What a Difference a Grant Holt Makes
What a week for Norwich City FC, probably the best week we have ever had in terms of goal scoring, certainly the best in my lifetime of supporting Norwich. I missed the game against Leyton Orient on Tuesday as couldn’t get there in time from West London but it sounded like a good game against a fairly decent league one side.
I did make it to the game yesterday however against third in the table Bristol Rovers. This is the first game I have seen in a long time where we completely dominated the game from start to finish and managed to get a few goals out of it too (well 5 to be precise). There were great performances all over the pitch, Wes Hoolahan, who I have often been critical of, mastered the midfield along with Daryl Russell who I again thought was outstanding and glad to see him around still. The defence didn’t have a lot to do but Doherty and Askou looked comfortable and I thought Mickey Spillane had a brilliant game at right back, hope the injury does not keep him out.
Now, to the man of the match, Mr Grant Holt who is fast becoming a legend at Norwich. I was debating with my dad before the game whether he was better than Iwan Roberts, I said no, my dad said yes. After yesterday’s game I’m wondering how this guy has been overlooked in the lower leagues for the past few years. He has a lot to his game apart from just being big and strong. He holds the ball up well, he passes well, he reads the game well, he comes back to defend and he can score goals. This man is a league one football genius! But perhaps I should keep quiet as we don’t want someone else getting hold of him. Yes, I know this is league one and the level of football is different but so far I think this man has been the key to our current success and long may it continue.
Score: Norwich City 5 Bristol Rovers 1
Scorers for Norwich: Martin (9), Hoolahan (31) pen, Holt (33) (40), Cureton (90)
Scorers for Bristol Rovers: Hughes (26) pen
A few facts about Bristol Rovers (or Brissle Rovers)
- they have two nicknames, The Pirates and The Gasheads. The later was a derogatory term given to them by their fierce rivals Bristol City as apparently the smell of gas from the nearby gas works used to waft over onto the pitch. The Rovers fans have now taken this to be their nickname.
- Their away strip is green and yellow
You can check out their ground for the return leg here. http://www.awaygrounds.com/bristol-rovers-memorial-stadium/