of frustration and disappointment that echoed around Ashton Gate on Saturday night.

A furious Glenn Roeder led the charge after watching his side produce arguably their best performance full stop of his five-month reign only to lose to potential champions elect Bristol City in the last 30 seconds of the contest.

And while many may rightly argue it was yet again, one small slip in concentration that enabled Steve Brooker to …

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City boss Glenn Roeder will discover today the extent of Maceo Rigters' hamstring injury amid fears that the on-loan Blackburn Rovers striker may be making a Matthew Bates-like return to sender.

The Middlesbrough defender's loan spell was just three games old before he ruptured his cruciate knee ligaments for the third time in 16 wretched months and was duly returned to the Riverside for rehab.

Rigters' loan spell in Norfolk could prove even more short-lived …

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City hero Darren Huckerby wasn't about to start calling Paul D'Urso names. That was someone else's fight to fight.

What he did do, however, was to express the Canaries' utter frustration at seeing one, potentially priceless point ripped out of their hands at the very death of yesterday's 2-1 defeat at promotion hopefuls Bristol City.

Whether or not it should have been three as the visitors failed to add to Huckerby's wonderful leveller was another …

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Fair to say, Stan is not feeling very level-headed at this moment in time. Andy D'Urso, in particular, is the focus of rather dark thoughts – the type where reason evaporates and violence and vengeance take over.

That his refereeing has long been regarded as incompetent is well known. But when it impacts on you and your team, then his hopelessness takes on a tangible and painful form. The man has conspired to rob us of a point, to plunge us back into the relegation mire, …

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City boss Glenn Roeder admitted that he broke a habit of a lifetime at Ashotn Gate yesterday afternoon – by storming onto the pitch to confront referee Andy D'Urso for his part in Bristol City's 93rd minute winner.

Having produced their best away performance yet under Roeder against the Premiership promotion hopefuls, the Canaries looked all set to return to East Anglia with a point after Darren Huckerby's trademark 70th minute leveller had wiped out Dele Adebola's …

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A moment of magic from City favourite Darren Huckerby almost gave the Canaries a richly-deserved point from this afternoon's trip to the West County – and almost threw another large spanner into Bristol City's promotion works. Almost.

A goal down to Dele Adebola's 41st minute opener, Norwich continued to park their tanks all over the Robins' front lawn after the break and finally earned their reward as Huckerby pounced on a mistake by Bradley Orr and …

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Norwich City (4-4-2): Marshall; Otsemobor, Bertrand, Shackell, Pearce; Huckerby, Fotheringham, Russell, Pattison; Dublin, Cureton. Subs: Gilks, Croft, Gibbs, Evans, Rigters.

City boss Glenn Roeder made just one change to the side that sent Colchester United hurtling towards League One last weekend as Gary Doherty's back strain gave Alex Pearce another chance to further his footballing education.

Given the weather buffeting Ashton Gate ahead of this …

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When the Canaries last made the marathon trek to this neck of the woods they arguably produced their best away performance of the campaign.

Two Ched Evans goals were enough to cause what still remained a shock result to some extent at Cardiff that day despite City having won their two previous games and extended their unbeaten run to 11 matches, but no-one could deny that Norwich were full value for their three points over the course of the game.

Of course it all …

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