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Kevin Baldwin

Waiting for goals: From Beckett to Hughton to Baldwin, the issue is of waiting rather than making…

24th January 2014 By Kevin Baldwin 3 Comments

Perhaps Dion Dublin’s pre-match speech on the pitch, in which he stated that the players owe the supporters, was a contributory factor in making us sit back and talk amongst ourselves while waiting to see what happened

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With Young, Johnson and co performing pikes with 1 1/2 twists, what chance for the youth of today

20th December 2013 By Kevin Baldwin 7 Comments

I’ve been giving the whole idol/role model question a bit of thought lately because of some of the behaviour at our son’s Saturday morning football sessions. I’ve always been rather sceptical of the notion that kids copy what they see in televised games, but now I’m beginning to wonder.

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“Very worrying”… “goal drought”… “system not working”… “lack of creativity”… Sound familiar?

22nd November 2013 By Kevin Baldwin 6 Comments

Life in the Premier League doesn’t automatically get easier when you have more money to spend – or as a number of Spurs fans put it, to splash* up the wall. (*Not the word they actually use.)

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Is City’s missing link an attack-minded coach? Or is there yet room for Wes to unpick those stubborn locks?

17th October 2013 By Kevin Baldwin 7 Comments

There have been a number of periods so far this season when we’ve enjoyed plenty of possession but haven’t been able to create a clear chance – the Hull and Villa games being the most obvious examples

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Do we follow football or Norwich City? A time for reflection ahead of the visit of you-know-who…

20th September 2013 By Kevin Baldwin 3 Comments

Football is also the perfect game for pessimists and conspiracy theorists. If you believe that the world is against you and that life will always let you down, there’s no shortage of circumstantial evidence. Do you have a need to associate yourself with success to compensate for a lack of self-confidence and self-worth which you can’t openly admit to? Manchester United can provide that.

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With expectation at Beckford levels, Norfolk expects that every (City) man (and player) will do his duty

15th August 2013 By Kevin Baldwin 8 Comments

I can’t remember feeling like this about the team at the start of any other season. There have been individual signings of whom I expected a lot – Darren Beckford, for example, who had been a prolific scorer at Port Vale and raised expectations even higher with a pre-season hat-trick after joining us in 1991.

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Stress? Surely this is a return to normality; it’s the three intervening years that bucked the City trend

3rd May 2013 By Kevin Baldwin 3 Comments

I’d almost forgotten what that awful knot in the pit of your stomach feels like. The constant anxious scrutiny of different teams’ remaining fixtures. The self-torturing replaying of moments in recent games which, if they’d gone slightly differently, would have seen us safe by now.

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“My old man said ‘Be a City fan’; I said…” A parent’s dilemma when an offspring threatens to choose the wrong path!

28th March 2013 By Kevin Baldwin 20 Comments

There have been several highlights: our son, at two, refusing to play with a blue ball at his toddler gym club and insisting on a yellow one; our daughter making up her own Norwich chant to wind up Ipswich supporters on holiday (a real show of chutzpah, since this was just after we’d been relegated to League One).

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As City slowly morph into an efficient points-gathering machine, is mid-table mediocrity really all we have to look forward to?

21st February 2013 By Kevin Baldwin 5 Comments

For now, I don’t have a problem with our conservative approach if it keeps us up this season; we all know how much money is at stake. And without counting any chickens, I think Hughton’s current tactics are more likely to succeed than not.

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A London Road-type retro trip is great just once in a while, but nostalgia ain’t what it used to be

18th January 2013 By Kevin Baldwin 4 Comments

If it weren’t such short notice, the forthcoming game with Luton would have been an ideal occasion for a retro day, with it being a repeat of the 1959 FA Cup semi-final. The club could have sold tickets at 1959 prices. (Some Luton fans have been complaining that £10 is too cheap; it would have been funny to see what they made of 2s 6d.)

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Patience remains such a precious virtue and right now we are all reaping the benefits of keeping faith in both the manager and his men

20th December 2012 By Kevin Baldwin 3 Comments

You could argue – and I have – that the City board showed too much patience with Nigel Worthington in his last twelve months at the club. But as faults go, it’s not the worst one to have. And by contrast, how poor are they that have not patience…

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Football remains such a beautiful game; its beauty, however, is always in the eye of the individual beholder. Millions of us…

23rd November 2012 By Kevin Baldwin Leave a Comment

The point is, since football is such a fantastic game that it has near-universal appeal, it cannot help but attract less desirable elements. It’s a broad church (broader than the Church, if this week’s events are anything to go by…) and there are inevitably sinners and reprobates within it. But as in life, it’s the unpleasant minority which attracts the attention…

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Fallen idols are all the rage right now; alas thoughts of applauding anyone on our trip to Villa Park are in need of an urgent re-visit…

15th October 2012 By Kevin Baldwin 2 Comments

Something doesn’t add up here. And my suspicion is that we’ll never get to the bottom of it; when this business is finally resolved, both parties will inevitably talk about ‘drawing a line under it’, ‘moving forwards’ and ‘looking ahead, not backwards’, leaving the supporters none the wiser…

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I’m left to wonder whether Hughton has taken a leaf out of my book – plug – and is carefully hoarding all that is dear to us…

21st September 2012 By Kevin Baldwin 1 Comment

In fact, I probably couldn’t tackle the task without the help of my wife. Yes, there are occasional differences of opinion – one man’s programme collection is another woman’s pile of waste paper, apparently – but she is very good at identifying and throwing out anything unlikely ever to be used again. Though curiously, I notice her wedding dress is still up in the loft…

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Back to life, back to reality; back to the brutal football tribes and when you only ever want one team to win…

15th August 2012 By Kevin Baldwin 1 Comment

I’ve made all sorts of resolutions during breaks away: to read more; to exercise more; to scrape the rust off my languages; to react more calmly to stress; to appreciate what I have; to be more considerate. In short, to be a better person. The whole country seems to be feeling like this at the moment…

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Reasons to be cheerful, part 74, and why I do so hope Roy will feed the Horst this summer and watch him score…

3rd May 2012 By Kevin Baldwin Leave a Comment

It’s usually been the case over the years that you’re never sure which Norwich is going to turn up on any given day. That still applies, but these days it’s about tactics rather than attitude…

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Great expectations now abound at Carrow Road; maybe now is the time to temper all our dreams with a little shot of reality

5th April 2012 By Kevin Baldwin 2 Comments

We should have high expectations. But they do need to be tempered with realism. The club is years ahead of the schedule mapped out by the new board after relegation to League One. Finishing anywhere above 18th this season will be a tremendous success…

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That Paul Lambert. Whatever is he like?!

10th March 2012 By Kevin Baldwin 3 Comments

Of course, we know very well after two and a half years that this public reticence conceals intelligence, astuteness, boldness and determination. In Lambert we trust to such an extent that while his team selections sometimes raise eyebrows before kick-off, they never raise objections in the stands.

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Thank you kindly, Mr Holt. You and your ilk have been an inspiration; I have a ball at my feet again…

26th January 2012 By Kevin Baldwin 2 Comments

With the passing of time – and a renewed enthusiasm for football engendered by the transformation at Carrow Road over the last three seasons – I felt able to give it another go. Fired by that enthusiasm, not to mention a large Mars bar and two Red Bulls, I stepped onto a pitch again last Friday evening…

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Christmas is the season to be jolly. Equally, it can be a time for mellow thoughtfulness for those that come bearing more cares than most

21st December 2011 By Kevin Baldwin 4 Comments

I think the difficulty of comprehension may come from the fact that for many supporters, football serves as a relief from depression – even as a treatment for it. The idea that football can be a cause of stress and depression for those on the pitch is one that does not always occur to us…

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