It’s never a great sign when one of your centre-backs and your goalkeeper are by some distance men of the match. But it was that kind of night. Maybe Grant Hanley and Tim Krul were able to better withstand the effects of alcohol than their younger colleagues, or perhaps they even had the resolve to […]
Ten-man City stumble on their big night but who cares! Job done. Objective achieved
We did it! We only bloody did it! And there’s not a single thing Graham Scott, Jonathan Woodgate or Ben Pearson can do to either change or spoil that. While the plucky™ little Cherries still have the not inconsiderable obstacle of the playoffs to contend with before they can even contemplate life back in the […]
WE’RE NORWICH CITY AND WE ARE PREMIER LEAGUE!!
Nothing to add … just this. (With huge credit to whoever created this masterpiece)
BOURNEMOUTH PREVIEW: A big test awaits the Canaries but is tomorrow P day?
‘We are close, we are so close!’ Those who have watched the Amazon documentary All or Nothing, which follows Man City throughout the course of the 2017-18 season, will recognise Pep Guardiola’s words as his team closed in on their first title under his tenure. Given that Pep is a self-proclaimed watcher of Norwich City […]
Hanley excels in the edgiest of City wins, but the prize is now in touching distance
The trouble with 7-0 wins is that they set the bar impossibly high. And it wasn’t just the seven goals. It was the quality of performance; the ebb and flow; the relentlessness; the precision. What followed was only ever going to be a pale imitation in terms of its beauty. While some were expecting another […]
DERBY PREVIEW… with a little help from some of MyFootballWriter’s friends
It was time to get the band back together for this week’s preview. Off the back of the most thrilling Tuesday evening since the dawning of time, Colin Michael, Andy Delf, Don Harrold and John Scent have dusted down their instruments, scraped themselves off the ceiling and given us their considered thoughts ahead of City […]
City deliver a near-fatal blow to Watford’s title hopes while smashing records aplenty
Wow. Where to start, other than to say this really this is the ultimate test of not too high, not too low. So forget that. 99.9 per cent of City fans will need scraping off the ceiling this morning after, arguably, the most exhilarating 93 minutes of NCFC football in all of our lifetimes. As […]
A late blow to the solar plexus at Deepdale but City edge ever closer to the big prize
In anyone’s book, a point away at Deepdale in those most trying of circumstances should be seen as one gained, and it was, but try telling that to the good folk of the Canary Nation. For all the bravado mustered upon the final blast of Dean Whitestone’s whistle (more on where I’d like to shove […]
From dial-up to super-fast broadband in just under four years of the Webberlution
However poorly timed, ill-judged and bloody annoying this international break may be – and it’s all of those things – it does permit those of us who write about the club the chance to draw breath, take a step back and survey the lie of the land ahead of the run-in. The Wednesday-Saturday relentlessness of […]
City fail to make it ten on the spin but with Swans and Bees faltering the PL beckons
All good things… etc, but it’s no less disappointing when those good thing do come to an end. And that nine-game winning run was a good thing. A bloody marvellous thing. That we let slip a couple of points yesterday was not the end of the world, especially after said run has opened up a […]
BLACKBURN PREVIEW: Does Emi return? Can Bradders help end the winning run?
It’s to the gang of four I head for some help with this week’s preview: Andy Delf, Colin Michael, Don Harrold and John Scent. Take it away guys… So, how did you watch/listen to events at the City Ground unfold? iFollow? Sky red button? Radio Norfolk? And where does that opening half-hour rank in your […]
Nine wins on the spin for our flying Canaries and now it’s a question of when not if
“We can still catch Norwich”. Ivan Toney. Sky Sports. March 12, 2021. Dream on, Ivan. In fairness to Brentford’s finest, he was only saying what every pro is conditioned to say and, besides, said gent has a certain swagger that probably has him believing that anything is possible. But he’s wrong, just as his manager […]
Eyes on the prize, as City repel spirited Wednesday & edge closer to the p-word
Ivan Toney is a confident chap. Bullish even. Those who watched his post-match interview on Sky last Friday following Brentford’s 1-0 win over Blackburn will know what I mean. Before presenting himself with the Man of the Match award (he would also have awarded himself the trophy) Ivan got the hump when the Sky Sports […]
OWLS PREVIEW: Simon Thomas talks to MFW ahead of City’s trip to Hillsborough
Ahead of City’s attempt to make it eight in a row in South Yorkshire, I was lucky enough to chat to presenter, podcaster, former Sky Sports and Blue Peter presenter, President of Blood Cancer UK and, of course, City fan, Mr Simon Thomas. *** Thanks for joining us, mate. Appreciated. Has been an impossibly hard […]
If *it* happens, what’s on Webber & Farke’s to-do list to help steer City to PL safety?
I’ve been reluctant to look too far ahead for obvious reasons but even the lads at Archant are dipping their toes into the water, so I may as well put in my two-penneth. I’m talking of course of the club’s chances of making 2021-22 more than another single-season stopover in the Premier League. All caveated […]
Seven wins in a row; five clean sheets in the last seven; and ten points clear
There was a comment from Ben Gibson in the week, posted on Instagram in the aftermath of the Brentford win, that summed up perfectly the mindset in the City camp right now. “We have to win at the weekend so it isn’t wasted.” That this conversation had been had was confirmed after yesterday’s game by […]
Stiepi – not everyone’s cup of tea but was born to score goals and is on his way back!
He’s not everyone’s cup of tea and, I suspect even by his own admission, his Premier League experience was his season horribilis. Born to score goals he may be, but not so much when the Premier League is home. He wasn’t alone of course but I have often pondered what may have happened last season […]
Another day, another win, another Emi special, with a #ncfc double-pivot to die for
I trust we all woke up this morning feeling fine… Emi will generate the headlines. Of course he will. And why shouldn’t he. It was a brilliant goal. But at the heart of City’s fine win over the best the Championship has to throw at us was a quartet whose influence on all that happens […]
A crisp efficiency about the Class of 2021 right now as City negotiate another hurdle
And the wins just keep on coming. The myth, not helped by people like me, that City sometimes buckle when opponents put it up ’em should no longer even be a thing. Wycombe did everything, literally everything, to try and do a Jonesy on us but, despite a valiant attempt, came up short. Not only […]
City have to dig deep at St Andrew’s but Pukki’s brace keeps the ship on course
That City were able to hit three and still find time to miss a penalty on what was, by their own admission, an off night speaks volumes for this iteration of Norwich City. Cliché time I’m afraid: they found a way. I tweeted at half-time that I would happily settle for a point and I […]