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Ohh I'll whittle on about glorified rounders as all the time, but that's mainly because it seems to really wind people up for no apparent reason. It's a bit of a shame that the NFL and the NBA seem so dominant in the UK market as neither sport appeals one bit to me. I have always felt that if there was an American sport that I'd watch it would probably be baseball. As it stands though, between Football, Cricket and Rugby plus casually following both Athletics and Cycling, I'm already at risk of ending up a single man, so it would probably be unwise to discover a new sporting passion.

Yep, asking for pay to roughly match inflation after years of declining real incomes is tantamount to the October Revolution.

Up to a point, but a year on the board will be a test of understanding and judgement for the other members and that's worth having. I'm optimistic in general though, seems the kind of investor that I had hoped would come in.

Maybe let's just see if he has good ideas for our club before we hope for a full takeover.

I don't really have a problem with him getting the sack. Free speech protects your right to say something that a government doesn't like, not from all potential professional consequences of exercising that right. However, if you call for the sacking of people for a comment about the queen. You can't protest the sacking of people on "free speech" ground about comments you personally find acceptable but others find supremely distasteful.

I have always hated VAR, Until my other team won the derby as our local rivals had two penalties disallowed by it in the last 10 minutes. Now I'm a fan.

Cantwell and Pukki came on as substitutes for us this season and in that one example you see why the championship is increasingly looking like the premier league in terms of predictability. We may well be the ones to fall by the wayside, but you can bet that the two in the automatics will be in receipt of parachute payments just because their squads are so much stronger. In a 46 game season that really tells. Does the mean we still have a fair few teams below that crop who can beat the biggest earners, sure. They probably can't maintain the consistency though unless they get an incredible run of virtually no injuries and have a strong enough bench to deal with the 5 players who will inevitably arrive in the 60' minute when the are 1 up but looking tired.

Atmosphere in a football stadium is organic. You can't generate it artificially. There's ways to help it but lots of that is to do with how a stadium is laid out. Forced efforts like this will inevitably fail. Play good football, win games, give fans a reason hope that they are on an upwards journey, fill out the stadium and most football grounds will be fantastic. The bit that's missing from Carrow road is the upwards journey part and that can only be satisfied by a decent stint in the prem or (and I hope not) a period of mid table obscurity which then sees us promoted.

That atmosphere is going to be flat for as long as people arent entirely sure what we are playing for. Remember how being top of the championship was incredibly exciting a few years ago? How many of us are that excited now? We all half expect to be there or there abouts but lots won't be particularly thrilled by the idea of going up and getting thrashed week in week out.

Playing regularly I see for FC Twente, has started today against PSV. Anyone seen anything of him?

Well given that a Championship striker who can produce a 20 goal season is worth at least £8,000,000, it's no longer looking like such a bad bit of business from Webber.

I tend to take the view that when every transfer is a risk, it's worth viewing windows as a whole rather than players in isolation. We spent £14 million on central midfielders and so far we seem to have picked up the kind of players in the middle of the park that we needed.

At this rate I'd fancy Forest to sign me for 250k.

Sorry to be really partisan, but they are Man City to me and always will be. The only 'city' in my vocabulary are Norwich City.

I'm not so sure, if I were him if be a little scared of missing the boat. He is the one player who I would understand why they were trying to force a move, and have some sympathy for that given how professional he has been. I would admire the loyality if he didn't, but wouldn't begrudge the lad if he decided he needed to give his career a jolt.