Gary Gowers

You were expecting Martin, weren’t you… sorry you’ve got me instead. A poor substitute, I agree. But to cut a quite long story short, our Martin is having IT problems; so much so he’s been unable to deliver us his usual, thought-provoking, and entertaining Monday piece. I’ve missed it too. I can’t pretend this is […]

Well, it couldn’t have been worse than Plymouth. The only way was up and, as it transpired, it was actually okay. Decent even. The trouble with 6-2 defeats or the like is that they erode trust, as in the trust we have in the players. After a bruising 2022-23 that was in hellishly short supply […]

It’s hard to know where to begin. It wasn’t great against Leicester – at least not in the first half – but we put it down to their superior quality, yet actually the clues were all there in that second half against Stoke when we were thoroughly dominated but relied on some good old Championship […]

There was no shame in losing to a Leicester side who look set to be this season’s Burnley, and for the game to be decided by a couple of ‘if only’ moments was, for me at least, an indication that David Wagner must be doing something right. Wagner’s men will not face many sterner tests […]

Those who frequent X – formerly known as Twitter before Elon Musk completely ruined it – will know what I mean when I say we’ve all, at some point, been guilty of firing off an inane tweet that at the time seemed okay if not trivial but which later you wish you’d never bothered sending. […]

Managers and head coaches love 1-0 wins apparently and, as the saying goes, derive more satisfaction from them than, say, a thumping 4-0 victory. I understand the logic 100 percent but as a fan with a dicky ticker, I beg to differ. Give me the minimum of a two-goal cushion anyday 🙂 But, as Chris […]

Considering it’s been a week without football in the world of the Canary, there have been no shortage of talking points. In fact, the pages of MFW have been alive with debate following the announcement that a meeting has been called for October 2 during which shareholders whose names are not Michael Wynn-Jones, Delia Smith, […]

So… the long-awaited news on the next phase of the Mark Attanasio investment has finally landed. The Pink Un lads, Connor and Paddy, have done a superb job in spelling out the latest and what it all means, so I’ll not attempt a blow-by-blow analysis of the mechanics of this morning’s news but instead try […]

I blame my dad. Sorry mate, but you have to take responsibility for this one. He and I met for breakfast on Friday during which he confessed to having a “bad feeling” about City’s trip to Rotherham. At 88 years old, he’s seen this film plenty of times – the one where the scene is […]

Football can be a horrible unforgiving place at times. So too social media. Put the two together and it can bring out the worst in people. Nathan ‘Westy’ West found this to this cost when after giving an excellent interview to the Pink Un’s Sam Seaman prior to the Millwall game, he found himself the […]

For obvious reasons, I’d anticipated giving the Carabao Cup only a light touch on the pages of MyFootballWriter this season but then they go and win two games. Both away, both tricky, both against Championship opponents. How can we ignore that? By Norwich City standards, this is a proper cup run. We don’t expect to […]

As Saturday afternoons go, I’d say that was pretty good. The only thing that really matters of course is how City get on, but when your local rivals are loudly cock-a-hoop and have already lifted the 2023-24 Championship trophy, it does them no harm to be given a gentle dig in the ribs to remind […]

Man A: “I’ve missed that so much”. Man B: “What’s that?” Man A: “Enjoying a Norwich game”. The words of two nameless gents who walked alongside me as we turned left out of King Street and into Bracondale on our post-match walk back to begin our respective journeys home. The words from one mouth but […]

Those who accuse us of getting a little too giddy a little too quickly may have a point. We are a bit giddy and we have only played three games, one of which was drawn, but when you’ve been starved of joy, excitement, and thrills – the stuff football is made of – for two […]

I try not to waste MFW ‘airtime’ with moans and groans about referees. As frustrating as they may seem at times, I tend to agree with Mick D when, in defence of referees, he cites the fact that often our ire is directed at them because often we’re simply looking for someone to blame when […]

These are very early days and so let’s not fall into the trap of those down south and start celebrating promotion after one week, but this is starting to feel like it could be fun again. The last two seasons have been anything but and one of the most trotted-out tropes over that time was […]

Seldom has a Carrow Road departure been met with the level of almost universal love that accompanied the announcement that Max Aarons had completed his move to Bournemouth. I say almost, because the good folk of Leeds have been wishing all sorts of misfortune on Max but those who haven’t been spurned by him have […]

So that’s what it feels like! By it, I mean, of course, a win but equally that could just as easily refer to the oddity of a goal or, rarer still, a Carrow Road last-second winner. As it transpired, all of those things came together to produce a noise and a buzz not seen at […]