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Re Malky and his son, below is a link to a load of photos taken by a guy at the game. He posted the link on Wrath of the Barclay. For anyone interested there are about 20 pics of varying quality - but who cares? I want to see pictures, more pictures and then even more pictures. http://myweb.tiscali.co.uk/wennfamily/2004_05_01/photos/photo_20.html be patient - it''s a slow server. Also - was it just my bad luck or were we being wholly passed over last night on Sky Sports News. Four times i tuned in at 20 past the hour to get the Nationwide updates and each time all we got was a measly 10 seconds of voiceover, ZERO shots of the goals or the crowd. Whereas each time they featured Reading''s goal against West Brom - great to see it once, but hour after hour after hour? Made my blood boil...

and as an afterthought - if they were at the Watford game who, hand on heart, hasn''t had a good look at the new Team Celebration wallpaper to see if their face is in the crowd behind the players?

LinkNR9 - thanks for the comparison re Cardiff. I was there though in a wheelchair as I''d just had a knee operation (wasn''t going to miss the game though obviously). Butch P - thanks very much for the offer. here''s the address: andy_rcjunk@yahoo.co.uk I definitely think there''s tons of mileage in having a platform for fan photos, whether on the website or in the pages of the Pink Un - a la ''Get Your Pink Un Out''. Digital cameras are totally mass market nowadays and at the Watford game it seemed that everyone and their uncle was using their digital camera/camcorder/mobile phone/pda to record images from the day. Next season we''ve got a host of spectacular new grounds to see and, with the whole Delia''s Barmy Army thing which we''re now all witnessing being born, we''ll have a raucous, good-natured and very colourful away following. Hundreds and hundreds of those fans will have their cameras with them, perfectly placed to get the atmosphere pics that the pitchside snappers will never get. All the Pink Un has to do is use the best four or five, offer a picture caption for the lucky photographers and, hey presto, a page that an exile like me would turn to immediately after ''Man In The Stands''. what does everyone think? Peter - have you advertised or put the message around at all that you''re soliciting fans'' match photos?

I''d be grateful for as many testimonies as to just how loud and coulourful the carnival atmosphere was today. The image painted by a few friends who were there is something like that at Vicarage Road last weekend - but this time it was around the whole of Carrow Road. Also (and this is the hard bit to picture) the River End AND City Stand standing up/chanting... I''m all ears/eyes...

At last makes a good point - also more than a few times during the Wigan game I noticed that the reason for their 2-on-1s against Drury was because a certain jet-heeled striker was standing watching the action from 15 yards away. Now I''m not having a go at Hucks (automatic player of the season) and I''m sure Worthy has told him that he doesn''t need to track back, indeed we kept a clean sheet on Friday and won thanks to Huckerby, but what concerns me is how the system will fair against Premiership attacks who would rip us to shreds in similar circumstances. If it means that Hucks has to play in a more orthodox midfield role, will we lose the magic? Or will he be paired with up front with Svensson?

So what do people think is in NW''s mind in opting for Cooper over McVey? I saw Cooper come on at Palace and didn''t think he exactly set the place alight. Possibly tougher in the tackle than McVey, and we all know he can crack them from long distance, but what have people seen since then? What extra did he offer against Stoke?

Here''s my submission sent to Little Pete yesterday: As a Norwich fan reading your "incisive" three-paragraph standfirst, my initial reaction was: "what a load of 6th-form drivel" It''s exactly this sort of low-grade, lazy stereotyping that confirms why you''re clearly not good (or insightful) enough to be a proper writer for a proper newspaper. I''d recommend an NCTJ journalism course for starters. I think making up a Pete Gill chant would be showing too much respect Scotty, rather that we just rip into him for being poor at his job - as he so obviously is.

A quick skim through the Football 365 website delivers some facts about "Pete Gill" Here''s the url should anyone else decide to write a pompous letter to the 365 editor asking for Gill to be sent on a basic writing skills training course: http://freeserve.football365.com/Home/credits.shtml A further salient fact is that one of the Techie team seems to have binman tendencies which might explain why a naive Gill was led to write such mindless drivel...

No No NO want Ipswich to go up??? Wash your mouth out Juan! If not for purely bitter rivalry reasons then think of it in terms of revenue. If we''re playing in the big league not only will NCFC be coining it in but it means two guaranteed sell-out crowds are lost to the (already-stretched-to-breaking-point) Ipswich coffers. And in the dream scenario where Ipswich went into receivership and ceased to exist then it would mean an even bigger potential catchment area for Norwich. I think the ideal situation for the Baggies game is 0-0 with a bucketload of injuries and suspensions for both sides. Ideally the referee would be one M Riley of West Yorkshire.

Writing as a Norwich exile living and working in London I agree wholeheartedly with the comments you made. I would love to be back in the old routine of never missing a home game and taking in a good half dozen away days each season but it''s not feasible any more for reasons of distance, cash and emotional blackmail from wife and baby (who of course is a Junior Canary). Games like Palace and (especially for me) Watford are the equivalent now of home games and I''m sure the same goes for the other thousands of City fans living in the Capital.

The common denominator has to boil down to distance and ease of journey. Just compare the A11 with the A47. Need i say more?