I'm not quite sure whether to feel more satisfied that the first team were involved in yet another classic match in the morning or that Nigel Worthington finally got the sack from Norwich City in the afternoon after what can only be described as a shambolic display by the Canaries at home to  Burnley.

I have nothing against Worthington and recognise that there have been good times as well as bad under his leadership, but really Norwich were going absolutely nowhere under his leadership and the change should have been made before this season got underway.

Let's hope a replacement is found quickly because our rapid slide down the league has meant we are now closer to the relegation places than the promotion and that is a state of affairs that cannot be allowed to carry on.

I knew the Gods were angry when we left the stadium after the 4-1 drubbing to be met by a sudden torrential downpour accompanied by thundering and lightning.

The morning was slightly more successful with a 2-2 home draw for the men's first team against Aylsham. It was another riveting match with some stunning goals. After 75 minutes it was 0-0 and midfielder Danny Self who was unavailable to play because of other footballing commitments asked me when the last time the team had drawn 0-0.

The question soon became irrelevant as a mad but magnificent three minute patch  from the 76th to 78th minute brought three stunning goals to light up what had been an excellent game. Firstly Acle scored from 20 plus yards. Stung into action we pushed forward from the kick off and Ian Mills let fly with a 20 yarder of his own.

"How many times does that happen. You get nothing for 70 odd minutes and then two goals within a minute" I asked anybody who cared to listen. What I hadn't bargained for was an immediate third goal and this was even better than the first two. Aylsham let fly from all of 25 yards and poor old Larky in our goal was left clutching at thin air once again. The three shots were unstoppable. Selfy asked me to describe them as exorcets but I wasn't quite sure how to spell that so I won't!

It would have been rather unfair if we had left empty handed, particularly as I thought we had two very strong penalty appeals turned down. So it was justice when youngest son Matt equalised with a close range header following a corner with just three minutes to go. Matt had an excellent game, making two very impressive blocks in the penalty area to deny Aylsham.

Sunday October 8th

There was mixed news for the men's adult sides in the County Cup with two going out and one going through.

The Men's Reserves went down 2-0 in what I understand was a rather bad tempered match. The A team went down 2-1 at Stoke but the Men's Firsts had better luck but did it the hard way yet again.

This time we were 2-0 down at half-time to Bohemians of Yarmouth, only to come back with three second half goals from John "Bert" Curtis - the third of which was a 25 yard stunner that was good enough to win any match.

So it was a carbon copy of last round's 3-2 victory where we also turned round a 2-0 half-time deficit. It does illustrate the fitness of the players and their determination, although we cannot keep riding our luck in this way.

The ladies continued their table topping exploits with a massive 9-1 win over Mulbarton Belles to make it five league wins out of five.

Many congratulations to A team player Danny Holman who has become the first player to complete 300 league and cup appearances. It is some feat from one of our most genuinely committed players. Add friendlies and I'm sure Danny has probably played over 350 times for the club. To mark his achievement Danny has been awarded honorary life membership in a new category for players completing 300 appearances.

Thursday October 12th

The Premier Division of the Norwich Sunday League has been thrown into confusion by the withdrawal of Horsford United with their records being deleted.

We were due to play them this coming Sunday, but haven't suffered like some teams who have had their victories against Horsford expunged (and what a good word that is!)

It means that poor old Eaton Beehive have dropped like a stone and are now placed below us in the league. Aylsham have lost a 6-0 victory and Acle Rangers a 3-1 victory which all means without kicking a ball we have gone up a couple of places and Quebec have taken over at the top.

Without a game this Sunday we are already beginning to drop behind with our fixtures, which isn't good news if we are to have a serious shot at the league title.

When a team drops out it is both sad and annoying. Sad that a side like Horsford who won the Norfolk Sunday Senior Cup in 2005 can just fold and anger that this kind of thing happens. Teams and clubs make a commitment when they sign up to a league and this is a commitment they should honour. I understand how fickle football can be and that it is often not the club's fault when players decide to leave en bloc. And yes I realise that once players leave it's virtually impossible to get decent replacements but this kind of thing shouldn't happen to a Premier League side - it devalues both Sunday football and the league.

And very often the club re-forms a few years later and gets back into the leagues. There should be some kind of forfeit for teams pulling out. Perhaps clubs should lodge a healthy deposit at the beginning of the season which is returned when they fulfil their fixtures.

The latest tables show that our A team are proudly on top of Division 4B, although the reserves are third from bottom of Division 2B. It is vitally important that they begin to drive up the league. If they were to be relegated (and I really don't think that will happen) our A team would be prevented from being promoted as you cannot have two teams in the same division.

Our ultimate aim of course is to have the first team in the Premier Division, the reserves in Division One and the A team in Division Two.

Milton Lindsay featured a nice piece on Danny Holman's 300 appearances in the Evening News. I used to work on the weekly papers with Milt and so know him quite well and he has included a number of articles I have sent him this year. So cheers Milt.

Sunday October 15th

As the first team didn't have a game today I took the opportunity of going down to the Memorial Playing Field to check out the A side. They are top of their league and were playing the bottom side, but it was anything but an easy match despite the fact that they opened the scoring in the first minute.

It is along time since I have seen a team squander so many chances and Mundesley's goalkeeper was in inspired form. Nookie Martin scored twice in the first half to take his total for the season to nine but then he had to limp off with a thigh injury. His first goal brought him 100 for the club, which is a decent achievement.

By the time I left 10 minutes from the end the team were 4-1 up and the points looked safe, although it had been a bigger struggle than anticipated. In the end the team won 4-2. The first team have drawn yet another Great Yarmouth side in the next round of the Senior Cup. We will be playing the strangely named El Sol, but at least this time it's a home tie. In the last round El Sol beat Felthorpe 2-1. Felthorpe are a division below us so this should give an idea of El Sol's strength.

Came home to find a message on my answermachine from Sue Milne to say the High School minibus, which they were hoping to use to go to Cornard for their afternoon cup match has been vandalised. There is a spate of vandalism in the village at the moment.

A couple of weeks ago our goals were ripped out of the ground, last week windows at the library were smashed and overnight the minibus has been damaged and windows have been smashed at the Memorial Playing Filed pavilion. Can somebody explain to me what kind of kick these morons get out of these acts?

Monday October 16th

Two of our sides hit double figures at the weekend which gets both on our highest team score roll of honour. The ladies overwhelmed Cornard 14-0 in the cup and the Under-15 Girls beat Hempnall Hunnies 12-1.

Another team are up and running. The girls Under-11s played their first ever match - a friendly at Dereham - and came away with a 2-0 win. They are now looking forward to some league matches. Elsewhere it was the usual mixed bag of results as the scores on the web site show.

Wednesday October 18th

Spent much of today writing the questions for Friday night's quiz. It is important to make them fun and I try to put together questions that include ones where nobody is going to get the right answer but where people can have a good guesstimate e.g How many miles is it to Venus. And before you think you have got one up on me, that isn't one of the questions.

I have tried to make this quiz a little shorter than the previous one which dragged on until almost 11 p.m and ended up with most people leaving whilst the answers were being read out. Trying to work out how long a quiz is going to last is a difficult matter. I'm aiming for about 10.15 p.m on this one - we will just have to see how it goes.

Norwich City actually won an away league match last night - cause for celebration. Now that Nutty Nigel has gone and we seem to have a solid guy in charge, I believe things should start happening. I have been most impressed by Peter Grant's comments in the paper about players and saying how important they are. Having said that he has a considerable amount of dross to clear out. Tonight we went to see the Reserves beat Luton 4-0 and there are a number of young players there catching the eye.

Robert Eagle seems very assured on the ball, Mickey Spillane and Matthew Halliday seem solid in defence, but in particular we like the look of Chris Martin. Chris is one of the Academy youngsters and comes from Beccles, which is a place close to my heart after my three highly enjoyable years of living there.

Chris played up in front in the first half and scored twice and was a real nuisance to the Luton defence with his speed and battling qualities. Sadly in the second half he reverted to a midfield role which I am sure denied him the chance of a hat-trick. Certainly I would prefer to see somebody like Chris among the first team substitutes than veterans like Peter Thorne who have absolutely no future at Norwich.

Friday October 20th

As I do more work on preparation for the quiz in the evening I am looking at the front page of the Eastern Daily Press and the news that former Norwich City player Peter Mendham has been arrested for alleged attempted murder.

This is very sad. Peter is a great supporter of local grass roots football. I have known him in three capacities - from his days of playing for Norwich when I reported on them for the local newspaper, as a regular visitor to Hethersett Athletic presentation evenings and other events when he has been a most generous supporter and thirdly as fund-raiser for the East Anglian Air Ambulance Trust - a charity that I strongly support.

Obviously I don't know the details behind what happened. All I can say is that I find it very sad.

The evening brought the latest in the quiz series. The last one I set went on a bit too long, so tonight I cut it down from 10 rounds to seven and it still went on until 11 p.m. I hope people enjoyed it and it raised some much needed funs for the Men's Reserves and A team.

Sunday October 22nd

I can't believe the bad luck of the Allen family. Scott and Lewis Allen are numbers one and two in the scorers' list but both have suffered serious injuries within a week of each other.

Firstly Scott suffered what I believe was a broken ankle playing for another side. He was hospitalised and came out to watch Lewis play for the A team against the County Council side today only for Lewis to suffer a serious leg injury which ended with him being taken to Accident and Emergency. The A team game was abandoned around half-time. I'm sure I express the thoughts of the club when I send our best wishes to both players.

Overall it was a bad day for the club. At the time of writing I heard that the women lost their first match of the season - 4-3 at Brentwood- and the men's first team went down 2-0 against Delaneys and can have few complaints about the result.

Friday October 27th

With a little more time on my hands recently, I have turned my attention to promoting the club in the Media and we have received considerable publicity in the Evening News - mainly thanks to the efforts of Milton Lindsay and his Wednesday column.

Eagle-eye Milt was reading through some bits and pieces this week and came across the mention of the serious long-term injuries to Scott and Lewis. As a result he contacted me to see if we could set-up a photographic opportunity. They say no publicity is bad publicity and I was happy to facilitate this. Couldn't help thinking, however, that we would prefer to have the boys fit and playing football.

The firsts game against Quebec this Sunday is a very important one. I believe that defeat will make it virtually impossible to have a chance of winning the league.

Today also saw the completion of the November edition of the club newsletter which will go out at the end of next week and which I will put on the web site on November 1st. Incidentally the web site has had its 20,000th visitor since we started recording visits. It is proving more and more popular.

Saturday October 28th

Well before I became a true football fan and made regular visits to Carrow Road to watch Norwich play, I was a speedway supporter, going regularly to the Firs Stadium at Norwich to watch Norwich Stars. The track was about five minutes walk from where I lived and I was very sad when they eventually sold it for housing.

There have been many attempts over the years to start-up speedway in Norwich but nothing has ever come of it and I don't think it would be possible to re-create the great days of the likes of Ove Fundin, Ollie Nygren, Terry Betts, Billy Bales etc.

This week the legendary Fundin, who rode for Norwich for 10 years and was world champion five times, was back in Norwich signing copies of his biography in Jarrolds. He was being given the freedom of the city and his web site states that he is the first speedway rider ever to be given this honour by a major city. And it is so deserved. So I went along to meet the guy and get a copy signed. I never made it as the queue was out of the door and into the street and I couldn't afford the time. It does show the pulling power of sportsmen and women. Ove hasn't ridden in Norwich for over 40 years yet is still so well known and remembered with such affection. "There's only one Ove Fundin." On Saturday there needed to be about five to cope with the demand.

The affection Ove is held in is more than can be said for the current Norwich City team. Today we were hammered 5-0 at Stoke and in the words of the late great Bill Shankly were probably lucky to get 0. Peter Grant has sadly inherited a shockingly poor team and will have to have a real clear-out when the transfer window opens in January. It's just sad that he will have to wait that long.

Sunday October 29th

I have nothing but praise for the first team's performance today. Full of young and relatively experienced players, they beat Quebec 1-0 to retain our unbeaten record at Easton College.

Thanks to having played so many cup matches, we had dropped into the bottom two in the league. That was obviously a false position, but a move up the league is called for and this win will help that. If we can string a series of victories together there is still the chance of mounting a serious challenge for the league.

Today we had 11 players fully committed to the club on the pitch and our pace up front worried Quebec. We have now beaten the top two teams and need to use this result as a springboard, particularly in the light of next Sunday's very important County Cup match against El Sol.

The ladies got over their blip of losing the previous week to beat Barchester United 6-0 to stay top of the league. With club secretary Mel Perkins away I haven't received any other results other than the Under-14s beat Horsford. So it looks as if it has been a decent day for the club.