Gianfranco Zola will have to begin his era as new West ham boss without leading striker Dean Ashton, who is sidelined for a month with another injury. The former Norwich frontman, who has seen his career at Upton Park interrupted by a succession of injuries picked up an ankle knock on Zola's first day as Hammers [. Click to continue reading...

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Telegraph/Trevor Haylett - QPR make light of Matt Connolly's dismissal
QPR's credentials as a force to be reckoned with in the Championship promotion race were underlined at Carrow Road where they secured victory despite playing with 10 men for 65 minutes. Click to continue reading...

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Back on the pitch, it's Norwich tonigh...Although would be nice if other clubs and newspapers stopped referring to QPR's great wealth - because it's certainly not apparent how the money of QPR's wealthy owners makes QPR rich.


Norwich Official Site ROEDER READY FOR RANGERS
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There is a (boring!) break this weekend for International games and then five league games during Septembe, at the end of which, QPR fans will have a better idea of how the team may do this season.

September Games:
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Notable arrivals: Lee Cattermole (Middlesbrough), Amr Zaki (Loan), Olivier Kapo (Birmingham City), Daniel de Ridder (Birmingham City), Maynor Figueroa. Notable departures: Antoine Sibierski (Norwich, loan), Carlo Nash (Everton), Rachid Bouaouzan (NEC Nijmegen, loan), Marlon King (Hull City, loan), David Cotterill. Click to continue reading...

Notable arrivals: Justin Hoyte (Arsenal), Marvin Emnes (Sparta Rotterdam), Didier Digard (PSG) Notable departures: Jonathan Grounds (Norwich, loan), Luke Young (Aston Villa), Mark Schwarzer (Fulham), George Boateng (Hull City), Lee Cattermole (Wigan) What grade do you give them for this... Click to continue reading...

Glenn Roeder may have the appearance of a fourth grade geography teacher, but you wouldn't want to get on the wrong side of the Norwich manager. The former Newcastle and West Ham gaffer has done a tremendous job at Carrow Road to date, and he's managed to keep them in ... Click to continue reading...

After a brief managerial spell in Spain's second division, Chris Coleman is back in England, this time with Championship club Coventry City. And the club is off to a flying start, winners of their first two matches and in first place in the league.

Coleman enjoyed success at Fulham, guiding the Cottagers to their best ever finish in the top flight, 9th place in 2004.

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There were a few high-flying Championship sides that were knocked out of the Carling Cup by lower League opposition last night.

Charlton were dumped out by Yeovil 1-0, Barnsley were beaten by Crewe 2-0, Luton beat Plymouth 2-0, Blackpool lost at Macclesfield 2-0, Norwich lost at MK Dons 1-0 and Notts Co beat Doncaster Rovers 1-0. Click to continue reading...

Soccerword's Championship Predictions
1. Birmingham
2. Reading
3. Sheffield United
4. Crystal Palace
5. Queens Park Rangers
6. Ipswich
7. Bristol City
8. Watford
9. Coventry City
10. Nottingham Forest
11. Charlton
12.

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Despite sporting a very classy new tattoo sleeve on his left arm, Craig Bellamy is still an unpleasant piece of work; it's cute that he wants to be as street as D. Beck, but ultimately he's just a shit. This week then the West Ham striker continued on his mission to alienate as many people in the UK as humanly possible, after getting involved in a row with Ipswich fans as he was substituted at Monday night's game. Click to continue reading...

This guy is like the Pac-Man Jones of the Premiership.

The latest is that the West Hammer verbally abused a female Ipswich Town fan during a friendly match recently.

"With him being an ex-Norwich player I shouted 'see you later Bellamy' and he just turned around and swore at me and he said something about prostitutes in Ipswich.

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Over the last couple of weeks one youngster's name has kept reverberating around the office: Jerson Dos Santos. For those not in the know (i.e. those with lives) he a 17-year-old prodigy who is famous for the fact that two years ago he had never played football before, and now he has had trials with the likes of Fulham, Portsmouth, and er, Norwich. Click to continue reading...

So David Bentley, the right winger who many believe will be the successor to David Beckham, has signed for Tottenham Hotspur in a deal worth 15 million pounds. But is he worth it? For Tottenham, Blackburn and David Bentley, the transfer move is a win-win-win. The former Blackburn, Norwich and Arsenal player will improve his game at [. Click to continue reading...

Darren Bent staked a claim to fill Robbie Keane's boots after the striker rattled in four goals during Spurs' 5-1 pre-season romp over Norwich last night. With Keane completing having just completed his £20.3 million transfer to Liverpool, former Ipswich striker Bent wasted little time showing manager Juande Ramos he can be the prefect replacement. Click to continue reading...

Ok, so Darren Bent scoring 4 times at a Championship side doesn't do a lot to ease the pain of losing your club's Player of the Year for 3 of the last 5 years, but it does give us a ray of hope.

At Norwich last night, Bent played in a lone role with Giovanni Dos Santos in behind. This is the type of position Bent was so successful with at Charlton and I feel it's the kind of formation that could serve us very well away from home, an area which has cost us Champions League football in recent seasons. Click to continue reading...

Ok, so Darren Bent scoring 4 times at a Championship side doesn't do a lot to ease the pain of losing your club's Player of the Year for 3 of the last 5 years, but it does give us a ray of hope.

At Norwich last night, Bent played in a lone role with Giovanni Dos Santos in behind. This is the type of position Bent was so successful with at Charlton and I feel it's the kind of formation that could serve us very well away from home, an area which has cost us Champions League football in recent seasons. Click to continue reading...

2008-09 Pre season match:Norwich are meeting Tottenham in a friendly match monday 28th of July. Watch the highlights and livestream here Pre-register at the NEW football site 11×2 today!    Click to continue reading...

One of STT's main online influences when we started up was the awesome What Would Tyler Durden Do? so it fills me with great pride to say that we are now finally stealing an article from them. And what else but Cristiano Ronaldo's seed-spreading tour of LA would they be commenting on?

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At COS, we appreciate good comedy. But the lads in America are on another level when it comes to producing football hilarity. Sad thing is they rarely do it on purpose. See below a wonderful segment from San Jose local radio, with 'legendary' former Norfolk Norwich star Darren Huckerby who ... Click to continue reading...

1. It's Norwich, not Norfolk
2. That's a video of a goal vs. Norwich, not Manchester United
3. Not everyone who knows what a cross is shares a bed with a pop singer.
4. Freddy Adu? Really? You still think he is a world soccer talking point?
5. Unprofessional Foul expresses the wackness of this interview much better than I can. Click to continue reading...

How about that?  A giant Fredrik Stoor. The Sky Sports story is here. Dejan Stefanovic has passed a medical at Norwich, and Junior Omozusi might be going too. Someone on TiFF who knows someone at Norwich says that the stumbling block is about how Omozusi will be used, with Roy wanting him to be a regular [. Click to continue reading...

There are reports coming out of Norwich, that our 18 year old defender Tamas Kadar, has been signed on loan by the East Anglia club. Tamas Kadar, after signing in January Click to continue reading...

Kashima Antlers lead the way as the J. League nears its halfway point, with the defending champions in a familiar position atop the league standings.

Kashima are the most successful club in Japan, and the Ibaraki giants have fired a resounding warning to the rest of the league by embarking on an ominous four-match winning streak. Click to continue reading...

This isn't YouTube, but its still a must watch. Via the Norwich Evening News 24, Hucks took part in a 4 minute interview, as well as a lengthy article. Lots of meaty content to chew on, but let's get one thing straight. He loves babysitter. Not babysitters in general, but just [...] Click to continue reading...

Bobby Zamora's at Motspur Park having a medical, says Sky Sports. As we've suggested, I don't think this is a bad thing at all. Dejan Stefanovic may be off to Norwich. Fredrik Stoor - and these reports are from Scandinavian TiFF posters - is just about done. However, Rosenberg are in the middle of their season, [. Click to continue reading...

Darren Huckerby the former Coventry, Manchester City and Norwich man will be able to sign with San Jose after all. Huckerby originally traveled to North America two weeks ago to join up the club that had filed a discovery claim... Click to continue reading...

While we could understand if Alexander Hleb was angling for a move to Norwich next season, it's slightly trickier to understand why he's moving to Barcelona if he wants peace and quiet. The Daily Mail reveal that the Belarussian has had his fill of living in the Big Smoke, claiming ... Click to continue reading...

PORTSMOUTH yesterday completed a shock £11 million move for the world's tallest lamp post. It will be the 27-year-old lamp post's seventh club in eight years, after standing around and doing pretty much fuck all for Liverpool, Southampton, Norwich, Aston Villa, Portsmouth, QPR and Spurs. Ironically, Harry Redknapp sold the lamp post to Aston Villa back [. Click to continue reading...

While Spurs might be more than happy to let Paul Robinson leave the club, perhaps the same can't be said for West Ham, who surely regard Robert Green as one of their key players in the squad. The former Norwich keeper has been a very consistent performer for the Hammers over the past couple of seasons, [. Click to continue reading...

Wait, you thought those Fernando Torres to Chelsea rumors were finally dead? Think again.

The Daily Star one of the most reputable news sources in all the known
world says Roman Abramovich is willing to lift £85 million from his money bin in Duckburg and drop it over Anfield.

For the sake of argument, lets say there's at least a little truth hidden somewhere inside this monstrosity of an article.

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Our friends over at FootballFansUnited (FFU) have come up with a 'top 10 greatest goals' list, have a look and see if you agree with them: 10. Zidane v Lerverkusen 9. Owen v Argentina 8. Zola v Norwich 7. Bergkamp v Argentina 6. Beckham v Wimbledon ... For the remaining 5 greatest goals ever, plus the goal videos and reasons for [. Click to continue reading...

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Dave McIntyre/Kilburn Times - Money Gorkss for Rangers
QPR were this week expecting to seal the capture of Latvian defender Kaspars Gorkss from Blackpool.
Gorkss, 26, has been targeted by a number of other Championship clubs but Rangers are now close to signing him. Click to continue reading...

1. Career path Wimbledon, Norwich City, Wigan Athletic, Watford (current) 2. True or false? Tomas Brolin has played as a goalkeeper in Swedish non-league football 3. Picture round Who's been listening to Wham? 4. Team-mates Ray Wilkins, George Weah, Jay... Click to continue reading...

Tottenham boss Juande Ramos is trying to slide under the closing transfer window with Sevilla winger Diego Capel. (Mirror) Arsenal striker Theo Walcott doesn't want to be fobbed off with a loan deal and is going to stay and fight like a man for his place in the team. (Mirror) Portsmouth gaffer Harry Redknapp is [. Click to continue reading...