Norwich City’s young manager Alex Neil had an important statistic backing him up when his side faced a trip to Southampton Sunday afternoon. The 34-year-old Scot had never experienced a defeat on the road since taking charge of the Canaries back in January this year.
Neil’s impressive away record looked over after the first half hour at St Mary’s when one of his more experienced players committed two fouls, one of them Neil calls “silly”, to hand the Saints their long overdue first win of the season. Steven Whittaker might attract all the blame for Norwich’s shambles, and rightly so.