• 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

Hughton still tight-lipped over any January transfer business; on Mr Clattenburg he is, however, rather more vocal…

2nd January 2013 By Rick Waghorn Leave a Comment

Please share

Suffice to say, the season of good will towards all men was well and truly over this week when it came to City boss Chris Hughton and referee Mark Clattenburg.

Yesterday’s 2-1 defeat at West Ham United condemned the Canaries to their fourth straight Premier League defeat.

And whilst the drop zone still remains some way distant, City would have been desperately hoping for a bit of renewed forward momentum to follow the New Year’s Day trip to the East End.

But already denied the services of both skipper Grant Holt and his stand-in Steve Morison through injury, so their cause was not helped by the award of a second minute penalty to the likewise, stuttering Hammers.

Six of one and half a dozen of the other would be most people’s interpretation of the clash between Ryan Bennett and Hammers’ Winston Reid; Clattenburg, however, viewed Bennett as the offending party and his decision then allowed Mark Noble to open the scoring from the penalty spot.

Rocked back on the heels and without the attacking presence of either a Holt or a Morison, so it was always going to be a long, hard day at the office once the day’s official had pointed to the penalty spot.

“I accept that Ryan [Bennett] had the lad by the shirt – but it something that you will see, week in, week out,” said Hughton afterwards, as the Canaries slipped back to 12th on the back of this latest festive reverse.

They have, in fairness, only lost by the odd goal on all four occasions now and there is little disgrace in losing by such a margin to the likes of a Chelsea or a Manchester City.

But Hughton is well aware that momentum is everything in this league. And nor do you want to find yourself sucked back into the relegation fray having worked so hard to lift yourself out of it in the autumn. Hence his frustration at Clattenburg taking centre stage at Upton Park with three, big penalty decisions not going Norwich’s way.

“It’s not as if Reid has got away from him and he’s trying to pull him closer to him or to stop him getting away,” added Hughton, as a right royal tussle went against the visitors.

“There’s contact from Reid. His arm, forearm, his elbow – or whatever – was on his throat, against his chest so there’s a bit of each. But I accept that he’s got hold of his shirt.

“But if we’re going to give penalties for that, then we’re going to see an awful lot of penalties. And there isn’t anybody that isn’t going to tell me that Alexander Tettey wasn’t pole-axed in the run-up to their second.”

A familiar refrain of late given the manner in which that Vincent Kompany went clean through Bradley Johnson en route to Manchester City’s significant second strike on Saturday. Luck, in short, has been in short supply of late as the Canaries prepare for an FA Cup ‘breather’ in the shape of this weekend’s East Anglian derby clash with Peterborough.

“Were we on the wrong side of some decisions today? Absolutely we were,” he told the BBC.

Circumstances hadn’t helped with the injuries to Holt and Morison and the suspension to Johnson. City had, said Hughton, to ‘go bigger’ to combat West Ham’s aerial threat – hence the opportunity for Bennett.

That said, the Canary chief wasn’t overly-impressed with the way that Norwich dealt with the hosts’ physical edge in a “poor” first period.

“If we were able to put the performance that we did in the second-half into the first-half, then it would have been a far closer game,” he insisted.

Inevitably January brought the transfer window question; almost as inevitably, the Canary chief was giving next-to-nothing away.

“We’re working as hard as everybody else is, but that work is very much done behind closed doors. And if the timing’s right and it’s appropriate to bring a player in in a certain position then we will do that.”


Please share

Filed Under: Latest news

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

#NCFC LATEST

andy_traynier @ndy @andy_traynier ·
1h

This would be a insanely brilliant loan so it’s probably not going to happen #ncfc

Reply on Twitter 1618907688305573888 Retweet on Twitter 1618907688305573888 Like on Twitter 1618907688305573888 Twitter 1618907688305573888
norwichcityacad Norwich City Academy @norwichcityacad ·
1h

👊🔰

#NCFC

Reply on Twitter 1618906411060105217 Retweet on Twitter 1618906411060105217 Like on Twitter 1618906411060105217 3 Twitter 1618906411060105217
danieiemery Daniel Emery @danieiemery ·
1h

Go and get O'Brien. Him, Kenny, and Sara competing in midfield is a big yes from me. #NCFC

Reply on Twitter 1618905535708798976 Retweet on Twitter 1618905535708798976 Like on Twitter 1618905535708798976 5 Twitter 1618905535708798976
ginger_canary The Norfolk Sonic 💛💚 @ginger_canary ·
1h

I can’t wait for the hearts of everyone in the comments to fall apart if it turns out that the shares in question aren’t going to the Attanasio’s… 😅 #ncfc

Reply on Twitter 1618905184482258944 Retweet on Twitter 1618905184482258944 Like on Twitter 1618905184482258944 Twitter 1618905184482258944
cjsouthwell1902 Connor Southwell @cjsouthwell1902 ·
1h

This is really interesting #NCFC news this morning.

The club are to hold a EGM about the allocation of new shares.

The devil will be in the detail, but this is often done to raise funds in a business. It could take several different forms.

https://www.pinkun.com/news/23279870.norwich-city-canaries-allot-shares-general-meeting/

Reply on Twitter 1618903617968414720 Retweet on Twitter 1618903617968414720 Like on Twitter 1618903617968414720 7 Twitter 1618903617968414720
Load More...

Copyright © 2023 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