Helen Southgate

It’s been a while since I have blogged, so long that in fact since my last blog Norwich City FC got promoted to the Premier League in a fantastic season which I shall remember for the rest of my life.  I unfortunately didn’t get tickets to the game we got promoted at but I shall never forget the celebrations in The Old Red Lion in Islington, crowded to the rafters with Norwich City Fans jumping up and down!

Well, it is now 13th December and we are nearly half way into the season and we are sitting in 10th place, yes that is right, little Norwich are sitting 10th in the English Premier League, who would have thought it?!

I’ve been lucky enough to travel to a few away games too, Wigan to kick off the season, Chelsea, Old Trafford and most recently Manchester City,  the latter was somewhere I was really looking forward to visiting.  Before the game, we knew we would get beaten but in football there is always that glimmer of hope for the underdog and that is why it is such a beautiful and addictive game.  Their team however cost a few more quid than ours, in fact just one Manchester City player is worth more than our entire team put together, probably several times over.  It really is the battle of David and Goliath.

We got beaten 5-1, expected, perhaps a little disappointing but wow, what a team City are, we had no chance really.  However, I really enjoyed my trip there despite the loss. The Citeh fans lived up to their reputation of being a loud and inventive bunch of supporters and the banter crossing between the two sides was actually very fun, I’ve not experienced that in quite a while.  Their chants of “we’ll score when we want” were matched by us singing the same back to them when we nicked a goal back and we also did the Poznan which was much fun and poked a bit of fun at them.  They do the Poznan after every goal, yes, every goal, after the 5th time it becomes a little weary, but I did enjoy our celebration and so did the Citeh fans.  Their blogs were full of comments saying that we were the best fans to visit Man City so far, and we were, even after the 5th goal went in we stayed, we sang, we laughed.  This is our dream season and we’re enjoying it ….. and guess what, I think we’ll stay up!

Next stop – Everton away.