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Mick Dennis

Epic victory at Watford but flaws in playing 4-4-2 laid bare to those who still wish for ‘two up top’

27th September 2013 By Mick Dennis 30 Comments

Hughton is not inherently cautious or defensive. How could ten different Tottenham managers have valued his coaching if he does not prize attacking play? Yes, he likes an organised defence. And he believed that was the area which needed improving when he took over at Norwich.

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Let’s not be fooled by the weekend’s stats; the only ones that counted meant a deserved point for City

20th August 2013 By Mick Dennis 18 Comments

There were more misleading stats from the game. One set said Everton had enjoyed 67 per cent of the possession: an extraordinary figure for a visiting team. Opta, the company used by the Press Association and the BBC, later declared Everton’s possession to have been only 56 per cent – still good but not so substantially better than Norwich to raise alarms.

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Farewell to a legend. Holty’s role in restoring the pride of the Canary Nation will never be forgotten

9th July 2013 By Mick Dennis 14 Comments

I can’t think of him without remembering the demolition derbies. In the first, at our place, Holty’s hat-trick epitomised his attacking qualities: never giving defenders time to think or room to move, always ready to indulge in low-level illegality to better an opponent, always alert to an opportunity, always striking the ball like someone who knows he can score rather than someone who hopes he might.

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While Chelsea fans opted to exit stage left as defeat loomed, the Yellow Army stood firm… as always; loyalty never in question

14th May 2013 By Mick Dennis 15 Comments

How could Chelsea fans stomp out on their kids? How could they become so sated by success, so flush with a sense of entitlement that they wouldn’t stay to the finish and applaud teenagers? It will never be like that at Norwich. We remember what failure feels like, so when success comes, boy, it feels so good. But we can’t take it for granted.

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Minus the yellow-tinted spectacles, Chris Foy’s Stadium of Light performance may have bordered on the acceptable

18th March 2013 By Mick Dennis 31 Comments

If Sunderland had won, Norwich would now be 15th, with confidence crushed. As it is, it is Sunderland who are 15th, four points above the drop zone and with belief of supporters and probably players deflated. As I have said on this site, Norwich will always have to chisel out every point in the Premier League and must treat every point won away from Carrow Road as a triumph.

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While the goals remain elusive and the finishing line in the distance there is still every reason for the Canary Nation to keep the faith…

14th March 2013 By Mick Dennis 8 Comments

I think of games under Glenn Roeder when Darel Russell was pressed into service as a striker. I shudder at the recollection of the string of genuine(ish) forwards upon who we invested our hopes: men like Elvis Hammond, Chris Brown and Paul Dalglish. I think of players in other positions – Julien Brellier, Steve Walsh and Simon Whaley among them – who stretched my determined optimism to breaking point.

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Time for a few home – and away – truths about the club we love so dearly; we will forever have to fight for our Premier League lives…

4th February 2013 By Mick Dennis 28 Comments

Here is a truth which some will find unpalatable: as long as we live, Norwich will always have to scrap for every Premier League point. And any point earned away from home will be a good one…

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Few Canaries divide opinion like Steve Morison, but the anti-brigade’s refusal to accept his qualities leaves a bad taste

8th January 2013 By Mick Dennis 9 Comments

I’VE had two spats with Norwich fans at recent matches. My wife tried to stop me, but sometimes I am so angered by some of the glass-half-empty contingent that I cannot bite my tongue. Both rows centred on Steve Morison. At West Brom, a guy behind me made a highly disparaging comment about Morison as […]

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Lambert gave us three, exhilerating years at the helm; he moved on; so have we. Expect no sentiment on Saturday.

23rd October 2012 By Mick Dennis 4 Comments

Looking back now, there are some lessons ahead of City’s reunion with Lambert. We certainly need to remember how we got him before we allow ourselves to be consumed with angst about how we lost him. And we need to realise that, once he moves on, there is no sentiment in his soul…

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Stand up and take the applause, Mr Johnson. You led by example and proved to all present that City are back…

3rd September 2012 By Mick Dennis 6 Comments

Instead, as the magnificent travelling fans yelled themselves hoarse and the players dug in for the draw which was the very least their endeavour and enterprise deserved, there was an almost palpable sense of: “We’ll be all right!”

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Chris Hughton is a thoroughly decent, football man who has long deserved a decent board to work for. Welcome to Norwich…

7th June 2012 By Mick Dennis 3 Comments

He contrived to guide Birmingham into the play-offs, but you can see why Norwich – stable, Premier League, well-run Norwich – present Hughton with an opportunity. It will be a change to work somewhere sane. The calm man, who has shown time and time again that he can steady a rocking ship, has arrived at a safe harbour…

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When the dust finally settles, see this for what it is – a fiercely driven man and one, burning ambition to get to the very top his trade.

1st June 2012 By Mick Dennis 20 Comments

I could blather on about “sources” or bury you in coded cliches, but instead I assert baldy that I know for an absolute fact that Lambert understood and accepted the need for Norwich to keep the spending brakes on for two more seasons….

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People, just sit back and bask in the glory that is this City side. And relish what the Bennetts and the Howsons are adding…

10th April 2012 By Mick Dennis 18 Comments

Of course people who pay to watch Norwich have a right to boo. Even keyboard warriors who stay at home have a right to boo. But the real question is why would you want to? Why would you look for negatives at Norwich City now? It is like winning the Lottery and moaning that it wasn’t the Euro Millions…

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Let’s take a step back and look at the bigger picture, even if Sir Paul can’t…

7th March 2012 By Mick Dennis 9 Comments

I always rage at the moaners and the snipers who, even this season, can find something to make themselves miserable before they phone Radio Norfolk or log-in to message boards. Yet Lambert was less able to deal with the [Manchester United] defeat than any of them. You’ve got to love the guy.

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What do back-to-back away wins tell us about Paul Lambert’s Canaries? That we’re not a Blackpool. Simple as.

17th January 2012 By Mick Dennis 9 Comments

The changed football landscape meant that clubs like Norwich could never again compete at the very top of the English game on equal terms. But, there are no other clubs exactly like Norwich, with fans who stay so loyal and so passionate in the third tier. Certainly there are no managers quite like Paul Lambert…

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One lengthy interview in Yellows later and I have ever more reason to trust in our manager, Paul Lambert…

13th December 2011 By Mick Dennis 6 Comments

“People say staying up is success, and I can understand that and agree but I don’t want the players to think that is enough. I want to drive them on. Sir Alex Ferguson must have a bad back, from lifting trophies but he still wants more. So I want to be at that sharp end, where you can win things.”

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Make no mistake, we will always, always freakin love Grant Holt. But, likewise, in Paul Lambert we trust…

5th October 2011 By Mick Dennis 5 Comments

Those who warned that he would need men with Premier League experience in the top division should think about the Sunderland defence who were so bemused and confused as Norwich City constructed that Barcelona-esque second goal against them…

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Not for the first time, what follows won’t make me Mr Popular. But the man in the middle is just that. A man.

13th September 2011 By Mick Dennis 36 Comments

I don’t expect anyone – not one person – to agree with this column, but if I only write populist stuff on this site, I’d there would be no point in contributing. You can get your fill of one-eyed jingoism on message boards….

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Please, my illustrious colleagues in the Press, can we for once look a little harder and see how our diamonds sparkle…

15th August 2011 By Mick Dennis 6 Comments

De Laet will be one of the Premier League’s top performers this season. I saw enough of him in pre-season to be certain of that. He is a pro-active defender, blisteringly quick, intelligent and with a healthy hatred of ceding an inch.

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A quick plug for FourFourTwo. A worthy beach read adorned by the words of our Commander-In-Chief

29th June 2011 By Mick Dennis Leave a Comment

“It will be extremely tough, we know that, and I’m not going to make a rash prediction but we are going to enjoy it and if we can stay in the league it will be incredible…” Lambert tells FourFourTwo Magazine.

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