Gary Gowers

I woke up this morning with the intention of writing a piece in response to Delia’s interview in the Financial Times but, on reflection, thought better of it. The usual suspects would probably come after me again – and I’ve had more than enough of that lately 🙂 – so I’ll, for once, allow others […]

I’m not sure if it’s an age thing or a Gowers thing, but the older I get the less I care about what Norwich City’s new kit of the day looks like. Or it could just be a grumpy old git thing. Either way, I’d have had no problem with Brentford’s ongoing two-year approach, which […]

Feels a bit soon, right? Confirmation that Daniel Farke will be the next incumbent of the Leeds United hot seat didn’t exactly fill me with joy, albeit I have had a while to prepare myself. I’m guessing most City supporters feel the same to differing degrees. He’s still held in high regard in these parts […]

It’s been one that’s rumbled on for a while, so it was good to finally see Borja Sainz swathed in a green and yellow scarf and hear him tell the club’s official channels how glad he is to be at this “great club” and how his move is a “dream come true”. It’s okay, Borja, […]

Our club’s desire to do things differently knows no bounds. In many ways, of course, it’s good to be different; to be non-conformist, to be brave and bold enough, to stick two fingers up to the establishment and challenge its desire to retain the status quo. That’s good different. Brave different. Alas, Norwich City’s version […]

They’re chirpy right now. Boy, they’re chirpy. I talk, of course, of our friends down the A140. And I suppose they have every right to be. Theirs has been a miserable existence for quite a long time now and, finally, they have something to cheer about and feel, with good reason, that their club is […]

No going back now. There they are in all their glory. Forty-six fixtures over which our fate will be sealed for the season 2023-24. I’ll be honest – I wasn’t ready for them. It feels too soon. It feels not five minutes since we were picking over the carcass of an underwhelming and dispiriting 2022-23, […]

It was news that we kind of expected, but it still felt like something of a bombshell when it became real. I talk, of course, of the news that Stuart Webber is to depart our club. We are yet to discover for where, and we’re yet to find out when, but we know it will […]

I only met Stuart Webber once. Nearly twice, but once. The nearly time came when, after an awful lot of badgering, City’s then Head of Comms, Joe Ferrari, granted MFW an audience with Stuart. It was January 2019. The request was for a sit-down chat that would be relayed to our readership by the old-fashioned […]

The formalities of Shane Duffy becoming a Canary won’t be completed until July 1, but his ‘launch’ on Friday was, in the end, a relief for those of us who feared the cooling of the rumour was indicative of the player considering other offers. It wasn’t. When they arrive at Colney in a fortnight for […]

My first memorable sporting moment in this series was of a cricketing ilk. My second returns to more familiar territory but, as the rules state, is not Norwich City related. Instead, it pertains to our national team, which back in the day I used to follow, mainly at home but, for one tournament only, away […]

The signing of Jack Stacey on a free from Bournemouth wasn’t one to get the pulse racing but neither was it one to get hot under the collar over. It’s one of those that, on the face of it, looks logical enough given that Sam Byram has already departed and Max Aarons seems almost certain […]

In order to fill some MFW airtime over an international tournament-free summer, Martin and I hatched a plan. Not one that’s particularly clever or innovative, but as most of the good folk involved with MFW are sport, not just football, lovers we thought it worth throwing the floor open to the team (and readers) to […]

Nothing demonstrated better the agony and ecstasy of a Championship Playoff Final than the sight of poor Fankaty Dabo slowly trudging, head-down and numb back toward the halfway line as jubilant Luton players flanked him as they sprinted to celebrate with their goalkeeper, Ethan Horvath. Quite why Horvath was the focal point of the celebration […]

To be fair to Stuart Webber, he was on a hiding to nothing. Every word, phrase, pause, sign, and frown was going to be dissected to within an inch of its life. And it was. This was, of course, a situation partly of his own making given that for some time, those tasked with interviewing […]

Five days. That’s how long we have to wait for Stuart Webber to meet the local press. Whether the planned meeting is a sign of contrition on the part of the Club, who knows? It’s also unclear whether this is the first sign of a permanent thaw in the standoff betwixt Webber, on one side, […]

And that just about summed it up. Even on a day when we all were saluting a Club legend, they still didn’t have it in them to produce a performance. Gutless and spineless to the bitter end. On a day when, for most of the time, Carrow Road opted to set aside its differences with […]

I’ll not be heading to Carrow Road tomorrow for the final hurrah of 2022-23. Not through choice or because I’ve decided that a one-man protest will sock it to the owners and sporting director, but because poor health will prevent me from doing so, just as it has done since mid-December. The pandemic aside, it’s […]

By today’s standards, Teemu Pukki’s arrival in Norfolk was given the lightest of light touches by the club’s social media team. Like the man himself, it was understated and modest. In 2023, even something as nondescript as an Isaac Hayden arriving on loan is met with a series of teasers building up to a massive, […]