Will Jennings

Ee-i-ee-i-ee-i-oh, up the Football League we go was the cry of the travelling Yellow Army at 1-0 up at Derby’s iPro Stadium last Wednesday, a song of jubilance and triumph not sung with such fervour by those who follow City since that glorious Paul Lambert epoch of 2009 and 2012. The following day, tickets to […]

The time is 4pm, and I’ve just parked at Didcot Parkway railway station. I’ve driven from Manchester – my new home for the following year – and am about to hop on the fast service to Reading to meet my brother before the game. As I wait for my train, I choose to check Twitter […]

In sport, statistics will never tell you the whole story. In a simple and somewhat idealistic world, a mere glance at a football score, an assessment of a batsman’s average or an analysis of a rugby player’s try-tally would provide us with a comprehensive indication of what really happened. However, as many of those City […]

As I scrolled through Twitter on my break from work on Wednesday afternoon, reflecting on what was a hard-fought but largely deserved victory for City the previous night, that resonant yellow and green icon caught my eye on the left-hand side of the screen. As anticipated, it was a tweet from Norwich City. The club’s […]

As I miserably trudged out of The Murderers pub at around quarter to ten on Wednesday evening, drenched in sweat and submerged in spilt beer – thanks, Kieran Trippier – I couldn’t help but take note of a few of the conversations that were unfolding around me. ‘That was our chance. We won’t get a […]

Last Sunday should have functioned as a pleasant, enjoyable and relatively harmonious day out to round off what was been an unequivocally underwhelming season. On a personal level, it represented a day off revision, a day out in the Sheffield sun, an opportunity to meet some old schoolmates in their own university city and enjoy […]

On my train back from the capital on Easter Monday after witnessing what was a wretched, desolate City performance, my Twitter timeline became saturated with references to this now notorious Stuart Webber interview. Obviously, having been at the game and not in possession of a DAB radio, I hadn’t heard what our Sporting Director had […]

For a range of different reasons, I’m quite looking forward to Good Friday this year. I’ve got the day off work from my local pub. The morning marks my first cricket net of the season. In the evening, a night out – albeit down the less desirable direction of the A47 in Great Yarmouth – […]

Of all the weeks to spend travelling the country watching 270 minutes of football, last week probably wasn’t the one I should have chosen. It wasn’t entirely self-inflicted. Indeed, it was the popularly known ‘Beast from the East’ that influenced the timing of events, rendering that Barnsley away game a regrettable postponement and leading to […]

It’s been an odd season for City. It had started so brightly: that late, great Nelson Oliviera equaliser in the west London sunshine on opening day capped off an enterprising attacking performance, instilling those present with a fervent sense of optimism that Daniel Farke was capable of leading something special in his maiden season in […]

For the half-a-dozen strong group of mid-twenty-year olds stood a few rows behind me at Molineux, Wednesday night’s events would serve to prove rather interesting indeed. For twenty-five minutes of relative optimism, they sung. For many of those minutes they complained, berating the remaining 600 travelling fans for failing to join in with their laudable […]

At 2pm last Monday, the doorbell sounded. I wasn’t in, instead sat at the library working on both a dissertation and an article for this very website. My housemate was, however, and he knew exactly what had arrived. In a rush of blood, the week before, he had impetuously decided to bid for James Maddison’s […]

August 26 was a dark day. The date may have little meaning for many of you reading. Indeed, many City fans may have been competing in a local cricket league, on a family holiday somewhere exotic, or instead merely enjoying the summer sun more domestically and perhaps listening to the eloquent Chris Goreham narrating City’s […]

Like a fine wine, sometimes three points really do get better with age. Sometimes, just sometimes, you do not come to realise the significance of a victory until you have sat back objectively and dwelled on it, relinquishing the emotion-fuelled and partisan antics undertaken the day before and instead dispassionately reflecting on it in isolation. […]

It’s 2018. The footballing festivities have reached their conclusion and the annual FA Cup third round weekend has just been contested. Manchester City are dominant in the Premier League. Theresa May is Prime Minister. Brexit is still happening. Everything, apart from one thing, remains the same. Alan Irvine is in charge of Norwich City. Meanwhile, […]

It’s half past four in Staffordshire. Darkness has descended and there is a tangible winter chill in the air. In Burton, there is a football match ensuing. The game is seventy minutes in at the Pirelli Stadium, a somewhat insalubrious location and one where Norwich City’s travelling faithful have so far seen their loyal support […]

It is well-documented that Norfolk boasts a proud record of nurturing Nelsons. Two hundred and twelve years on from that pivotal naval victory off the coast of south-west Spain at Trafalgar, memories of our own Horatio are still employed, appropriated and instrumentalised as a means of evoking popular notions of both local pride and national […]

It’s been over 750 days since Huddersfield Town appointed David Wagner. 750 days characterised by turbulence, progression and eventual jubilation, culminating in that calm Christoph Schindler penalty at Wembley to send Wagner’s side – and the 40,000 crammed behind that same goal that Cameron Jerome and Nathan Redmond penetrated two years earlier – into delirium. […]

The alarm sounds. You wake up. You rise, make yourself breakfast, have a coffee and jump in the shower. You scan your wardrobe for your desired yellow and green garment and throw it on. Tickets? Check. Railcard? Got it. The away day has started. Whether it be Durham or Acle, expectations are high as you […]