Us
Addicks are of course rightly renowned for our fair and balanced assessments of
a game. So having not made the trip last night (there are a few things outside
of football which sometimes have to take priority), which is a pity as Norwich away
is one of my favourite weekend excursions (easy journey, welcoming pre-match
pubs, good atmosphere – in my experience), I thought I’d check with some
Canaries acquaintances to see if they are of the same ilk.
Sadly
it seems as if these ones at least have problems with perspective and an
obvious tendency to get carried away with the emotion of it all. I had inquired
by email if there was a general sense of relief in Norwich that they had held
us to just the one goal and received the following reply:
“I
think it’s more like we’re impressed that the bung you lot gave the ref worked
so well (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=El4Lj1zekss).
How many times did your defender want to handle the ball and the ref not give
it? Not to mention your goalie who couldn’t hold the ball and the ref gave that
as a foul as well. Other than that, your lot defended really well and were very
organised and difficult to break down. You scored at the right time too so we
couldn’t get back into it. Probably was the best we’ve played in a while as
your lot sat so deep.” To be fair, it was signed off as a ‘bitter rant’.
I did check out the
above link for supporting evidence. The first clearly wasn’t a penalty. The
second is rather more confusing, but even in slow motion you can’t see a clear
handball, so how the officials are supposed to give it in real time is beyond
me. I said as much in an email reply, adding that if Peeters feels that the ref
got the main decisions correct that’s fine by me, and was later informed that
the Norwich guy “has just achieved low earth orbit and will attempt ballistic
re-entry soon”.
Ah, there’s none so
blind …..
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The thing about growing older is that you remember lots of things. I remember seeing Ali soak up nine rounds of pressure against Foreman and then once Foreman had punched himself out, he knocked him out. Did anyone say, he was lucky when he called it "rope a dope". No they said, it was his "brilliant tactics".
If we keep this up a lot of people aren't going to like it/us, tough.
Tough indeed, no complaints from me on that front. Will be interesting though to see how we respond as teams start to work on a clearer gameplan against us. Yet to see what might happen if opposition tries to shut up shop at The Valley.
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