‘Accidental Partridge’ moment from Marc Webber reporting on Norwich v Bristol City

There was an ‘Accidental Partridge’ moment from Marc Webber while reporting on Norwich v Bristol City on Saturday afternoon.

The live match reporter for BBC Final Score reported from Carrow Road, and tried making an attempt to reference the river in Norwich into his summary.

The video has gone on to get nearly a million views on Twitter alone, as well as getting 4,000 likes. Have a watch of it below…

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— Accidental Partridge (@AccidentalP) November 9, 2024

Norwich’s unbeaten home league run proves that you Wensum and you lose some.

— Marc Webber (@marcwebber) November 9, 2024

He an be heard saying: “Norwich City 0, Bristol City 2. The Citadel of the fine city has been breached.

“A year long unbeaten home league record ripped up by a Bristol City manager celebrating a year in the job.

“And it’s Mehmeti and Nahki Wells exposing the Norwich defence while they soaked up a bucket of missed chances by Norwich.

“Jason [Mohammad], the river running through Norwich is called the Wensom with the unbeaten run gone. It’s a case of you win some, you lose some, or you win some, you lose some. Norwich City 0, Bristol City 2.”

Here’s how fans reacted to the ‘Accidental Partridge’ moment from Marc Webber reporting on Norwich v Bristol City…

@ncfcpain: Glorious @marcwebber

@_connor_01: This is fucking quality 😂

@Ricky_cufc: Earlier in the game he got in Dickens – ‘A tale of two cities’ and its opening line, he was on a mission!

@LeeJenson1: It’s all about the clarification.

@cal_cpfc: This is incredible hahahahhaa

@RJHarle: So close to getting that last reference in but he stumbled. Solid effort.

@Fraser1874: Oh that’s first class.

@magicfinbow: Glorious partridgeness

@pearce_rp3231: Yes, immediately explaining the joke was pure Partridge.

@nickinmasham: The awkwardness!

@adamchard: Shame we weren’t playing York City. I’m sure we’d have “oused” class!

@Cephalaspis77: You Wensum, you lose some. Brilliant. He’s probably had that in the back of his head for years.

The game itself saw Anis Mehmeti and Nahki Wells end the Canaries’ long unbeaten home run with a 2-0 victory for the Robins.

The result sees Norwich sitting 14th in the Championship table with 18 points from 15 games, while Bristol City are 10th with 22 points.

Norwich’s Johannes Hoff Thorup:

“This was a difficult game for us. I actually thought we started quite well but overall we struggled to find the rhythm and flow needed to create chances. Too many times we did things at a low level, low speed, taking too many touches.

“We need to be a lot better with our tempo and energy.

“At the other end every shot on target seems to be a goal – it has been a tough week for us and it will be good now for us to have a chance to work on things (in the international break).

“I think this shows that when we have some of our experienced players unavailable we are vulnerable, we struggle a bit and it doesn’t take much for us to become a bit shaky. We need to look at that too because even after the break we won’t have all our players back.

“We won’t hide from it – there will be some honest conversations with staff and players and together we will do whatever is needed to make us better.”

Bristol City’s Liam Manning:

“It was an excellent response to what happened on Tuesday when we put in an excellent performance only for a bad last 10 minutes to cost us.

“I thought we were brave on the ball today, defended well and made the most of the chances that came our way.

“The game management was terrific as well – Norwich are a good side and this is a difficult place to come to but I thought we saw it out really well.

“Overall they are a great group who I really enjoy working with. We brought in quite a few young players during the summer who have done well for us and can only get better.

“I am delighted with the level of performances so far and the only disappointment is that we haven’t picked up a few more points.”

Norwich City manager Johannes Hoff Thorup told BBC Radio Norfolk:

“It was not good enough. I think it was obvious that we lacked the rhythm and the flow and the tempo in the game and that we need to be able to create chances and score goals.

“It was a difficult one. We expected a difficult one, but I think we still hoped for a bit more than this.

“We knew that a lot of them were stretched to the limit (because of the club’s injury problems) and for some of them it was not ideal to go 90 minutes again, but they had to, that’s part of the business. Sometimes all of the situations we are in are not ideal and we have to come up with what it takes still.

“It comes down to our ability to put in the desire and what it takes to compete at this level. I think we were maybe a bit behind in some of these areas today, which is natural with the situation that some of the guys are in.”

Bristol City manager Liam Manning told BBC Radio Bristol:

“It was tough to take on Tuesday [a defeat by Sheffield United] because of the performance and I thought we backed it up today with a top performance.

“In terms of the defensive side of it, the way we blocked, the way we pressed, I thought we really restricted them to very few opportunities. I thought it was a really professional away performance.

“The first goal was real quality in terms of Birdy, [Max Bird] the transition, there were a few other moments – Birdy quite pivotal in a bit of it – and a couple of nearly moments, but I thought we managed the game really well with the ball as well.

“This is a tough place to come, they hadn’t lost here in over a year, and with quite a few missing as well I thought the lads did a terrific job.

“We didn’t just see the game out, we defended really well, kept the ball when we got it, carried a threat on the counter and we had real purpose to what we did.”