Love and Maric

St Johnstone 0-1 Norwich City

Another 1-0 win and another goal from a trialist. Goran Maric - a Serbian striker with the appearance of Dean Ashton has impressed here. Gunn hinted in the post-match interview that he was considering signing him.

If he does then surely the fans can start singing his name to the famous old Sinatra tune 'Love and Marriage' - it scans beautifully.

Goran Maric, Goran Maric, they go together like.........

This match was a trip back in time for me. Played on what was basically a playing field at St Andrews University there was nowhere to sit and it was a case of juggling phone, notebook, camera and pen as the game unfolded. It reminded me of covering Jewson League games at Wroxham when I first joined BBC Radio Norfolk, only more Scottish.

Having met Scotland's most helpful manager at the Raith match, St Johnstone's Derek McInnes was the polar opposite. He refused to tell anyone who was playing for his team because he wanted the game behind closed doors and wasn't impressed that 200 or so City fans had turned up. He did promise to tell us who had scored the goals for his team if we approached him after the game. We chose not to remind him of this after City had completed their clean sheet.

One of my boyhood heroes was watching: Kevin Drinkell. A 1980's City striker who was free-scoring at around the time I started watching them. I had just about plucked up the courage to approach him for an interview when I saw him leaving. It's a lesson I should have learnt by now. Football people never stay until the end when they go to watch a match.