Football supporters love nothing more than a good conspiracy theory. Or even a bad one. Our sport is fertile ground for rumour and conjecture. At Norwich City, we’re no different. We can do conspiracy theories along with the best of them. Remember the mother of them all? The one where Dean Ashton mysteriously picked up […]
In an already surreal season, yesterday we entered the realm of a Mike Bassett fantasy
I need to be careful how I word this. I (and some of my MFW brethren) have been accused in the last week of being overly focused on City winning, of having unrealistically lofty expectations for the Club, and of being professional miserabilists. So…… On second thoughts, if you’re one of those people, look away […]
A new low in a season that’s been jammed-packed full of them…
Just when you thought this lot had exhausted every possible way to lose a game of football… Last night they achieved what the entire Universe assumed to be impossible: conceding a goal after having limited your opponents to zero shots on target. It’s a statistical quirk of course – Martyn Waghorn’s shot that hit the […]
The Not-So-Friendly Cup heads north as City serve up 98 minutes of stodge
Classic Norwich City. Classic Championship. Following last Saturday’s gritty win at a place few dare to tread, which made it three wins on the spin, we all fell into that same old trap – getting giddy with belief. We started to dream. Big mistake. Always is. Because… BANG! In a flash (or the space of […]
Sunday’s the day to remember the good times…
I should have been anticipating the footballing trip of a lifetime but I’d picked up a free Eastern Evening News and was instead distracted by the front page headline. It never dawned on me at the time but those four words would have major repercussions for our football club. You could argue they have lasted […]
CITY v SUNDERLAND (H) – THE PREVIEW
As ever when Canaries and Black Cats meet, it’s to my old mate from the brilliant Wise Men Say podcast that I turn, Stephen Goldsmith. We managed to have a whole conversation without mentioning the Friendly Cup – which was a first. *** G. When we last spoke, in August, you’d made a decent start […]
Canaries win at The Den as Infantino samples delights of the Old Kent Road
We knew it wouldn’t be one for the lily-livered. Games at Millwall never are. Add in the scent of promotion the Lions of Zampa Road have in their nostrils and what greeted City and the 3000 was precisely what we expected: a maelstrom of testosterone and hostility. That City emerged from it with three points […]
Some Brazilian magic, three more points, and the Carra becoming a ‘fortress’ again?
Three home wins in a row! Who saw that coming? Again we flitted, in the space of 93 minutes, between the beauty and the beast, but amid it all there was sufficient good stuff to score two good goals and enough of the ugly side to grind out a clean sheet. Job done. The range […]
Two for Núñez, one a real humdinger, on a good night under the Carra lights
Unless you’re a supporter of one of the ‘big six’, in particular Man City or the late Liverpool FC, then football is less about trophies and more about moments. The special ones don’t come along too often but when they do, you remember them forever. You know what moment I’m talking about. In the absence […]
Time to accept our Class of 2023 is just a bang average Championship team?
I’m not sure of the name of the individual charged with putting together the club’s official highlights package on YouTube, but whoever he or she is, I salute them. They performed an online miracle yesterday and somehow found six minutes and 31 seconds worth of content from a game that had zero highlights. Any performance-related […]
108 days of hurt – ended in a high-tempo flurry of Carrow Road goals
October 29, 2022, seems an age ago. A lot has happened since then in the life of Norwich City. That was the last time City won at home. Ironically, it too was a 3-1 win, but it was peak Smudgerball – passive, scrappy, and uninspiring – and ended a run of six games without a […]
A grim one in Brizzle but hope springs eternal in the shape of an EGM
Wagner’s honeymoon period is officially over. While last Saturday’s whooping was assigned to the ‘Premier League bound/better than us’ drawer, away days in Brizzle are supposed, for us, to be standard Championship fare. The games in which we can successfully compete. Our record against teams in the top six is woeful, so logically it’s against […]
Some achingly painful lessons learned on another grim Carrow Road afternoon
Ouch. That stung. Football’s ability to bring you crashing back to Earth if, or when, you’ve been getting overly giddy rarely fails. Two four-goal wins in two games had us believing that David Wagner had sprinkled over Colney some of the same magic dust he used so successfully at Huddersfield, but Vincent Kompany’s Burnley took […]
CITY v BURNLEY (H) – THE PREVIEW
It’s been a long two weeks. While the extra seven days spent on the fields of Colney will have hopefully worked well for David Wagner as he looks to embed Wagner-ball in the psyche of his new squad, for the rest of us it’s felt like an age. Given the excitement generated by the German’s […]
Time will tell. Will Marquinhos and Tzolis Mark II make Jan ’23 a good window?
While City’s business in this transfer window has been less crash, bang, wallop than most, I guess we ended up in a decent place. The general consensus on #NCFC social media appears to be that the net result of the comings and goings leaves us, at the very least, no worse off than we were […]
Is now time for the Attanasios to strike?
It’s all about timing. In my case, almost always of the bad kind. The ink had barely dried on my Friday piece, in which I expressed my ongoing fear over our club’s financial future if promotion is not achieved this season, when they go and announce an Extraordinary General Meeting for 13th February. The purpose […]
Two fine wins in two for City but the wider concerns still linger … for some
We don’t require a statistician to tell us our chances of achieving automatic promotion are slim. While, on the face of it, there are still 54 points to play for, the gap between ourselves and Sheffield United is 15 [fifteen] points. So, basically, we need a minimum of five matchdays where City win and the […]
Wagner’s wagon rumbles on… another four… and the formation of Amber’s Army
I have rotten memories of Coventry (a). Long story, but in the 1970s I had an uncle who lived in Warwick and was a Cov season ticket-holder, so Dad and I would stay over and go to the games. Five times we made the trip; five times we watched the Canaries stink Highfield Road out. […]
CITY v COVENTRY (A) – THE PREVIEW
Could someone please explain this weird feeling? I refer of course to that rare phenomenon known as looking forward to a Norwich City game. To use the common vernacular…“buzzing”. I should add, as a City supporter it’s an emotion to be very wary of because it invariably ends in disappointment but, as hard as I […]
A win… four goals… and a display of unity… which was nice
What a difference a week on the fields of Colney can make. Wow. Obviously, it’s important to not get too carried away – just three points – but so gloomy and miserable have the last 14 months been, sod it. Let’s dream. It was the type of performance we’d spent the last year and a […]