Well, as we all know the wheels are firmly back on the Premier League gravy train and it’s ready to roll on June 17 with Sheffield United against Aston Villa and Manchester City versus Arsenal. The catch-up games of course. Apparently City are planned to resurface on June 19 against Southampton at Carrow Road. Not […]
In a non-football world, we take all the #NCFC snippets we can, plus a 1996 ‘mare
Well it’s been another funny old week in this current world of non-football. Our players are back at Colney in an environment of socially distanced, non-contact training in strictly limited groups and maybe the intensity levels will be stepped up next week. Maybe. Of course, it’s now straight home for them to get a shower […]
No Cromer crabs… no Dippy… Webber annoying Leeds… and the new Herr Flick
Well, the uncertainty continues apace. We’ve been denied the delights of the Notting Hill Carnival, which might not please all Londoners, but the Metropolitan Police at least will be delighted by that particular decision. And also there will be no Eurovision Song Contest this year which is certain to displease one Graham Norton and all […]
To claim or donate… that is the question
Well they didn’t mess about did they? Norwich City Official put out on Monday that they’d nip any rebate issues in the bud and at 09:15 today I received the same message as many of our MFW readers and writers doubtlessly did too. “On Monday the club made the decision to begin the rebate process, […]
The carousel of the EPL… on which most of the hoi polloi really don’t seem to matter
And so the football carousel keeps spinning around.** Almost everybody riding it seems to possess a stronger sense of self-interest and hypocrisy than us football supporters who right now genuinely don’t know whether our ar$es are bored, punched or countersunk. (Ask a carpenter if you’re in any doubt as to what the three words after […]
Oh for a whopping dose of normal… but, for that, we will all be waiting for some time
Yeah, sure, we’re all bored wositless just now but while this horrible virus is around that’s nothing to really complain about in the greater context of things. I am sure we all have our own ways of dealing with this situation but I learned last Tuesday morning that life and indeed football must go on […]
Call an end to this season. Now. Football is special. But it really isn’t that special.
Football is special, very special, to each and every MFW reader and writer. And for everybody who supports their chosen club, from Exeter City to Ross County and so many others inbetween. But in the current scheme of things, just how special is it – and should a special case be made for it? Well […]
All the Germans… who’ve graced and added a certain something to our football club
🎵 All the Germans. So many Germans… 🎵 Well, since the dawn of Farkelife in the summer of 2017 we have had quite a few, haven’t we? There’s Daniel himself, who arrived from Borussia Dortmund II and on his coaching team are assistant head coach Edmund Riemer, first-team coach Christopher John and sports scientist – or head of performance if […]
The Boys In Orange: The Canaries’ mixed fortunes with their men from the Lowlands
If you’re an Ipswich Town supporter, in order to look on the bright side of life you have to retreat into the Twentieth Century. They did something so stunningly right back in the day that we as Norwich City have yet to emulate and I don’t mean fluking an FA Cup win. They signed two […]
How much are you missing matchday buddies? Oh for the day when we reunite
As the prospect of seeing real, live football seems to disappear ever further from our cognisance, I thought I might pose the MFW community a question: do you miss your casual matchday mates and if so, how much? You could [like me] sit in a Barclay rag, tag and bobtail of lifetime friends, relatively new […]
Some of the great and good (and not so good) of the Canaries’ African imports
To continue my series of overseas Norwich City players from specific geographical areas I thought I’d set my sights on our African players by beginning with somebody I have never seen play. Sandy Kennon, from the then Rhodesia, who took over from 59-er hero Ken Nethercott between the sticks toward the end of that magnificent […]
‘From the midnight sun, where the hot springs flow’ – aka City’s famous Vikings
After a brace of ear-splitting, blood-curdling shrieks from Robert Plant the first track on Led Zeppelin III in 1970, The Immigrant Song, kicked the album off. It was all about Vikings on the rob and although I think the lyrics are a bit first-year sixth form they went like this: We come from the land […]
Well played all at NCFC! An example of this county’s community spirit at its finest
One of the best things to come out of Carrow Road since the permanent signing of Darren Huckerby emerged very recently as in the decision by our players, manager, directors and other senior staff to club together to help Norfolk people during the coronavirus threat, quickly raising £200,000 in the process. Straight over to Club […]
From Segura through to Buendia, the NCFC Hispanic contingent have been a mixed bag
Well, it’s matchday and I’m getting ready to go to the Carra to watch us take on the quieter side of Merseyside, aka Everton. Enter Mrs P stage left who slaps me round the kisser with a Yarmouth bloater and reminds me that I’m not doing that at all. Being rudely shocked into reality I […]
City’s Men of Harlech – some Canary greats who graced the red shirt of Wales
In the early 1990s at the time of manager Dave Stringer’s squad transitioning into the tenure of Mike Walker, NCFC boasted a rare gift. We had a trio of Welsh internationals, all first-team regulars at the same time and truly amongst the very heartbeat of that famous squad. All wore the “egg ‘n’ cress” with […]
No Carrow Road for a while and all for the right reasons… but where from here?
Anybody of my vintage [1957] will know all about measles, mumps, German measles [rubella] chicken pox and the rest. Younger readers might not of course and I’m glad for them if they don’t ever experience any of these horribles. Chicken pox came back to bite me on the butt one Christmas Eve around 2005 in […]
Defeat at the hands of the Wilder-beasts and the bell tolls on City’s brief PL stopover
Tony Dunne was a fine Irish international and full back for Manchester United. Clive Dunn was the unforgettable Lance-Corporal Jones in Dad’s Army – as in “don’t panic Mr Mainwaring – they don’t like it up ’em” – and also had a horrendous venture into the Top Ten with the song Grandad. But today I’m […]
The rarity of a winning penalty shoot-out for City and their first Quarters since 1992!
Well, well, well, the Canary puts the boot into the Cockerel – and on Chanticleer’s splendid new turf too. And via the most unlikely of mediums: a City win in a penalty shoot-out. Now, this might have happened before but if it has I genuinely cannot remember it. I recall our relatively recent loss to […]
The Cooler King made the right calls on Friday as City forged a tiny sliver of light
I think we’re at the point at which Steve McQueen has robbed the Wermacht soldier of his motorbike, worked out that there’s a little bit of petrol in the tank and thus given himself a chance of jumping the wire. No guarantees, no promises but genuine hope. That result will have gone down like a […]
Is VAR the problem? Or the interpretation of the laws? Either way, right now it’s #$@&%*!
He’s a likeable, obviously well-educated and erudite youngish Premier League manager in his forties. His fans idolise him even when things go wrong for the team and their supporters. As they often do, seemingly ever-increasingly in the second half of this season. And did I feel sorry for him at the weekend? Yes I did, […]