the Bigger teams just get challenge at higher levels, no team walks the champions league, look at Arsenal tonight.
Well, as I don't for 1 minute believe we'll EVER be in that position - the issue won't arise!!! ALL I expect from the Canaries is that we become an established PL team.
The change to 3 points for a win was largely driven by the idea that fans primarily want to see goals (it having been recognised that the long term trend was for fewer and fewer goals per game). However the new system did not lead to more goals; it led to an even greater emphasis on not losing. Average goals per game have now levelled off in all the major leagues at 2.66 per game as a sort of equilibrium has been reached between attacking potency and defensive organisation (though there remains a quite unjustified imbalance in cost of acquiring a striker as opposed to an equally talented defender). This all points to the conclusion that, rather than goals, fans are drawn to the nail-biting "tightness" of a football match, with goals being hard to come by but every scarce one of high value and every clean sheet achieved just as valuable. Add in the huge and often decisive role that luck plays in determining the outcome of a game and you can see that football fans are basically masochists queueing up every week in their thousands to put themselves through an emotional wringer.
football is a sport. sport at its best is supposed to be tense, nerve-wracking. this is why i disagree with people who say football is part of the entertainment industry - it isn't, not really - you never know what you're going to get when you turn up. a game that you think looks fascinating on paper often ends up being a damp squib while a game which looks a dead rubber ends up being match of the season. if you're a football fan you have to accept that sometimes you'll enjoy it and sometimes you won't, sometimes you'll be happy and sometimes you'll be devastated! it's all part of the roller coaster and at a club like norwich, you get to sample more extreme highs and lows than you do at a bigger club. personally, i love that.
How different Canary Call could be if the presenters realised that their true role is to offer a sort of counselling service. Instead of further winding up already over-wrought callers they should prescribe calming exercises -- deep breathing, taking the dog for a long walk, yoga, relaxation tapes, dead-heading the petunias or, if all else fails, painting the garage wall and watching it dry.
They can sense when we have lost and all scarper, rapido! Good job we have two dogs as well, they are not so intelligent so are in the firing line
From now on I will not post anything to do with football, just things like "There, there, just let the tears come", or "Things always seem worse in the night; you'll feel better soon", accompanied by lots of those huggy, kissy, hand-holding smileys.
slightly o/t, but doesn't seem worthy of a seperate thread and we are debating a few things on here daniel ayala has joined the ex-canary brigade at middlesborough on a 3 month loan. good luck to him
Just seen this on twitter from Ed Butterworth! Realistic targets or what? Ed Butterworth ‏@EdButterworth94 21m Zola, Adkins, RDM, O'neil, Malky, Neil Lennon, choose one Mcnally! Expand
It wasn't based on his views on CH, it's more about his lack of respect for just about anything NCFC. Recently he was mocking DM for closing his twitter account!
I don't know anything about him, he sounds an idiot, anyone who finishes a statement with discuss or "expand" (if I've understood the context correctly) is a moron who thinks they are super interesting.
Don't know him personally, but based on the bilge he used to inflict on my Facebook timeline for a while when I accidentally joined the NCFC forum thing on there for a month or so Ed Butterworth is an absolute bell-end, an absolute tool. Discuss
As someone who was blissfully unaware of his existence until a few days ago, I would sayTMC you appear to have hit the nail firmly on the head.
