Grant Holt hangs up his boots

[king canary 8,750]

Retiring from playing to concentrate on the coaching role here.

Quite the career he''s had.

[BroadstairsR 2,273]

What a star,what an absolute absolute star.

Is there any Canary fan who has a bad word to say about ''the cheating, pie-eating, lard arse'' (TWTD) who terrorised defences and always gave us hope of success, even in the Premier League.

[ron obvious 1,711]

A Load of Squit:

On 9 minutes a chorus of ''We f**king love Grant Holt'' on Saturday please.

Absolutely this. Gotta happen.

[BroadstairsR 2,273]

All this singing stuff goes over my head and, being a Dylan/Neil Young fan, I do find the lyrics a bit simple, even stupid.

However, there is nothing more stirring than, when on an away ground, to hear the boys in yellow singing their hearts out.

"Jingle bells, jingle bells jingle all the way,

Oh what fun it is to see, City win away."

(Palace c.1995 on a very boozed up Boxing Day and with a Mark Robins winner.)

Keep it up boys It helps. It works.

[andrew norwichcity 8]

Will be a while before we have a striker who can score like him. Rhodes might have a good season but I genuinely don''t see us getting someone capable of scoring 20+ goals in a season with the way we play now. Holt will always be a legend after his goals against Ipswich.

[lake district canary 4,823]

Defenders across the world will give a sigh of relief to hear this news [:O] .  Onwards and upwards with his coaching career, one day Canaries head coach.....

[dylanisabaddog 6,131]

Not just a great player but a great captain as well.

[Herman 11,136]

I agree. His captaincy was that extra special ingredient that is very hard to find and helped propel Lambert''s team even further.

[Bill 1,788]

Goals

click

(loud music)

enjoy

[ZLF 334]

soon to be Grant "The Scumbuster" Holt for WAW. I hope he ends up with a 9-2 winning record at the end of his wrestling career

[Indy 3,471]

To be honest I thought he hung his boots up once he left us!

Most underated and probably best value for money player in recent history.

Long may he coach youngsters in how to focus their attitude to football as he applied himself......legend.

[Fiery Zac 1,066]

Should’ve played for England. Worked so hard at being the best he could possibly be and was wrongly overlooked at a time when Rickie Lambert got in!

[Indy_Bones 444]

[quote user="Fiery Zac"]Should’ve played for England. Worked so hard at being the best he could possibly be and was wrongly overlooked at a time when Rickie Lambert got in![/quote]Absolutely this.

Was highest English scorer behind Rooney that season, yet couldn''t even get a single call-up (probably worried about international refs carding him all the time).

Funny how the likes of Andy Carroll and Lambert were deemed worthy though...

[AJ 1,358]

I feel sorry for Holt that he never got a look in for England. Everyone accepts he would only be a back up but deserved it on merit alone with a fantastic season for us.

Good luck to him with the coaching, nice to have him back here

[kick it off 2,062]

A storied career no doubt, but he will be best remembered for his time with us. 

An absolute talisman and far better player than he is given credit for (outside of Norfolk). Really should have played for England. Thrived on being the one that the opposition hated.

Gave us some great memories that will never be forgotten. I don''t think anyone will ever forget his one man demolition of the scum in the 4-1 home win whilst sporting "that" moustache!!!

Proper footballer, top bloke, Norwich legend.

[A Load of Squit 6,260]

Nice interview here (1hr 36min)

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b0bg20nx#play

At the end of the piece with Grant is it Jemaine Jenas who they say is a Noriwch fan?

[A Load of Squit 6,260]

Sorry, wasn''t concentrating, it was probably Paul Warne.