Gary Gowers

Norwich City Women kick off their new season on Sunday with an away game at Cambridge United. Ahead of the big KO, I’ve been chatting to their new head coach, Shaun Howes… First things first, and I’m glad I waited until you’d done the Q&A with the club’s official site. Nothing worse than being asked […]

It may not have been especially pretty but that mattered not one jot. What mattered was experiencing that winning feeling again. From top to bottom it was needed. From Delia to match-day steward. From super-fan to part-timer. From NR1 to New Zealand Canaries. That feeling of relief was palpable. No less than 192 days have […]

It was disappointing – let’s not pretend otherwise – but yesterday’s 3-1 defeat at Kenilworth Road will hopefully have little bearing on what happens in six days’ time in Huddersfield. *Hopefully* That’s not to say it wouldn’t have given us all a much-needed boost. To have had 17 players unavailable is quite the mitigation, but […]

It’s not often you get the chance to watch almost four hours of City playing live, so it would have been rude not to… even if their were friendlies. That the club was even able to field two full-strength teams without relying on some under-23s is an achievement in itself – but they did, even […]

I can never get too excited over pre-season wins. Essentially they’re just exercises in honing the players’ fitness and putting some miles in the legs. This is why, in a Victor Meldrew style, I didn’t read too much into the 6-0 win over MK Dons at Colney on Friday afternoon. Of course, nothing bad can […]

So, the players return to training tomorrow, just three weeks and a day from the guns falling silent on our Premier League experiment of 2019/20. Weird times. That gives Team Farke 26 days to lick this sorry bunch into shape and get their bodies and, more importantly, minds ready for a Championship campaign that promises […]

Paddy Davitt’s inside track on the Jamal Lewis affair was fascinating. If you haven’t read it, it’s here. Paddy told beautifully the story of how the mighty Liverpool thought that ‘desperate-for-cash’ little Norwich City would be ripe for a quick-and-dirty deal for Jamal, given how needy they’d obviously be given their recent relegation. £8 million […]

After a busy couple of weeks when it was only ins and not a single out, the chatter has inevitably turned to those destined to depart the City walls. Liverpool were first to show their hand, with a modest £10 million bid for Jamal Lewis, although it sounds like one of those emails that Stuart […]

It’s clear that Liverpool want Jamal Lewis. That much we do know. They see him as the ideal cover for Andy Robertson – the Scot they signed from Hull in July 2017 but for whom they still have no natural replacement should he get injured. James Milner does a good job there, but he’s… James […]

It’s only seven days since the nightmare that was the 2019/20 season ended, but, oddly, it does feel like an age ago. Just as well really. Part of this is down to the club’s insistence that we move forward, prepare for the new season, and not dwell on the wrongs of last season. Which is […]

Thank God it’s over. You only have to put up with my whining one more time. I guess it was only fitting that five a half weeks of footballing torture should end with the biggest spanking of the lot. That we somehow ended up content that it was “only five” says everything about just how […]

So, for one final time. A season that promised so much, yet delivered only a big, fat, Family Fortunes-type UH UH. At least when we headed to Anfield on August 9, we had hopes and dreams. Okay, so there was a little bit of fear over the level of damage the reigning European champions may […]

There’s no escaping the paucity of City’s performances since Project Restart became more than just a project. Even the most yellow and green-tinged, happy-clapping, Delia-adoring optimist must be able to admit that the quality of performances have been dire and that something has gone badly wrong? The fact that some refuse to get fired up […]

♫ I had a wheelbarrow, the wheel fell off… ♫ So sang the NCFC fans, and never had it rung truer. Okay, so by NCFC I mean Notts County, and I’m not even sure it’s a song they sing anymore, but for one day only – maybe one season only – it should replace On […]

Well, it wasn’t the catastrophe many were expecting. We can say that much. On a night when Wigan hit Hull for eight, many of us were understandably fearful. And in any given season, if you come away from Chelsea having lost 1-0 then nine times out of ten, it tends to end up in the […]

At least it’s done now. But it did feel like death by a thousand cuts. A slow, painful, inexorable slide back to whence we came, with not the merest hint of resistance. These are difficult and surreal times – and of course, there are far more important things going on than our football team getting […]

That we’re all slightly chirpier this morning having witnessed an improved City performance says a lot about the level of the current bar. But we are. And it was. It’s hellishly thin gruel though if our spirits are lifted by what was ultimately another error-strewn defeat against some very mediocre relegation rivals. But, there’s no […]

How was your Super Saturday? Even those who were able to resist the call of the pub may have been tempted to turn to drink after City’s latest post-lockdown offering. But let’s forget the performance level for a minute and look at some numbers. *Look away now if you’re of a nervous disposition. One goal […]

Remember when they told us one of the drivers behind Project Restart was to boost our morale? Well, how’s your morale this morning? Since that first ball was kicked against Southampton, it’s not just been the stadiums that have been soulless. City’s lack of quality has been laid bare for the watching nation to see […]