Gary Gowers

I don’t tend to use ‘From The Archives’ for my own columns – they’re wholly undeserving – but given that it’s five years to the day that we all descended upon Wembley for that never-to-be-forgotten afternoon against Boro, I thought this may be worth another airing. Written early the following morning, so please forgive the […]

Despite being not much further forward in knowing exactly where, when, and even how, the players returned to Colney this week. While it was good to see them doing Colney stuff, albeit in a socially distanced and responsible way, the fact there remain so many unknowns makes it tricky to get too excited. It felt […]

As is the wont of someone in lockdown who writes, eats and breaths football, in the absence of any live action I’ve been gorging on the retro stuff the TV companies have been churning out in their attempt to sate our footballing appetite. Among the offerings have been ITV’s Saturday teatime ‘classics’, some Match of […]

Before I begin, if you’re a Liverpool fan, look away now. I incensed so many of them last Sunday they’re not going to find this one any more soothing. Just go. Leeds fans too. And to that West Brom bloke who has questioned my parentage on numerous occasions over the last week … I really […]

It’s hardly a surprise that Project Restart has divided opinion. Everything does that today. Literally everything. Fuelled by social media’s raison d’etre of giving every Tom, Dick and Gary a voice on every conceivable talking point, the modern trend is to take a side, dig your trench deep and refuse to budge. Invariably the trenches […]

When football eventually returns, it looks like City can expect a right royal kicking, metaphorically speaking at least. Maybe not so much when it first begins, given that it’s almost certain to be behind closed doors, but with the stadiums full of fans we look set to be the pariahs and be given the full […]

It wasn’t intended as a stark reminder of how our club has evolved over the last five years – but that’s precisely what it ended up being. For those that didn’t see it, or were unaware of its existence, yesterday afternoon the club ran on YouTube the full, glorious 95 minutes of City beating Ipswich […]

Regular readers of this column probably know more about my dad than they do me. I’ll spare you the details, but in a nutshell, he’s a massive City fan, he’s my hero and this was to have been his last season as a season ticket holder. He also lives alone (unless you count Ben the […]

A daft question really, but how are we doing? Good enough I hope, in these most trying of times. I’ve been posting pieces of daily content from the MFW team in an attempt to offer even the tiniest of distractions, but in the real world, the most awful of disasters is steadily – in London […]

“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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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. […]

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 […]

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 […]

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, […]