Martin Penney

It’s nice to be proven right occasionally and I am no exception to enjoying that all-too-rare feeling. It did not take the scrying glass of Nostrafarmus [or Chris Sadler’s dodgy old sphere of clear plastic from the charity shop] to predict the obvious but ’twas a week ago to this very day that I loudly proclaimed on […]

The Posse and I have enjoyed many a recent conversation about the merits or otherwise of the various Norwich City managers from Ron Saunders to Daniel Farke, while all the time considering how Dean Smith has fared in comparison with the others. As I hinted at the end of their article last Thursday, you only […]

Friday turned out to be the most exciting day I’ve had for ages. Why I [faintly] hear you wondering? It’s because I went to Riverside for a first solo excursion in over three months – the first time I’ve driven by myself during that period due to a lengthy period of acclimatisation to the effects […]

As we are surely all thoroughly mentally exhausted by considering matters both on and, particularly, off the Carrow Road turf, I thought I would turn to the Posse to provide a bit of light relief. Or to be strictly truthful, Posse member David C, better known to MFW types as Cutty, turned to the rest of […]

Instead of a nerve-steadying three points at Carrow Road against Middlesbrough on Saturday, we were served up another four weeks of angst and anxiety concerning our beloved City between now and a trip to play Russell Martin’s Swans on December 10, thanks to a soul-destroying but ultimately deserved 2-1 defeat. So it will doubtless be […]

My Sunday morning Norwich City media digest is normally a short, sharp but comprehensive one during which I take in all I can from a rich variety of sources in order to keep my finger on the pulse of the Canary nation. This process normally takes around half an hour, then I fight shy of […]

They’ve always had a way with words, have the French. Be it Voltaire, Baudelaire. Rimbaud or my good friends Maxim and Bénédicte when I worked with Publicorp on the Rue Rosenwald in Paris, somebody has a poignant expression for seemingly everything. I’ve never known who was responsible for originating one of my long-time favourites, so […]

Before I pick up the theme of dissatisfaction and malcontent with most things Norwich City that I, unfortunately, feel duty-bound to employ these days, I thought it might be fair and reasonable to allow Dean Smith to get his theoretical mitigation for Tuesday night in first. The absentee list against Burnley at Turf Moor was […]

Malaise, apathy, inertia and ennui are four descriptive words that refuse to leave the sides of many Norwich City supporters this season. They cling on like Winston Churchill’s black dog of depression, which faithfully but disastrously refused to leave his shoulders until it was well and truly ready before returning again and again with monotonous […]

I am not really one to appreciate the cinematographic discipline in any great depth, the intricacies of a Carry On film or a Ben Stiller movie usually being more than enough for me to contend with. However, I have made one glorious exception to my rebuttal of the finer points of movie-making over the years. My favourite […]

The incessant and sometimes tedious debate about whether it is points or performances that matter the most has surely dragged itself towards the most unwanted conclusion of all – that Norwich City are now equally ineffective in both respects. One point in nine backed by dire consecutive offerings against WBA, Preston, and now Watford have […]

Gary’s comment yesterday about bloopers from the early eighties being collected and released as video nasties by the likes of the admirable Denis Norden struck a chord with many of us I suspect. It put me in mind of that triumvirate of great early evening TV quiz shows –Blankety Blank, Bullseye and Catchphrase. The Blarney stone charm of […]

With eleven games played, this season is no longer in its infancy as we enter the Oktoberfest period of the Championship. Nobody of a Yellow and Green persuasion is unaware of how crucial this month may prove to be with regard to our promotion credentials as the matches keep coming thick and fast. We must […]

After reading Gary’s sobering article of yesterday in which he accurately summed up the current hopes and fears of Canary fans everywhere, I thought I’d take a look at some of the recent mysteries surrounding events [and indeed a couple of media-driven non-events] that are pounding the corridors of Carrow Road and Colney right now. […]

It’s rare after a match such as that against West Bromwich Albion on Saturday to get so many different viewpoints from supporters floating around. My inbox was suffering from subsidence by Sunday morning and that was just from friends, let alone what was available online to be read on a less personal level. Discounting some […]

Before Wednesday night’s match, Bristol City striker Nahki Wells warned Norwich City that his side would go to Carrow Road to “turn over” the Canaries. Well Nahki me ole China, you did not speak with forked tongue. Bristol threw the kitchen sink at us for a large proportion of the game and if we hadn’t […]

When the news of Queen Elizabeth II’s death reached us all on Thursday afternoon I’m sure it triggered an unwelcome but inevitable acceptance from all of us that our monarch was no longer with us. Very few MFW readers and writers can recall the death of a head of state from personal experience. I will […]