{"id":470424,"date":"2011-07-29T10:23:09","date_gmt":"2011-07-29T10:23:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/2011\/07\/29\/norwich-pair-will-miss-kick-off\/"},"modified":"2011-07-29T10:23:09","modified_gmt":"2011-07-29T10:23:09","slug":"norwich-pair-will-miss-kick-off","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/07\/29\/norwich-pair-will-miss-kick-off\/","title":{"rendered":"Norwich pair will miss kick-off"},"content":{"rendered":"<div readability=\"63.435828877\">\n<div readability=\"61.0270665691\"><span><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/news.bbcimg.co.uk\/media\/images\/54333000\/jpg\/_54333350_vaugha_ward.jpg\" width=\"226\" height=\"170\" alt=\"James Vaughan and Elliott Ward\" \/> Vaughan (left) and Ward will not line up against Wigan on 13 August<\/span> <\/p>\n<p>Norwich City will be forced to start their Premier League campaign without injured striker James Vaughan and defender Elliott Ward.<\/p>\n<p>Vaughan, 23, and Ward, 26, suffered knee injuries during City&#8217;s pre-season training camp in Germany last week.<\/p>\n<p>Boss Paul Lambert told <a href=\"http:\/\/www.canaries.co.uk\/page\/Welcome\">the club website<\/a>: &#8220;They&#8217;re going to miss the start of the season, so that&#8217;s a bit of a blow for us.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;They won&#8217;t be out for a few months or anything like that.&#8221;<\/p>\n<div>\n<h2>James Vaughan factfile<\/h2>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/sport2\/hi\/football\/14340901.stm#skip_feature_02\">Continue reading the main story<\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Joined Norwich from Everton for undisclosed fee in May<\/li>\n<li>Scored nine goals in 30 games on loan at Crystal Palace last season<\/li>\n<li>Became Premier League&#8217;s youngest goalscorer with goal against Palace in April 2005<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<p>Ward played 41 times in his debut campaign for the Canaries last season, helping the Norfolk outfit to automatic promotion from the Championship.<\/p>\n<p>Lambert has central-defensive options in Zak Whitbread, who finished last season as first choice alongside Ward, Leon Barnett and loan signing Ritchie de Laet.<\/p>\n<p>Last season&#8217;s top scorer Grant Holt, Simeon Jackson, Steve Morison and Chris Martin are among those who can cover Vaughan&#8217;s absence.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile right-back Kyle Naughton, <a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/sport2\/hi\/football\/14243363.stm\" title=\"Norwich agree Naughton loan deal\">on loan from Tottenham<\/a>, made his first Norwich appearance on Thursday, playing almost an hour in the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.canaries.co.uk\/page\/NewsDetails\/0,,10355~2404538,00.html\">goalless friendly against Southend<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Read the original post:<br \/>\n<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/go\/rss\/-\/sport1\/hi\/football\/14340901.stm\" title=\"Norwich pair will miss kick-off\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Norwich pair will miss kick-off<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> Vaughan (left) and Ward will not line up against Wigan on 13 August Norwich City will be forced to start their Premier League campaign without injured striker James Vaughan and defender Elliott Ward. Vaughan, 23, and Ward, 26, suffered knee injuries during City&#8217;s pre-season training camp in Germany last week. Boss Paul Lambert told the club website : &#8220;They&#8217;re going to miss the start of the season, so that&#8217;s a bit of a blow for us.&#8221; &#8220;They won&#8217;t be out for a few months or anything like that.&#8221; James Vaughan factfile Continue reading the main story Joined Norwich from Everton for undisclosed fee in May Scored nine goals in 30 games on loan at Crystal Palace last season Became Premier League&#8217;s youngest goalscorer with goal against Palace in April 2005 Ward played 41 times in his debut campaign for the Canaries last season, helping the Norfolk outfit to automatic promotion from the Championship. Lambert has central-defensive options in Zak Whitbread, who finished last season as first choice alongside Ward, Leon Barnett and loan signing Ritchie de Laet. Last season&#8217;s top scorer Grant Holt, Simeon Jackson, Steve Morison and Chris Martin are among those who can cover Vaughan&#8217;s absence. Meanwhile right-back Kyle Naughton, on loan from Tottenham , made his first Norwich appearance on Thursday, playing almost an hour in the goalless friendly against Southend . <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-470424","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.0 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Norwich pair will miss kick-off - Ghanamma.com<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/07\/29\/norwich-pair-will-miss-kick-off\/\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:title\" content=\"Norwich pair will miss kick-off - Ghanamma.com\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:description\" content=\"Vaughan (left) and Ward will not line up against Wigan on 13 August Norwich City will be forced to start their Premier League campaign without injured striker James Vaughan and defender Elliott Ward. Vaughan, 23, and Ward, 26, suffered knee injuries during City&#039;s pre-season training camp in Germany last week. Boss Paul Lambert told the club website : &quot;They&#039;re going to miss the start of the season, so that&#039;s a bit of a blow for us.&quot; &quot;They won&#039;t be out for a few months or anything like that.&quot; James Vaughan factfile Continue reading the main story Joined Norwich from Everton for undisclosed fee in May Scored nine goals in 30 games on loan at Crystal Palace last season Became Premier League&#039;s youngest goalscorer with goal against Palace in April 2005 Ward played 41 times in his debut campaign for the Canaries last season, helping the Norfolk outfit to automatic promotion from the Championship. Lambert has central-defensive options in Zak Whitbread, who finished last season as first choice alongside Ward, Leon Barnett and loan signing Ritchie de Laet. Last season&#039;s top scorer Grant Holt, Simeon Jackson, Steve Morison and Chris Martin are among those who can cover Vaughan&#039;s absence. 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Vaughan, 23, and Ward, 26, suffered knee injuries during City's pre-season training camp in Germany last week. Boss Paul Lambert told the club website : \"They're going to miss the start of the season, so that's a bit of a blow for us.\" \"They won't be out for a few months or anything like that.\" James Vaughan factfile Continue reading the main story Joined Norwich from Everton for undisclosed fee in May Scored nine goals in 30 games on loan at Crystal Palace last season Became Premier League's youngest goalscorer with goal against Palace in April 2005 Ward played 41 times in his debut campaign for the Canaries last season, helping the Norfolk outfit to automatic promotion from the Championship. Lambert has central-defensive options in Zak Whitbread, who finished last season as first choice alongside Ward, Leon Barnett and loan signing Ritchie de Laet. Last season's top scorer Grant Holt, Simeon Jackson, Steve Morison and Chris Martin are among those who can cover Vaughan's absence. 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