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Martin Penney

CITY v MILLWALL (H) – THE PREVIEW

18th August 2022 By Martin Penney 4 Comments

It’s Millwall time again tomorrow evening as we welcome the lads from South East London to Carrow Road. We might be buoyed by our first win of the season against Huddersfield Town on Tuesday but the Lions will be roaring with relief after that incredible comeback to earn a 2-2 draw against Swansea City. I […]

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The defence-splitting through balls are back – hallelujah!

18th August 2022 By Martin Penney 24 Comments

After City’s first win of the season against Huddersfield Town on Tuesday evening I am happy to reaffirm that football is indeed a funny old game. For a considerable amount of the contest, City looked far more cohesive than of late and although it’s hard for me to pinpoint exactly why, there were certainly a few […]

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Curse of the left-back … buying into Norfolk … and next door’s cat supporting Teemu

15th August 2022 By Martin Penney 42 Comments

Before going to bed on Saturday night I ended the day in my traditional manner by looking at all four league tables in descending order. Nothing intrinsically new there of course. But lurking in the background were a couple of things we haven’t seen in many a moon. Everybody who doesn’t live in Cheshire or […]

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Crossroads… the X29.. surplus midfielders… Dimi woe… and Pukki’s missing half-yard

8th August 2022 By Martin Penney 48 Comments

Standing at the crossroads has become one of the most hackneyed of clichés over the years, usually referencing a sea change in the life of the person concerned who is forced to make the right call on an extremely difficult personal decision. I’ve heard it applied to Julius Caesar, Chairman Mao and a myriad of modern politicians […]

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Too early to fear for the Yellow and Green future? Or a realistic appraisal after Cardiff?

1st August 2022 By Martin Penney 56 Comments

As the teamsheets dropped around 2pm on Saturday I felt a little bit of a smug glow. I had got ten right, my only error being Dean Smith’s retrospectively wrong decision to start Josh Sargent over Danel Sinani. Any form of glow had long gone at the final whistle, of course, replaced by that all […]

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Very little Sunshine on Leith

25th July 2022 By Martin Penney 35 Comments

And so the prologue ends with 46 crucial chapters to follow. The friendlies are completed and the serious stuff begins at Cardiff City’s Millennium Stadium at 3pm precisely on Saturday. City followed up a 2-0 defeat at Celtic Park with a completely lacklustre 1-0 reverse at Easter Road against Hibernian yesterday which saw youngsters Jonathan […]

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Give it half a chance and Norfolk will look after you, Gabriel – you’re one of us now

18th July 2022 By Martin Penney 27 Comments

Like most of us of a Canary persuasion, I have whiled away my spare time this week with quite a few message exchanges with friends and fellow Yellows – not that this is a particularly new concept for me as I guess I do it 52 weeks of the year. This week’s discussions were really […]

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New signings arriving with ‘niggly injuries’, an all too familiar tale in the Fine City

11th July 2022 By Martin Penney 32 Comments

A new signing is always exciting. Even as I approach pensionable age I still feel a little flutter when somebody fresh comes through the glass doors at Colney, especially if they are a holding midfielder with Premiership quality and, whisper it quietly, a Brazilian attacking midfielder, which in itself will become a first for the Canaries. […]

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Gracious Dereham… Too early for Isaac… But maybe Todd on the City comeback trail?

4th July 2022 By Martin Penney 12 Comments

Our pre-season friendly against Dereham Town at Aldiss Park on Friday evening gave Canary fans the chance to see our players [very many of them as there were 22 on display] in action for the first time for a couple of moons, and from what I can gather the 3,000 or so who attended thoroughly […]

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A slow-burner of an NCFC summer is doing nothing for Dean Smith’s pre-season prep

27th June 2022 By Martin Penney 40 Comments

During this last week of flaming June, I am not too sure if I would like to be in Dean Smith’s immaculate white trainers. Following hot on the heels of our inevitable relegation from the Premier League in May or more likely April, I simply don’t want to remember, Smith now has the chance to […]

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With Timmy being linked with PSV, will the gig be Angus’? The latest in a long line…

20th June 2022 By Martin Penney 55 Comments

While us football writing folk always consider the summer months of June and July as the “silly season” – and for very good reason – that doesn’t mean that nothing has been going on behind the scenes at our beloved Norwich City. The EFL Championship fixtures will be released on Thursday [starting with Rotherham away, […]

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Welcome aboard Mr Hayden… the first Isaac to wear the famous yellow and green?

13th June 2022 By Martin Penney 25 Comments

Martin hasn’t been the most auspicious forename to own throughout the annals of history as in there really haven’t been too many famous ones, with a few notable exceptions of course.*** There was a Saint Martin and there have been four Pope Martins. Martin Luther was pretty adept at the jolly old reworking of the […]

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Nothing wrong with the gamble, even if the player doesn’t quite make the grade

6th June 2022 By Martin Penney 22 Comments

Matthew Dennis isn’t a name that will be immediately recognised by many MFW readers. He joined us from Arsenal in the summer of 2020 for a small fee and, like many similar signings that Stuart Webber seems to specialise in, was thought of as “one for the future”. Maybe that phrase was not used by […]

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Shared values and some abiding principles that will fit NCFC … what’s not to like?

30th May 2022 By Martin Penney 26 Comments

I have never had the slightest interest in baseball and freely admit that I don’t even know the rules. But what I do know is that literally millions of our cousins across the Pond are hopelessly devoted to the game that continues to rival American Football in the popularity stakes. So why should I develop […]

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So, what should we expect this summer in terms of our transfer wheeling and dealing?

26th May 2022 By Martin Penney 36 Comments

Now that this season of discontent has ended in ignominy for Norwich City, all we can sensibly do is focus on 2022-23. I have no idea what might or might not happen during the summer transfer window, although I could make a few shrewd pessimistic guesses, so I thought I’d leave matters in the hands […]

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Krul’s swansong? … malady-stricken Martin … lazy Sunday mornings … and a bitter pill

24th May 2022 By Martin Penney 32 Comments

If this wretched season could be encapsulated in a single day our game at Carrow Road against Tottenham on Sunday was certainly it. Very much having a liking for the Lilywhites, I’d been looking forward to this fixture ever since Christmas even though at that time a Champions League spot for Spurs seemed most unlikely […]

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SPURS PREVIEW

20th May 2022 By Martin Penney 38 Comments

As the curtain comes down on what has frankly been a disastrous season for the boys from NR1, it has fallen to me to write the last MFW match preview, in which we face Tottenham Hotspur at 1600 hours promptly on Sunday. Bad luck? Sins of a past life catching up with me? Probably not, […]

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Intransigent octogenarians… little left to sell… & an SD who can leave when he likes

16th May 2022 By Martin Penney 63 Comments

We got a point. Unexpectedly so, but a point we got. But what was the point? Too little too late and remarkably achieved without the squad’s chief pointer, Kenny McLean, on the pitch. So ultimately the 1-1 draw at Molineux was, in reality, pointless. Despite Dean Smith’s declared ambition to glean another £2million or so […]

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A brighter opening 45 and a good night for Angus but still a stroll for the Foxes

12th May 2022 By Martin Penney 33 Comments

Only two more to go, we can do it! Yes my fellow supporters of NCFC we can collectively get to the end of this wretched season, the one that promised a little but achieved absolutely nothing but condemnation and humiliation from the PL pundits. Unless we are to class a seemingly regular bashing and bruising […]

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Remember that winning culture and those motivational messages? Happy days

9th May 2022 By Martin Penney 83 Comments

Yes, I did it again – as in I left at halftime for the second time this season, on this occasion against West Ham. Apportion blame in my direction and even shame me dear reader if you choose, because that is your prerogative. But in no way was I alone. Many people did the same […]

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