Delia's Perception

[Mariner 0]

Much as I admire all that Delia and her husband have done for the Club, I wish, just once she could stop the self-deprecating, self-patronising nonsense she seems to specialise in. On Canary Call, after the blow had fallen, she was at it again, "You know, we''re a small football club" Are we really, looking at our season ticket sales and our catchment population, not another professional club within forty miles. I would say we are a medium-sized club. Has the lady spent much time in, say, Blackburn town centre, on a Saturday afternoon. I don''t think Norwich and Norfolk need to be so modest.

What we need to be is more thrusting and confident when we start the task again next season - and have a look at this season''s goals against column. That''s where the trouble surely lies, not in our perceived country cousin status.