Norwich City 1-2 Newcastle

A goal from Norwich's Paul McVeigh wasn't enough to come back from strikes by Peter Ramage in the first half and Charles N'Zogbia in the second as Newcastle spoiled Craig Fleming's testimonial party.

I am very impressed with this win for a few reasons;

1) There was no striker in our starting line-up, and only the 65th minute appearance of reserve centre forward Carl Finnigan changed this, by which time we 2-0 up.
2) Our starting line-up was by no means our best 11, with Given, Ameobi, Emre, Luque, Babayaro, Duff and of course injured boys Dyer and Owen all left out.
3) In the second half, Roeder introduced no fewer than 7 academy products, most of which are regulars in the reserves.
4) We were away from home against a perfectly decent team on a testimonial night.
5) N'Zogbia scored a cracker.

A good night for the lads that played especially the reserves. The night did end 1 minute prematurely when torrential rain and thunder storming caused the referee to give up and call the game to an end.

The lads were wearing the new retro away kit, very nice.