I write this, still in shock of a display by a side that were allegedly back to winning ways, back in form. A local derby, one of the biggest a player can ever start in, where confidence can rocket or shatter, possibly making or breaking a season.

As a devoted supporter, the ineptness of Norwich City at Sunday lunchtime brought me to a new low. Like most, I was happy when Nigel Worthington was acrimoniously booted out several weeks ago, and even happier when Peter Grant got the nod. A hard-line disciplinarian, an ex-Canary who knows what the club is about. Yet how can a team picked by the straight-talking Scot give such a toothless, passion-free display, hardly worthy of any match, let alone an East Anglian derby encounter?
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