YES......ABSOLUTELY! THIS IS WHAT IT'S SUPPOSED TO BE LIKE!

[Frankly speaking 0]

YES....ABSOLUTELY!         THIS IS WHAT IT’S

SUPPOSED TO BE LIKE!

 

Football eh?

It can drive you mad, can’t it? Or it can make you happy. Very happy. Or sad.

Oh, yes, very sad indeed. And sometimes, not often but just sometimes, it can

leave you feeling a bit empty in a kind of couldn’t care less kind of way.

I don’t

suppose any of us ever really signed up to support our team. It just happened.

One day for some reason those of us that read the Pink’Un decided that we were

Norwich City supporters and that’s how it has remained. We won’t change. We

can’t  change. That’s the way it is.

So every

Saturday afternoon and on many a Tuesday night (and occasionally on other  days depending on which division we’re in and

what time of year it is) our focus is on football. If we can be at the Norwich

match we will be there, if not we will try to keep in touch with events  (an easier task these days than ever before).

Those of us

that have followed City for a good few years have seen good times and bad. The

‘empty’ periods might have been a little too frequent, the sad ones likewise

and the euphoric few and far between.  So

what has kept us going? How come we haven’t moved on to something else like

those people that have a bit of a craze on fishing, cycling or golf then get

tired of it?

 

The last two

or three weeks surely hold the answer. We are ‘adrenalin  junkies’, feeding off our nervous energy. We

like the sheer, damned unpredictability of the whole thing. The agony, the

horror of watching Fabio Borini’s sublime free kick evade Ruddy’s dive at The

Liberty Stadium, compounded by the almost slow motion torture as Mark Gower’s

low drive fizzed off the turf for number two almost made me feel sick. My joy

at the thrashing of Scunthorpe evaporated into the Welsh air. I was miserable. ‘Why

do you put yourself through it?’ asks my wife, ‘it’s just too stressful’.

The misery

eases with passing days and then comes the next game. Watford away. An early

goal from Big Sam and the metaphorical sun is shining again. What a selection!

Lambert is King. But Malky’s boys fight back and despite an improved second

half we have to settle for just one point from two games. My dreams of next

year’s Premier League campaign are fading. And The Horse has gone lame! Cue

more misery, an uncertain few days feverishly looking at the respective run-ins

of the promotion challengers, particular worry about Reading and a few minutes

each evening spent sticking pins into my Warnock doll.

 

 

I can’t

concentrate at work. I admit that just occasionally there’s a bit of difficulty

getting off to sleep. When I’m driving am I really concentrating or am I on

autopilot whilst wondering whether Anthony McNamee’s impact in the second half

at Vicarage Road will make Lambert rethink his formation in the closing weeks?

What if Holty is out for a lengthy spell? Is Vokes up for it and anyway will

Wolves recall him? How far away from fitness is Chrissy Martin? Reading aren’t

going to win every game from now till the end of the season, are they?

Forest at

home.  Neal Reynolds and his team have

done the trick and The Horse will run. Not only that but Wesley’s back.

Optimism returns and pervades the pre-match period and even the first minute or

two. Then a freak Forest goal and my insides are churning again. Rebounds like

that don’t happen to lucky teams. It’s not going to be our night.

Worry..worry..worry. I curse my lack of faith and celebrate wildly when Holty

imperiously heads the leveller. Surman’s second calms the nerves, jangling

since Forest had hit the post with our defence in bits.

 

I’m told it

was a great game. But for me the second half was just fifty minutes of agony.

Exquisite agony, though, when the whistle went to end it. Then a Saturday

vainly hoping Pompey can find a bit more in south Wales than we did. Damn!

Reading have won again! Study the League table again. Look at the run-ins. Can

Leeds beat Reading on Friday? Will QPR still be up for it against Cardiff? I wonder

if Lambert will bring Pacheco back for the game at Portman Road.

Why do we

put ourselves through it? Because this is what it’s all about. Hoping. Praying.

Not knowing...yet.

YES..ABSOLUTELY!            THIS IS WHAT IT’S SUPPOSED TO BE

LIKE!

[curly_whirly_tipz 0]

lol I like it pretty much sums up the emotions everyone is going thru at min! Half of me wants the season to be over so I know where we finish... whilst the other side of me knows that as much a I want to know our final position I will be lost when the season is over!

[GJL Mid-Norfolk Canary 1,735]

If I''m being brutally honest, I didnt really want any of this stress this season!!, after a few seasons of the various concerns about either getting promoted or avoiding relegation I would have settled for a nice mid-table finish ,with half a dozen meanlingless games.

I''m trying to prepare my self for dissappoinment try and cushion the blow if we dont finih in the top 2 but unfortnately it now looks the the very worst scenario now ,is playoffs.....arguably THE most stressful thing any football fan can put themselves though?!.

Half of me just want to go to sleep and be woken up when its all over !!

[Frankly speaking 0]

Agreed. Although if we love watching our team play we should enjoy the play-offs. Just more of that slightly addictive pleasure/pain mix!

[Frankly speaking 0]

Agreed. Though if we love watching our team play we should really welcome the play-offs. More of that addictive agonising ''enjoyment'' !

[Mister Chops 7]

It is stressful and difficult and all our nerves are on edge but we need to remember that the last time we were in this league we were hoping that Charlton, Southampton and Plymouth would all lose - we weren''t worried about the teams at the top.  So much credit to Lambert and the team for overachieving to the point where we dare believe we could still do this automatically.

[Twitchy 0]

[quote user="Mister Chops"]It is stressful and difficult and all our nerves are on edge but we need to remember that the last time we were in this league we were hoping that Charlton, Southampton and Plymouth would all lose - we weren''t worried about the teams at the top.  So much credit to Lambert and the team for overachieving to the point where we dare believe we could still do this automatically.[/quote] I think it''s impossible to hit a nail any harder than that Chops.

[Chelmsford Canary 0]

Brilliant!

I was hiding behind my mate through parts of the Watford game.

I think my heart will pack up one day at a game!

Maybe i''ll have a heart attack at CR

[Frankly speaking 0]

I wonder if that would qualify you to have your ashes sprinkled on the pitch in front of The Barclay!