Well that's Buggered the Game Plan Hasn't it you Twat!
Everyone has a mate who supports Man United or Man City or
Arsenal but not everyone has a mate who supports Norwich City. I forget this
from time to time but he will be dressed in yellow and green at St Mary's today
and I hope he has a really shit time. We had a really shit time of our own a
couple of days ago in Denmark so today is a must win for lots of reasons. The
first requirement of winning is to play some decent fucking football with the
ball on the ground so the first couple of minutes will tell us much about how
things are going to go.
Norwich have started okay this season, registering a decent away win, albeit at Sunderland who were a complete shambles. Delia Smith is still there and I assume she is still all over the cooking sherry. Please stay off the pitch at half-time Delia as we all want to listen to the irritating bald bloke.
News is breaking as the game approaches that Victor Wanyama is mentally and physically unable to play. As anyone with a couple of brain cells knows, this means that he is sulking and it possibly means that he is refusing to play unless we sell him to Spurs. How we are supposed to sell him to Spurs without them making any sort of bid., let alone agreeing a price is anyone's guess. Spurs don't actually make bids you see, they just leak it through the media that they might possibly maybe like to if the wind is blowing in the right direction and the planets are aligned and Daniel Levy's wallet happens to be open. The sad thing is that in the eyes of a majority of Saints fans, Refusing to play basically, is a big bollocks dropping exercise and Victor will have gone from hero to zero in one fell swoop. With him obviously kicking off behind the scenes, you do wonder how much of a negative effect it had on the rest of the squad and how much it contributed to the Thursday night's shambles.
Sadio Mane has obviously put Manchester United’s alleged ‘Pedro-signed-for-Chelsea-so-we’ll-look-like-we-planned-it’ interest to the back of his mind as he is starting today along with Cédric and Dusan Tadic. As the players line up to start it looks like JWP is playing deeper than Steven Davis and will anchor the midfield along with Romeu
Norwich have started okay this season, registering a decent away win, albeit at Sunderland who were a complete shambles. Delia Smith is still there and I assume she is still all over the cooking sherry. Please stay off the pitch at half-time Delia as we all want to listen to the irritating bald bloke.
News is breaking as the game approaches that Victor Wanyama is mentally and physically unable to play. As anyone with a couple of brain cells knows, this means that he is sulking and it possibly means that he is refusing to play unless we sell him to Spurs. How we are supposed to sell him to Spurs without them making any sort of bid., let alone agreeing a price is anyone's guess. Spurs don't actually make bids you see, they just leak it through the media that they might possibly maybe like to if the wind is blowing in the right direction and the planets are aligned and Daniel Levy's wallet happens to be open. The sad thing is that in the eyes of a majority of Saints fans, Refusing to play basically, is a big bollocks dropping exercise and Victor will have gone from hero to zero in one fell swoop. With him obviously kicking off behind the scenes, you do wonder how much of a negative effect it had on the rest of the squad and how much it contributed to the Thursday night's shambles.
Sadio Mane has obviously put Manchester United’s alleged ‘Pedro-signed-for-Chelsea-so-we’ll-look-like-we-planned-it’ interest to the back of his mind as he is starting today along with Cédric and Dusan Tadic. As the players line up to start it looks like JWP is playing deeper than Steven Davis and will anchor the midfield along with Romeu
Away we go and the ball is worked back to Yoshida from the
kick off and boom….(sigh!) up to Pellè but Bassong is all voer the back of him
so we win a free kick straight away so that hoof is forgiven. It’s just to the left of centre and JWP
strikes it really well and we all get excited until Ruddy flies across to his
right to tip it wide. Bastard. Tadic put
the corner over and it falls to Romeu steaming in and he takes out two Norwich
players in the act of smashing it miles over the bar.
The good news is that we settle down and play some decent
football. Cedric, JWP and Mané combining
well down the right before Mané’s cross is behind Pellè and he gets wildly
optimistic in trying an overhead kick from 25 yards out which skews comfortably
wide.
Norwich’s first attack brings a decent chance as howson
latches onto a poor Fonte clearance, slings it over and finds Hoolahan at the
back post. He cushion volleys it across
and Jerome thankfully, is Jerome and seems to get the timing all wrong from his
header which kind of scuffs off his ear and wide.
Norwich right back Steven Whittaker then took centre stage
for 5 minutes. Firstly he stopped
Targett taking a quick throw in by wrapping his arms around him and picked up a
booking. We create another chance for
ourselves with a quick free kick on the
right and Mané hoists a cross over which Pellè expertly flicked on to Tadic who
took aim but drilled a left footed shot past Ruddy and a couple of feet past
the far post. A few minutes later and
JWP scooped a ball over the top for Tadic to run onto but he couldn’t run onto
it because Whittaker decided it was a good idea to grab hold of him and drag
him over. We could have done without
Dusan jumping up and down and waving imaginary cards but the red card was out
and we have an hour to play against 10 men.
We eventually create a chance from the free kick as Tadic
twists two defenders inside out before putting Mané away and his low cross is
missed by everyone and falls to Cédric whose shot is headed over the bar. Norwich have sacrificed Hoolahan to bring on
Wisdom and he’s shite so they’ve effectively decided to play with 9.
Just as the clock reach 45 and we thought it was going to
have to wait until the second half, Norwich tried to work the ball out from
left back rather than smashing it away and JWP eased Howson off the ball and
sent Mané away. Mané slipped a ball into
Graziano who lashed it first time past Ruddy and in at the near post. Thank fuck for that, 1-0. We have an opportunity to make it 2-0 before
half time but Mané’s cross is just a bit too far ahead of Graziano and we get a
big beautiful Italian air shot with a ‘Mamma Mia’ thrown in with big hand
gestures afterwards. Half time and
relief.
As the second half was about to start, J-Rod was sttod on
the line waiting to come on. A quick
scan round tell you that Steven Davis is the man replaced and it looks like
we’re going to try and stretch Norwich right out. Straight away we have a chance but it’s down
to a shite kick from Ruddy which goes straight to Mané. He has Brady on toast before shooting but
Ruddy redeems himself with a decent block and he’s at it again when after a
rare Norwich attack, Stekelenburg bowls it out to JWP who finds Pellè and his
first time pass it smashed at goal by J-Rod only for Ruddy to be up to it
again. Graziano is having a great game
hits a first time shot from a short Mané pass which flicks the side netting as
it missiles just past the post.
Game over was next as a deliberate build up ended with Mané
and Cédric swapping passes before a low Mané cross picked out Tadic at the back
post and he sidefooted past Ruddy and into the top corner to make it 2-0. Great goal.
Game completely over next and what a goal. A nice build u out of defence before a superb
crossfield ball from Romeu to Cédric. Mané
then takes the piss out of defender before feeding Cédric again and the only
thing that stopped this being a goal of the season contender was that Graziano’s
thumping header was well saved by Ruddy but he was still on the ground as Tadic
knocked it into an empty net from a yard whilst three Norwich defenders totally
failed to help the keeper out. Brady was
even appealing for offside from his position on the goal line. Dick.
J-Rod is on a mission to score and has a shoot on sight
policy. He tries a couple of
keepy-uppies froma Cédric cross and
volleys one just wide of the near post. Next
up he tries a curler from the opposite sode of the penalty area which flies a
yard over the bar. He’s nearly back.
Subs at the end as Ronald gives Juanmi 10 minutes to show he’s
not ready yet and Norwich bring on Gary Hooper for Jerome, somehow making their
attack worse. He has a chance for a
consolation as Yoshida messes up giving Johnson a shooting chance, Stekelenburg
saves it well down low and the rebound falls to Hooper who should take it on
left footed but he obviously hasn’t got one so he smashed it well wide with his
right foot. The end – Get in!!!
Wasn't it great to see us play some good football today
after the shambles of last Thursday? Wasn't it nice to see the ball passed
about on the floor? It was quite an unbelievable contrast to our last game.
It's ironic that on a day when Big Vic confirms that he is just the latest in
the long line of fucking dickhead players that we have had over the last few
years (yes that's you I'm talking about Lallana and Lovren) that Romeu was
absolutely brilliant in midfield to prove there would be life after the latest
twat after all. The added bonus was that he didn't get booked either. The
headline makers will be Mane Tadic and Pelle and they were all excellent but
Romeu stole the show for me. It was also nice to see JWP having another decent
match. I get the feeling with him that just one of these free kicks flying in
is going to give him the confidence to kick on and become a more effective
player. If he does this, he will be the latest to prove the majority of fans
wrong who seem to have decided that he's shit. It's another clean sheet for the
defence and though that side of things definitely became easier after the red
card, it was good to see Cedric both defending competently and attacking well.
Most of the attacking threat from Norwich came down our left-hand side and Matt
Targett stood up really well defensively.
It was a very good day for Ronald Koeman today. Played 4, won 1 drawn 2, lost 1 really doesn't look too bad and we have more points than fucking Spurs.
Ronald confirmed afterwards that Victor Wanyama had indeed asked to leave but reiterated that he wouldn't be sold. My immediate stance would be to tell Vic to go and fuck himself and rot in the under 21s. I wouldn't put it quite like that if I was talking to him though. If Spurs are that desperate to do a deal before the end of the transfer window however, then say that they can have him for £30 million or else they can go and fuck themselves and their fucking Sky Spurs Sources.
I thought Norwich were pretty desperate to be honest. You are never going to score enough goals to stay in the Premier League if you play with one striker and that one striker is Cameron Jerome. How bad must Ricky van Wolfswinkel be if he's behind Jerome and Gary Hooper in the pecking order? They will say that the sending off changed the game but trust me Norwich, you were going to get beaten anyway today. I was impressed by how Alex Neil spoke after the game and basically admitted that they weren’t very good and that they were poor before the sending off and didn’t deserve anything from the game.
We now have an international break which is well timed because it gives us chance to get some players back fit, notably Ryan Bertrand and Jordy Clasie. We have another few days of transfer window to endure which will hopefully only see incoming players, unless Spurs actually feel like putting their money where their mouth is. The main plus point of today's win is that as a fan it gives you a good feeling as you wait for the next game unlike the completely shit feeling we all had after Thursday's debacle in Denmark. We also have the transfer deadline to get through but more on that next time I guess.
England have two matches in the break, away to San Marino and home to Switzerland so we can expect Rooney to break the England goalscoring record and us have to put up with a media wankathon for a few days. Once that is done and dusted, we cannot look forward to the away game at West Brom and playing against Sir Rickie once more and it's a game we can certainly win.
It was a very good day for Ronald Koeman today. Played 4, won 1 drawn 2, lost 1 really doesn't look too bad and we have more points than fucking Spurs.
Ronald confirmed afterwards that Victor Wanyama had indeed asked to leave but reiterated that he wouldn't be sold. My immediate stance would be to tell Vic to go and fuck himself and rot in the under 21s. I wouldn't put it quite like that if I was talking to him though. If Spurs are that desperate to do a deal before the end of the transfer window however, then say that they can have him for £30 million or else they can go and fuck themselves and their fucking Sky Spurs Sources.
I thought Norwich were pretty desperate to be honest. You are never going to score enough goals to stay in the Premier League if you play with one striker and that one striker is Cameron Jerome. How bad must Ricky van Wolfswinkel be if he's behind Jerome and Gary Hooper in the pecking order? They will say that the sending off changed the game but trust me Norwich, you were going to get beaten anyway today. I was impressed by how Alex Neil spoke after the game and basically admitted that they weren’t very good and that they were poor before the sending off and didn’t deserve anything from the game.
We now have an international break which is well timed because it gives us chance to get some players back fit, notably Ryan Bertrand and Jordy Clasie. We have another few days of transfer window to endure which will hopefully only see incoming players, unless Spurs actually feel like putting their money where their mouth is. The main plus point of today's win is that as a fan it gives you a good feeling as you wait for the next game unlike the completely shit feeling we all had after Thursday's debacle in Denmark. We also have the transfer deadline to get through but more on that next time I guess.
England have two matches in the break, away to San Marino and home to Switzerland so we can expect Rooney to break the England goalscoring record and us have to put up with a media wankathon for a few days. Once that is done and dusted, we cannot look forward to the away game at West Brom and playing against Sir Rickie once more and it's a game we can certainly win.
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