Blackpool 1-3 Norwich
By: Edward | November 29th, 2007
Well, that was a game of drama and spirit. Our first away win this season, and our second in as many games following a drought of a winless eleven! Hoorah! We are now only a point adrift at the bottom of the table. And that, importantly, is scarcely adrift.
Norwich, previously, had been terrible at setpieces. And then on Tuesday night we scored from two! The classy elder statesman Dion Dublin scoring twice (he’s nearly 40 you know!), along with another contribution from loan signing Martin Taylor. Glenn Roeder wants to extend Taylor’s stay, I hope that happens even with the managerial change at Birmingham. His contribution to the Norwich fightback has been immense.
There was also another promising sign not recently seen. We saved a penalty! Any fan remembering the saga of the play-off final, the missed penalties at Cardiff (a poor, embarrasing, Daryl Sutch attempt) and our failure to stop ANY penalties for season on season around that time will be very impressed. Penalties used to be a horrific demon for Norwich, now we seem to be treating them as yet another aspect of our game to be solidly strengthened unafraid. We can take them, and have a crack at saving them.
Roeder clearly has had some great effect on the way setpieces are taken. This is great, as we have rarely been a threat from these in the last couple of seasons. We used to score from corners when we had Mackay and Roberts in the team, and from free kicks occasionally with Mulryne – but, those days seemed very distant until now. When Mackay, Roberts and Mulryne left Norwich we lost leadership skills with the first two and an occasional free kick sparkle with the last. I am pleased this has now been put right and that the long suffering away fans were sweetly rewarded in such an important game.
Glenn Roeder said after the game that the two wins had been ‘perfect’, but that the hard work ‘has only just begun’. Level-headed attitudes must abound, for we must not get delirious and start booming about play-offs or other such premature nonsense. Each game must be taken in its own merit at the moment, seen as a way of escaping our predicament. We must not graft it into a wider, distracting fantasy that at the moment is without foundation and a bit silly. That said, the season may yet have a ‘flourish’ if you want to delve deep into Norwich City optimism. If you don’t have directions to that place, I fear I cannot help you…
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