Gary Gowers

And so we’re off! Well, sort of. At least the phoney war is underway, even if we have to wait a little bit longer for the real thing. Around this time, 28 days from now, we’ll be mulling over the whatabouteries and what-ifs of City’s opener against Liverpool. Hopefully in an exultant, jubilant way, but […]

Gary Neville called it right, and not for the first time. Gareth Southgate is the perfect leader, or at least is the perfect leader right now. All of the things that we love in Daniel Farke are present in Southgate. The calm measured responses to even the daftest of questions; the ability to remain calm […]

I mean, technically I’m here to talk bout Norwich City, but it’s not often that England win a knockout game at a major tournament, let alone produce a 4-0 whooping to qualify for a semi-final that just happens to be at Wembley. So, sorry if you’re here to hear about any potential signings as the […]

Players come and go at football clubs at a rate unseen in most other walks of life. I read somewhere a couple of years ago that the average stay was something like 2.7 seasons, so it’s never a good idea for fans to get too attached to their heroes because before very long they’ll be […]

The highs and lows of pre-season, eh? There was a time this week – I think around 4 pm on Tuesday – when it felt nailed on that not only would we be signing Milot Rashica, but also Angus Gunn, Celtic’s Kristoffer Ajer and Chelsea’s Billy Gilmour on loan. The most reliable ITK Norwich City […]

I know I wasn’t the only City fan left feeling a little conflicted on Friday night. As an Englishman, of course I want to see my country win – in any sport, not just football – but when one of our own is being tasked from stopping that from happening, it makes it tricky. It’s […]

I’d long searched for an excuse to tell one of my more interesting footballing tales (most are mind-numbing) and Kenny McLean, god bless him, finally gave me one last November. It was a faint, tenuous link, but good enough and the wonderful readers of MFW, whether liked it or not, they were going to hear […]

I’ll get onto the Norwich City stuff in a bit (it’s not as if it’s been an uneventful week) but it wouldn’t be right to start anywhere else but Copenhagen. The scenes witnessed last night were among the most harrowing I can ever recall watching as a football fan. They were among the most harrowing […]

Given the hue and cry on social media (and MFW) this week around the next move of one Emi Buendia, I intended, for what little it was worth, to offer my two penneth this morning. I even penned a few opening lines yesterday afternoon. And then Paddy Davitt goes and ruins it all. Twitter: 5:23PM: Jun […]

As European finals go, last night’s was a good one and regardless of what any of us think about the way Man City and Chelsea have acquired their footballing might, there was a pleasing to and fro to the game that’s not always the case in major finals. As a spectacle, it trumped the ‘richest […]

“The Play-Offs are gloriously British. If your team isn’t involved it’s all about choosing which team you hate more and screaming for them to lose. Lots of opportunities for visceral catharsis.” The words of a wise man. Henry Winter? Paddy Barclay? Brian Glanville? Nope. Instead, from the keyboard of our own Andy Head – him […]

It goes without saying that Chelsea fans will obviously have the hump this morning – VAR et al – but name me another set of fans who will not have been overjoyed to watch Leicester lift the FA Cup yesterday. Supporters of the five other European Super League wannabees will merely mock the Blues for […]

To say that Norwich Talk – the YouTube arm of MyFootballWriter – came about by accident is a slight exaggeration, but it was a phone call with the then communications director of Norwich City FC in early 2019 that brought about its creation. Rick Waghorn (owner of MFW) and I had spoken previously of the […]

And so the curtain closes on season 2020-21; one of the most surreal, arguably the most surreal, in the club’s history. That City have been so brilliant yet so few of us have actually seen the team play live will forever stick in the craw. Imagine the pre-match atmosphere for the Bournemouth home game with […]

Days like those don’t come along very often. Only nine times in the club’s history have we lifted a trophy – ten if you count the 2015 Play-Off Final – and two of those occurred before I was even a glint in my dad’s eye. Talking of whom… our post-match phone chat last night was […]

Nearly there, right? I mean, it is conceivable that Watford could win their final two games and, in doing so, overturn our superior goal difference, but after seeing how City negotiated a tricky away day at one of the Championship’s form teams, it feels all in hand. The wobble, if you could call it that, […]

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 […]

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 […]