Archive for March, 2009

City winger Lee Croft was keeping his fingers firnly crossed today that he would be fit enough to feature in Saturday's home clash with Sheffield Wednesday.

The 23-year-old prospective City Player of the Season missed the 1-1 draw at Birmingham with a slight ankle knock, but is hopeful of returning to training on Thursday ahead of Norwich's latest six-point survival clash.

“It's getting better,” revealed Croft, speaking at last night's Canary RoadShow event …

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The financial misfortunes of Norwich's would-be 'saviour' Peter Cullum and his rocking Towergate Insurance empire were back under the spotlight again this weekend as The Independent on Sunday claimed that accountants KPMG had been instructed to tackle the firm's 'debt mountain' in the face of the on-going bank and credit crisis.

Cullum – cited as Britain's 40th wealthiest individual in the 2008 Sunday Times Rich List with a personal fortune estimated at …

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Like most families, the Baldwin clan has a number of its own catchphrases which are trotted out at particular moments.

For example, there's 'I'm thick of thoup' (that's 'I'm sick of soup' as spoken by a young, lisping child) � used when the same meal is served up with monotonous regularity.

'People like a buffet�' is quoted whenever someone makes a wilfully contrary and unhelpful remark. (This originates from the time my wife …

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City boss Bryan Gunn will have to do his sums very carefully if he decides to add an extra face to his survival-hunting pack ahead of tomorrow's very final transfer deadline of the season.

For many years the fourth Thursday in March was the cut-off point for transfer – full-time or part-time; Premiership or Championship.

But the introduction of the FIFA-wide transfer window system changed all that – certainly for as far as the top flight clubs are concerned. …

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The Master was giving little away afterwards.

Whether or not the Apprentice would go on and carve out a decent managerial career for himself was, said Alex McLeish, too early to tell.

Given his rather dour response, it was probably too early to even ask the question after his one-time boot-boy Bryan Gunn had whipped two points out of his hands with Saturday's 1-1 draw at St Andrews.

What's more, he'd also pulled a motivational trick or two by …

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City boss Bryan Gunn revealed he had a little trick up his sleeve going into yesterday's 1-1 draw with promotion-chasing Birmingham – a certain Dion Dublin sprinkled his motivational magic dust over the players before kick-off.

In fact, Norwich's Player of the Season last year went to work on his old charges on the Friday night as teamed up with the squad at their Midlands hotel.

Given what followed as the Canaries dug a potentially priceless point out of St …

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So the great escape continues.

A point at Brum is no mean feat in anybody's estimation; to have deserved more and put in such a hard-fought and committed performance is promising indeed.

As it is, Gunn has now carved out a points tally worthy of a mid-table outfit with aspirations for the future.

 
Maybe, and just maybe, this year's Colditz-esque venture may even be such that it puts last year's break-out in the shade.

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City midfield star Sammy Clingan today said his thanks to the 'Yellow and Green Army' for playing their part to perfection in this weekend's 1-1 draw away at promotion hopefuls Birmingham City.

The better part of 2,500 Canary fans made the journey to St Andrew's – helped, in no small part, by the subsidised coach travel offered back the club's sponsors, Aviva.

Their reward was another hugely-committed effort by Bryan Gunn's reborn Norfolk side – …

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City boss Bryan Gunn pulled no punches as far as referee Mark Haywood was concerned after today's official almost managed to ruin his St Andrews showdown with best pal Alex McLeish.

In the end a stunning, 53rd minute free-kick from man of the match Sammy Clingan gave the Canaries a richly-deserved 1-1 draw and kept the Norfolk side heading north going into the two-week break for internationals.

But Cameron Jerome's 38th minute opener clearly niggled after the …

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Bryan Gunn's biggest pal in football insisted that it was “all to play for” at the of the Championship table – just as everything remains firmly up for grabs in the bottom four.

Alex McLeish – the man whose boots the Canary boss used to clean – is well aware that a decent run now could spare Blues the agony of the play-offs.

All too often, of course, for the team that finishes third there is only heart-break ahead; having missed out on one of the automatic promotion …

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