So with not too much going on I thought I'd tell you about

my Mum. She's 89 and on Friday fell over while out for her daily walk and landed on her face. Broke her nose and teeth and was unconscious until some good folk got to her and brought her round. She's now currently in hospital and being the stoical old girl she is, is getting better quite quickly. When I went to see her on Sunday she really didn't look good at all and she kept fading in and out of sleep and wasn't too coherent with her speech. Normal questions, how were we all (my wife, kids as they couldn't see her because of visiting restrictions with Covid) but every so often she'd search her brain and say to me "there was something I was going to ask you".... This continued for the full hour I was there but this 'thing' she was going to ask me slipped her mind. Just as I got up to leave and as I stood at the end of the bed, she suddenly looked up and almost shouted at me so I went closer and god bless her she said "I remember!".
"How did City get on".
Now I know there'll be a few of you out there in WOTB land who not only think I talk a load of old bollocks but to add to it that my views are dated (even though I'm not that old). But my Mum laying there looking like she'd taken a severe pounding from the concrete reminded me why I have these views about football and my beloved NCFC. You see my Mum didn't come from a sporting family but my Dad did. He was sport mad and a huge Norwich fan which he'd had passed on to him by his Uncle and Father. Living with my Dad meant that Mum had two choices. Try to ignore it or buy into it and she bought into it. My Dad died in 2016 and after 61 years of marriage my Mum never has and never will get over it but so ingrained is the love for NCFC that she still listens to Radio Norfolk every week for the commentary and I genuinely think it brings her closer to my Dad as she knows this is precisely what he did for several years when he was too ill to attend. And to all those individuals out there that think that being a supporter is choosing a team they know will always be one of the 'big' six and visit the ground once every two seasons with a camera and wear the club shirt they buy from Sports Direct and generally dismiss all the 'smaller' clubs not currently owned by billionaires whose gains have come from dubious backgrounds, I say, you understand nothing about being a fan. Yes my club are infuriating at times and yes there are times when its not run as well as it should be but ultimately it is a community club and anyone who supports it does so because we have an attachment and an identity which makes it very special.
Anyway, just hoping Mum will be out by Saturday so I can get her over to ours and sit her down to watch the game at Huddersfield!

Posted By: Chopper, Sep 8, 16:11:43