You're Not Laughing Anymore

Leeds United 2-1 Norwich City

Recent games against Charlton and Gillingham and reminded Norwich fans of what a great thrill a last minute goal can be. Here was a proof that letting one in can have you cursing your luck long into the night.

It was 1-1, deep into stoppage time when Fraser Forster scuffed a goal kick straight at the feet of Jermaine Beckford. He scored, Norwich lost but won a fair few admirers for the way they played.

It is always interesting watching your own team on television and there is always that fear that if they lose or play badly it will be somehow worse because it is in front of everybody else. Norwich's reputation for chopping and changing managers clearly goes before them. At one point on Sky Paul Lambert was captioned as 'Norwich caretaker manager'.

Forster need not worry - he joins a good list of Norwich goalkeepers who have made these blunders and most of them appear to have happened on live television. Bryan Gunn's famous air kick at Portman Road in 1996 for example. Robert Green may now be an England 'keeper but he was embarrassed himself on live TV by rolling the ball out in front of him, not realising Nottingham Forest's David Johnson was standing behind him, to this day Green does the full 360 before letting a ball go.

Ipswich Town still haven't won this season. A few Town fans were keen to celebrate Forster's mistake almost 24 hours later when Look East presented their sports news from a Suffolk pub. One fan made a gesture not seen on TV since those Nescafe adverts with Gareth Hunt in and others chanted 'scum, scum, scum' as the reporter tried to link to the goals footage from the Leeds game.

If only the cameras had been trained on those same fans later that evening when Ipswich, yes you've guessed it, let in a last minute goal. Their faces would have been a picture as Nathan Ellington netted for Malky Mackay's Watford at Portman Road to make it 1-1.