The View From Churchmans

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...

"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...

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...