Martin Penney

Norwich City have players from quite literally all over the world, from Cuba to Greece via Poland, Finland, Argentina and several other countries too. But the win we ground out against *the Rams of Rooney* [c. G Gowers] was to a large degree very much courtesy of our brace of Scotsmen. Granite Hanley from Dumfries […]

I can’t say I’ve ever been a fan of magic or magicians. From the days of David Nixon, through Paul Daniels to Derren Brown, they’ve bored me buttless although I’ll make an exception for Dynamo due to his originality – I like watching his stunts. But on Tuesday evening the gift of iFollow brought me […]

Only a sad sack like me could have a little moan about Daniel Farke after a truly titanic performance from the lads who were available to turn out against Preston North End at Deepdale in the Good Friday fixture most of us were dreading due to multiple late returns from international duty. Seeing the teamsheet […]

The appointment of Stuart Webber in April 2017 was greeted in a reasonably low key manner by us NCFC fans – maybe a few of us were aware of his Liverpool connections [he worked under both King Kenny and Rafa Benitez] and his subsequent success with Huddersfield Town. Personally I knew the name, but little […]

Three days or so into the international break, a few anomalies have already thrown themselves up within our far-flung travelling contingent and a couple of them you couldn’t make up if you tried. Onel Hernandez was demonstrably desperate to make his debut for Cuba, which he eventually did under the very strangest of circumstances by […]

This is a message to those who administer the Championship of the English Football League, thinly disguised as a piece written for MyFootballWriter. As I write, we are currently being forced to fulfil a fixture at Deepdale, home of Preston North End FC at 1500 hours on Good Friday, April 2. We have asked for […]

Reality check? Being brought back down to earth? Or simply being faced by a hard-working, typical Tony Mowbray side who had weighed us up before kick off and stuck with their plan to press consistently hard, play to their strengths and ride their luck at times? The choice, dear MFW readers, is yours. Personally, I […]

I have absolutely no faith in the planning department at Norfolk County Council – or very many of their other departments either come to that – but I must for once congratulate them for granting us permission to spirit our training complex at Colney to the banks of the Trent last night. The ease with […]

I woke up early on Saturday morning to put the laptop on and discover: Blackburn 0, Brentford 1. Later in the day my mood didn’t improve as I sucked up Luton 0, Swansea 1. And then a Welsh side I possessed high hopes of on the day conceded late in stoppage time to make it Cardiff […]

Norwich City fizzed against Luton Town to go Seven-Up on Saturday with an excellent performance that gained a well-earned win and more than a modicum of revenge for two early defeats at the hands of the Hatters at the dawn of the season. That’s another three points in the can as the ship goes sailing […]

I hope the rest of the Championship enjoyed their practical masterclass from Norwich City on Wednesday evening. Entitled How to draw the sting from the Bees, the lesson was constructed by Daniel Farke and carried out to virtual perfection by his senior students. The application all over the pitch was plain to see and although we […]

I’ve never been shy of saying I’m a bit of a pro/am chef so this revelation should come as no surprise to regular readers of MFW. One of the finest things I ever bought for myself is an old-fashioned, traditional pestle and mortar. Make your own garlic mayo? Put together a mix of your favourite […]

Our last encounter with Wycombe Wanderers so nearly turned out to be a Hallowe’en howler, when we had to rely on a peach of a Mario Vrancic free kick in the dying seconds of normal time to scrape a 2-1 win against a side who were adrift at the bottom then and are adrift at […]

At half time I bet most of us were thinking along the lines of *this is muddy awful* as City seemed second best in just about every duel and but for a sublime finish from Teemu Pukki we showed none of our usual class or rhythm. Pukki’s penalty was anything but sublime or classy and […]

I would ask MFW readers to join me in thinking about the moments in our lives when we have all been nervous. You know what I mean – a first date, taking your driving test, sitting exams you knew you’d done no revision for and, in my particular case, every single adult dental appointment I’ve […]

When I worked a bar back in the day one of the nicest guys I ever met was Bill Mason, who was head groundsman at the Metropolitan Police 3 Area sports & social club at Chigwell in Essex. All god knows how many acres of it, complete with massive stables. Bill and his small team […]

I know that a few of our MFW readers like to cook now and again when the stars are aligned. Quite possibly many others of us do too but I’m not nosey so I’ve never asked anyone who hasn’t freely offered up such information. But I’ve managed to stuff up all three of my favourite […]

Evidence of all sorts of things was put before us on Friday night in that very late kick-off against Swansea City and, while being no Sherlock, some of it proved to me irrefutably that we’re in a dip that might prove quite difficult to emerge from. As for the match itself, two major errors either […]