That was like watching the grass grow and paint drying while Waiting for Godot at the same time. Millwall versus Norwich City on Tuesday, February 2 has to be the most boring game I can remember since we lost 0-1 at home to a last-minute Terry Gibson goal against the original Wimbledon in, I think, 1988. For […]
MILLWALL PREVIEW: Salma Hayek… John Cale… Bart… and a goalscoring frenzy
It’s Millwall time again tomorrow as we make the trip to the Bermondsey-based South London side for the second leg of the season, the first consisting of a monotonous 0-0 at the Carra on November 2 as the last of the autumn leaves were falling. In our latest chat with Nick Hart – creator of the […]
What a load of ol’ Warlocks! City suffer at the hands of the Teesside sorcerers
We were Warlocked against Boro on Saturday. There’s no other way to describe it really as the old maestro of malice brought out every last card from his battered pack of Tarots to tell us our fortune. “We’ll start Yannick Bolasie for the first hour to tie them up and give them something to worry […]
Fair play to the Tykes for a deserved win, but an FA Cup exit was no skin off my nose!
We all have enjoyed life’s guilty pleasures over the years so I’ll admit to a few of mine. Finishing many a Scotland Yard nightshift in the early 1980s around 0700 and breaking my journey home at Barbican station to walk to The Hope on the edge of Smithfield market to enjoy a few pints with […]
City dish up the ultimate team performance with a man-of-the-match at every turn
Jordan Hugill has justifiably grabbed most of the headlines this morning following City’s clinical 2-0 despatch of Bristol City at a rainy and windswept Carrow Road last night. But it really was the ultimate team performance as Hugill was at pains to point out himself after the final whistle. As was Daniel Farke: “He [Hugill] […]
BRIZZLE PREVIEW… with a little help from some of our MFW friends
As we sit at the top of the EFL Championship with those feisty Swans flapping their giant wings beneath us in second place we now face another challenge from the Western side of our sceptred isle as in Dean Holden’s Bristol City. Our scalp remains very much a prized one as we can gather when […]
The Manics… Rob & Jason… turning on a sixpence… and another ‘job done’ for City
There is much to admire about Wales. The superb band that are Manic Street Preachers, the awesome and atmospheric beauty of Lake Bala and the wonderful Treaddur Bay just down the road from Holyhead come instantly to mind as does the warmth and unique humour of the Welsh people I’ve had the good fortune to […]
Routine 2-0s… nerveless Dan… quality benches… Diego Tettey… & a song for Big D
On the surface that seemed to be the most unremarkable match in many ways – a fairly routine 2-0 win over a Coventry City side who were certainly up for it but were never able to offer much of a cutting edge after an early double from Kenny McLean and Jordan Hugill. Sure we were […]
The return of Tim and Ben added ballast but it’s Emi who’d have had Keats purring
A thing of beauty is a joy forever, we are told by somebody no less eloquent than the famous pre-Victorian Romantic poet John Keats. No, I haven’t read the poem itself but that line has kind of stuck in my mind – and has rarely been better deployed than when considering Emi Buendia’s wonder strike […]
Enter Referee… Oliver Langford, who was zero from three on the night
History repeats itself. I gave the UEA the privilege of my *studying* the subject there way back when and I’m sure that MFW’s Martin MacBlain, who teaches the subject at a high level in Bristol, would agree with me. No, I haven’t had time to ask him but I’d bet he does. This time last […]
Has the Watford defeat done City a back-handed favour? QPR & Barnsley beware
Nothing is certain in life except death and taxes, the old idiom goes. Well despite our rather low-key 0-1 to defeat to Watford on Saturday evening’s *Sky Special* there is something else certain right now: the Canary nation will awake on January 1 to discover that we are still very much top of the league. Sure we might not […]
Feliz Navidad, Emi. You know you love it here. It would be mad to disembark right now
I’ve enjoyed a very chequered career when it comes to pub games. When it comes to Pool I was pretty decent and played regularly for a couple of pub teams over the years. I was no Maltese Joe but handy enough I’d like to think. My ideal wasted afternoon, after I’d retired, was spent in […]
Hucks nails it – ‘easily the most complete performance of the season from City’
If the City legend that is Darren Huckerby says it, then it would be churlish of me to disagree. As, unlike Hucks, I’ve got more than 280 characters at my disposal I will add that there have been far too many of this type of performance this season for there to be any element of […]
A red-letter day in darkest Lancashire for two of our finest as the City stay top
I’m pretty sure that not many Norwich City supporters would immediately associate themselves with the customs and history of the Royal Welsh Regiment. Except myself of course who for some inexplicable reason knows the connection between the regiment and the Canaries: the Goat. For any MFW readers interested in regimental mascots. for some incomprehensible reason […]
‘Two points per game’ against this injury backdrop = one hell of an achievement
After a match like last night’s against Chris Hughton’s Nottingham Forest, it would be very easy to say that we did just enough for our 2-1 win, with *barely enough* doubtless the phrase of choice for those of a pessimistic disposition. I’ll push the boat out a little bit more than that and air the […]
FOREST PREVIEW: Tiresome Sky… Hootun-ball… dodgy loanees… and ol’ Big Head
MFW is delighted to welcome back our favourite [well, mine anyway] Forest fan, loyal supporter and all-around scion of matters concerning activities in and around the City Ground Christian Brown to inform us about how things stand before tomorrow’s match. Christian and I haven’t spoken for a whole season so it’s about time we did. Here we go. […]
Clichés and buzzwords aplenty as City leave ol’ Tony P as sick as the proverbial…
Football is infamous for its cliches and buzzwords both ancient and modern, from *over the moon* and *sick as a parrot* through to *expressing yourself* and *taking one for the team*. Saturday’s game against Sheffield Wednesday concentrated the Canary nation on one of the more modern terms: *quality*. The first piece of quality was provided […]
No complaints, Luton were the better side, but still not referee England’s finest hour
All good things come to an end so it’s time to wave goodbye to our 10-game unbeaten run. That streak had to finish some time of course and with our lamentable injury tally, I’m surprised it didn’t happen earlier. As for the match itself, it surely must be said that on the day Luton were […]
Cov refreshed their pint but with no silver paper (on the bench) City’s remained flat
I’m a great fan of The Jam. Always was, always will be. They were more of a singles band but on, I think, their third album *Setting Sons* [the one with The Eton Rifles on it] there was a track called *Saturday’s Kids*. Obviously, it featured trenchant Paul Weller lyrics about said kids living in […]
City stood tall in ‘Land of the Giants’ but now have a farcical injury list to manage
Queen’s second album and in my opinion their most progressive and certainly the best, the eponymous Queen II, didn’t have a side one and a side two. It had side white and side black instead, possibly for artistic reasons or more likely gimmickry. It was the 1970s after all. I very much doubt Emi Buendia has […]