Next up for City are Bolton Wanderers, so as usual MFW could once again only turn to the Bolton born and bred Tim Sheppard – as in City’s long-standing physio legend, Hall of Famer and supporter of both the Canaries and the Trotters in equal measures. And the only physio in my knowledge to have […]
The kids are united… and so right now is the whole of Norwich City FC
I love it when a plan comes together. That’s what Warnario – aka Paul Warne – must have been thinking at half-time at the Carra on Saturday. Rotherham pressed, frustrated and were the width of a post away from going into the break 2-0 up as Ryan Williams’ edge of the box effort spun away […]
“If they want to ignore, ‘little old Norwich’, that’s ok with me.” – And so say all of us
“You have to say that this is a team that looks like it knows where it’s going“. “If they want to ignore, ‘little old Norwich’, that’s ok with me. Keep it a secret, don’t allow the media to let on how good our players are, let them ignore us until the end of January. Then […]
Respect to Eadie and Anselin for their openness – anxiety and depression don’t discriminate
‘For many men, they may not even realise they’re suffering from depression. I certainly didn’t, I felt down, and I felt low, but I just thought that it was just me. ‘It was when I started having more bad days than good and that I realised this had been going on for a while I […]
Nothing beats a late winner – Martin P takes us through a few of his favourites
The Millwall game and how we snatched victory from the jaws of defeat got me thinking. Occurrences like this have happened before but OMG not really that often. It’s time for a few of my personal memories to come to the fore during the international break, I guess. I’ll start with that header from Steve Bruce against the Binners […]
“Top of the League” … unsung heroes … slight aromas … and hugging strangers
When we were younger, I bet most of us went to the playground and enjoyed swings, roundabouts and what could become a big, scary seesaw if we overloaded it with three of us at each end – which we often did. Until the park keeper (we had them then) came along, kicked us off said […]
MILLWALL PREVIEW: Comfy cushions… Partridge… Zak Whitbread… and ‘hapless Ipswich’
Martin started the ball rolling last season by by asking Nick Hart – @CBL_magazine on Twitter and creator of the “Achtung! Millwall” podcast – one basic question as part of our preview ahead of City’s home game against the Lions. The questions was… ‘We all know your song (“No-one likes us, we don’t care”), but what is […]
Let’s look at the Championship table while we can and smile, smile, smile
In almost 40 years as a professional journalist, I have never been vain enough – or had reason – to quote myself. But following that superb second half from City at Hillsborough I am going to make an exception for the first time in a long career. One of our regular readers and commenters, John, […]
Farkeball is making the rest sit up and take notice. Uncle Joe would have approved!
My uncle Joe was an enigmatic character. A hairy-ar$ed Cockney painter and decorator with industrial language to match, his great loves in life were the boozer, yer West ‘Am and hanging on to Teddy Boy clothing long after the rest of East London had long discarded it. But he also adored opera and The Times […]
Forget ‘penaltygate’, it was a deserved win for our buoyant and flying Canaries
I can only begin by endorsing editor Gary’s article of yesterday. I had no idea of the tragic events at the KingPower or indeed the situation surrounding Glenn Hoddle until early yesterday morning. I am sure all readers and writers at MFW join the rest of the football world in sending Leicester City FC our […]
Well let you off the odd stray Sky Sports expletive Timm – please don’t leave us!
Who the heck can moan about that? Nobody. Sure we took a bit of a first-half battering, but we nailed them in the end. Villa are a good side and Jack Grealish, as annoying as he appears, is a very good player indeed. But we beat them down, held them off and ultimately and deservedly […]
In the era of ‘Farke’s fledglings’, it’s quirky Timm’s love affair with City that resonates
So how bad was that then? A very dodgy first quarter against an excellent side followed by almost total domination. The phrase “Farke’s fledglings” appears in the media and the national newspapers are starting to notice us. And I’m starting to really notice Moritz Leitner. His partnership with Alex Tettey is starting to knock last season’s Tetbull […]
FOREST PREVIEW: A full(ish) City Ground… Carvalho on another level… and dear ol’ Daryl
Our first match after the international break sees us at the City Ground, Nottingham where we meet Forest… obviously. So when we face the guys who used to wave inflatable trees at us while our plastic Canaries looked equally aggressive in response, let MFW once more talk to loyal supporter and all-around Forest scion Christian […]
Jumpers for goalposts? Not quite, but Martin P still leads us down Memory Lane
I thought I’d reminisce a little bit during the international break. If anybody finds any of the following (all true, honest) tales offensive please sue MFW Editor Gary for damages rather than myself. I do a good impersonation of being skint so you wouldn’t get anything out of me in any case. But don’t we […]
“Heroic and unlucky defeat” – one that Martin P unfortunately didn’t get to see!
I knew the Stoke match wouldn’t end well for us when I attempted to leap out of bed to get the dogs up at stupid o’clock on Saturday morning. My brain (no comments please) emerged but my body stayed in its pit. Manflu. Of the very most serious nature. Mrs P suffers on and off […]
Wigan’s chosen few take City to the wire but make no mistake, it was a deserved win
If ever a town had clichés written all over it, it is Wigan. Eric Blair (George Orwell) started it with his novel The Road to Wigan Pier. Which is nothing like Cromer Pier I can assure you. I’ve been to the former once and the latter more times than you could shake that proverbial stick at. […]
Perfect hat-trick for City up west, as academy investment starts to bear fruit
Well, surely we all enjoyed that. The perfect hat-trick in terms of points as in nine from nine. With no Hanley, no McLean, no Hernandez and Louis Thompson apparently barely fit for duty. But still there were some moaners on the loose on social media and elsewhere. Utterly ridiculous. More fool Wally McLaren for not […]
A fine battling performance. The moths can indeed compete with the mammoths
I was never one for the Bible. One of my parents was Church of England and the other Roman Catholic but they never forced anything upon me, although I did endure “Scripture” lessons at school. In my very late teens I had to do some digging into the great book for a Uni dissertation and […]
Hucks was the pick of the bunch, but we’ve had our fair share of quality loanees
The other day our very own Stewart Lewis suggested somebody should do an article on NCFC loans in. Fool that I am, I threw my hat in the ring, drew the short straw and so off I’ll go. I won’t remember all of them – who could – but there can only truly be one […]
The Good, the Bad and the Forgotten: a look into the Canary annals at some unmentioned names
As we have a bit of a collective break just now I thought I’d take a look at a few of our former players who never, ever get a mention. I don’t know why, but nobody seems to remember them, let alone speak about them. It’s not just MFW, nobody recalls them anywhere. As for […]