Devastation

The ghost, sinister and jangling, of Peter Grant will haunt our Christmas this year. I hear the torrid rumblings over and over. Even now that Glenn has taken over. The team he built with all the architectural grace of barbarian hoards confronting the Roman Empire is really showing just how bad it is now. On and on the painful saga goes.

I am sickened and I am devastated. How can something with a reasonable platform be turned around, to this kind of maelstrom in such a short period? I remember the Premier League year, ok it was criminal in a way to lose 6-0 to Fulham on the last day of the season when all that was needed was a point to stay up. However, I shall always treasure the game at Carrow Road where Man Utd lost 2-0 and Ferguson, enraged and embarrassed, locked his players in the dressing room. That was a great day. Back to reality boys!

We lost 3-0 to Plymouth. Plymouth, as my dad sarcastically joked, are a team no one like Norwich can expect to beat. They have a crazy egotistical chariman that simply throws money at the team. Ho ho, their record signing is £450,000. Much, much less than Norwich’s spending over the years.

Alienation really takes over. Glenn is supposed to be using his ‘contacts’ to bring players in to help the club. Ameobi was cited as a glorious example but I had a feeling that was always just a PR soundbite to hide behind temporarily. And so the rumour seems to have been quashed by Allardyce.

Glenn now says “he knows the kind of job it is”. For a while he can hide behind this, but most people would have known how dire things are at this club. I hope Roeder is shown some support from a board that failed to face up to the facts soon enough. Many clubs this season have seen the writing on the wall and acted far sooner than Norwich did. Burnley sacked Steve Cotterill when in 15th position. I am not advocating sacking Steve Cotterill, to us looking at tables it seems harsh, rather unfair. But there is a training ground, inter-player and manager reality to those statistics that needs to be faced. The writing was on the wall with Peter Grant long before he was sacked. The board must have known about the atmosphere at the training ground. It was stunningly obvious to all of us it was not working out, and that Peter Grant was losing the confidence of the players. His PR and people-management skills were amateurish. First he attacked the fans for booing (a scandalous episode), then Jamie Cureton for being selfish (then top scorer) and Huckerby for not defending (a match winner). All madness and general gibberish from the shining genius of Peter Grant.

I feel great sympathy for the fans that want to disrupt Peter Grant’s quiet drink in his local with all his buddies that ruined Norwich. How deep are their sorrows, and how can they ever drown them?

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