A brief history of the last 30 years or so, it's quite a long read but worth it if you can be arsed. http://www.twohundredpercent.net/?p=21377 This is the bit that still makes my blood boil to this day: " Meanwhile in his autobiography, former striker Chris Sutton described how he was coerced into attending a press conference stating that he would stay at Carrow Road unless a club came up with £5m for him in the summer of 1994 after he had already agreed terms and signed a contract with Blackburn Rovers. Perhaps it was this feeling of low level dishonesty â was Chase merely trying to extract a little more money out of the Sutton sale, or was he merely trying to save face, having said that he would resign his position if Sutton wasnât at the club for the start of the 1995/96 season in spite of having secretly already having agreed to sell him"
I'll never forget the look on Sutton's face during that press conference, absolutely priceless - if looks could kill the fat man would have been a goner that day!
..........and I'll never forget the look on Chase's face Munky, when O'Neil stormed out of that other press conference
Out of interest what is Chris Sutton up to nowadays? The last I heard and this is a while ago now but he had been sacked as manager at Lincoln.
I think he walked rather than sacked, there was something about him quite recently but for the life of me I can't remember what it was!
Yeah I think he is involved now in another sport but I can't remember! Big respect for Darren Eadie btw in what he's doing now
That's it I knew it was something quite obscure! Ruel Fox was on Soccer AM a few weeks back talking about him managing Whitton Utd who were the team I used to play for back in the day!
He's quite a dish isn't he! Reminds me of my own boyish good looks...! Chris Sutton doesn't look bad either
good read. For a lot of us i'm sure, Chase was the owner when I first came to support norwich. Some of his efforts were positive i'm sure, but for me his memory leaves a bad taste in my mouth, a certain disdain as well. the failure to forsee the importance of the Premier League and Sky TV were prime, along as selling our top players (although we were always a selling club, there are limits). I'd forgotten about that Chris Sutton interview! Long live Delia and Michael
Like letting Martin O'Neill slip through his fat fingers because he wouldn't stump up £500k for Dean Windass, who MoN wanted - Chase was far to pre-occupied negotiating a price for Read's (derelict) flour mill, next to the Ferry Boat pub on King St. I presume because it was a tangible asset, whereas Windass was not
Think you meant to post that under my comment, it's the one I was talking about - absolutely priceless
Windass would have been a great signing back then, and I have every belief that if O'Neill had got his way with that one our history over the past fifteen or so years would have been very different, pretty sure we would have been promoted that year to start with That said, I wouldn't swap where we are now for the world!
