“When will I see you again?” So sang the Three Degrees. Little did Shelia Ferguson know it would become the theme (or at least my theme) of the spring of 2020. I’m missing friends and family. I’m also missing the River End like you wouldn’t believe. In particular, those I call my Carrow Road neighbours […]
Mills was ‘one of our own’, but club nor player recalls that time with fondness. Why?
There are many who pass through the Fine City in the name of professional football and fall in the love with the place. Some stay for life. I’m thinking Darren Huckerby, Iwan Roberts and Darren Eadie, just off the top of my head, but there are others. Equally, there are some who pass through for […]
A Carrow Road love story – 74 years in the making and about to draw to a close
Dick Gowers’ first-ever trip to Carrow Road was on August 31, 1946, when City played host to Cardiff on the opening day of the Division Three (South) 1946/47 season. They won 2-1. As well as being Dad’s first sight and sound of the old place – then not-so-old – it was the club’s first competitive […]
Null and void? … 22-team Premier League? … Paper, scissors, stone to see who survives?
The creaks are rising and football means nothing. Nada. But there will come a time again when it does. It may not feel like it right now… but it will. And when it eventually resumes, or well before then in fact, there are some massive decisions to be made by those in the corridors of […]
City again come out the wrong side of those fine margins. Another three points slip away
Chris Wilder: “It was a gritty performance, we just felt we were a bit better than them in both boxes.” As loathed as I am to admit it, he’s nailed it yet again. In every sense. Sheffield United are better than us in both boxes, generally, and were better than us in both boxes yesterday. […]
BLADES PREVIEW: Rocking Bramall Lane… big defensive walls… & being cock-a-hoop
When Blades and Canaries collide my go-to guy is Pete Turner. In his own words, “the Brixton arm of the Brighton, Brixton and Belgravia Blades” – aka the BBB Blades. So, ahead of the latest in a very long line of must-wins for City, I returned to the calm of chez Turner for what we describe as […]
Timmy, Timmy Krul… the hero, as the Canaries gloriously make it to the last eight
As the saying goes, heroes come in all shapes and forms. They don’t have to wear capes. We know that for a fact. We now know they come in the form of nerveless, teenage Irishmen who love the FA Cup and in lanky Germans who have not had much of a look in but who […]
SPURS FA CUP PREVIEW: Smiley Jose… no Kane or Son… Danny Murphy… & penalties?
Ahead of this week’s last 16 FA Cup tie at the Tottenham Hotspur Stadium, I’ve been chatting again with talkSPORT’s Paul Hawksbee – the Spurs-supporting half of Hawksbee & Jacobs – who described us, after the league game in north London, as the best bottom-of-the-league team he’d ever seen. So, can we justify this dubious […]
VAR to the Canaries rescue for once as Jamal, right on cue, unleashes a pearler
Wow, who saw that coming? We all expected a response to the no-show at Molineux but such was the lack of City belief in deepest darkest Black Country, it felt a bit of a stretch to see that response yielding three points. But one swoosh of Jamal Lewis’ left boot and some jiggery-pokery from the […]
LEICESTER PREVIEW: Vardy due a goal… Madders still strutting… & keeping the faith
Ahead of tomorrow night’s game with Leicester, I’ve been chatting with Phil Holloway from Leicester Fan TV who gave us chapter and verse on all the goings-on at the King Power, including Vardy’s drought, a ‘confident’ Madders and honouring the wishes of their late chairman… First up, before we get stuck into tomorrow night’s game, care […]
A Molineux lesson for City who now need a little miracle and some for PL survival
The ‘little miracle’ of which Daniel Farke speaks has looked unlikely since the day he coined the phrase but fair play to the head coach for outwardly expressing his belief in his players to deliver one. To be fair, he had some of us believing too, but after yesterday’s listless, some would say gutless, offering, […]
WOLVES PREVIEW: Champions League… Traore in demand… and small PL budgets
Ahead of our visit to the Black Country, I’ve been chatting again to Lynsey Hooper – broadcaster, Wolves fan, co-founder of the magnificent Offside Rule podcast and MFW interviewee prior to Wolves’ 2-1 win at Carrow Road in December. Before we look at Sunday’s game, was sad to hear of the near demise of the Offside Rule’s Women’s […]
NORWICH CITY WOMEN: Progress aplenty off the pitch. Now bring on the Ipswich…
Tomorrow night, it’s the second Old Farm derby of season, with the City ladies still bruised from the 4-1 defeat they suffered in Suffolk back in September. Time to put that one right. So, ahead of the game, I’ve been chatting with the club’s chair, Louise Riseborough, who’s updated us on developments off the field […]
No points but oodles of pride, as City take the Liverpool ‘invincibles’ all the way
It always happens when Liverpool are in town. The great and the good and the not-so-good descend on the old place. Hell, they even bring with them their very own punditry team: Jamies Carragher and Redknapp and Danny Murphy to name but three. It has a different feel to almost every other visit, not always […]
ONE FROM THE ARCHIVES: The last time the mighty Liverpool rocked up at the Carra
I’d hate for anyone to think ‘One from the Archives’ is a new feature, designed specifically to fill the MFW pages on a day that would otherwise be void of fresh content (as if…), but I can see that those of a cynical disposition may interpret it that way. I’d rather look at it as […]
Is the self-funding way the only way? Does it have to be Delia’s way or the highway?
It’s a subject that comes up continually – at least in some quarters – and usually when the brown stuff is hovering near the fan. But not always. Even in the good times, it’s one that simmers away. It’s normally though when darkness has descended upon the Canary Nation that the words ‘ownership’ and ‘ambition’ […]
Another north London date awaits – 9000 foot soldiers to turn Tottenham yellow
So, Spurs it is. In midweek. Presumably to accommodate the Premier League’s winter break. Weird though. But it gives the Canary Nation the chance to mobilise and, for a few hours at least, make a little patch of north London our own. (Apologies to our friends in blue for paraphrasing their wistful “a little corner […]
Missed chance aplenty as two more points slip away from the Canaries at St James’
It’s the fact City are *that* close to being a good Premier League side that makes this all so frustrating. As ever, we were left with a litany of what-ifs as we again dominated a team that has Premier League football all but assured for next season. Again we were pleasing-on-the-eye, progressive and organised. But […]
NEWCASTLE PREVIEW: Happy Brucey… thick-skinned Ashley… mid-table comfort
For the latest in our very long line of must-wins, we head north to Newcastle and so it’s to Paul Mannion I turn – my old mucker from the Metro Sport days – who’ll give us chapter and verse on what’s happening in the Land of Ashley and Bruce… So… if, before the season started, […]
Turf Moor joy for the Canaries with Mario, Josip and Grant leading the City charge
The week after City had lost to Burnley in the league earlier this season, the Clarets’ strike-pairing at the time, Chris Wood and Ashley Barnes, were guests on Sky Sports Sunday morning show, Goals on Sunday. It was the morning after we had lost 2-0 in regulation fashion away at Palace. Burnley had drawn 2-2 […]