Archive for May, 2011

“I’ve always said that until a bid comes in that is right for them, I won’t make a fuss and I’ll get on with my job,” he told the Press. “If the right offer comes in over the summer than we’ll sit down and talk and take it from there.”

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…like Grant Holt, the one-time tyre-fitter, Morison has more idea than most professional footballers as to what ‘Civvy Street’ entails – 4am starts collecting paper to shred across central London. Hence the hunger in his belly; hence the haste to get on; hence the interest of a Paul Lambert.

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I spoke to Worthy recently. He was full of praise for Lambert and genuinely full of hope and support for Norwich. But he believes that, if he had been allowed to buy Dean Ashton in the summer instead of in the January, City would have stayed up. The board, at that time, reasoned differently. They wanted funds in reserve for the January window.

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“Norwich have made a couple of bids that have been turned down so I’ve done what I’ve done,” Morison told the Press this weekend. “I want to play in the Premier League – I might not get another opportunity.”

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“He’s already shown great potential as a young player with Everton and when I have seen him playing for them and for Crystal Palace I have always thought he was a threat in and around the box,” Lambert added. “I think James will be fantastic for us and provide extra competition for places, which is always good to have.”

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“Catching up with the pace of the game was hard work, but the boys had the game won by that point and were playing well so it was a great feeling,” he told Scottish TV afterwards. “We played at a real high tempo and played some good football. Hopefully that shows what is to come.”

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“I’m a great believer in that you’ve got to be hungry to win games; you’ve got to have a desire to win games – that’s the philosophy that’s been with us for the last two years and it won’t vary too much from that and if I can get lads in to help the current group then that’s what I’ll do.”

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Staying with the devils he knows at Norwich ensures that he has everything to gain from tonight’s new deal; jumping ship to work with devils he knows only by rumour, would risk losing everything he has achieved reputation-wise over the last, two extraordinary seasons.

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In fairness to Lambert, the spirit appears always to have been willing; every word and deed from the moment that the final whistle blew one famous night at Fratton Park has pointed to the 41-year-old Scot being at the helm in August.

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“Yes, our children have a severe disability,” Holloway once said, “but it’s an invisible disability and in every other way, they’re perfect, and so we’re thankful for that. To experience the sheer trust and love of a deaf child is amazing. The girls’ deafness has touched and enhanced our lives. We’re better people because of it.”

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