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Norwich City legend Iwan Roberts gives a thumbs up to Hucks tribute match
Posted by: Dave Freezer, Tue 13th May 2008
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Dave Freezer talks to Canaries legend Iwan Roberts.
Canaries' legend Iwan Roberts has told the Norwich City
Football FanCast that he thinks Darren Huckerby "should be allowed to say his
goodbyes and let the crowd show him one final farewell."
The big Welshman scored 96 goals for Norwich between 1997
and 2004 to sit third in the club's all time top goal scorers list and became
good friends with Hucks during the 2003/04 Division One championship winning
campaign.
Iwan continued, "Yeah, bless him, he rang me on Tuesday to tell me the news. I'm so disappointed for him, he told me he thought there might be a chance that the club were going to offer him something and he is disappointed.
"After all the thanks I got, I got two chances to say goodbye to the fans. The last home game, the Crewe away game and the Civic Reception and he's not been given that. I do feel for him for that because if it wasn't for him we wouldn't have got promoted that year."
The City favourite is now working in the media for BBC Wales and will be working at Wembley on Saturday as Welsh side Cardiff take on Premier League Portsmouth in the FA Cup Final.
He let a cat out of the bag to our presenter Dave though by revealing that SPL club Celtic, managed by Hucks' former manager at Coventry Gordon Strachan, have long been admirers of the exciting winger.
"He could of moved on at any stage, there were some big clubs interested in Darren, I know Celtic were very, very keen to get him up there but he was very loyal to the club."
With Hucks mentioning the possibility of a long commute when he spoke to the media last week, perhaps Iwan has stumbled upon a strong possible destination for Hucks.
Not only did the big man back a tribute match for Huckerby but he also said he would be up for pulling on the yellow and green shirt one last time if the match were to happen, saying "I think that would be a good shout.
"If there was a game for Hucks to take his final chance, I'd definitely put my name forward for it. If they could find me a pair of shorts big enough that is!"
Click here to listen to the latest Norwich City Football FanCast in association with The Pink ‘Un and here the rest of Iwan's interview as well as all the usual fun.
To join the Facebook group petitioning for Hucks to be given one last goodbye game click here.
