Archive for the ‘Rick Waghorn’ Category

Paul Lambert continues to do little or nothing wrong; taking full advantage of Rangers’ lack of numbers was a huge result coming as it did on the turn of the year and the season. In 400-metres terms – beloved in these parts – Norwich are still kicking on again down the back straight…

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I can still remember being part of a little gaggle of people who followed the chairman all the way down on the train to a Robert Fleck disciplinary hearing in Lancaster Gate – with Martin O’Neill desperate to front Chase up about just how much money he did have to spend…

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The point is, of course, that as well as Norwich have performed thus far this season, there are still teams who lie beyond even the reach of a Paul Lambert; teams against whom you ‘take your medicine’, pick yourself up and go again…

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If Norwich City Football Club managed to cut out every mistake, every slip of concentration and bag all three points every time they managed to sneak into a one-goal lead whilst still scoring the goals that they do, they would – by default – be better than Manchester City. Or Manchester United.

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I wouldn’t be too swift to judge this Norwich side on that performance. The level of concentration required to keep those individuals under lock and key for 90 minutes is probably unsurpassed by any other opposition in the country right now…

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I think there’s a point that many a punter needs to grasp here – in the sense of recognising just how close the ‘Band Of Brothers’ that is any professional dressing room gets during every ten month ‘tour of duty’ they do year in, year out…

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Because for anyone who caught the Match Of The Day ‘analysis’ of the Canaries trip to Villa Park and last Saturday’s visit of Champions League hopefuls Arsenal, the verdict was the same – or rather the feature bits were.
Agbonlahor’s pace matched to Bent’s finish; Walcott’s pace married to Van Persie’s finish.

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There will be no ‘I’ in the team-work that under-pins Norwich’s rise to Premiership good fortune just as – you’d like to hope – there’ll be no, big ‘I ams…’ in England’s international future…

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Two questions.
One, which team is the biggest surprise package of this autumn?
Two, name half a dozen of their starting XI?
And, no, the answer isn’t Norwich. Though I strongly suspect 90% of Premiership punters living outside Norfolk would struggle with question two.
The answer – to my mind – is Newcastle United, who after last night’s 3-1`win [...]

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But the point is that the City boss now has a transfer model that works; he knows which players thrive on centre stage – given the right opportunity to prove their teenage detractors wrong. And, more importantly still, he knows which wage model works and which doesn’t. Sunderland’s, for example.

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