• Skip to primary navigation
  • Skip to main content
  • Skip to primary sidebar

My Football Writer

My Football Writer Norwich City news… comment… analysis

Norwich City – news, comment and analysis

Find the best betting sites
  • Home
  • About us
  • The Team
  • Archives Index
  • Patreon
  • ADVERTISE
  • Contact us

Fate plays her hand perfectly and after tonight's cup win hands City an even sweeter prize – Villa (h) in the quarters

31st October 2012 By Rick Waghorn Leave a Comment

Please share

Norwich City’s reward for this evening’s dramatic 2-1 Capital One Cup win over Tottenham Hotspur was… a home draw against Paul Lambert’s Aston Villa.

Whoever is writing the script for Canary boss Chris Hughton certainly knows how to add a twist to the tale.

Equally in delivering Lambert a return trip to Norfolk after last weekend’s 1-1 draw at Villa Park, they also know how to put bums on seats when it comes to a quarter-final cup draw; tickets for the Lambert Reunion gig will be like gold dust as Norwich eye the prize of a semi-final berth at the expense of their old mentor.

It would also be the last draw that the Scot would have wanted.

He will know as well as anyone the reception that is likely to await back in Norfolk as the Canaries move into uncharted cup waters on the back of this evening’s late success.

It has been a full generation since City reached the last eight of the competition. And after this evening – both in terms of the final result and the draw it then delivered – you do begin to wonder whether Wembley beckons.

Certainly Hughton was well aware of Lady Luck’s involvement tonight after Norwich’s crucial leveller took an in-off via Jan Vertonghen. Others might argue that the manager pulled a huge result out of the fire with three, smart substitutions – Alexander Tettey prompting the own goal; Grant Holt then forcing the half-save which Simeon Jackson then converted for the winner.

“The first goal takes a deflection – we haven’t had one of them all season,” Hughton noted afterwards, yet to be made aware of who and what would lie in store in the quarters.

“Sometimes you need that little bit of fortune, but you’ve got to be in the right place,” he added.

Gareth Bale’s 66th minute strike had looked to be taking Spurs through in a game that took the better part of an hour to fire into life.

When it finally did, it did so with a vengeance as two goals in three minutes put the home side back in command of the game only for Marc Tierney’s ill-timed tackle on Kyle Walker to give Clint Dempsey the chance to send the game into extra-time from the penalty spot.

Mark Bunn’s inspired save, however, kept City’s late lead intact and booked their place back at Lambert’s table – with player and manager alike insisting justice had been served.

“I thought the lad [Kyle Walker] made a meal of the penalty. Marc Tierney says he didn’t touch him,” Hughton told the BBC afterwards, after guiding his new charges to within sight of some serious cup glory.

Long gone are the doubts of the early autumn as Norwich struggled to find the results to match their performances – and, indeed, delivered one too many non-performances.

Now Hughton’s star is firmly in the ascendant and should he deliver a place in the last four – and all at Lambert’s expense – the former Spurs hero will be well on his way to commanding new respect amongst the Yellow Army.

“Once you start hitting the quarter-finals you are not so far away from a final,” he said. “So yes, it’s a good feeling for the club. I’m pleased for the club because it’s been a long time.”

Tottenham boss Andre Villas-Boas was generous enough in defeat, but will know that his side should have had more than enough quality to see the game out after Bale’s strike. For whatever reason, however, Norwich appear to be enjoying the last laugh on the North London club these days – inspired by that famous Easter away victory last season.

“It’s a pity to see the game slip from our hands,” he told reporters afterwards. “We had a good performance with good chances. It’s difficult to take – in the end we congratulate them.

“Norwich did well to get back into the game – credit to them. In the end, they took their opportunities in the final minutes.”

One final thought: this from Tuesday’s comment piece…

“In fact the way football tends to work, you wouldn’t bet against a Villa v Norwich quarter-final re-match; the Law of Sod would just lurve to engineer that re-union gig…’

Funny ‘ol game.


Please share

Filed Under: none

Reader Interactions

Leave a Reply Cancel reply

Your email address will not be published. Required fields are marked *

Primary Sidebar

FIND MY FOOTBALL WRITER ON

As featured on NewsNow: Norwich City news” style=

Norwich City News 24/7

@NorwichCityMFW latest

Tweets by @NorwichCityMFW

#NCFC LATEST

danielmorrisuk Daniel Morris @danielmorrisuk ·
3h

Well this looks good! 😳 #ncfc what happened today? 69% possession and 12 shots on target yet a 2-1 loss to Hull who are now top? #otbc #NorwichCity

Reply on Twitter 1558614414122799104 Retweet on Twitter 1558614414122799104 Like on Twitter 1558614414122799104 Twitter 1558614414122799104
bfklyna شركة جوري الخليجية لبيع الخيام شحن لدول الخليج @bfklyna ·
3h

#BREMUN
#ToryRapSongs
#Caturday
#mufc
#ARSLEI
#avleve
#TheBigBreakfast
#Heatwave
#PerseidMeteorShower
#SmackDown
#AVFC
#ASTEV
#SaturdayVibes4
#MOTD
#UFCSanDiego
#ARGvAUS
#bbcfootball
#ncfc
#BCFC
#SaturdayMorning

Reply on Twitter 1558613021605482496 Retweet on Twitter 1558613021605482496 Like on Twitter 1558613021605482496 Twitter 1558613021605482496
bfklyna شركة جوري الخليجية لبيع الخيام شحن لدول الخليج @bfklyna ·
3h

#BREMUN
#ToryRapSongs
#Caturday
#mufc
#ARSLEI
#avleve
#TheBigBreakfast
#Heatwave
#PerseidMeteorShower
#SmackDown
#AVFC
#ASTEV
#SaturdayVibes4
#MOTD
#UFCSanDiego
#ARGvAUS
#bbcfootball
#ncfc
#BCFC
#SaturdayMorning

Reply on Twitter 1558612790260154369 Retweet on Twitter 1558612790260154369 Like on Twitter 1558612790260154369 Twitter 1558612790260154369
mattjohnson333 Matt Johnson @mattjohnson333 ·
3h

So #ncfc are doing badly because fans are ‘Smith haters’ because he’s not DF. Thats a strange take. A tiny minority still bang the DF drum but Christ most unhappy with Smith are unhappy because after 36 games they’ve seen absolutely nothing to give them hope that we will improve.

Reply on Twitter 1558612477549723648 Retweet on Twitter 1558612477549723648 Like on Twitter 1558612477549723648 1 Twitter 1558612477549723648
brandondyble Brandon Dyble @brandondyble ·
3h

Huge overreaction from the #ncfc fans tbh. A couple of wins next week and we’ll be well on our way

Reply on Twitter 1558611398472728576 Retweet on Twitter 1558611398472728576 Like on Twitter 1558611398472728576 Twitter 1558611398472728576
Load More...

Copyright © 2022 21VC Ltd | All rights reserved | Not to be reproduced without prior permission.

Disclaimer: The information on this website consists of personal opinions. Whilst we have taken all reasonable steps to ensure that the information contained on these Web pages is accurate and correct at the time of writing we do not accept any liability whatsover for any loss or damage caused by reliance on this information.

We do not accept any responsibility for information contained in other websites to which this site links. We strongly advise users to check any information before acting or relying on it.

Developed and Hosted by