it was funny because it was so surreal at the time - it never really felt real and still doesn't when i look back at it. at half time i took a call from a friend who asked if i'd left and gone to the pub. i said i wanted to stay to see if we could concede double figures. events that day weren't 'ha ha' funny but i remember laughing quite a lot. sometimes the best way to accept a result like that is to just laugh it off. i had no choice as i had to go to a wedding reception that evening where the bride and groom and most attending were ipswich fans... strangely, the next time i saw two of the guests was the evening of posh 7-1 binmen. now that IS funny...
that match marked the end of norwich city. from that day forth they shall be known as norwich city v2. i think beefy said something similar
´Twas a destiny-defining day You had to laugh or you´d just cry, For out of such a miserable fray We began our climb to the sky, No other result ´fore or since Has had repercussions so great, The performance that day made us wince But created our present state. OTBC (I thank god for Colchester Utd every single day)
I think the result makes the story of our rise much better, we sat bottom, aside from Southampton who had that point deduction. It sounds far better to say that we rose from the bottom of league one to the Premier League.
First assist for Holty too. I'm proud to say that I sat through the entire match and still, to this day, haven't left a match early. It feels good now to know that I was present at our record worst home defeat. I often look at the highlights, and enjoy them with a wry smile.
I took my two lads and it was the first and only time I've ever left a match early. We had some hope of a new(ish) start after the dreadful season before but it wasn't to be. The boys were just too upset to make them endure the second half so we left. Glad it happened though.
A "wry smile" is the perfect description for my feelings when thinking about this. That game is a delicious irony when compared with recent events.
To some extent it felt surreal Supers it was like a weird nightmare but then noticing the scoreboard it hit home like having an ice cold bucket of water been thrown at you. I'm surprised any of you lot were in the mood to socialise, if I saw any of our players, Gunn or a member of the board I would of bludgeoned them to death with their own shoes I was livid.
I remember being in the car (to Ipswich of all places!) listening to the commentary on Radio Norfolk. We gave up at 3-0.
I was there to the bitter end. I think the first thing I said as I left the game was "At least we only lost the second half 2-1" I was stretching to find a positive then. Haven't had to do that in the last 4 years!
I was in the car too travelling to Gatwick. I had tried to wangle it so that I could go to the match and then drive down straight afterwards but the missus was having none of it. I remember getting to Thetford and the signal failing from Radio Norfolk, turned off the radio and thinking to myself thank God that nightmare is over and it was still only 4-0 at that point! I think it also came out of the blue because if anyone can remember we had actually had a very, very good pre season. Expectations were high... not for long! lol
It was a day when my summer thoughts of heading to League 2 became a reality. I really feared the worst when relegated, and this result did nothing to ease any such thoughts. I know we all laugh at Lawro for his prediction that NCFC could be in L2 inside 10 months, but it was a view I shared at the time.
When you bear in mind that even when Lambert was here turning things round we nearly went bust it does not take a lot to work out what would have happened if we had given Gunn another 6 months to sort it out. One chap sitting near me was still going on about ' we should have given that nice Bryan Gunn more time to sort it out ' a couple of years later!! Anybody else remember the article in the local paper after Gunn left revealing that the pre-season trip to Scotland organised by Gunn resembled a social get together rather than a pre-season training camp? The players must have had a very nasty shock when Lambert and his Staff arrived!!
