Saturday sees the travelling Canary faithful embark on the tortuous [no hyperbole here as any poor soul who has attempted it will confirm] trip along the A47, A17, and A1 to the New York Stadium, the home of Rotherham United – now known as the AESSEAL New York Stadium for naming rights purposes. This has been […]
Plus ca change, plus c’est la meme chose … as they say in the Snake Pit
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 […]
Time for Smith to go. Players going backwards rather than even treading water
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 […]
Draws at Bramall Lane are not to be sneezed at but it was still an ‘if only’ day
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 […]
Horrors of Tuesday: Part of a malaise that doesn’t begin and end with the head coach
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 […]
City not quite in Disasterland yet but failure to beat Luton and it could quickly turn
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 […]
A bit of Bully… say what you see… some argy-bargy… and Angus in for Watford?
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 […]
Still not perfect but three more on the board as our own Oktoberfest begins
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 […]
CITY v BLACKPOOL (A) – THE PREVIEW
The Canaries pick up the post-international break baton against Blackpool at Bloomfield Road on Saturday afternoon and there is a nice little bonus on offer for supporters. For the princely sum of £90 [£75 if you’re a season ticket holder], you have the chance to join Norwich City legend Wes Hoolahan for a pre-match meet […]
The mystery of the club shop… the three missing players… and two surprise City fans
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. […]
Oh for a left-footed defender and some stability in the centre of the park
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 […]
Keystone Kops… Bristol firestorms… the view from Panama… and three more points
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 […]
CITY v BRISTOL CITY (H) – THE PREVIEW
I’m going to kick this one off in somewhat unorthodox fashion by giving you, dear readers, a little taste of what life can be like in the MFW dressing room. When it comes to previews, Gary allows those of us with friends who support our opponents to pre-book these games if we wish to and […]
The Matthews final… the Jules Rimet to Sir Bobby… and a penchant for Arsenal?
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 […]
Ain’t no pleasing some, but City march on regardless
As Gary said yesterday, the moaners are out in force after five straight wins. You know, the same wins that took us from the bottom of a 24-team league to the top. Has that ever been achieved before? I dunno, you tell me. Everybody wants us to sweep sides asunder [particularly visiting ones] with the […]
And… finally, the window “slams shut”. How did we do?
Well, that’s yer lot. Show over. Antennae withdrawn as we have a few months off combing obscure links for transfer rumours. The window has shut until January so get over it. I know I have. But we did do some business, some of which was verging on the intriguing with the South American scouting set-up […]
Born in Cuba, now a son of Norfolk – our Onel delivered again at St Andrew’s
Everybody loves a character who ostensibly puts their body and soul into the cause of Norwich City and rarely leaves anything on the pitch. Reference Duncan Forbes, Flecky, Iwan, Hucks or whoever your favourite happens to be. On Tuesday night at St Andrew’s, a long-simmering candidate for this particular type of regard from the supporters […]
Smith’s triple change wins the day for City who ride out the mother of all storms
We saw an awful lot of things we know about this incarnation of Norwich City at the Stadium of Light on Saturday – and quite a few things we might have forgotten about as well. I cannot remember concentrating on the opposition quite as much as this before in previous MFW articles but it must […]
No Carabao run… no great loss
As much as I hate to disagree with Reepham’s finest, I take a different viewpoint to Kathy Blake and her article on MFW yesterday, which extolled the positives of our continued presence in the Carabao Cup. There’s no way of saying this nicely – I couldn’t care less about our relatively early exit from this […]
A star-spangled Friday in the Fine City as Sarge & Attanasio grab the headlines
It’s only fit and proper that I should join Gary and Freddie with an apology to our born-again striker, Josh Sargent. Only a week ago I said on these very pages that if Sargent is a striker, then so is next door’s cat. Six days down the road and it’s a clear case of “just […]