Unpopular Everton manager Rafa Benitez has been replaced by *Druncan Disorderly* on an interim basis but I can’t say I’m too concerned about that as it’s not my problem. Or yours. Even before kick-off, the *Benitez get out of our club* and *sack the board* banners were unfurled in the Scouse section of the South […]
EVERTON PREVIEW: Carrow Road awaits the arrival of some struggling boys in blue
Stand by your beds everybody – the boys in blue are coming round. No, not the Old Bill or the binmen from along the A140 but something even more intimidating. We shortly entertain the slightly less noisy section of a great big footballing City in the North West, aka Everton. Don’t get me wrong, I’ve […]
The fingers are already pointing, but who carries the can for this disastrous season?
And tonight, live from Norwich, it’s The Blame Game. Apologies to Nicholas Parsons but I cannot use the original title of Sale of the Century as Norwich City have very little to sell. So The Blame Game it will have to be. I’ll take an insipid although not entirely inept display against West Ham at […]
A weird weekend of FA Cup footie that ultimately earned City a trip to Molineux
That was certainly a weird weekend in terms of the FA Cup Third Round, with apologies to one Louis Theroux. To much laughter and in certain quarters great joy, Wessi’s Cambridge United defeated the Richest Club in the World at St James’s Park, lowly Kidderminster Harriers turned over Reading and Arsenal sported a one-off nameless white […]
After a stormy ol’ #NCFC Christmas, next up is the FA Cup and ‘into The Valley’
After a heavy old weekend on MFW, which attracted some great comments from you lovely readers on which were basically two different takes on the same thorny topic, I thought I’d endeavour to lighten the mood a little this morning by looking forward [if that’s the right turn of phrase] to our Third Round FA […]
Where do we go from here? Will 2022 be a better year for City than 2021? If so, how?
As the Canary nation drags itself unsteadily into 2022 there are a few questions that MFW regular Alex Bain feels he would like answers to and I thought I would have a go, But all our views are different, so your comments, dear readers, are most welcome – as they always are of course. Maybe […]
January will be a huge month for Norwich City FC… but not necessarily a pleasant one
When it comes to predicting the future I am normally about as much use as Catweazle without his familiar spirit, Touchwood the toad, and his sacred knife, Adamcos. I attempted to go to a clairvoyant evening at Trimingham Village Hall one evening only to find the venue closed and a notice on the door saying […]
Is there even the potential to escape the clutches of the Championship next season?
I went through a latter middle-aged guy’s nightmare to get to Carrow Road on Boxing Day. Earlier last week my daughter got me the NHS Covid pass on my smartphone but being an eejit I forgot to ask her how to download the .pdf file to register my vaccination status with Norwich City Football Club. […]
In these testing times, a little bit of selflessness does nobody any harm
As I write this, the sidebar on my laptop keeps flashing up an ad from UNICEF asking for contributions to its *Give the World a Shot* campaign, which is pretty apposite as I try to consider the impact of Covid-19 on our beloved world of football. Here in the now, and good lad that he […]
Nobody takes relegation as a given before Christmas but the omens are not good
Night games. I rarely attend them these days due to escalating old age, logistics and in Tuesday’s case a certain apathy towards strolling along Prince of Wales Road around 10pm just ten days before Christmas. In that spirit, I passed my ticket for Villa to MFW regular Don Harold, who kicks off this piece on […]
So many referees but the one that really mattered was blinded by the light
England’s England’s Number One, England’s… Number One. In my lifetime we’ve sung that chant for Chris Woods, Rob Green and even John Ruddy. Maybe even for Kevin Keelan too and if we didn’t we should have done. But referee Darren England certainly wasn’t Number One on Saturday evening so there was no need for a […]
The tale of Tottenham – an acute lack of bite and the end of ‘new manager bounce’
New manager bounce. Now that’s a short, sharp phrase to get the old grey matter working. Tottenham Hotspur have enjoyed the effect with the arrival of Antonio Conte as have ourselves with the introduction of Dean Smith and Craig Shakespeare, who are very much a team from what we’ve seen so far. But the Tottenham […]
TOTTENHAM PREVIEW… with Martin & Alex
Through the purest coincidence, MFW regular Alex Bain and I have both had a long-standing *second team* and are aware that many purists would disagree with the entire concept. Fair play to you I say, but sometimes circumstances take over and you have to make the most of the live football you can physically attend. […]
Four games unbeaten, eight points from four and in touch with those above us…
And in the master’s chambers, they gathered for the feast. They stab it with their steely knives, but they just can’t kill the beast** That line from an old song most us will know really well sums up a frustrating night on Tyneside for Dean Smith, his squad and the 1,200 brave souls who went to St […]
A birthday with a difference… Norwich City style
It was my birthday on Saturday. I am proud to say that I share the date of November 27 with Jimi Hendrix, although that is about all we have in common as he was one of the most innovative and exciting guitarists of all time, whereas me? Well at least all you MFW types know […]
The new Norwich City badge debate: Do you love it, hate it, or not give a flying…?
Anybody from a services background treasures their regimental badge – and so do football supporters across the nation, because after all, every one of us feels like we are part of a regiment of sorts as well. And so we should. Welsh regiments tend to have goats as mascots, with a senior NCO dedicated to […]
Unsung heroes, a Plan B, some rustiness and the Saints only having one song
I’ve got some good news for you MFW folks – as if you didn’t know already – that we have finally found a manager with a plan B who isn’t afraid to implement it. I’m making no bones about it, we were as battered as a loin of Lowestoft cod on Saturday during the first […]
The Upper Barclay will be home on Saturday to a dedicated follower of fashion
I have to venture into the City around once a fortnight for business and I’m sure I’m not alone in that amongst the MFW fraternity – a few of you poor devils will have to go in every day for work, of course. There’s something to be said for what is more or less retirement […]
Dean Smith is in the house! Will Craig Shakespeare be Iago to his Othello?
So our choice as new head coach has finally put pen to paper and it’s Dean Smith from Aston Villa, who was out of work for exactly one week, almost to the hour. The initial debate surrounds ‘was he our first choice to replace Daniel Farke?’ No, he probably wasn’t as after Farke’s dismissal last […]
We’ll not half miss that ‘philosophy’, us being ‘greedy and those lovely ‘topics’
*A week is a long time in politics* – UK Prime Minister Harold Wilson, 1964.** Well, it’s a bloody long time in football too as we discovered last week. As I write the dust has yet to settle on what has been a very emotional week in my life, which I’ll quickly break down without […]