BBC Fife Live

Raith Rovers 0-1 Norwich City

Paul McVeigh's neatly taken winner, just after coming on as a sub decided this one. A post match interview with Bryan Gunn makes me think McVeigh has a very good chance of turning his trial with the club into a more permanent return.

The demands of a live match preview on BBC Radio Norfolk at 5.30pm meant arriving at Stark's Park well before the ground was even open. Thankfully a kindly man in a Raith Rovers sweater helped myself and EDP football writer Chris Lakey into the ground and showed us to our seats in the press box.

Two hours later we realised we really had been given VIP treatment, without even knowing it. As the game kicked off I spotted our helpful friend standing just by the home dugout. It turns out the man we assumed was one of the ground staff, the kit man or a caretaker was actually wearing that red sweater -complete with the initials JMcG on the breast - because his name is John McGlynn and he is the manager who took the team to the Scottish Second Division title last season.

Having failed to recognise the opposition manager, I ended the evening by attempting to get some reaction to the match from some of the Norwich supporters. A great radio feature, I thought, not only can these people talk about the 1-0 win over Raith but they are bound to have a good story about why they've travelled all this way for a friendly. I carefully hand-picked a couple of blokes in replica City shirts who didn't shy away at the site of a microphone.

The first (sporting the 92/93 home shirt, the one that looks like a cross between a bruised banana and an accident at the Dulux factory) was there because he works in Edinburgh two days a week. Hardly the sort of Whicker-esque travelog I was after. Fan number 2 (2001/2002 play-off final shirt) had a Scottish accent and lives in Falkirk. Their combined travel time to this game: Just under two hours.