My next door neighbour in Mundesley, Matt, is pretty much like-minded to myself in that he watches Match of the Day either on Saturday night or Sunday morning and then takes his dog out to do the a.m. canine things. Yesterday morning on Mundesley Rec, Oscar the beagle and Geezer the Patterdale terrier discussed their […]
‘We’re close, yet so far away’. Too far away. Welcome to the world of self-funding
My old man was a great lover of both westerns and epics such as Ben Hur and the one about Moses. These always had either Charlton Heston or Kirk Douglas in them – and no I don’t mean Spartacus. The Moses one was called something else I cannot now remember. One of these aforementioned epics […]
‘Look to the future now, it’s only just begun’, with City’s season on an upward curve
We often notice on MFW that many of our readers love a debate about whether it’s better for us to watch our beloved club in the Championship or the Premier League. I reckon Sunday’s enthralling encounter surely saw the old swingometer tilting even more in favour of the Prem, and that’s always been my personal […]
ARSENAL PREVIEW: Mixed messages… Ian Wright Wright Wright… and a bullet dodged
Mundesley is famous for three things. Firstly I live there for much of the year, secondly it has a beautiful beach – in the Trimingham direction which we love to run our dogs on – and thirdly it is known as God’s waiting room. But there is a fourth highlight. I love going to my […]
Us vs The Rest! City from the perspective of others is always worth a chat…
I have always been one of those folks who tries to negotiate his way around the football world without wearing blinkers in that I love nattering about the game to anybody, irrespective of who they support. Maybe it’s my historical circumstance that dictates this attitude. If you’re born into a family of West Ham fans, […]
Win over beleaguered Toffees breathes new life into City’s Adventures in Wonderland
When Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley wrote Frankenstein in 1818 she kicked off a bit of a trend. Georgian, and later Victorian, folks had a great fear of being quite literally buried alive, so insisted they were interred with a cord around their wrist and a bell on the surface that they could tug on, hoping somebody, […]
EVERTON PREVIEW: Canaries to provide a Silva lining for the struggling Toffees?
Well, they always say that football is a funny old game and the origin of our MFW Everton preview certainly proves that. Over 25 years ago I occasionally worked alongside a lovely fella called Ken Stringer and because of a random line in a previous MFW article his son, Sean, got in touch to let […]
In the PL doldrums maybe, but have we ever felt more loved as City supporters?
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 […]
Munich? Wembley? Where and when was your favourite ever Norwich City match?
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 […]
City now mired in The Slough of Despond after yet another bad day at the office
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 […]
“Lucky to lose 2-0” … Brighton’s “easiest three points of the season” … Tim the hero
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. […]
United’s light and shade offered City a harsh and brutal Premier League lesson
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 […]
MAN UTD PREVIEW: Pinot Noir… Martin Buchan… 1967… Nobby… SAF… and a shadow
Some MFW readers might recall that our Manchester City preview featured my friends, Norwich neighbours and married couple Sean and Debbie Tilsley. Last time around it was Citeh fan Debbie’s turn, and now Sean has his say on behalf of Manchester United. I did the most coherent interview I could against the background of a […]
Unspectacular maybe, but a point at the Vitality and a clean sheet. What’s not to like
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 […]
International coffee break quiz – so, who’s won a cap while in the yellow and green?
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 […]
Your favourite City manager? Mr Grumpy? Mr Mousehold? Mr Unmentionable?
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 […]
Cold semolina… Singapore noodles… herds of wildebeest… and a Carrow Road hiding
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 […]
VILLA PREVIEW: Spending shedloads… JPA… hitting the ground running… and HRH
It’s the Villa up tomorrow and one we’re surely all looking forward to. I know I am. I wasn’t fortunate enough to have been there when we clinched the Championship title but I know many of you were Of course, that will count for nothing tomorrow – as Villa manager Dean Smith says, although we […]
So, how have the summer signings fared so far? Early days but Martin P takes a look
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 […]
More injury woe for the Canaries as the 16-year Selhurst Park famine continues
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 […]