28 Sep 2002
I'm really irritated. Really, really irritated.
Irritated with almost the entire team for not seeming to have the desire or
the ability to put in even a respectable First Division standard
performance. Irritated with that crap ref. Irritated - angry even - with the
pond life of the North Stand who thought that chanting "one Marcus Stewart"
at 18-year-old strikers struggling to cope was going to achieve anything
other than giving Derby a notional ... More...
19 Sep 2002
"View from the Greene King Stand" tonight comes from the Cobbold Stand,
which let me find out if the deathly hush from the North Stand this season
had merely been down to being three times as far away from them as last
year. But no, something horrible's happened: it seems moving the heart of
the home support onto two levels really has ripped the heart out of the
noise-making machine. At one point, ... More...
15 Sep 2002
Wow. All-out passion and commitment, form-book-out-the-window, ninety
minutes of blood, sweat and tears, crowd baying for blood ...these are all
the things you expect from a local derby.
And which we got none of today.
It wasn't a bad match, but it could have been any old match really. Norwich
suckered us into playing it the way they'd planned, by dropping almost the
whole team back, drawing us forward and hitting us on the ... More...