The 33-year-old stood in for the injured Marc Tierney at left-back, to make his first top-flight appearance this season - his last coming as club captain on the final day of the Norfolk club's ill-fated 2004/2005 campaign when the Canaries were stuffed 6-1 at Craven Cottage and went down. While Drury accepts he was always going to be up against it trying to contain the rampant Spurs winger, who scored both goals in Tuesday night's 2-0 win at Carrow Road, attentions are already focused on what is perhaps a more realistic challenge against a Fulham side struggling for consistency on New Year's Eve. "It was a bit of a baptism of fire. When you look at the array of talent they have got, we knew it was going to be a tough game from the start," said Drury, who joined Norwich from Peterborough in 2001 and has made more than 300 appearances. "Bale is right up there with the best players in the world, but that is what the Premier League is all about "You are going to come up against the best players and that is what the whole point of being here is." Drury added in the Eastern Daily Press: "It will be a little bit of a different pressure [next], but Fulham had a great result the other day [at Chelsea]. "However, we are the home team and the gaffer always sends us out to try and win games, so that will be no different on Saturday." Drury has spent more than a decade at the Norfolk club, but maintained he had no issue with waiting for a first-team chance which came about after ever-present Tierney suffering a groin strain in training over Christmas. "The team has been playing really well so I could not really argue with being out, but it was good to be back and if you get a chance you have got to try and do the best you can - and I think I did all right," he said. "I have been in every squad and travelled to every game, and been involved in all of them in terms of going away. "The gaffer has not left me out of it, I have been a part of it and he would not have played me if he did not think I could do a job, so it was good to be involved." Drury added: "It is hard when you have not played games regularly because normally it takes three, four or five to get in the swing of playing. But it is just one of those things. You want to play in the Premier League and it was nice to play. "It was probably more nervous than I have been for a while, just because I have not played or started a game for that long and obviously the expectation and you know who you are playing against. "But once I got out there you get through that and I enjoyed it - apart from the result."
