Martin Penney

It seems a strange thing to say as we are in the Premier League doldrums, but have we ever felt more appreciated as supporters? We have a situation in which the Canaries Trust, Proud Canaries, Along Come Norwich, the Barclay End Project and maybe other organised supporters’ groups I’m not aware of are treated with […]

Yes folks, it’s yet another international break so this time round MFW thought we’d ask our readers which has been your favourite Norwich City match and, as ever, why. Of course, your favourite match may not even involve City at all as I’ll delve into later. Anyway, to give plenty of scope to all of […]

When I was a sixth former I had to read many “classic” books of English literature, several of which I could barely finish and very few that I actually enjoyed reading. As I trooped long-faced out of Carrow Road on Friday night a section of one of these returned from the past to hit me […]

This was supposed to have been one of my two away matches this season. I would have met my Brighton-dwelling friends, sat in with them at the game and enjoyed a good old natter about the football afterwards and a meal, scrounged a bed for the night and returned home early on the Sunday morning. […]

Number one son and I went to the UEA to see a Swedish progressive metal band on Sunday night. They are called Opeth and were absolutely brilliant. They exceeded our expectations and went down a storm. Opeth’s strength is light and shade. The riffs and fills were very heavy while the keyboards and vocals provided […]

I never thought I would be celebrating a 0-0 at Bournemouth with quite so much satisfaction as I currently am but that is how I feel this Monday morning. The reason for this feeling is primarily that we’ve gained a very useful away point and clean sheet. Both firsts for us this season. Secondly, it’s […]

The international break – don’t we all just love it? And on top of our horrendous injury list, Jamal Lewis didn’t travel while Kenny McLean and Todd Cantwell were sent home before they could kick a ball in anger. Surely this is unprecedented – nine players out and three more who will need the kid-glove […]

During the previous international break, MFW asked our readers for their suggestions regarding “who is your favourite Norwich City player of all time – and why”. We got some cracking responses from all concerned, including one from the great man himself, Darren Huckerby. This time around we want to know who your favourite City manager […]

Anybody of a certain vintage [I was born in 1957] will remember the original concept of school dinners. The inevitable piece of grey meat covered in bright orange breadcrumbs. Dessert [I hate to disparage a word] almost always consisted of a bowl of semolina with a teaspoon of strawberry jam in it. We’d all eat […]

Us MFW folks thought this might be a good time to evaluate our summer signings and I drew the short straw… To kick things off, Ibrahim Amadou and Sam Byram became Heroes, even just for one day. Any Bowie fans [I’m one too] can wait until the end of this article for a link* – I bet most of […]

Well that was all a bit too predictable really, wasn’t it? Off we go to the graveyard of our ambition aka Selhurst Park and the inevitable happens. Anybody surprised? No, I thought not. But surely we must have expected it. Gary G mentioned our ever-increasing injury list yesterday so I won’t repeat it here except […]

A week is a long time in politics said Labour PM Harold Wilson famously in the late 1960s. And it is a bloody long time in Premier League football as well. Most of the football nation outside 95 per cent of Suffolk have been in love with us since we triumphed over Manchester City. We […]

Sometimes you just run out of superlatives, but I’ll do my best. Things do not get better than that. Eight players out, two keepers on our bench and we still notched a thoroughly deserved win. Blue Moon? I never heard it on Saturday. That has to be one of the evenings of our lives, it really does. […]

A couple of weeks ago one of our commenters, Cyprus Canary, suggested that Martin Peters was arguably the greatest player he had ever witnessed wearing yellow and green. So, most appropriately as Man City are up next for us at the Carra, let’s follow up Cyprus’ comment in the spirit of the constantly arguing Gallagher brothers, Noel and […]

I guess it has happened to all of us in one form or another. You buy a new shirt, clean your shoes, have a longer shower than usual and for once in your life look in a full-length mirror. You then spray on slightly too much Aramis or whatever and decide tonight is the night […]

So we came up short by the depth of the Barclay crossbar against the Europa League champions where despite a transfer restriction of sorts they still have well, erm, quite a few handsomely-remunerated young gentlemen in their squad. And we gave them a bl00dy good run for their money, we really did. We struggled at […]

Thunderbolt and lightning, very very frightening. Donner und Blitzen – and I’m not talking about Rudolph’s mates in Santa’s once a year all-star reindeer display team. Or in the words of Daniel Farke: ‘In the first half we [were] like a thunderstorm. We created so much lightning.’ And how true. Possibly the best 45 minutes of […]