Sunday 19 July 2020

Is it over yet?

No.

There is one more match of pain to come. Away at Citeh.

So, here we are, rock bottom of the Prem, and certain to finish there.

If you would have told me a year ago that this is how the season would finish: nine defeats on the bounce and just four goals scored in 2020, I would not have believed you. I mean, how could a group of players that won the title at a canter, end up being one of the worse teams in PL history? Even in the first two months of the year, we looked at home. Lacking in quality, for sure, but full of beans.

Last time I can remember Norwich being this bad was at the end of the 2008/09 season, when we failed to win an away game, even on the last day of the season at already relegated Charlton, where a win might have saved us from relegation. We lost 4-2.

Since the restart:

City 0 Southampton 3

City 0 Everton 1

Arsenal 4 City 0

City 0 Brighton 1

Watford 2 Norwich 1

City 0 WHU 4

Chelsea 1 City 0

City 0 Burnley 2

The Burnley game was yesterday. City had 2 players sent off too. We went to play cards instead of me watching the game or following on Twitter.

Ouch.

I saw a blog post in the last week that suggested that a year ago players were only too happy to have been given a chance to play for Norwich, but now believe that City are lucky to have them. Nothing to prove. I have no idea.

That players that set the pitch on fire every game from first to last should turn to be so dreadful, I can't explain. And make no mistake without Krul in goal, it would have been a lot, lot worse.

If the action on the pitch wasn't bad enough, there has been VAR, which has sucked what little life there was left out of the game. It has een a soulless and expensive experience.

Odd thing is that a change in Manager or Director of Football would only make things worse. We shall suck up the critism, the barbs from those we laughed at last year is something we will have to take, we deserve every single one.

Being a supporter means experiencing the highs and lows. Last season had some of the highest highs, this has been the opposite. Just horrible from the middle of September onwards, including, for me, a total no show at Old Trafford in January against a very, very poor Utd side. Made then look like Brazil 1970.

We are rock bottom not because we have conceded 70 goals in 37 games, though that hasn't helped, but the pathetic 26 goals scored in the other end. I could not have imagined this group of players firing so many blanks. But they did.

All change, all change.

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