Gary Gowers

As the song goes… 🎵 Please don’t take my Emi away. His latest masterclass may have won us three points and perhaps pushed his price a million or two pounds higher, but it’s hardly going have deterred the recruitment teams of the big boys. Any waverers – and I’m not sure why there would be […]

Well, that was disappointing. Not the apocalypse, but certainly disappointing. In the end, in the crazy world of Championship football, City were lucky to escape with a point, but that would have been harsh in the extreme. We may not have been at our fluent best for the full 95 but there was more than […]

It wasn’t the Boxing Day we had hope for obviously, but then again we don’t really do Boxing Days. We’ve only just got the hang of opening days of the season, so to expect us to move on to Boxing Day wins so quickly was probably a step too far. Couple that with the wearing […]

It’s hard to recall a time, or specifically a year, when the role of Norwich City Football Club in our lives has been quite so pronounced. The three-month hiatus as Covid did its worst was a reminder to us all of its place in our hearts and minds and even the grimmest of relegations was, […]

And the wins keep on coming. At what point is it okay to start dreaming again? Dreaming of what I’m not quite sure – because the journey is infinitely more enjoyable than the prize itself – but I’ve started to anyway. How can you not? Sky’s commentary team did their best to make this one […]

And another… City’s third 2-1 victory in the space of a week was the clearest sign yet that this is a bona fide promotion charge. Still over half the season to go, but this felt big. Reading were of course without two of their big names in Lucas Joao and Yakou Meite (Sky Sports were very […]

I was tempted to do a cut and paste job from my Thursday morning piece; the one that told of City again overcoming adversity to squeeze out a narrow 2-1 over Forest, sealed by a deflected Emi Buendia shot from outside the box. Okay, so I’d have had to smooth out the bit about Hughton […]

Three points clear at the top of the Championship in the midst of the worst injury crisis most City fans can recall. In terms of Daniel Farke’s achievements since his arrival here in May 2017, I’d argue this particular one tops the lot. To have prepared, cajoled, nurtured and steered this stricken group through the […]

That little glimpse of normality for the 2000 must have felt good. Even for those of us unable to make the pilgrimage, there was something comforting and ‘normal’ about On the Ball City echoing around Carrow Road in those few excitable seconds before kick-off and the accompanying buzz. So too hearing those same voices coming […]

If ever there was a game that needed to be written-off and consigned to the history books as quick as possible… A rotten defeat on a rotten night in the half-light of a rotten little ground under the auspices of a rotten referee, and all played out amid a cacophony of 1000 screeching, yowling voices. […]

That was a tough one to take in the circumstances. In the midst of the worst injury crisis most of us have seen as City fans, to have gone so close to winning the three points against a thoroughly decent Coventry team was an outstanding effort. If the game had just meandered out to a […]

When City lost at home to angry Sean Dyche’s Burnley back in the bad old days of Project Restart I suggested we open talks with Notts County fans to borrow their song. It really did feel like the wheel had fallen off our barrow. We (typically) lost that game, ended it with nine men, were […]

You know it’s your day when for the first time in living memory an opponent’s successfully converted penalty kick is chalked off because it was deemed a double-hit. Not for the first time this season, a moment of good fortune tilted the odds in City’s favour, and from thereon in it felt like it had […]

I’ve long searched for an excuse to tell one of my more interesting footballing tales (most are far from it) and Kenny McLean, god bless him, has finally given me one. It’s a faint, dubious, tenuous link, but it’ll do and you’re going to hear it whether you like it or not 😉 It is […]

GG: Zine 4 is imminent I understand JP? Don’t you think the City faithful has been through enough? 🙂 I jest of course – when you describe these little beauties as some of the best stuff ACN has produced I tend to agree, although the flags, banners and crowd-surfers may disagree. I don’t really want […]

2020 has been universally cr.@p. Day after day of doom and gloom. So my god we were due a good one. Yesterday was a great one. Of course, there was the small matter of the free world being spared another four years of lies, corruption and tyranny from a fake-tanned narcissist who lacks class, charm, […]

It feels a little trite to be writing about a 0-0 draw with Millwall as the world teeters on the brink while the US decides whether or not to give a second term to an orange, thin-skinned, racist man baby. But I’ll give it a go. We could all do with a distraction from that […]