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 […]
BRUM PREVIEW: Parked buses Karanka-style, ultra-defence and the no 10 debate
Two games in close proximity, the first one a (narrow) win for City, so why change a winning team? Therefore it’s again to Andy Delf, Don Harrold, Colin Michael and John Scent I turn for their thoughts on City’s return to St Andrew’s. Lads, you know the drill… How are the nerves after Saturday’s second […]
A gritty, nervy one at the Carra but City edge past the some feisty ol’ Millers
“That was a tough ol’ go, Boy!” The words of Mr Derek Gowers (aka Dad) on the phone to Gower Junior at around 5pm yesterday. As ever, he nailed in one small sentence what I struggle to do in 800 words. It was indeed a tough ol’ go, in every sense, but that City came […]
ROTHERHAM PREVIEW… with a little bit of help from some familiar MFW voices
We’ve tried to mix the MFW match previews up a little this season and so it’s to four friends of MFW that I’ve turned for their thoughts ahead of tomorrow’s visit by Paul Warne’s Rotherham, namely Andy Delf, Don Harold, John Scent and Colin Michael. To keep it simple (for me, not them) I asked […]
The Emi and Teemu show sets the scene for a pivotal win on the St Andrew’s quag
Okay, so there were a few hairy moments in the second-half and our Tim at least had to get his gloves dirty as Coventry responded well to going 2-0 just before the interval, but the damage had already been done. Buendia-Pukki and Pukki-Buendia had already inflicted the blows that rendered the game over, as long […]
Maybe too early to re-board HMS P*ss the League but the ship has been steadied
This was 2018-19 revisited. Attacking thrust with a Finn and an Argentinian at its heart interspersed with with some heart-stopping defensive scares, mostly of City’s own making. And my god it was fun. That’s not to say it was either part of Daniel Farke’s plan or is something we should yearn for a return to, […]
City remain top but a tough, goal-less week rounded off with a morale-sapping defeat
“I wasn’t pleased with the mistakes today and they were the reasons we lost the game.” Daniel Farke was right. It was two very preventable and careless errors that cost City the game. Of more concern though should be the fact that even taking those two errors out of the equation, at no point did […]
A point gain or two dropped? Yet City still continue to churn out the clean sheets
The #NCFC timeline last night from 8pm onwards was not for the faint-hearted. In fact, if for any reason you’d been incommunicado from the outside world but had accidentally stumbled across ‘Norwich City’, you’d assume this was a football club in crisis. As it transpired, City’s only crime was to draw a game of football […]
No excuses for City. A bad day at the office not helped by the Colin and Keith show
The thing about Jose Mourinho is that you know his intention is to make it all about him. With Neil Warnock I’m never quite sure. Mourinho does it expertly for all manner of reasons – to take the pressure off his players and to inflate his own ego among them – but Colin… who knows. […]
BORO PREVIEW: Charming Colin… poor fisherfolk… and the magnificent Jonny H
As ever, when a City/Boro game is imminent, it’s former MOTD editor, author, Middlesbrough aficionado and friend of MyFootballWriter Paul Armstrong to whom I turn. Rather than the traditional Q&A, we just chatted… *** GG: Has our Colin finally been able to achieve what quite a few have failed to do, and that’s turn Boro […]
Not the end of the world as City exit the FA Cup but still okay to be disappointed !
An FA Cup exit away at a useful Championship opponent wasn’t a disaster but was still tinged with disappointment. While we may not have the illustrious history of our nearest and dearest in this competition, we have, along the way, triggered some pretty damn good FA Cup memories. We only have to cast the mind […]
BARNSLEY FA CUP PREVIEW… with a little help from some of MFW’s friends
Based on an idea I pinched directly from our Martin P, today’s match preview has been handed over to three voices that will be familiar to regular readers and commenters on MyFootballWriter. So instead of me droning on and attempting (and failing) with some half-@ar.sed ‘jokes’ intermingled with some indiscernible nonsense, today you have the […]
GUEST BLOG: Absent Minds
Taking up the guest blog mantle today is tweeter extraordinaire Dave Cole, who sums up perfectly the pain of not being there to witness this promotion charge … *** The benefit of an early evening kick-off and win was the chance to relax before bedtime with a cuppa as the waves of social media satisfaction […]
A Hugill brace and another three points as the Canary engine begins to purr…
It’s hard to find a new set of words to describe that one, just as it’s difficult to keep a lid on the expectation levels floating around in the wide-open spaces of my head. But I’ll try. In his MFW match report, James Colman used ‘boa constrictor’, ‘an irresistible force’ and ‘remorseless’ in his appraisal […]
Only City can stop City from returning to that place that none of us particularly like
To the uninitiated, this may appear another case of Norwich just doing enough, and making tough work of a job that should have been comfortable. And the uninitiated would be right… to a point. But it ignores the fact that Daniel Farke was minus the services of ten players who have legitimate shouts for a […]
In these surreal times, anything is possible, even Ipswich getting promoted!
That these are weird, surreal times is clear. Things once considered fringe have now filtered into the mainstream, so hopefully it won’t come as too much of a surprise to read a piece about Ipswich Town on a site that is exclusively Norwich City. Please bear with me. I should loathe them of course and, […]
The Canary bandwagon rolls on and offers the faithful far more than a fourth-round tie
At the end of what had been a truly horrific week – just another in a very long line – it was again left to Daniel Farke’s men to put a collective smile on the Canary Nation. And they delivered… again. While to some, games of football appear non-consequential as the world struggles to contain […]