You Can Hang Your Hat on it

Norwich City 3-0 Huddersfield Town

There's only one Ginger Pele. It was fabulous to hear the Barclay chanting in tribute to Gary Doherty after he'd smashed in his 4th in 3 games to wrap up a very good second-half display. I would have taken my hat off to him if it hadn't been so bloomin' cold.

Being mainly a winter sport, football doesn't lend itself to being warm and cosy to watch. Six days before Christmas, with snow on the ground, this was the coldest match of the year so far. I think the most freezing I have been at a match was about years ago at Coventry. The bit of the ground we needed to get into wasn't quite open when we got there and Neil Adams and I couldn't stand being outside so we hid in the ticket office at the Ricoh Arena. A few minutes later a Cov fan entered to buy his seat for the match. He was wearing shorts and flip flops. I doubt he made it through the afternoon. Forget the latest replica kit, real football supporters know that a decent set of thermals is what you need for much of the season.

Then there's the headwear fashion. I am quite boring and straight forward in going for the 4-4-2 of the hat world a black, woolly effort. Your older fan likes the flat cap - perhaps yearning for the days when Norwich played at The Nest and every supporter wore one and 2-3-5 formations were all the rage. At the other end of the spectrum was this man sitting just to my right hand side. I don't think I could compare it to a well known formation - if I could it would be something only Brazil whould have the chutspar to play.

He had an extraordinary creation on. it was mainly red with pretend snow, reindeer antlers sticking out the top and red flashing lights. Only Wes Hoolahan's marvellous goal and then pass to Chris Martin for the second was as remarkable.