Norwich City Vs Sunderland Official Sunderland Not606 Match Thread please log in to view this image Match Appointments Referee: Phil Dowd Assistants: H Lennard & D Eaton Forth Official: M Atkinson Norwich Team News Norwich are unlikely to throw fit-again defender Michael Turner straight back into action on Saturday having just recovered from a hamstring injury. On-loan Newcastle winger Jonas Gutierrez also played for Norwich Under-21s in midweek after his calf problem, but he is another who is not expected to be in the Canaries' match-day squad. Midfielder Leroy Fer (hamstring) remains out, while winger Elliott Bennett has this week finally returned to training following seven months of rehabilitation from a serious knee injury. Sunderland Team News Sunderland striker Steven Fletcher will miss the trip through injury. The Scotland international damaged an ankle during the first half of last Saturday's goalless draw with Crystal Palace and will sit out the game at Carrow Road as he waits to discover the extent of the damage. However, Gus Poyet has a near-full-strength squad from which to select with only keeper Keiren Westwood (shoulder) otherwise on the casualty list. Head to Head please log in to view this image Form Giude please log in to view this image Last Corresponding Meeting please log in to view this image What the 'Experts' Say please log in to view this image Lawrenson Norwich come into this game on the back of a 4-2 defeat at Southampton, while Sunderland drew 0-0 to Crystal Palace. Home boss Chris Hughton is under all sorts of pressure. This game is a big, big, biggie. While the cup runs have been good for Sunderland, they've got to stay in this league. Because of Norwich's fixtures towards the end of the season, this is a game they have to win. My problem with tipping Sunderland away from home is that they don't look like they have goals in them. I think Norwich might be the third team to go down. But Sunderland will just stay out, only because they got rid of Paolo Di Canio early enough in the season to get an improvement out of Gus Poyet. ****'s prediction: 1-0 Merson This is a massive game - probably the biggest game of the weekend for me, bigger than Chelsea v Arsenal. If you win the Premier League you win the Premier League. If you go out of the Premier League and it's 'thank you and goodnight'. In this day and age when so much money is riding on survival, it's a huge match. I think Norwich are decent at home, I really do. If they had a little bit more luck in front of goal, they wouldn't be where they are. They need to show a bit more going forward away from home because they've got some decent players. PAUL PREDICTS: 2-0 Facts n Stats There have been just five goals scored in the last six Premier League games played at Carrow Road, three for the Canaries and two against. Craig Gardner scored in both Premier League meetings with Norwich City last season. None of the last 12 league meetings between Norwich and Sunderland has ended as an away win (nine home wins and three draws). Betting please log in to view this image Links www.canaries.co.uk/club/visit-us/ www.walkit.com/norwich www.visitnorwich.co.uk
On Saturday at Carrow Road the battle for The Friendly Cup resumes. It is never going to make headlines or spark an open top bus parade through the deliriously happy streets of Wearside or East Anglia, and obviously precious Premier League points are the real prize on this occasion, but it is nevertheless worthy of acknowledgement and just a smidgen of pride. For those who are unaware, Norwich City and Sunderland have competed for the Friendship Trophy since the Milk Cup (League Cup) Final of 1985. The game was dubbed 'the friendly final' due to the warmth and sporting spirit displayed by both sets of fans towards each other. Following the final, won by Norwich thanks to a Gordon Chisholm own goal, supporters in East Anglia launched the Friendship Cup to commemorate the occasion. The trophy has since been contested every season during which the clubs have met, with the spoils going to whichever side gains more points from the two league meetings or whoever wins a cup encounter played when the clubs do not share a division. Many younger fans at this point may well be wondering what the big fuss was all about. Well-humoured joviality between supporters has become common-place in the modern game, as was evidenced in the League Cup final this year once again, and the advent of the technological age has seen friendly banter between fans a daily occurrence through message boards and social media. But the football climate in 1985 was very different indeed. At this time, football was probably at its all-time low. It was a game blighted with hooliganism as hot-headed unsavoury characters used the inherent tribalism of our national game to satisfy their own sinister agendas. Amidst a torrent of lurid press reports of crowd violence, match attendance had fallen to the point where perhaps fewer spectators braved the games than ever before. A mere 11 days before Norwich and Sunderland took to the field at Wembley in front of a reported 100,000 crowd, large scale rioting had taken place in a cup tie at Kenilworth Road between Millwall and Luton prompting Margaret Thatcher to set up a "war cabinet" to combat football hooliganism. A mere two months following the final, 39 Italian supporters would lose their lives in the Hysen Stadium disaster when a wall collapsed as a group of Liverpool fans charged their Juventus counterparts. It was an incident which saw all English clubs banned from European competition and the most shameful thing about it was that it surprised no one. But whilst football was fighting what looked like being a losing battle against the hooligans, Sunderland and Norwich fans steadfastly refused to be dragged down into that world and were there to not only enjoy the occasion, but to create one. Merriment reigned as fans of opposing teams mixed seamlessly before the game, all interested in nothing but the game itself, supporting their team, and representing their club with dignity and class. When southern based 'casuals', the unofficial term for the various hooligan hoards attaching themselves to different clubs, tried to infiltrate the atmosphere looking for a fight, they found no one willing to reciprocate. One Norwich fan recalls, "the jovial atmosphere was severely punctured by an unwelcome invasion of so-called Chelsea fans wielding knives and threatening City and Sunderland fans alike". The atmosphere would not be punctured for long, however, as behind the Wembley fences - the anti-hooligan weapon of choice for Thatcher's government - pockets of fans were happily accommodated in areas allocated to the opposing club. Fans sang loudly and proudly from the minute the pre-game formalities started on the pitch and carried on until stadium-wide applause broke out when Dave Watson lifted the trophy. Norwich manager Ken Brown would later say: "There wasn't a bit of disturbance in the crowd, Sunderland supporters were tremendous and everyone seemed to mix and it didn't seem to matter where you went in the stadium it was very light-hearted, free and easy and very nice and a great atmosphere - and I think it was a tremendous day." Following the game and after approaching each other to offer both condolences and congratulations, fans exchanged club scarves and merchandise as a souvenir of the day. On the London Underground system as supporters began their journeys home, a Norwich chant of "we won the cup" was met with a Sunderland one of "we scored the goal". In the cut-throat and greedy world of modern football, that there is still room for traditions such as the Friendship Cup is heart warming. The winner shall receive no prestige, no prize money, no tacky streamer-laden ceremony covered in the logos of corporate sponsors. But the contest shall serve as a reminder of a day when, in times that attending football was potentially literally cut-throat, two sets of fans chose to respect each other and embrace everything good about the game whilst rejecting the bad. In that sense alone, it is a tradition and a competition that celebrates the essence of football in a far greater and more tangible way than the more prestigious competitions could ever hope to, and one that both sets of fans can feel genuinely proud to see their clubs contest.
like the 4th time in 2 days ive seen 'Nowich' instead of 'Norwich' in threads/titles...any particular reason? eh?
I'm just wondering if the Norwich lads tell WMS to get to **** after his response to their kind invitation to join in their own match thread was met with a plate of ****?
Thank you grandpops for taking the time to try and learn our language. It's actually 'Naaaaaaaridge'. Please find below something that you friendly Northern folk may find of some use to you when you venture down to our part of the country. NORFOLK PASSPORT Notes of Interest. It is only necessary to produce this passport if challenged OR traveling in the county of Norfolk. They (the locals) only object to furriners (you) coming into their domain and NOT leaving it. In fact they have been known to assist vacating holiday – makers and visiting football fans with a pitch fork or well aimed turnip. If, as an immigrant, you may have purchased an illegal Norfolk passport on the black market, you have obviously not been residing in the county for the statutory 38 years. Beware if any locals pretend to accept you after 20 years, as this will certainly be a bluff and normally happens in a public house when you are buying a round. So, do not be fooled, they are not as slow as they make out. Indeed, they have a saying:- ‘Yow ken allus tell a Norfick bor, but yow keernt tell im much’ USEFUL PHRASES: Good morning: Ar ya orrite Good afternoon: Ar ya orrite Good evening: Ar ya orrite Hello: Hay ya gitting on tagether Goodbye: Fare ya well tagether or Dew yow keep a troshun Unfortunate situation: A buggers muddle To chat with someone: Mardle To think someone is backward: Yow siller owld fule. Unimportant chatter: Squit Below standard: Thas a rumman A violent threat: Blast bor, yowl git a ding-a-tha-lug Feeling quite well: Fare t’ middlin FAMILY NAMES: Father: Far Mother: Martha Boy: Bor Girl: Gal A common question asked when trying to catch furriners out is: ‘Hay ya far got a dicky bor?’ This means: ‘Has your father got a donkey boy?. PLEASE FILL IN THE GAPS AS APPROPRIATE. FOTA Last Nearme: Farst Nearmes: Okapeershun: Plearce o’ Buth. NOTES ON FILLING OUT THE PASSPORT Surname: (larst nearme) - Always use a local one such as: skipper, Thrasher, Basher Thumper, Muddler, Cruncher or similar. Christian names: (farst nearmes) – Again, go for a local one such as: Humper, Spike, Didler, Thruster, Blinker, Catcher or something similar. Occupation: (Okapeershun) - Fearmer, Ret catcher, Kreeber, Sugarbeet Larry droiver or simply put I wark at the tearky fearm. Photograph: (Fota) – When posing, always hold a frozen turkey or sugar beet in front of you, place a straw in the corner of your mouth and piece of black paper over one of your two front teeth, smile and look at the ceiling with a simple expression on your face. Place of birth: (Plearce o’ Buth) - Choose a tricky one such as Happisburgh – Haysbra, Wymondham – Windham, or Hunstanton - Hunston Enjoy your trip down lads.
In their eyes this is a must win home game and Hughton may need a win to save his job. Im hoping this plays into our hands. They'll have to attack us which could be good for us providing we don't concede early. Carrow Road is a bit of a bogey ground but with all thats going on im quietly confident we can get a result.
Think they've only conceded one at home in the league in 2014 and are unbeaten! Every record has to come to an end though
Might be wrong but I think that, from their last 8, they've won 1 game and scored 2 at home. The defence at Southampton, last week, was woeful and the fans are starting to turn on Hughton. I'll be down early at the Fat Cat and hope to be purring after the game
PREMIER LEAGUE Southampton 4 Norwich 2FT SAT 8 MAR PREMIER LEAGUE Norwich 1 Stoke 1FT SUN 2 MAR PREMIER LEAGUE Aston Villa 4 Norwich 1FT PREMIER LEAGUE Norwich 1 Tottenham 0FT TUE 11 FEB PREMIER LEAGUE West Ham 2 Norwich 0FT SAT 8 FEB PREMIER LEAGUE Norwich 0 Man City 0FT SAT 1 FEB PREMIER LEAGUE Cardiff 2 Norwich 1FT TUE 28 JAN PREMIER LEAGUE Norwich 0 Newcastle 0FT SAT 18 JAN PREMIER LEAGUE Norwich 1 Hull 0FT TUE 14 JAN FA CUP - THIRD ROUND Fulham 3 Norwich 0FT SAT 11 JAN PREMIER LEAGUE Everton 2 Norwich 0FT Must admit there home form is quite frightening like. Deffo take a draw
