Last week could end up being buried in the oubliette of the Norwich City archives dungeon with the headstone inscription May 14-20 2023 – the very eventful week in which very little actually happened.
It was the week when Stuart Webber finally decided he would speak with the local media once again after spending several months incommunicado and this predictably and properly drew the likes of the Pink Un, Radio Norfolk, and ITV to Carrow Road to hear SW’s views on the 2022-23 season and his thoughts going forward from hereon.
There was very little “grilling” from the assembled journos. I don’t know if there was any agreement in place concerning certain questions being verboten but that notwithstanding it was pretty tame stuff. But, and it’s an important but, if we are bold enough to assume this was a reopening of the conduits rather than a one-off event then it is a very positive thing to happen and I’m glad it took place.
Here’s what 3/4 of the Posse thought about it all, beginning with Alex B:
“I’ve just completed listening to the full interview and there was no hint of any animosity from Webber to Paddy, so all went well.
“Webber mentioned all the abuse Darren Moore has been receiving and says that’s headline news but when a 39-year-old white man gets it then no headlines so the reporting of abuse is selective and that’s not on.
“He also said police apologised to him for the abuse he got after a Carrow Road game but no action was taken. He said he asked them if he did it outside Morrisons to their manager what would happen. He was told he would be arrested.
“He said this meant abuse outside a ground is considered acceptable because it’s football but outside Morrisons it’s not and that needs to change because abuse is abuse no matter where it occurs.
“I would say no real hard-hitting questions were put to him so is this tiny reconciliatory steps from all sides?”
Bernie Owen remains less than convinced by the sight and sound of the lesser-spotted Sporting Director in full flight:
“Oh wow, Webber’s coming over like a politician as in ‘I’m sorry if what I have done or haven’t done upsets you, but tough. I don’t recognise the criticism as accurate, because…’
“Still, respect for saying ‘I’m there to be shot at’, and it keeps the flak off of others.”
Cutty was possibly less convinced still:
“Part of my training as a senior manager was how to speed read a document and to recognise and concentrate on the important and relevant information. I went through all this document at speed, no pauses.
“The relevance of this means that this was a ‘smoke and mirrors, keep the peasants quiet’ type of meeting, probably followed by the obligatory ‘help yourselves to the tea and biscuits, I must dash’ line followed by a smile and run.”
Cutty then added a line about ducks, defecation, and a Golden Eagle which I will wisely leave to the vivid imaginations of MFW readers.
My last word on this topic concerns Webber’s comment about a January bid for Andrew Omobamidele from “a foreign club” which eclipsed the £20 million he “achieved” with the sale of Ben Godfrey to Everton, courtesy of an article from Rudi Kinsella in Balls. ie, a publication I dip into from time to time that majors equally on football, rugby and GAA:
“Norwich City turned down an offer from a club to make Andrew Omobamidele the most expensive Irish footballer ever. Nathan Collins is currently in top spot at £20 million.
“While it’s unclear which club made the offer, he [Omobamidele] has been linked with some massive clubs in recent weeks.”
Thanks, Rudi, I would never otherwise have realised that Andrew was very nearly an Irish record holder [and might yet become one] 
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Despite the re-emergence of Mr Webber, it is hard to deny that Sheffield Wednesday manager Darren Moore is the man of the week after the Owls’ thrilling 5-4 aggregate win over Darren Ferguson’s hapless Peterborough United, who were 4-0 up and surely cruising after the first leg.
There is a lesson to be learned for David Wagner and most other football managers or head coaches and for once it is presented by his usually irritating club captain Barry Bannan, who paid the following tribute to his boss on Thursday evening:
“This last week what you [Moore] have done to change our mindsets – you, the staff and [Wednesday sports psychologist] Tom Bates has been unbelievable. I’m not going to lie – there were some people down but what you’ve shown us and the work you’ve put in for us this week has been second to none and we’d like to thank you and the staff.”
And as that compliment, folks, comes from the most unlikely of sources we should surely be quick to acknowledge its absolute sincerity.
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Congratulations to one of my favourite City players of recent times, Christoph Zimmermann, on achieving promotion from 2.Bundesliga with his new club SV Darmstadt 98.
Zimbo, a mainstay of the Lillies’ defence this season, can now look forward to mixing it with the likes of Bayern and BVB in 2023-24 and it couldn’t have happened to a nicer bloke.
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There are many supporters out there who might think City have lost their zip of late. Rest easy y’all, you are not alone.
As soon as they hit the annual 40% reduction mark a couple of weeks ago I decided to contribute to City’s coffers by buying an Adult Training Rain Jacket [colour black, size L, as modelled by Tony Springett in the online Club Shop brochure]. As I went to unzip the inside pocket for the very first time on Tuesday the zipper pull came away in my hand.
One quick phone call to the Club shop later and I arranged to pick up a replacement on Friday that the guy said he would save for me at Carrow Road. I collected my fully-functioning jacket as planned and had a really good natter with the young lad on the till. He must be good at his job because I left the building with a companion for my windcheater, in this case, an Adult Travel Bench Jacket [blue, L, modelled by Adam Idah]
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There’s absolutely no need for an explanation to accompany today’s outro selection:
29 points from automatic promotion which was the goal at the start of the season and one the club set hence the high expectations amongst fans
Discuss….
Well done Zimbo one of my favourite players. Great bloke can’t help feel we would have done better with him in the squad
Looks very fit and back to his best – remember in 2018-19 he and Godfrey were the regular CB pairing after a Klose injury and Hanley loss of form
Still think Hallers outrageous tackle on Zimbo at West Ham was a turning point in our season, left us short of CBS and left him suffering recurring injuries
I echo your sentiments Seamus I saw Zimbo as one of the few honest players, who never tried to hide. Who can forget that header, when he laid flat out on the grass.
Meet him once a very decent guy, sad when he went
The MFW team supply short biographies in our *The Team* section and I haven’t updated mine for a while [slapped wrist] but this extract from it explains how much I think of CZ:
Favourite all-time player: Mark Bowen
Favourite current player: Christoph Zimmermann.
I’m not going to argue with anything you’ve said about Zimbo.
Apparently he’s playing on the right of a 3-5-2 this season and playing very well too according to the German-based media. I can’t help it but follow a couple of our players once they’ve left – Zimbo is one and I am pretty sure Pukki will be another!
It stuck in the craw when I watched Haller’s important goal for BVB the other night, it really did. A terrible excuse for a tackle and as I recall it only got a yellow!!!
Hi Seamus
It was the way they trumpeted this declaration that put their heads on the block imo.
This kind of thinly-veiled boast also leads to accusations of entitlement, of course.
Cheers
Morning Mr P, perhaps I should add the posse in that greeting, I still find Webber as abrasive as 40 grit sandpaper and arrogant to a level above most of us.
I don’t know what “Abuse” he received outside the Road, but I have found some forms of abuse to be subjective, calling someone a numpty can be termed abuse. Again I do not know what Darren Moore received as abuse, but the guy is black and that would fall perhaps under Racist Abuse.
I would bet that referees all over the country receive far more than Webber got, you put yourself in a position at the top of the pile, especially in the emotive and emotional world of football , you have to be prepared to get a few choice words directed at you. You will not please everyone all of the time.
Grow a pair man plus develop some Rhino skin, if you move on to say Leeds, I feel you will get much of the same and worse.
As others have pointed out, there were possibly a few veiled pointers to where the problems lay at the state of the club, the owners not having enough in the bank to really own a football club in such a lofty position, perhaps the National League may be more suited to their financial standing.
I have said a few times in this space on the world wide web, that the Stowmarket duo have put less into this club than the many who shell out for their season tickets, yes there were loans given to the club. But the praise received for not taking re-payment in money was OTT, instead, they took shares, or some other form of tightening the vice on their grip. Many supporters were happy with this agreement, I was shouted down many times when I wrote this on my old site. Part of the reason I gave up my season Ticket, I will try to get another when they have been ousted from power, in whatever way it is done. That’s if the football Gods allow me to carry on walking this earth. lolol
At the end of this week, we are in no different position, nothing has changed, we know about the same as we did before the carrow god spoke. All that is missing is giant photos of Kenneth Williams, Charles Hawtry etc as the mantra is Carry On Regardless .
Hi Canarylad
Abuse is abuse and I agree with all sentiments except I cant except that the colour of your skin defines you asa different RACE.
Just like a Blonde, Redhead, Blue, Brown or Green eye the colour of your skin difines you as a person not an alien RACE.
LETS start and call it what it is PERSONAL ABUSE it is still abhorrent to those on the receiving end, that my preaching for Monday.
Great comment as usual
Agree AexB but the racist flag is soon brought out by many with different skin. whether born here or not. I was being a bit to general. I did say perhaps. The Yorks Post used Racist Abuse in their article on that
A club statement condemning the abuse had earlier said: “Sheffield Wednesday manager Darren Moore was subject to a disgraceful racist comment on a social media platform this week following the Owls’ game at Peterborough
Agree with you, I was using what I read
Abuse is abuse, sure. Our generation rolled with it every day of our lives, probably giving at least as good as we got much of the time.
But while there is very little of the pc about me, I have kind of always known that racial abuse is wrong and certainly see that there is no place for it in 2023.
In my experience it doesn’t rear its ugly head at Carrow Road although others sometimes speak of isolated incidents and it’s beyond sad if any of these actually took place.
That’s me stepping down from the pulpit too.
Morning Lad
I take your point about getting an ST when you feel more comfortable about putting money into the pot again. I’m making do with a membership for the first time in 33 years, but at least I will [quite legitimately] blame this on ill health instead of dissatisfaction with the Smith regime, which cheers me in the sense that I can tell myself they haven’t forced me out 🙂
I asked again on Friday but even the chatty guy I spoke to was very coy about release dates for memberships – they really are dragging it out this year.
My mate Cutty has just mailed me to say how much he liked your Carry On reference so I’ll end by passing that on to you!
You referenced Messrs Williams and Hawtrey. They both had immensely unhappy private lives of course, as indeed did Hattie Jacques…
Cheers
If 2023-24 memberships operate in the same way as the season just ended you would assume that the most popular fixture pick both home and away will be Ipswich.
Hi O-t as-th
Yes of course the derby rears it ugly head. This will be the first home match with the Binners I’ll have missed since that Simod Cup thing in the late 80s
Thanks for reminding me 😉
Hi Martin totally agree with canarylad there great comments spot on for me .
Hi Jim
Yes, our Lad usually comes up with the goods 🙂
Cheers
I was surprised there appear to have been 4 interviews: Pinkun, Radio Norfolk (best of the three I have heard/read), Michael Bailey for the Athletic, and the in house version which I have not bothered with apart from the headline about the new Coach – no wheels involved – and the more or less promised new signing this week (Tom Ince? Or the young Aberdeen full back?).
These seem to have taken place in different rooms rather than be different takes on the same event but that may be journalistic smoke and mirrors.
Really need to appraise all 4.
Key for me was the almost admitted impossibility of his job given our ownership model and he did good job of dousing any expectation of a step change owing to the Attanasio intervention. He cited how much money the current golden boys of against the odds/plucky underdogs, Brentford, have received from their owner: £700m of your English pounds, though much of that for a new stadium. And £150 m net spent by Southampton to yield just a few more points than we did when last propping up the EPL. And NCFC, nought, nowt, nix, zero.
Even allowing for his defective hyperbole, and parachute payments (that largely disappear into salaries and bonuses), that ain’t a level playing field.
The insight into AO’s non transfer in January, over £20m for potential (!) certainly not the finished article, shows how far football’s finances have gone stratospheric. He back this up with the purchase of Lewis-Potter from Hull. A £20m “punt” in SW’s eyes. Whereas our max spend, currently, before the next tranche of money for Sara – thank you Michael Bailey – remains £10m for Klose.
Assuming he is right that the Americans won’t change the financials in a significant way, the next few seasons are going to be a struggle.
ITV was part of the interviews. https://www.itv.com/news/anglia/2023-05-20/webber-i-wont-accept-abuse-from-norwich-city-fans
I particually liked the last paragraph where he says meet them halfway. yea OK
I thought the ITV one was pretty good actually, also the written version of it.
Hi Nick
I didn’t initially get the set-up behind the interview process either and like you haven’t bothered with anything from the official channels – it was good to enjoy a break from them in all honesty.
*Key for me was the almost admitted impossibility of his job given our ownership model and he did good job of dousing any expectation of a step change owing to the Attanasio intervention.*
You’ve definitely picked the right comment to highlight there if I might say so. He has operating restrictions imposed upon him that I at least am guilty of ignoring or forgetting about much of the time.
To balance that though, he did join up with his eyes wide open.
Cheers – good comment.
Hi Martin Good Read as Usual
Well it looks like Webbers first promise could be about to walk through the door in the form of Huddersfield’s first team coach Nacis Pelach if the Pink-un and Blackpool Gazette are too be believed it also said hewas interviewed for the Blackpool Managers position along side Charlie Adams but only time will tell.
Silence is Golden so the song says but it also speaks louder when nothing is forth coming, Webber hit out at our present owners and possibly the new owners saying again city needs to do things differently to other clubs a dig at spending is this his long good bye saying his time is coming to an end.
When asked he said nothing about the Leeds job and no contact has been made, cynic that I am his agent will be scouring every bit of information and having talks at some level with Leeds, Wet Spam and others looking for a Sports Director and with his contract renewal soon to kick in someone might jump so no compo or very little needs to change hands.
Oh please make it so. Cannot wait to see the back of him. Delia and Michael need to have a hood hard look at themselves if they believe Webber fits the role. Recruitment has been poor, and his disdain for the fans more so. Or have they dispensed with the hood old family club routine?
The thing is Jane that a lot of people say “recruitment has been poor” but has it really?
For example Webber took punts on Buendia and Pukki. Both paid off. Those on Rashica and Tszolis didn’t. All four players have talents that the scouts presumably identified. None of them seem to be trouble makers although none are native Brits so have to acclimatise. I know Pukki played in Scotland, but his record there was hardly encouraging. Tszolis is very young.
Could Webber really be expected to be able to predict which of those 4 would succeed and which wouldn’t? Likewise all our signings.
And those who don’t come good, why don’t they? Did they not have those abilities after all? Or was it the coaching? Or do they simply not have enough between the ears to cope with a different country, or higher expectations? I wish Paddy D had explored this line.
It’s very easy to say we’ve failed – which this season we clearly have – and lay it all at one man’s door. I think it’s more complicated than that.
Hi Keith
Buendia abd Pukki weren’t on Webbers radar so the rumours go.
Pukki’s reputation was known by Farke and he convinced Webber that a freebies they hadn’t anyth to lose.
Kieran Scott had to do a similar to get Buendia into the club and it worked out.
I just wonder if being head of recruitment and his recommendations not getting listened to was one reason he upped sticks to Middlesbrough
Technically it was a promotion, from Chief Scout or whatever to Sporting Director. Rumour had it that KS didn’t see similar ever happening for him here and left, which kind of makes sense.
Yes it’s been poor. Especially the second P League season. The change in style didn’t help, injuries loan players, etc. it’s not all Webber’s fault, but he doesn’t help himself constantly bugging himself up and not addressing the questions put.
Spitting Image once did a sketch about John and Norma Major eating their dinner which was always just peas in his case to emphasise how dull he supposedly was – they didn’t know about Edwina at the time!
Something similar about the Webbers would be equally entertaining if they were caricatured *bigging themselves up* across the table 🙂
It’s probably an over-simplistic way of looking at it but if Webber deals with his employees [and there’s quite a lot of them in terms of the pyramid system] in the same way that he’s capable of treating the media and the fans then our current high turnover of staff should come as no surprise.
Sorry Keith the guy who took a a punt on Teemu and Emi is no longer at the club, Keiran Scott.
Southampton chugged along year on year spending £30 odd million a season.
All of a sudden they spent a whopping £143 million this season alone. On un proven kids mostly, many cast offs from Manchester City.
Exactly what we did last summer. To survive in the EPL you need some experience, but with athleticism and speed.
Hi Tim
I thought Farke was very much instrumental in getting Pukki here with KS far more influential in the arrival of Buendia? Maybe, maybe not 🙂
Southampton’s all-too-recent experience is a good one to reference.
Cheers
Keith:
In my experience of speaking with fans that I know Rashica, Tzolis and indeed Placheta have all seemed more than just a little bit peripheral as far as general discussions on the team itself go.
Placheta was an outside bet and we will probably lose most of our stake money on him; Rashica was very expensive for what we got and Webber is probably praying that Galatasaray won’t change their minds on him; Tzolis is as you say still young and if he is the *best young player in Greece* it doesn’t say much for the others. Captain Hindsight says: Tzolis was hideously expensive and we have been punished for believing the hype.
Can he improve under David Wagner? After seeing him against, I think, QPR at the end of last season I didn’t see too many signs that he can.
As far as adapting to another country is concerned we have those who lap it up after a short while [Krul, Onel, Timm Klose], those who are not fazed and do their job {Teemu, Mo Leitner, Lungi] and others who struggle for various reasons as young Tzolis surely is.
I agree that it would make a great article and if one of the interviewees was somebody like Cedric Anselin, a men’s mental health champion who has been through the mill and come out the other side, it would be even better.
Hi Jane
As dear old Elton is discovering at Watford, *family football* no longer comes first.
It will never go away while a mum and/or dad initiate their children into the ritual of matchday, but I too can see it slipping down the ladder of priorities at Carrow Road.
Luckily it’s part of life’s natural order so nobody can ever really take it away from us and believe me we’ve come a long way since I went to my pre-teen matches with Dad or uncles Pete & Joe in the late 60s when kids were little more than *a bl00dy nuisance* to most of the footballing fraternity.
Cheers
Hi Alex Good Comment as Usual 🙂
Strangely enough I could see Webber being a fit at West Ham. It’s little more than sixth sense, just a vibe I could pick up on.
I must admit I wouldn’t want to be Webber’s agent. Think what a difficult job it must be to please that particular client!
I’m not well-versed with these things but I could quite cheerfully believe that Webber might not even have an agent for just that reason. He’s pretty good in the self-promotional stakes for sure.
As Nick says [above] SW’s comments about the ownership had to be made and were interesting to say the least.
Cheers
Marty, I like your prose but not your pose. Modelling is definitely not your forte. You need a suggestive smile, a cap set at a jaunty angle, some expensive shades and an appropriate background. But keep a troshin.
Hi Cutty
What’s wrong with the back garden as a background?
Does the dearth of delphiniums displease you or the absence of roses rile you?
Anyway since this article was published I have been inundated with offers from the world of fashion:
SAGA holidays want me for next year’s Summer Swimwear Special, Age Concern have asked me to front their upcoming *look after yourself or you’ll end up looking like THIS* campaign and somebody called Kate Moss wants to know if I’m available for a date on Saturday evening.
That’s livin’ alright 🙂
shades of Auf Wiedersehen Pet sung by Joe Fagin THAT’S LIVIN’ ALRIGHT
Quite deliberate I can assure you 🙂
I know it was *of its day* but I loved watching it when I was younger!
Webber’s lack of decorum is clearly tolerated, accepted or even encouraged by the octogenarians and his wife. Otherwise it would not be happening. So do we just blame Webber?
The set-up of one couple allowing another couple to run things with no CEO or Chief Executive is not acceptable in many peoples eyes, especially with the size of turnover at Carrow Road.
Webber did not increase his diminishing stock in my eyes with the interviews. You normally defend your self with facts, but he was allowed to meander on – especially under the unusually tame Paddy Davitt – to the point where I half expected to him to the end the interview with ‘If I wasn’t 5ft 10″ I’d be 6ft 2″. Michael Bailey was a little more direct, as he has less to lose, but ultimately none went as far as they could and appeared a little too grateful to be asked.
Quite what the Attansios’s think of all this I wonder? Are they waiting for this dysfunctional club to further decline to they can get more shares at a cheaper price? Even if true, can they really provide the real cash which is necessary in 2023/24 and beyond? Like our hapless majority shareholders, are American friends share a different vision from reality. Football is only going one way, and it isn’t going to wait for Norwich City.
I fear if us fans think the Attansio’s are the answer, we’re all asking the wrong question.
Hi IR
That’s a very interesting take on matters. I’ve posed a question a couple of times on MFW along the lines of *who reads the report cards on Webber described by Mark Attanasio in his recent TNC interview* and although a couple of MFW readers have gamely tried to reply by suggesting it’s *The Executive* I’m still no closer to an answer.
You’re spot on when you suggest the Attanasio’s are not the answer – they never were for some of us. What way the cards will fall on the share issue is still unknown but as you say both parties sing from the same hymnsheet when it comes to investment: there won’t be any!
*Football is only going one way, and it isn’t going to wait for Norwich City.* is an apposite message I wish would get through to a few, select people.
Cheers
I’ve only heard the Davitt interview. Paddy strikes me as very well informed but utterly dull. It was like being interviewed by an accountant (I know, I was one).
I wanted him to put Webber on the spot regarding recruitment.
Either many of the players Webber and the scouting teams have acquired in recent years, especially from abroad, have been unsuited to us, or the coaches and manager(s) have failed to get the best out of them. Which is it? Personally I think it’s more the latter than the former, but others probably disagree.
I’d like to know why we have not been as successful as others (Middlesborough for example) in our use of the loans system. When they blew us away a few weeks ago the Villa loan pair were at the heart of everything they did. Likewise Sheff Utd have had a couple of very successful loans from Man City. Apart from Oliver Skipp few of our loanees have become first picks and many have been susceptible to injuries – as have so many of our own young emerging players. What is the reason for this?
When he first joined us I think Webber had a policy of no duckheads (or something like that). Fair enough. But is that why we never sign a player who’s a little bit better than those around him and knows it? It’s not necessarily great for the dressing room, but fantastic for results, while it lasts. I’ll “bet” you know the sort of player I’m thinking of….
Webber strikes me as someone who basically doesn’t suffer fools. I’d love to hear a debate between him and Neil Doncaster – who really was a fool, albeit a well-intentioned one. I think Stuart would wipe the floor with him. That doesn’t make him very likeable. Nor was McNally. But Neil D’s 10-year tenure saw us have one play-off final, one promotion, and then a nose-dive into League One. In those days it was characters like McNally and Webber we were crying out for.
I don’t think Webber will be here for much longer – 12 months perhaps = but losing him now would only be beneficial if there is someone better who is immediately available to replace him. As ever, careful what you wish for.
Hi Keith
You’re right to highlight our lack of success regarding the loans – out as well as in if I might make so bold.
The Crouch-Harper-Huckerby triumvirate under Nigel Worthington stands out as does Olly Skipp – and not just because they coincided with attractive football played by versions of Norwich City that were hungry for the success they achieved.
Others I recall who I liked as players would include Timm Klose, Neal Fenn and even Jan Molby in a comical kind of way – but I haven’t got time to recall all the duds 🙂
I liked David McNally. There you are, I did. I met him a couple of times and he seemed far away from the image he had at the time and I really enjoyed speaking with him.
Doncaster wasn’t known as *Doomcaster* for nothing and I agree that SW would wipe the floor with him in any meaningful kind of debate.
If Webber were to go many people I know have already shrugged their shoulders, offered a deep sigh and disappeared back under the duvet at the whispered mention of the name *Neil Adams*!
As for Paddy D coming across as dull I’ve never considered it before but I suppose he does now you come to mention it, although unlike Michael B, Connor and Sam [none of whom are remotely dull] I’ve never met him so can’t be sure one way or the other!
My accountant’s husband is/was chairman of the Norfolk Round Tower Churches thingy but I’m sure that doesn’t make him any more or less boring 🙂
Cheers
Hi Keith
I think on the Webber replacement everyone and his dog thought it was going to be Kieran Scott, but then Webber promoted Niel Adams from loans manager to assistant Sports Director.
Scott with in a short period, jumped ship to Middlesbrough and looks to be doing an excellent job.
Egotistical Webber possibly didn’t agree with the speculation on Scott, so cut it off with Adams promotion, but can anyone tell me what his exact role is covering for Webber when’s he’s climbing mousehold heath or the Hemsby sanddunes readying for K2 or what’s on his agenda.
Lastly Webber said he would source and recommend his replacement now who would think that’s a good idea
*Lastly Webber said he would source and recommend his replacement now who would think that’s a good idea?*
Not me, for one.
He’s had six years to create a succession plan. Considering he only planned to be here five years we should not be in this position. The fact we are is his fault.
Hi Dave
I kind of get the feeling that he’s overstayed the five years because he wants to attempt a repair job.
For whose benefit is for conjecture.
Or maybe he hasn’t had the right offer from somebody else yet.
Cheers
Give Gary a bit of credit for that picture of Webber , made me think he’s auditioning for the lead in Nosferatu.
It’s that haunted look.
Hi Bernie
Yes, there is something of the night about him [Stuart Webber, not Gary Gowers] as one Tory MP once said about another.
Cheers
Hi Martin,
I’ve purchased the Staff Training Blue rain jacket equivalent to your black one and am waiting on delivery. I hope the zipper’s are all working correctly on this product as I am an exiled Canary of 50 years living in Derby so a long way for moi to return the jacket if it’s not functioning properly. Like jacket, like 1st team squad and Sporting Director I guess…..::LOL
Hi Mark
It’s the first thing from Joma I’ve ever bought but I’ve not heard of anyone else having a problem with any gear so I’m sure it was just bad luck!
Say hello to Warney for us 🙂
Well there’s a thing Martin….
I live 5 mins (brisk) walk from the Derby County training ground and was once going for a walk having sat at my lap top for too long, wearing my Norwich coat with pride, and a nice looking car drove towards me, pipped his horn, and put a thumbs up as he drove past. I won’t give you three guesses as to who it was but it made me chuckle at the time. My Derby mates didn’t believe me when I told them the tale….
😂😂😂😂
I met him once when I think he’d just about ended his playing career.
He was a right laugh 🙂
Hello Martin, an excellent read and some good takes on what was said as well.
I found it very interesting that Webber appeared, albeit ever so slightly to be tired of trying to make a silk purse out of a sows ear due entirely to the ownership,
It was subtle, particularly as it came from webbers lips but it was definitely a point he wished to make and one I entirely agree with.
Hi Chris
Yes there have been some great comments today – I genuinely love reading ’em.
I agree with you about Webber’s usual lack of tact but you are spot on here. It was subtle, but not so subtle that those tuned in to the right frequency would not have got the message, which was almost subliminal by SW standards!
Forget people shouting dogs’, I’m sure he picks up on some of the reasoned and restrained criticism he gets as well.
I bl00dy well hope so, anyway 🙂
Cheers
News of the World, Martin. The only Bruce tune ever released as a single. I think. Though the sublime Smithers-Jones may have been on a double A-side.
Hi Dan
Spot on.
Smithers-Jones was on imo the best Jam album, Setting Sons, written and sung by Foxton and News of the World the only other song he wrote while with the band.
A mate told me that Foxton was madly into strings and Weller keyboards and that’s why the Jam couldn’t go on in the classic format for any longer than they did.
Cheers
Think he wrote the odd instrumental late on (Circus on The Gift) Martin. Also one or two of the ‘album tracks’ on the first 2 Albums. Agreed on Setting Sons