The View From Churchmans

What a gut-wrenchingly shocking performance to finish the year on, ranking with the previous Sunday and the Wimbledon nightmare as Portman Road's low points for 2003. Mediocre (at best) performances all around, but the whole was even less than the sum of the parts, so once again the manager has to shoulder a lot of the blame. Whilst everyone there would agree it was a tight, scrappy affair in midfield, I wonder how many ... More...

I remember a Portman Road game a few seasons back where the players just didn't seem to be trying, and got the reaction they deserved, even down to a gut-wrenching booing for Matt as he did his post-match lap. This wasn't the same sort of thing, it was just a really poor performance. Wrong players, wrong tactics, wrong day for so many of the players to have off-days. Norwich came with exactly the ... More...