Stan Laurel

I used to work with the mother in law of one of Norwich's new signings, Matthew Gill, and upon Norwich signing him I was reminded of something she told me a few years ago when he was at Notts County.

He was described apparently by a fanzine as looking like Stan Laurel.

What do you think ?

Worryingly quiet on the transfer front

Yes, it is the holiday period, but some teams have already announced signings whilst rumours abound about players linked with various Championship and League One teams. But not Norwich.

The only news we have had in recent weeks has been the news that Norwich will rebuild "from the back" with a new goalkeeper and central defender top of the shopping list.

Whoever Norwich buy, and clearly it is a wise tactic to keep your powder dry when making signings, it is vital that they are in place for the start of the pre-season and don't join up with the club late.

I think though as soon as the club have made a signing many fans will feel a little more relieved.

Presumably Ledley King's famous "injury" is not so bad after all ?

Tottenham keep on telling the football world that after every game Ledley King's knee swells meaning he cannot train and has to rest his knee in order to play the following week.

Seemingly it must not be a bad as Tottenham implied.

P.S. Yes, this isn't Norwich, but Norwich City is too depressing to write about at the moment.

Bryan Gunn - You don't know what you're doing !!!

In a game that Norwich needed to win, the most important game for many a year for Norwich, Bryan Gunn decided to play centre half Jason Shackell as a left back. He played left back Simon Lappin as a left winger and brought in a youth teamer with virtually no experience of the first team to play on the right wing whilst a left winger and a right winger were dropped to the bench.

Sorry, Bryan. I feared this would happen. When the chips are down you should play square pegs in square holes, round pegs in round holes. What you don't do is think you have invented new positions and formations that neither the team nor fans have ever understood.

Another example clearly of why Norwich City deserve to go down.

My views on relegation

Can be read on my other blog HERE.

Not quite dead yet, but certainly having CPR

I was doing a first aid course the other day and it occurred to me that Norwich City were much like the victims (yes I know they are plastic and not real) I was working on.

Thankfully, because of Barnsley's inability to hold on to a lead, Norwich are still alive, just, but undergoing CPR and, in my opinion, look more likely not to survive.

Consistently crap referees

I think every football fan accepts that referees will not get it right 100% of the time, and once in a while you know they will miss a clear penalty. But for Norwich to be cursed by referees on such consistent basis who simply refuse to give cast iron penalties seems to be turning the whole question of referees competence in to a joke.

Again today two clear penalties and another one which falls under the category of "I've seen them given", were ignored by the ref who seemed in one case to be the only person (along with his assistant) in the ground who missed a blatant handball where even the Watford player's reaction was to look shocked as he listened for the expectant whistle.

As to the game, a well deserved win and an example of how Norwich can play when the press the opposition and don't sit back letting the other team dictate play.