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MK Dons 2-1 Norwich City

On the day of this game The Guardian newspaper was giving away a free copy of a classic Roy of the Rovers comic. The perfect pre-match reading to inspire you for some Monday night League One action.

I don't think I was the only one. Chris Martin fired Norwich into the lead after 16 seconds with the first shot of the game. Roy Race would have been proud of it. If you want to be pedantic about it, it was actually 17 seconds but the little yellow plastic stopwatch that we have relied upon for several seasons now had it at 16. That's good enough for me, whatever Sky Sports fancy equipment might have said.

The canaries were then battling against the odds as Adam Drury and Stephen Hughes, two key players limped off before half-time. Defender Michael Nelson completed the injury hat-trick early in the second half and it was about then the comic-book magic dust wore off.

In a similar situation Melchester Rovers would have held out for a heroic 1-0 victory. Norwich City didn't. A free-kick and then a controversial penalty conceded by Chris Martin himself consigned them to defeat.

Norwich City fans are rightly proud of their record of virtually selling out most home games but at Stadium:MK, as it's annoyingly called, there was evidence of some of the advantages of not selling all your tickets.

As the rain lashed down early in the second half the fans in the front few rows of the stand we were sitting in began to feel the full brunt of the weather. No Steve McClaren style brolly for them, they simply moved back five or six rows, giving themselves the pick of several empty and much drier seats.