Archive for February, 2012

Were I still beholden to delivering marks out of ten on all concerned, I think it would be fair to say that no-one in a Canary shirt would have dipped beneath an eight for yesterday’s performance against Premier League champions Manchester United. Many would have walked off with a nine…

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“As you say, me and Danny [Graham] got overlooked for this particular squad, but we’ve just got to keep doing what we’re doing; keep scoring the goals; keep turning the performances in and let people like yourselves write what you want to write.”

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“I’ve just got to take my medicine,” added the Canary chief. “But we gave it everything – that was a huge performance. We gave it everything.”

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“They are still one of the best teams in Europe, let alone Britain, and still have a great chance to win the Premier League. They’re just a fantastic team – and have been for many a-year now. I’m under no illusions as to how hard it’s going to be…

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For all their trials and tribulations over the last decade and for the numbers, the noise and the colour with which they take to the road this season, personally I think City’s supporters deserve a decent cup run; they have earned the right to grace Wembley Way sooner rather than later – even if it was only for a semi-final. The place needs to be a celebratory sea of yellow and green.

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“Getting back out onto the pitch was brilliant from a personal point of view, but like I say it was all about getting through [to the next round] today and unfortunately we couldn’t do that. So I’m pretty disappointed on that front.”

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“If I didn’t think that the players who played weren’t capable of playing in my first team, Naughton would have played, Ruddy would have played, Holt would have played Surman would have played,” he said. “But we never did enough to go through.”

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“You give the cup every respect it deserves,” said Lambert. “There will be some changes in the team, but it won’t be a weakened side – that’s for sure. It’s a game that we will go and try and win – it’s a chance to go and get through…

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“We have to wait a bit longer for the next league game, which is a frustration, but we have a cup game which gives me an opportunity to look at one or two different options,” Pearson told the paper on the back of Tuesday night’s unwelcome reverse.

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The point is fairly simple. Football is littered with fine lines; decisions made in haste that come back to haunt you; decisions that are made for all the right reasons at the time can – with hindsight – appear so, so wrong. But on this occasion, Norwich City Football Club appear to have side-stepped a very large minefield…

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