Mark of Champions

STOCKPORT 1-3 NORWICH CITY

AN OLD footballing cliche is that Champions can win when they are not playing their best, and this is exactly what my team in yellow and green did at Edgeley Park. Having missed the first half due to blue and white ticket based confusion. I arrived just as the half-time whistle went, with Norwich 1-0 to the good. A GROLT header, following a mistake from Stockport keeper Owain Fon-Williams.

This game was never going to be a classic. All head tennis and late challenges. Stockport played right into our hands launching high balls down the middle, which was food and drink for THE DOC, and the man mountain that is Jens Berthel-Askou. We were soon 2-0 up, Chris Martin taking a private bungee jump at Paul Huntingdon's expense, and giving us a Penalty. Which Wesley gratefully slotted home, then decided he fancied a booking and dived headlong into the away fans.

It was comfortable, this is the first away game I had ever been to that was comfortable. But as any Norwich fan knows, for us to win easily without giving the fans a little scare is impossible. So no one was really shocked when Carl Baker's effort deflected in off Peter Thompson, who was blatantly in an offside position. The nerves started jangling again.

There were a few hairy moments, but when Coby 'roadrunner' McDonald robbed 'Man of the Match' Michael Rose, and squared it to THE GROLT, who does not miss from six yards with no goalkeeper, the points were safe.

Thanks to wins from Carlisle and Millwall, Norwich have moved up to within four point of the top two.

The Lambo bandwagon rolls on.