Archive for November, 2008

As two tribes prepare to go to footballing war next Sunday with that first derby clash of the season, so this afternoon's FA Cup third round draw gave a fair indication of which way Fortune's cookie was crumbling right now.

For the south folk, it was a home tie against the winners of the abandoned Chesterfield versus Droylsden tie after Sir Trevor Booking did everyone in IP1 a favour by plucking Town's ball out of the bag first and granting Jim Magilton's men a …

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Norwich City's season continued to lurch from one crisis to the next after John Kennedy's 81st minute red card piled on the misery of a 3-2 away defeat at Sheffield Wednesday this afternoon.

Once again, it leaves Glenn Roeder's team planning in disarray as the Canary chief is forced to chop and change his back four again for next Sunday's derby clash with Ipswich Town.

By when, of course, the Norfolk club could be only out of the bottom three courtesy of …

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City boss Glenn Roeder this morning revealed that he came within an hour of adding a fresh face to his wafer-thin squad yesterday – only for the Championship player concerned to settle for staying where he was, picking up his wages for doing nowt.

Given that it came on the same day that the Canary chief decided he could do without Jamie Cureton's services for the next three months as the 33-year-old was allowed to join Barnsley on loan, so he had just 16 senior professionals to …

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The official Barnsley website this afternoon hailed a 'sensational' loan capture as Jamie Cureton joined the Tykes on a three-month emergency loan deal.

With less than an hour to go before the final 'emergency' loan deal deadline of 2008 comes and goes, most Canary supporters would have been expecting to see at least one fresh face come into Colney as opposed to an all-too familiar one pack his bags for Oakwell and a debut against Nottingham Forest this weekend.<br …

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City boss Glenn Roeder could yet be planning a busy day at the office tomorrow as yet another of the Football League's never-ending 'deadline days' comes and goes.

For five o'clock tomorrow is the last time that a Football League club can officially register an 'emergency loan' ahead of the transfer window proper re-opening on January 1.

After tomorrow afternoon, that's it as far as loan signings are concerned for December. Unless, of course, …

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Another home game, another defeat.

 
While not quite 'Groundhog Day', watching Norwich at Carrow Road has now becoming horribly repetitive.

Start slow and then play OK witout really creating anything; concede a soft goal or two against the run of play; change the formation; improve somewhat but never quite have the wherewithal to overcome the mountain we have given ourselves to climb.

 
Last night, against a very average Palace side, …

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Watching events at St Andrew's always tends to be an illuminating experience – not least because of their own, on-going takeover saga that ended at that famed 29.9% mark.

More of Peter Cullum's return to the ring in a moment.

First, however, a couple of lines that popped up on the Sky Sports website of late courtesy of an interview with Birmingham City owner David Gold.

Given that Gold's fortune is, in part, down to the adult end …

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Nine times out of ten, Norwich being Norwich whenever they take one step forward they then invariably take at least one back.

Tonight and the Canaries departed from that unenviable tradition and for 45 minutes took at least three steps back courtesy of, arguably, the most awful first-half of the season as Crystal Palace strolled into the easiest of 2-0 leads and eventually clung on to a 2-1 win.

Strong in mind, resolute in body and over-flowing in spirit at the …

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City boss Glenn Roeder has challenged anyone to feel the pain of losing quite so deeply as he does.

The Canaries resume their quest to claw their way out of the Championship's bottom six pack tonight with a home clash against Crystal Palace.

Buoyed by City's heroic resistance in the ten-man, 2-1 win away at bottom of the table Nottingham Forest over weekend, a back-to-back success would go some way to erasing such nasty memories as Burnley (a), Derby County (a) and …

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