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Reply | 32 years ago today....
at 23:47 25 Apr 2024
Brighton had a toothpaste kit and were sponsored by Nobo. I felt sorry for them. How times change.
I couldn’t do the Oxford game. No ticket and work in the morning meant no chance - I’d got to a lot of the preceding games but that one wasn’t to be. Bl**dy typical.
I got home and washed the car listening to radio 5. The final score came through as Mrs C came running out shouting ‘they’ve done it!’.
I locked the car, scooped Basil the cat off the parcel shelf (he always supervised) put the cleaning cloths away, went in, sat down, turned the tv off, strangely, and opened a can of beer. A private moment. God, I enjoyed that beer. After a couple more it was an amble to the kebab shop for takeaway elephants leg accompanied by wine, fizzy stuff and goodness knows what. Brilliant evening.
The following week, my dad was in hospital after a minor operation and couldn’t go to the game so Mrs C came with me. We stood in Churchmans and enjoyed every single moment. We went to the Cornhill for the bus parade the following day. Who can ever forget Chris Ks lilac suit? A thing of beauty. Happy days. What a season. We had a smashing team. |
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Reply | SNP
at 23:31 25 Apr 2024
So Les Dennis didn’t offer enough. Not content with being a waste of oxygen, he’s mean with it. Dreadful.
I take it Nicola was moonlighting in Plymouth as Jimmy Krankie because her husband, Ming the Merciless, hadn’t claimed his…….errrr expenses and the winne needed a new tyre?
Still, whatever tricks they got up to, they’re still better than the scum who’ve been ransacking and destroying the country here for the last 14 years. |
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Reply | SNP
at 21:30 25 Apr 2024
Is it a race to the bottom or a race to the winnebego?
Nicola? You haven’t, have you??? Surely not! I’ll have nightmares now. |
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Reply | SNP
at 21:06 25 Apr 2024
My colleagues had dealings with the SNP through work that was done on their behalf some years ago now. A truly appalling bunch in just about every way. But worse than the tories? Nope, of course not.
In other words the nations of Britain have been and are badly served by the disgraceful shower that masquerade as politicians. |
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Reply | Drink it up Leicester fans as
at 22:40 24 Apr 2024
Agreed. They are a right couple of mugs. Criteria for pundits and co commentators?
A lobotomy. |
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Reply | Without wanting to be rude....
at 22:22 24 Apr 2024
You are more than welcome to post on here. We only get a bit jittery with the odd wind up merchant/tool/numbskull that ventures on. We even have a couple of excellent (don’t tell them) Norwich supporters who contribute on here in addition to other people from other clubs from time to time. All good.
As someone (sadly) old enough to have been to Highfield Road back in the day a good few times, in addition to many Coventry home games since, I’m you pleased to see how much you’ve recovered from the dark days of no ground, L2, bleak future. Mark Robins - what a job he’s done. For the record, you were robbed blind at the weekend.
For ourselves, the prevailing view before the season was that we’d do ok. I thought 6-10, some more optimistic, others less so. I think we knew we had a decent team (we may have finished second but the last 15 games we absolutely battered most teams), but you don’t know until the season begins. Obviously, we’ve exceeded most people’s expectations and given how extraordinary the season has been, who can tell what the rest of it will bring. |
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Reply | FFS
at 08:12 24 Apr 2024
Strange team Leeds. I don’t think they’ve looked all that since they robbed the Leicester cheats. They have that devastating £80m forward line and that’s been the salvation for them.
QPR? Depends which version turns up. If they’re on it, they’ll trouble Leeds. Anyone who’s been there will tell you it’s a tight little ground which won’t suit Leeds. One thing is for sure - they’ll murder Southampton who will play their ressies.
Ourselves? We can do it. Our form and cohesion will need to be a lot better than it has been in recent months though. Not seen much of hull, but they’re clearly decent. Coventry? A lot depends I how they do before they play us, but there’s bound to be a hangover from being robbed at the weekend.
Optimism or pessimism, I think we will need to win all three games. |
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Reply | Norwich
at 07:56 24 Apr 2024
The trouble is that they were the better team over those two games and results prove it. Their form since Christmas has been good too, the points yield from the last six games being the same as ourselves. They’ve every right to be very confident.
Against that is the league table. It really doesn’t lie. We are going to do them at some point. If we have to endure torment of the play offs, why not then? |
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Reply | Would you rather watch a russell martin team
at 22:31 23 Apr 2024
I’d much rather watch Russell Martin’s team. But that whinging ex budgie pillock drives me nuts so maybe not. Stuffed full of PL money, they’re not going to make top three. Disgraceful performance - they should fire him. Perhaps before the play offs.
Barnsley kicked out their manager with a game to play and in the top six so why not? |
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Reply | Shogun
at 22:25 23 Apr 2024
Took all night. Inconsiderate - kept the village awake with the screams. Poor old Pieterzoon. |
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Reply | Drink it up Leicester fans as
at 22:20 23 Apr 2024
A £1m fine and two point deduction at most? How about £50m? Bargain given the riches rolling in. They won’t be punished any more than Man City’s 115 charges will ever be heard. The legal boys will eat the imposers of any ‘punishment’ alive. [Post edited 23 Apr 22:58]
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Reply | Leicester not selling out their ground tonight….
at 22:17 23 Apr 2024
Of course it’s entitlement. One of their supporters described us as minnows. In a sense they are right. Rules only apply to minnows. A club of their prestige and achievement shouldn’t be getting their shoes dirty on nothings like us. They should be top six (in their minds) and of course had the wage bill to prove it.
The PL will welcome them back with open arms. I used to be fine with Leicester. Not now. They’ve really ground my gears with their cheating and histrionics. When/if the fall comes I hope it’s long and sustained.
Those cardboard things they love so much. Weird. |
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Reply | Shogun
at 22:00 23 Apr 2024
Who wouldn’t! Loved that series. The book was better, of course. |
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Reply | Cheats prospering. (n/t)
at 21:56 23 Apr 2024
Yep, thems the rules. And quite frankly £300m reward for the PL? Got to be worth a couple of points and a meagre fine. When people say cheating doesn’t pay, of course it does. |
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Reply | Omg on this day was the beginning of the end of ITFC
at 14:43 23 Apr 2024
I loathed everything about Keane and his time here. Painful didn’t really cover it. Even the initially amusing press conferences became a predictable bore.
‘Roy Keane’s Ipswich’. Those demeaning, excruciating words wanted to make me spew back then and do now. |
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Reply | Careful what you wish for 2.0
at 14:38 23 Apr 2024
Interesting article. Particularly the reference to ourselves.
The PL by the way it’s structured is designed to become ever more uncompetitive. I’m not sure it’s possible for teams to do what Charlton, Sunderland and to a lesser extent ourselves did 20+ years ago.
I want us to give it a try. To be the best we can be. It’s a challenge. Why not?
The risk though is that the costs absorb the money you acquire and if you don’t bounce back when you are inevitably relegated you are praying for a takeover to rescue you, as West Brom have done and Norwich will do if they fail to make it this season. Secondly, watching a team getting smashed every week isn’t fun. In fact it’s nine months of misery.
So what’s the answer? There isn’t one. I suspect at some stage the PL will pull up the drawbridge and keep all the money for themselves. |
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Reply | So this St George fella
at 10:58 23 Apr 2024
I’d have thought they’d be quite useful. No need for batteries or diesel to power them. Just hook up your dragon and away you go. Not so good for the lycra mob pedalling behind it, of course. |
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