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Right now supporting our beloved City should come with a Government health warning. I’m a wreck…

20th February 2011 By Guest Blogger Leave a Comment

This isn’t good for the health…   Exhausting isn’t it? All this chasing promotion, having to keep winning, last minute winner, dying seconds’ finger-tip save malarkey is playing utter havoc with my nerves. In the days of mid-table mediocrity and even those flirting with relegation times, I didn’t seem anywhere near as obsessed and ultimately […]

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Out with the old, in with the new etc… Time for Stan to deliver his own New Years Honours

31st December 2010 By Guest Blogger 2 Comments

Quite simply Holt is a Norwich legend, which is quite something after little more than 60 games for the club. His goal scoring exploits alone would be enough to clinch this status, but there’s a swagger and a touch of mischief about the man that warms the cockles of the most frozen of Canary hearts.

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A Stanley Special: A festive salute to the architects of these happiest of recent times…

24th December 2010 By Guest Blogger Leave a Comment

On balance there have been few more enjoyable times to be part of the Yellow Army. We can only hope that it all lasts, and for this to happen we have to hold onto the architect of our resurrection, a man whose actions speak infinitely louder than his words… step forward Paul Lambert.

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Where is the voice of reason when you need it? Someone needs to have a word

11th January 2010 By Guest Blogger Leave a Comment

Such an historic town, and good football club deserve better than to be represented by Cowling. Through nothing more than a bruised ego, he has decided to punish law-abiding football fans, and create enormous friction between the two set of fans.

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Tis the festive season; high time for Stan to take a stroll down Memory Lane…

29th December 2009 By Guest Blogger Leave a Comment

Coming a close second, of course, would have to be Boxing Day 2003. Not for the game; a relatively drab 1-0 win over Forest. But more for that Huckerby-moment, when the great man came onto the pitch and the news that he had indeed signed for us was made official.

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Reasons to be cheerful of FA Cup eve? Well, here’s my five starters…

26th November 2009 By Guest Blogger Leave a Comment

In his man-management, his tactics, substitutions and preparation, Lambert looks the real deal. Crucially, his old-school pragmatism is not compromised by the challenges of the modern game. In Paul, we trust…

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Who says the romance of the FA Cup is dead? I’m in love already…

25th October 2009 By Guest Blogger Leave a Comment

The way that Lambert, Culverhouse and Crook have gone about turning the rag-tag collection of half-paced individuals who kicked off that fateful day in August into the resiliant unit we presently have is little short of remarkable.

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Heady old days by our sorry standards of late; Lambert is quite looking the part

1st October 2009 By Guest Blogger Leave a Comment

Lambert is certainly one to do the unexpected and you sensed that there is a lot of real-politik driving many of his decisions. He’s not going to let pride stop him from bringing a player back if he deems he’s the best option available, and credit to both Lambert and the Doc, it worked a treat.

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You know what, old Stan quite enjoyed that… twas almost like old times

20th September 2009 By Guest Blogger Leave a Comment

Lambert’s team look organised, and well drilled and they sure aren’t going to roll over and die when they go behind. In fact, all he needs to do to prove he’s the real deal is spot the defensive link between Saturday’s opposition goals!

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I’ll whisper it very quietly. But to Stan’s eyes, we’re starting to look more of a team

3rd September 2009 By Guest Blogger Leave a Comment

Well, that's another footballing first for Stan to cross off his 'Things to do…' list: attend a Johnstone's Paint Trophy match.

True, it wasn't listed as high as 'Watch Norwich play in (and win) the FA Cup Final…', but there you go.

It was, moreover, a pretty enjoyable experience.

The game petered out after about 65 minutes, but the first half was played at a decent tempo and saw both teams – mainly us, thankfully – …

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Punch-drunk and groggy would sum up Stan’s feelings right now. Tired of seeing ‘stars’…

27th August 2009 By Guest Blogger Leave a Comment

Unable to find writing inspiration in the usual ways, Stan has decided that the answer to his impotence lays somewhere within the bottles of Carlsberg Export that were/are chilling in the fridge.

Thus, prepare for an increasingly incoherent waffle through the NCFC week just gone!

Somehow two games, 12e goals, a new manager and even the return of 'the curse of hooliganism' have failed to set Stan's creative juices flowing.

This Stan …

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City not so much on the Road To Nowhere, as on the Train To Hell

19th August 2009 By Guest Blogger Leave a Comment

Please excuse the slightly weary prose style that follows, for Stan was one of those who found himself stranded on the 'Train From Hell' last night.

Having had a nice day in the capital, Stan's fortunes took a nose-dive the minute Cody blasted over a relative sitter after 30 seconds of yet another NCFC away-day debacle.

From thereon, Stan watched his city's representatives huff and puff but – as is now the Norwich 'way' – get out-muscled and …

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Just back from my summer hols… Nice, quiet ten days away. So, missed anything?

16th August 2009 By Guest Blogger Leave a Comment

Right then, just back. Fantastic ten days in the Black Forest. Great beer, great sausages?. What else could a man ask for? So then, has anything happened in my absence?

We lost by how much??. Mmm, not quite to plan was it?!

We then won by how much??. OK, bit of an improvement!

The board then did… WHAT?!

Pretty normal few days all in all then!

Right then, it's confession time. Now, over the last three years it may have become …

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Has hope sprung? Oh, yes… old Stan has a little spring in his step, folks…

3rd August 2009 By Guest Blogger Leave a Comment

Stan has to admit it: he's feeling optimistic.

Try as he might not to get his expectations up, to keep Norwich's immediate future in the context of the debacle that has been our recent past, Stan's looking forward to Saturday with both hope and belief.

Not surprisingly, such feelings were bolstered by City's victory over Wigan. But they were encroaching before then.
Stan gets a sense that things are beginning to change at Carrow Road, from …

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Something’s a-strring in Stan’s summer loins. Could that be a flicker of hope..?

12th July 2009 By Guest Blogger Leave a Comment

First things first: Norwich City are in the Third Division – get over it, deal with it, accept it.

No Canary fairy is going to turn up and wish away or make right all the mistakes made by players, management and board alike over the past five years; the swine flu pandemic is not going to wipe out the entire board and boot room, as some e-mail warriors and NCISA spokespeople seem to desire.

We have no money; we have to bring young players through; we have to sell …

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At some stage soon we’ve all got to step off this current road to nowhere…

18th May 2009 By Guest Blogger Leave a Comment

At the moment of putting first finger to keyboard it is precisely two weeks since Stan witnessed one of the most pathetic capitulations he's had the misfortune to witness in all his years as City fan? and let's face it we've all watched a few. Ultimately it was a fittingly wretched end to a hideous, and at times, very dark season

Such was the nature of our ultimate slump into the bowels of the Third Division that a sort of fuggy disbelief has hung in the air since that …

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‘You’re not fit to wear the shirt…’ we sang. With a passion and with a pride. OTBC.

4th May 2009 By Guest Blogger Leave a Comment

Well, Stan was not expecting that. Defeat, yes; relegation, yes. But a wholesale capitulation to rank alongside the Fulham debacle of 2005? No.

As it was, 3 May 2009 will go down in history not just as the day that Norwich City were relegated to Division Three (aka League One), but as the day in which our footballing representatives brought shame on the club and our Fine City.

Korey, Cody and Lee aside, the players fell to new lows.

Some appeared …

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I know, I know. A bit late. Been divesting myself of all that wretched emotion…

1st May 2009 By Guest Blogger Leave a Comment

Apologies for the delay, Stan had drifted off into some sort of football supporter's purgatory, trapped in a world somewhere between Exeter and Newcastle.

In the last few days he has gnashed and wailed, cried and trembled, raged and spat fire?and then drifted back into that dreadful numbed state that refuses to quite believe that we are teetering above the trap door that we have dreaded reaching for so long.

Our last stay of execution has come to an end, the State …

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It was all so crushingly predictable… that’s what really hurts…

20th April 2009 By Guest Blogger Leave a Comment

No one warns you of days like this when they first set you on the road to football fanaticism.

Your Dad doesn't put his arm around you at the age of six as you settle into your seat, come clean and declare that you're far more likely to get grief out of this pastime than pleasure.

You'll be sustained by sepia-tinted memories of Jimmy Neighbour on the wing and Steve Bruce headers, but by and large it's one long painful slog with intermittent heartbreak …

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No predictions. We’ll win some, we’ll lose some. And then we’ll see…

14th April 2009 By Guest Blogger Leave a Comment

One of the things that Stan finds most annoying about football pundits – on TV and in print – is their tendency to judge every team by its last result.

Manchester United can lose one game having been unbeaten for some ten, 12 or more, and the 'experts' talk – in all seriousness – about a wobble; even about a 'crisis'.

Mark my words, if Newcastle win their next game then the pundits will be talking of recovery and the 'Shearer effect'.
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