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I agree with this but respect is a two way door. There are many, probably millions, who do not have respect for this gentleman (I’m not including myself in this) and they have every right to hold that opinion. the national broadcaster choose to show wall to wall coverage of his life on both main channels simultaneously while BBC 4 decided to come off the air completely. That is not showing respect to people who legitimately hold different view. Sure it is a national event and quite rightly should be the main news story to reflect the clear strength of feeling that the majority clearly feel but there are other people whose opinions need to be reflected and respected. I absolutely agree that there is no place for some of the insensitive comments that are being bandied around on a personal level.

The match was the N&N Hospital Cup, May 7th 1934. City triumphed 7-2, Vinall (5) & Kirchen (2) scoring the goals. The three trophies are (l to r): D3(S) winners (won by Norwich that season) / Hospital Cup / D2 winners (won by Grimsby that season) The D2 Shield was retired in 1958 and can be seen at the Nat'l Football Museum. Exactly 364 days later Norwich City played its last-ever match at The Nest.

Taken at The Nest obviously. It is v Grimsby Town in 1934 but has anybody any info regarding that magnificent trophy and those shields ? By the way i nicked it off Facebook where no further details were given.

I usually agree with you but this time I don't. I'm quite a moderate person but I've been astonished at the media reaction to the Duke's death, especially the BBC. It is being stuffed down our throats non stop. I'm being asked to show respect for a man that I had no respect for whatsoever. Despite his position he regularly used terms like Bongo Bongo land and referred to the Chinese as "slitty eyes". He refused to apologise for the Chinese comments despite the damage what he had said may have done to economic and political relations with China. When he wasn't being rude he spent his time shooting innocent defenseless animals for fun. He was a disgusting man in every respect and although I won't celebrate his death I certainly won't mourn it. Why should I? He's just someone who happened to take a fancy to a 13 year old girl when he was 18.

It is a little bit difficult to show respect. If you do you end up looking like Piers Morgan

Were you there that day Til1010?

Dowell, yesterday! I've been around long enough to see plenty of great City free-kick takers. Paddon, Peters, Ryan, Crook, Adams, Snodgrass, Pilkington, Maddison and Vrancic to name just some of them. However, technically speaking, Dowell's goal yesterday was the best I've ever seen. We often hear how a free kick can sometimes be too close, in that it's very difficult to get the ball up and over the wall and then down under the bar again. Dowell's free kick yesterday was only a yard outside the box from only a slight angle and yet he not only got it up and down again, but did so at a speed so fast that the goalie was never going to save it in a million years. By comparison Vrancic's free kick against Sheffield Wednesday (although brilliant in its own right) was much slower - and had the goalie gambled by taking a step to his left just before Mario struck it he would probably have saved it. Marshall wouldn't have saved Dowell's effort yesterday even if he had gambled in this way. Technically brilliant from Dowell.

we've arguably been at an "acceptable level" for a while now. The problem is isn't the figures today though, its the potential. There's the fear that if we just sacked off all the distancing efforts things would quickly spiral out of control. The current tactic appears to be to vaccinate everyone we can and then take the breaks off to a point where there'd never be any surges capable of hitting the heights of last march or Jan this year or worse. Clearly variants complicate this strategy but we don't really know to what extent. I have a feeling they'll screw with the June plan to completely cancel restrictions and we'll be living with some moderate restrictions for at least until next spring at which point vaccines directly targeted at new variants could complete the job. Of course the variant problem may yet be overblown and we see a huge decoupling of cases to serious illness/death to a point where we can confidently take the brakes off. There is only so far the virus can mutate since it needs to keep certain properties for the spike protein to bind to what it needs to in our bodies and do what it does. E484k was a significant mutation in this regard and hopefully was its best card it could play. It does kind of mean we need to keep cases low rather than just "vaccinate the vulnerable and crack on" but there's only so long the most invasive of NPIs will be tolerated. Another long winter lockdown would be far too damaging to be viable. Since some countries don't have the means/desire to lockdown and will be slow to vaccinate, covid 19 isn't going away any time soon. This is where the #zerocovid argument gets lost. Once it's embedded its basically impossible to fully eradicate any time soon and even if you do, it can easily come back from 1 dodgy lapse like we saw in Isle of Man. Our vaccination campaign may yet surprise us but for me, Israel has to be the target since the New Zealand ship likely sailed last Feb. That said, we "live with" far worse diseases than Covid that have had minimal impact on our day to day lives, we just need the vaccines and treatments to do the heavy lifting for us ASAP rather than mandatory NPI's. Saying that, I'd imagine this pandemic has changed everyone's behavior forever to varying degrees.

Indeed. In a year when well over 120,000 people have died too soon from a virus, we should all grieve the passing of a 99 year old man succumbing to old age. Entertainment should be curtailed, government should be partially shutdown, little kids playing football should stand in solumn silence. We should all watch wall-to-wall media coverage fronted by tearful reporters, while billboards beam his visage at us from all angles. Forget that those same reporters spent years broadcasting his insults and racial slurs. Now he is the best of us. And don't worry about the 119,999 others. They shared a minute's silence. They had their turn. But this one? This one was really special. 8 days of national mourning should suffice. Suppress any rational thoughts and, whatever you do, remember to doff your cap, peasant. What a society we live in.

Buendia, Skipp & Hanley have been the 3 most consistent players all season, but Buendia has been the best player in the division let alone just for us. I'm amazed people would vote for anyone but Buendia.

Here we go, looking at the bottom of the table already. Raise your sights!

😂 I'm struggling a bit with the concept of 'Jools thinking', copying and pasting we know all about but thinking......... you're having a laugh 😂

Hes got to be up early - hes on bakery duties!

Not guaranteed that Bielsa will still be there and as we all know he's the greatest coach the planet has ever seen. Wouldn't be massively surprised if they follow a similar path to a certain other unpleasant Yorkshire club.

Some of the decisions involving VAR have been utterly pathetic this weekend, it's actually spoiling our promotion slightly knowing we'll have this utter turd of a system to contend with next season.

Well I'd certainly fancy us to pip whoever comes up with us next season from the champs, Watford might do okay but really hard to see any of the teams currently occupying the play-offs staying up. So that just leaves one / two of Palace, Southampton, Newcastle, Burnley, Brighton that we need to finish above of. I can't see Villa / Wolves / Leeds and anyone above getting dragged into it. But I think with a couple of quality additions we could really give those 5 teams a serious test, and some!

You are making 2 ridiculous assumptions there - My roast is the same as your roast. I hate my roast. I've read some rubbish over the last 48 hours but you just won the Aunt Bessie medal.

Why do you hate our country?

What about the wake? Pressed ham sandwiches and jugs of mild beer followed by a fight between William and Harry.

And what helped Mario even more with his was the sneaky way he moved the ball back a couple of yards when the referee wasn't looking. Watch it again and when he is fouled Chris Goreham says on the commentary "free kick to Norwich in the D" and yet by the time Mario takes it the ball is a good 2 yards further back.

Whereas I'm sure you would have been a brave resistance fighter, as evidenced by your dedication to posting memes you found on 4chan.

This thread sounds like something Prince Phillip would have said 😉

Is it the queue for 1p5wich season tickets?

We'll get promoted against Bournemouth and we'll win the title v Watford. Put your house on it.

Please educate yourself on the North Korean regime and the suffering that goes on there if you think this is an acceptable comparison / joke. I like James Felton but to me he’s gone through a similar process to all of you guys in the non football section. Taking the extreme view each time (of either side) and looking for a chance to get one over the others at every opportunity. Hours and hours day after day. I said this on the Till1010s now deleted thread last night. I’m rather indifferent to the royals but can see the impact and importance they have to many around the world even if not to me. A billboard, tv coverage, or the efl making its own choice to postpone games really isn’t that much of an inconvenience . KingCanary on that thread had likened the postponements of games to the forced mourning of North Korea but it was wrong on all counts. Nobody is making you mourn anything. The royals haven’t dictated this. If the EFL believe that many football fans think moving the games is appropriate then take up the issue with them.

>Block me >Can’t stop taking about me

I hear there's an operation for that nowadays.😉

Strange that there now seems to be a growing list of managers who feel it necessary to comment on the way we play and how our club is run. Suggests to me that we must be doing something right. Besides I'd take what Pep thinks over what dinosaur Bruce thinks all day long

Whilst nosing around opposition forums (yes, the lockdown has given me far too much spare time) I came across the following on The Hornet's Nest...... What a difference two short months make.

Nah ****. When the Queen dies we get a day off for mourning and a day off for the coronation. For two days off they can do what the **** they want to terrestrial TV. Hell, for two days off they can do what they want to my wife.

Oh yeah, sorry for being thick. Not as thick as the Getafe coach who decided to play Buendia at right back away at Barcelona up against prime Neymar.

There's two other relegation spot for those playing the newcastle way.

If my football manager efforts are anything to go by then I’d say his days must be numbered. Once I start pressing the ‘send assistant’ option for the pre and post match interviews it’s not long before I’ve totally lost interest...

Well if it goes on aslong as the coverage on BBC, reckon it will be put back a week.

Completely agree with this, plus the intelligence of his positioning and runs. There's a reason nobody has come close to keeping him out of the side, second half of the premier league disaster aside

No keeper in the world would have got to dowell's yesterday. It was truly spectacular. The pace on it was ridiculous. Absolutely the best free kick I've seen from a norwich player. Mario's was brilliant, but could have been saved as outlined above. Would have been a world class save to get there but it was stoppable.

I reckon the City line-up here is: back row: Robert Young (trainer), lino, Halliday(?), Morris, Lochhead, Wharton, Thorpe front row: Kirchen, Burditt(?), Ramsay(?), Vinall, Houghton(?), Murphy Dougald Lochhead was at Norwich from 1929-50, as player, ****'t mgr, interim manager & Manager, and he scored the First Ever goal at Carrow Road. Alf Kirchen, born in Shouldham, signed for Arsenal after only 18 City games & won the D1 title in 1937-38. He is one of only seven Sons of Norfolk to win an England cap. Ken Burditt scored 61 times in 171 City appearances, while Jack Vinall rattled in 80 in 181. That Grimsby side finished 5th in D1 the following season, their highest-ever placing.

Or if she decides to re marry

Total bollo*cks from a talking bollo*cks brexit web site. The brexit deal is not temporary, and the full effects of regulations have yet to be felt as many are still on hold during the transition to our third country status. Now go find something from a source that isn't utterly discredited. Meanwhile Northern Ireland burns, and SMEs go down the pan.

Echo @TIL 1010's words (and thanks for putting up the original photo, Tilly). I love all these old-time threads where I can find out more about the club's history. @NewNestCarrow, if you ever feel like sharing more of your historical knowledge, I'm sure that many of us on here would be all ears.

The sentiment is good with this post but I feel the players that are too good for the Championship will be too expensive for us. I think we’d be more likely to buy up and coming players (from Peterborough for example) to replace the youngsters going out on loan such as Idah, Andrew O, Martin etc. Apart from that I can see us buying from abroad if we want PL ready players. The Greek forward we are linked with is an example.

Do a bit of digging into the history of the British Monarchy over the last few centuries and you will find its not that far removed from some African countries. The British Empire is NOTHING to be proud of.

I don’t think Watford have it as sewn up as people think. With their fixtures, if we can beat them, I reckon that’d put Brentford or Swansea in a great position to nick second from them.

This has to be right. We got relegated, not because of the style of play, but because we lacked experience and the squad depth to cope with our injuries. And yes, we were lacking in quality in some areas. What Bruce means is that playing the Man City way is much harder to do than playing the Newcastle way and is beyond his team. If they tried to do that they would fail. To be fair he can’t suddenly transform Newcastle’s playing style into ours. They would certainly get relegated in the transition period. We have been playing like this now for a few years so hopefully that will stand us in good stead for the next attempt.

Massive under achievers who went backwards by appointing Bruce. Making excuses is not what the fans want to hear.

Cracking game this, Steve. It’s called the Norwich way vs the Newcastle way 😘

A Prime Minister with a history of making racist comments personally appoints every member of an inquiry into racism. He chooses two Conservative Party supporting individuals to lead the inquiry, each with a long history of denial of institutional racism. Guess what? The inquiry "finds" no evidence for institutional racism. Indeed, the report praises the country as a model for race equality. Yes, the very country guilty of the "Windrush" scandal is regarded by the report as a "model" for other countries to follow in how to treat its citizens from ethnic minorities. Normally, at this point one would say, "You couldn't make it up", except they did, and laughably called it a report. A colossal waste of time and tax-payers money, with unsupportable pre-determined conclusions that only confirm what it is so desperate to deny. The failure of the report to draw the obvious conclusions from evidence it itself cites is frankly embarrassing. For example, it records that ethnic minority students statistically surpass the achievements of white working class students to a high degree, but fails to explain why that success radically fails to translate into job appointments. So no explanation of why the less qualified John Smith gets the job ahead of the better qualified Muhamad Sehmbi. It really doesn't take an awful lot of "common sense" to spot why that might be does it? This is a truly pathetic attempt at a white-wash which has already invited ridicule from experts in the field and derision from those ordinary citizens whose daily experiences are missing from the report. It will only fuel the well-founded suspicions that this government has no intention of taking racism seriously. But then many of us pointed out exactly this the moment Johnson appointed Tony Sewell as commision chair, and Downing Street advisor Munira Mirza.