Norwich City v Watford. It’s being billed as the Championship title shoot-out between ourselves and our friends from Hertfordshire but I don’t really go along with that if I’m honest. Some might suggest we’ll take our foot off the gas now we are promoted but the indicators seem otherwise to me, especially in light of […]
Whole lotta love for City as, despite defeat, Saturday turned into our Celebration Day
Saturday has to go down in my personal history as one of the strangest, most emotional days I can ever recall. Passing my driving test [first time, natch], securing my first job in journalism, the births of my wonderful children and seeing Led Zeppelin at Earls Court in 1974 run it pretty clos,e but I […]
Catch us if you can! City nearly there despite weekend wins for the chasing pack
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 […]
A magical evening at the Carra and now it could even be done on Rooney’s watch
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 […]
A rare bit of beef with our Daniel, but hopefully the last we’ll see of City in petrol blue!
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 […]
So, where are we now? Eleven points clear of third with eight to play, that’s where
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 […]
NCFC international round-up… including Onel’s brush with a volcanic ash cloud
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 […]
Dear English Football League…
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 […]
Fair play to Mogga’s boys but the biggest downer of the day was Gibbo’s rolled ankle
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 […]
Same old Norwich… winning again, and that’s without the world’s most brilliant Che
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 […]
FOREST PREVIEW: Wasted chances… a jinxed Glenn Murray… and Hughton-ball
MFW is privileged to once again welcome back our favourite Forest fan, loyal supporter and all-round scion of matters concerning activities in and around the City Ground Christian Brown to inform us about how things currently stand on the banks of the Trent before our meeting with the men in Garibaldi red. Christian and I hadn’t spoken for […]
“Every day, it’s a-gettin’ closer, goin’ faster than a roller coaster…”
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 […]
Seven-up for the Canaries as, for once, Jones’ Hatters lack sufficient fizz to hurt City
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 […]
‘How to draw the sting from the Bees’: the latest in Daniel Farke’s masterclass series
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 […]
Subtlety and patience: the two main ingredients of City’s success at Adams Park
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 […]
WYCOMBE PREVIEW: Our Sunday lunch date with some buoyant Chairboys
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 […]
Farke demanded steel and was given steel after the ropiest of ropey first halves
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 […]
A Lou Reed type of day in NR1 on Saturday as the nerves take a shellacking
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 […]
Operation Game Management deployed to perfection by the buoyant Canaries
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 […]
City serve up something tasty despite a couple of disasters along the way
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 […]