Walsall 1 Norwich City......................2

Walsall 1-2 Norwich City

When Paul Lambert emerged from the tunnel for the post-match interviews at The Bescot, sorry The Banks's Stadium, Walsall being one of a growing band of clubs to sell naming rights to their ground, the City boss gave a big puff of the cheeks and let go a sigh of relief.

Lambert was probably more animated than I have been used to seeing him during games here as Walsall led 1-0 with 15 minutes to go and the canaries were struggling to get going on a pitch described by my colleague Neil Adams as 'a ploughed field' but then Wes Hoolahan came to life and played superbly for the last quarter of an hour.

Chris Martin and sub Cody McDonald scored. Any goal from the latter is enough to give any soft football romantic a fuzzy feeling inside. He was a scaffolder on the London Underground and playing for Dartford until City signed him 12-months earlier. He had his Roy of the Rovers moment when he scored within 15 minutes of making his debut at Carrow Road and, even after a year in the pro game, he still reacts to goals in the way that I think I probably would if I ever got the chance to play for Norwich.

The Walsall tannoy man also had a good sense of the dramatic, leaving a big X Factor style pause during his half-time round-up of latest scores. He particularly sounded like the West Midlands Dermot O'Leary when he reached one of The Saddlers local rivals. A good example here was:

"Wolves Nil, Liverpool......................NIL"

Sadly he blotted his copybook by having Leeds and Swindon drawing 0-0 at half-time when Norwich fans knew their main rivals at the top of the table were actually 1-0 down. When the PA announcer was gently corrected by the away support ('you don't know what you're doing') he decided to take them on - he had a microphone after all so had a very easy right of reply.

"Well it says 0-0 here."

"Don't blame me, it's the computer that's got it wrong."