Sent to Coventry, Pre-Season Report

The importance of pre-season games varies depending on which blog you read, a couple of weeks ago @LeeCoolahan reported from Gorleston on what was essentially a light fitness exercise with seven City goals thrown in.

As I pointed out last week though the games get more important the closer you get to opening day so for me the Coventry fixture was interesting as I thought it would be a genuine indication of how far we’ve come. I sat in the home fans as ever, firmly in compliance with the rules when you are with a Coventry fan, whose whole family are also Coventry fans. I was a lone yellow in a sea of grumbling sky blues, one of only three yellow shirts I saw in the home stand. (There may have been more I just didn’t see them).

The Perfect Early Christmas Present, Coventry 1-2 Norwich

After racing out of the home end and back to the relative safety and welcome warmth of my girlfriends family’s house, I’ve had enough time to form some conclusions over our fifth away win of the season. I often get carried away but I can’t help but think that anything other than a Norwich win yesterday would’ve been a massive injustice. Personally I had been waiting for this game for a long time, and despite the weather I was far from disappointed.

All I Want For Christmas Is Two Away Seats

To me tomorrow is bigger than the derby, maybe not in retrospect after the horse’s hat trick heroics, but I have been looking forward to the visit to the Ricoh for years now. Little Norwich’s other half is a lifelong Cov fan and we have been denied the opportunity of watching our teams face each other for far too long now. Whether it be her trip to America, unfortunately scheduled family birthdays or our desperately inconvenient relegation we have bantered and argued over this rivalry for what seems like an eternity but now we can finally attend a game. Due to a code of honour in our relationship I shall be sat within the home fans, a fact I am literally seething about but will tolerate for the sake of an easier life. So please tomorrow when the away following is revealed add a single digit to the end, and hope I haven’t been forcibly removed for celebrating Grant Holt’s unstoppable 10^th minute opener, or Lansbury’s 86^th minute clincher. This could prove to be quite difficult.