Ahead of tomorrow’s game, our Anita has been chatting to Paul Finney from the QPR Podcast… Hi Paul, thank you for your time and for answering a few questions. As NCFC fans we were a bit gutted at the timing of your manager’s departure. It could lead to an interesting game tomorrow! What is your viewpoint […]
With the nerves jangling, maybe yoga and a philosophical approach are the answer?
As Sky Sports have now commandeered most of the remainder of our fixture list, we face a Bertie Bassett array of kick-offs. The traditional 3pm on a Saturday that we all love will be a rarity. This will create problems for those of us who, as soon as the games are announced, book holidays or […]
Anita’s day trip to the Black Country… The Vine… Chicken Tikka… and that lovely Jordan Rhodes
In the week leading up to the Baggies’ game, I spent most of my spare time trawling social media for two spare tickets, along with a large proportion of our fan base, which was unbelievable considering tickets went on general sale and didn’t sell out particularly quickly. Suddenly though, WBA v City was the go-to […]
We all want to believe something special is happening – let’s enjoy every single second
Picture the scene, I’m nine-deep in a queue for the bank with only a 20-minute lunch break and an elderly gent has begun a full-on rant with the bank clerk. “How are City top? They’re not that good, Answer me, I know you can’t, how have they managed to accumulate that amount of points and […]
Time to start believing? Still a long way to go but the evidence is starting to mount
Traveling away from home when you live in the beautiful county of Norfolk is always a trek. However you dress is up, it takes hours to go north or south in a day – to follow our team takes commitment. If they’ve been stuffed or narrowly beaten it can make the journey home even longer, […]
STOKE PREVIEW: A split fanbase… an entitled ‘old guard’… and the bright lights of Stoke-on-Trent!
Ahead of tomorrow’s clash with the Potters of Stoke, Anita has been chatting to Stoke City blogger and the former Stoke ‘voice’ of The Metro, Matt Meir. *** Hi Matt, thanks for being kind enough to answer my questions. So… Stoke join us at Carrow Road off the back of an unbeaten eight league and […]
IPSWICH PREVIEW: Sir Bobby… Big Mick’s fate… the ‘Lambert way’… and the end of City’s unbeaten derby run?
Ahead of the least anticipated derby of all time (at least from north of the border), Anita has been chatting to Harry Wainwright from the famous TWTD.co.uk. They successfully managed *not* to fall out, until Anita let slip a careless “expect”… then it simmered. 🙂 *** Hi Harry, I’m a season ticket holder for NCFC […]
MUSIC WEEK – An ABP tour: opens with Siouxie Sioux, stops off at Metallica and ends with Hard-Fi…
Okay, so we called it ‘Music Week’ but ‘Music Week-and-a-half, possibly longer’ just didn’t work. So, brace yourself, it’s Anita time… ****** They say teenagers are embarrassed by their parents – everything they say or do is just cringeworthy. A trip anywhere would be torture and heaven forbid you saw any of your mates. My […]
City may be in transition but, courtesy of good old Brexit, football could also find itself in a period of change
When it comes together it’s worth the wait, the setbacks and the tantrums. It’s just got to start happening more frequently – the belief, consistency and, of course, the goals. We’ve seen good 20 minutes’ in some matches, some good halves in others but we hadn’t seen anything close to 90 minutes of the football […]
Not quite ‘jumpers for goalposts’ but the sharp end of our game is driven by hard work and goodwill
As I’m shouting through my son’s bedroom door, I’m glad I was sensible and am only feeling a little weary and not hungover. I’m yet again trying to remember where the bloody game is. As I go to check the phone, a text flashes up from the manager: Could parents please put up the nets […]
The Pride of Anglia? Let’s kick off the Norfolk Day celebrations a few months early
I have always been lucky enough to reside in nice neighbourhoods; popping next door for a cup of sugar and a friendly nod and wave as we tramline our urban lawns. Norfolk is truly a beautiful county, soon to be celebrated by our very own first #NorfolkDay on July 27th. We all know of the […]
From the Bernabeu to Carrow Road… the issues are the same and at times we all go through it
I’m starting to think the grass is getting greener and not just because spring is around the corner. I can smell it. Yes, I’m talking about hope, there’s a sniff of hope. January has delivered a good transfer window (if a little light on right-backs). Promising youngsters have been loaned out to gain valuable experience, […]
As if there wasn’t enough negativity at Carrow Road already… now SAG have been compelled to nag
At the moment things at Carrow Road are far from rosy and there is an awful lot of moaning (more so than even the average Norwich fan can normally muster). But I can understand why. I can also see through the negativity brought about by our present position in the league and read into the […]
Who’d be a manager? ABP sets the scene on why it’s so costly to wave goodbye to an under-performing gaffer
A few weeks ago we heard clearly the message delivered by Ed Balls in his interview on the club’s end-of-year accounts. It didn’t make for great listening. Some phrases came to mind… ‘we are skint’, in the red, brassic, broke… however you would like to define our dwindling pot! It didn’t sound good. ‘Where has […]
Canaries minded the gap and then closed it. But on Sunday it’s all up for grabs again
To say I am a little apprehensive about the impending Sunday fixture is an understatement, to the point I can barely bring myself to mention the team name. An irrational fear? A superstition? Perhaps. But I just feel they ‘owe us one’. While Norwich’s start to the season was bleak, those I dare not mention […]
No moves from Disco Dale but tales aplenty from him, Ken, Terry and real The King of Spain as Tales 3 is launched
As I write this I have in my clutches the new Tales From The City volume 3, and I know it’s going to be as good as the previous two. I’ve been to each of Mick Dennis’s book launches and they haven’t failed to entertain; who doesn’t want to hear tales of love for Norwich […]
Oh for a Grant Holt like figure to solve our striker shortage. And I think I know just the man
We should have signed a striker! I have said this countless times. It was valid last season, it was valid even before we signed Nelson and it’s valid again now that he’s injured. Yet we couldn’t have foreseen this current predicament. Before the transfer window slammed shut the injuries were predominantly affecting our defence, so […]
The age old question – club or country? And there’s only one winner
“Some people are on the pitch! They think it’s all over! It is now…” It needs no introduction. Everyone recognises Kenneth Wolstenholme’s commentary in the last minutes of extra time in the 1966 World Cup Final. A historic moment and the quote is now as famous as the match itself. So I’m reflecting on a […]
Right now we’re the epitome of a clapped out Lada but I still believe there’s a classy Mercedes in there fighting to get out
With the transfer window on point of closing it felt odd as a City supporter to have witnessed most of our business being done surprisingly early. In recent years have struggled to even switch the light on in the office entitled ‘Recruitment’ but this summer, just when we thought our dealings were done, they manage […]