Feeling Cheated and a Crazy Evening

Along with the majority of the 24,000 Norwich fans who attended the FA Cup match against Leicester at Carrow Road yesterday, I felt very let down.

Norwich scarcely seemed to be trying against Leicester and the Norwich faithful, who filled the stadium yet again, deserved better. If Norwich were virtually going to capitulate against patently inferior opposition many of those present could have saved themselves £25 a head to watch what at times was something of a debacle.

The club let the fans down by making it very obvious that the FA Cup means very little and in the words of manager Paul Lambert "our priority is staying in the Premier Division." Lambert is absolutely correct in this but why are we so negative about things? We are currently in eighth place in the Premier and the chances of our being relegated are virtually zero. So instead of being defeatist and talking about concerns over sliding down the league why don't we talk about finishing in the top half and making a serious assault on the FA Cup.

Sometimes in our modern age we forget the legacy of the past - often because the people involved have no idea about that legacy. Anybody who lived through Norwich's great cup run of 1959 when we reached the semi-finals as a third division outfit will know the affect that had on the city. A good cup run this year would have had the same affect. 24,000 fans paid good money and expected a win over Leicester. They were disappointed by a lack of ambition and effort. You don't hear Martin O'Neill at Sunderland talking about relegation and the problems of a cup run. He just takes his side into the quarter-finals and realises that success breeds success.

Enjoyed what was billed as a crazy quiz at Hethersett Old Hall School last night in aid of the Wulugu project which works with under-privileged children in Africa. No idea why it was called a crazy quiz as it was pretty straightforward. There were some crazy moments, however, when we were declared the winners and had to tell the organisers that they had added the scores up wrongly and we were actually second and then there was a crazy raffle where all the yellow tickets weren't put in for the draw. Never mind it was a good evening, the food was good and it was for a good cause.