Sunday, 31 January 2010

The Voycheck's in Between the Posts

Norwich City 1-0 Brentford
Even the sending off of Grant Holt, the talismanic comic-book hero of a skipper could not keep the canaries fans from finally being able to sing the 'We are top of the league' song.

With Leeds engaged in a fancy FA Cup run at a game at Tottenham, a win by any score was always going to be enough to take Norwich to the summit. Eventually the goal came. 14 minutes from time Chris Martin slotted home a pass from new boy Oli Johnson.

Fraser Forster played his part with three remarkable saves as Paul Lambert took a calculated gamble.

Many managers would have seen a point as a decent result after having a player sent off but Lambert went with three at the back and clearly told his team to go for it. Had Forster not been in such good form Brentford might have won it but Lambert was rewarded for his bold approach.

As a commentator it was also good to get to grips with Wojciech Szczesny for the first time.

I know the idea of a foreign player in English football should not really be worthy of comment here in 2010 but the nudging and sniggering from people in my direction when the team-sheets came out made the on-loan Arsenal goalkeeper a talking point.

Thankfully there is an unofficial commentators club who can come to your rescue at times like these. My knight in shining armour was a marvelous chap by the name of Billy Reeves - a former record label owner, regular podcaster, BBC London travel presenter and reporter on all things Brentford.

Thanks to him I can tell you that when this Polish 'keeper reaches his potential, and having been described by Arsene Wenger as a 'great goalkeeper in the making' you may see him in the Premier League in the not-too-distant future, you can turn to your mates and tell them with much certainty that this man is called Voy-check Sir-Chezney.

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