What Goes in the Tunnel.......

Norwich City 2-2 Charlton Athletic

People who don't like football will never experience that last-minute equaliser feeling. Norwich City fans did here thanks to Grant Holt.

There really isn't anything like an important last minute strike. Paul Lambert set off up the touchline, running half the length of the pitch when this most deserved of goals went in.

The canaries were 2-0 down to league leaders and unbeaten Charlton but Hoolahan and Holt scored in the final minute of each half. It was a spicy game, Charlton's Nicky Bailey was involved in an off-the-ball incident with Holt just before the break. The ref spoke to him but obviously hadn't seen anything as he didn't even book Bailey.

Even those most polite of football supporters in the Geoffrey Watling City Stand were up on their feet in anger at what happened. If ref Steve Tanner was a Carrow Road regular he would have known from the uprising of the ground's and perhaps even the game's most demure fans that something must have been amiss.

So an exciting afternoon watched by 24 thousand plus people - but it was what they didn't see that dominated my thoughts after the game.

I overheard a half-time conversation in the cue for a cup of tea about a scuffle between players as they went down the tunnel at the interval hot on the heels of that Bailey incident. Something clearly happened, Tanner told a reporter afterwards he saw 'two separate incidents' but we may never know what.

Footballers do not discuss in public what goes on during that long walk back to the dressing room. It is their manor and nothing to do with the rest of us. I asked both Paul Lambert and Grant Holt what had happened in the post-match interviews. "I didn't see anything" was the general tone from both. The glint in their eyes suggested that may not have been the whole truth but that is what football people do.