“We go in one goal behind and we’re still in it; at half-time we still think we can win it. And then the decision is a disappointing one and we couldn’t get anything after that. So we’re a bit disappointed by that; but, hopefully, on Tuesday night we’ve got a chance to put that right.”
“It’s just a woeful decision. Woeful. He’s not even looking at the late – no, I’ll stick up for Darel all day long. I don’t think it’s worthy of a red – I don’t even think its worthy of a yellow. A free-kick? Maybe.”
“How the referee thinks that’s a red card – it’s absolutely bizarre,” added Canary boss Lambert. “Sometimes you get a game that’s too big for some people and I think that was too big for him.”
Marry another Randy Lerner to a Paul Lambert and that’s the Villa model; if ‘Uncle Joe’ Kosich delivers that then City’s medium-term prayers might be answered. Deliver a Bill Hicks, however…
Given the volume of small, Norfolk businesses whose livelihood is in some way, shape or form entwined to the continuing fortunes of their local football club, taking them to the cleaners to the tune of two pence in the pound whilst the players’ wages are ring-fenced by Football League law would destroy any sense of Norwich City being a ‘community’ club.
Judging managerial moves on the back of the bookies’ odds is fraught with peril; so it would be distinctly rash to leap to any sure-fire conclusions that Norwich City boss Paul Lambert was suddenly Turf Moor bound just because PaddyPower says so.
“You get some good ones – don’t get me wrong. But you get DVDs galore – and, honestly, they look world beaters. And as somebody once said, you get them over and they look like a panel beater.”
“I feel as good as I have done for a long while – it’s just a case of playing regular games,” said Drury, ahead of the Boxing Day clash with the Lions. “I’ve probably played as many games this season already as I have done in two seasons total so I’m feeling fantastic.
“I don’t really know what I was doing,” he joked afterwards. “I just tried to get a strong contact on it and it just ended up skidding off my foot… And I’d just thought: ‘Goal!’ I saw Wes with the ball and thought if I just keep onside here I can just tap this in at the far post, but it didn’t work out.”
“I thought they were extraordinary,” said City boss Paul Lambert, afterwards as the Canaries racked up their seventh straight home success and continued to drive onwards and upwards. “Particularly after Southampton. To go out there; the long journey back and everything. I thought they were extraordinary.”
Deliver a Lerner… perfick. Deliver a Hicks and the chamber clicks over again…
Memories? Well, they’re made of stories just like this… Remember 1985?
Why now is the perfect opportunity to freshen things up ahead of the final run in…
Why the reaction to the use of the ‘A’ word? Cos it threatens the rock upon which City is built
Stroppy? Yes. Gracious? Not so much. Do we love him? Of course!
Goal No25 for Holt seals a crucial win on a near-perfect day for the Canaries
Forster expecting another toughie despite Latics’ relegation threat
Lambert focused on the end game as City prepare for another road trip
‘I’m ready to start’ says goal hero Johnson with a trip to Oldham next up for City
‘Oli gave us the impetus’ admits Lambert as McNamee also shines in Shrimpers fightback
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