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I dislike the expression "must-win game" because it's overused and therefore rendered almost meaningless.
Today however, has the potential to be enormous.
A loss today, and not much changes for the club, we can continue on with our mental preparations for next year in a different league.
A win however will give the club, the team and us fans a huge lift. Putting a small spanner in the Budgie's fight for a top two finish is nothing compared to the lift it could give us in our own right.
All the best to all Town fans at Carrot Road today - you really can lift the team. Hell, we're only playing Nodge - but somehow we've made them something special in the back of our minds. They are Norwich City. They play in yellow. They have a stupid song. They've never won anything and they're only a Championship side.
Having lived in Spain for close to 20 years I've seen Spanish politicians practise the fine art of boring the electorate into submission first hand.
Politically, the most exciting thing which has happened in Spanish politics since the failed coup attempt in 1981 (History fans watch here: ), is probably 15M (May 15 2011) and the rise of "Los Indignados".
Normal Spaniards actually started getting interested in politics. Now though, all that passion has been beaten out of everyone (by a 2 year long process of trying to elect a new government) and now the politicians are just left to do as they please while the weary population gets on with trying to live a little.
And perhaps we've reached that saturation point in Britain too.
I LOLed as I heard Teresa May say last night that she's going to press on and deliver Brexit for the people. It's nonsense. There'll be no Norway model. No Brexit. Nothing.
The Government's hardest task was always going to be getting over the fact that not delivering Brexit would look a bit well, you know, undemocratic.
It's clear to me that the plan for a while has been for the Government to tap into this demand for democracy. But not the democracy connected to delivering Brexit, no, what's needed is street-level democracy, one that comes from the people and is not tarred by duplicitous politicians, the sort of Democracy that is British, one that builds empires and has tea and scones. Yes the people of Britain (even Brexiteers) are going to beg Mrs May to stop and put the country out of its misery. The poor thing is going go against her democratic instincts and have another referendum to reverse the decision made in 2016. She'll play the part well, and most will respect her principles if not her ability as a PM.
So it'll be 1:1, so let's have a third?
Nope, that won't happen. The next referendum has to be decisive, we're talking nearly 2/3rds majority - to make it "much more democratic" than the original democratic election.
So, we're in for the long haul. Expect all manner of lovely pro-European stories in the press in the coming months to bring it on.
Like every Thursday, it's been a busy teaching day for me. It ended with one of my students asking me what's going on today in the British Parliament. I got home and looked at the BBC website but there's not much concise.
Would be grateful for a summary.
How many resignations? Who's resigned? Have they all resigned for the same reason, and what reason is that? Will there be more resignations? Who benefits from all of this? What's going to happen next?
I will be grateful for official narrative answers as well as personal feelings from all political viewpoints.
So why has the story "Police launch investigation into anti-Semitism in the Labour Party" gone round the whole world? why would anyone want to start a fake news story like this?
There are plenty of reasons why we should be a team low on confidence and any of the following could have seen us throw in the towel:
Losing our unbeaten home run (DDDD), and run of three unbeaten (DDd) the week before. Playing against a recently relegated premier league team whose previous home fixture was a 3:0 win Going one nil down with an own goal in the first 10 minutes. Losing a half-time lead on consecutive weekends to a wonder goal scored by former town player.
But we didn't throw in the towel - we pressed and won it.
Yes, we had the rub of the green by the looks of the highlights, but after the bad luck we've had this season we were due a bit of good fortune. Fortune favours the brave, and we didn't give in.
That suggests a team with a lot more mettle than some of us have been giving them credit for.
Well down Town Well down travelling fans. Well done Paul Hurst.
Depression, Alzheimer's, multiple sclerosis, ADHD, OCD or other mental health problems... or even those, like me, who are just interested in the subject.
There's an 8-part docuseries which started today and runs for the next 7 days.
The first episode which you have probably missed unless you're very quick was an intro to the topic. Tomorrow's episode will look at gut health and its affect on the brain.
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