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I like my goalkeepers unhinged. John Budgie Burridge sleeping in his gloves was the stuff of legend. And I’ve just remembered him giving an interview towards the end of his career where he was saying that he wasn’t good enough anymore only for his mum to keep interjecting that he was.

So hearing a keeper is not a conformist is fine by me.

During the interview Dan Rice asked Norris "Where do you see yourself in three years time?" and Norris pointed at Dan and said "Where you're sitting"

When studying philosophy at university one of the questions in the final exam was 'Define bravery'. Norris stood up, crumpled the paper into a ball and threw it at the examiner, shouting 'THIS'.

He was awarded a First. The examiner was uninjured as Norris missed by a mile as his distribution was shit even back then.

Was talking to a colleague this evening who's a Portsmouth regular. Tells me that Will Norris is a brilliant shot stopper but dreadful at distribution (interesting and not what I expected to hear given "data"). Also that he's the life and soul of parties off the pitch but demands to be the centre of attention at all times. And also that after he was dropped following the 6-1 defeat to Stoke earlier this season Norris refused to accept a seat on the sub's bench and was subsequently made available for transfer.

All this just gossip but apparently well established among Portsmouth fans. Hopefully none of it true but as he was telling me it I could only think of Max Stryjek....

I worry about the Danes. You don’t have to be a conspiracy theorist to think their signing was based on getting the Danish manager who turned us down.

Hopefully they’ll prove themselves as worth every penny. But there’s definitely a scenario where they return home on loan in the summer never to be seen again.

Sounds like daylight robbery, so probably about right.

chill, Man. There is nothing like a Dane. They're both improving with every snatched sighting. Only conscription to go and defend Greenland can keep them from next season's cult herodom.

Rav or Norris? Norris.

Does he break up the Low and Bradley combination to bring in Taylor? I don't think so.

Does Simons come in? Surely.

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