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16th Dec 2016

Football fans everywhere turn on Norwich for moronic snub of their Irish gem

#JusticeForWes

Conan Doherty

The pitch forks are out and it’s not before time.

Alex Neil has been doing this for far too long now but people – not just Norwich people – have had enough.

On Friday night, the freshly-relegated Canaries suffered their seventh Championship defeat in nine games. They lost 2-1 to Huddersfield at home and the score was like that from as early as the 40th minute.

The dugout reacted by bringing on Alexander Tettey, Steven Naismith and Cameron Jerome.

Wes Hoolahan watched the entire match. He had his football boots on but he never needed them because, yet again, Alex Neil decided that he didn’t need Wes Hoolahan.

No-one’s suggesting that a 34-year-old can play every minute of every game in a hectic Championship season but, Christ almighty, imagine thinking that you don’t even need anything from him when you’re losing at home and headed for a seventh defeat in, let’s repeat it, nine games.

And it isn’t just Norwich fans that are pissed off with it like they were earlier in the season. Football fans – any of them – can’t see the logic – not just the purists and those lovers of a deliciously-weighted pass, just those who think you win games by playing your best players.

Really though, they wouldn’t even use him for a few minutes.

Never mind from the start.

It shouldn’t even be up for discussion that Hoolahan should have some involvement.

But Neil had a different plan.

It’s enough to lose a man his job. Well, that and the results.

The laws of physics and reason and whatever else cease to exist at Norwich right now.

And it’s the fact that he is remorseless that’s the worst part.

Well, it’s too far gone now for people to ease up the pressure.

What’s happening is plain crazy and it is beyond the realms of comprehension for any football man – never mind any normal football manager.

Wes Hoolahan sat on the Norwich bench yet again for a full 90 minutes and watched them lose at home to Norwich. Wes Hoolahan – Wes f**king Hoolahan – the unused sub.