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Stewart Lewis

City and Brexit collide: looking ahead we can tell you with absolute certainty… it’s as clear as mud

13th September 2016 By Stewart Lewis 7 Comments

I just hope the person leaving in front of me on Saturday and muttering about Jacob Murphy is in a small minority. We’ll need different ways to break down opponents this season, and the Murphys have a special ability to take on defenders.

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The going’s tough at Norwich City right now – so now it’s time for our own tough guy to show his mettle

6th September 2016 By Stewart Lewis 14 Comments

No-one could say that Alex has had an easy time of it. After sweeping all before him in the Championship, he had a real baptism of fire in the Premier League – a 34 year old, with the most modest squad in the division, taking on the world’s elite.

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An isolated sneeze, or signs of pneumonia? Now up to City to show us how Birmingham was just a one-off

30th August 2016 By Stewart Lewis 5 Comments

Our Board, recruitment team and manager have been written-off as not fit for purpose. Some would like to see all three, not just our chairman, waltz off into the sunset.

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A little shot of perspective for those who view their Championship glass as being all-but empty

22nd August 2016 By Stewart Lewis 13 Comments

While it may not take 200 years to judge the current season, it’s certainly still early days. That hasn’t stopped City fans taking to social media to give a range of verdicts. It seems their glasses vary from brimming over to the thinnest of dregs. A bit of perspective may be called for…

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How to first recognise and then applaud those characters in life that stay true to themselves…

15th August 2016 By Stewart Lewis 3 Comments

Wes is much the same. From the Sheffield Wednesday game, you could produce a two-minute video making Wes look a complete liability. You could also produce one making him look a world-beating playmaker…

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Striking the right balance: a story of squads, risk management and Swans (no, not those from Wales)

2nd August 2016 By Stewart Lewis 8 Comments

Football is littered with examples, from Leeds to Portsmouth to QPR, of clubs over-stretching and setting themselves back years. Because many of our fans seem oblivious to those dangers, some of us are tempted to keep reminding them at the risk of sounding like spoilsports who’ll settle for less than best for City.

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What does it really take to escape the Championship? Never mind the quality, but feel that attitude

20th July 2016 By Stewart Lewis 15 Comments

Quality matters, but – as Paul Lambert showed in his one Championship season with us – not as much as mentality. A relegated team has got used to losing, whatever its quality, unless it can shake off that mindset, is going to be vulnerable to hungrier and mentally more positive teams.

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Forget the Euros and Olympics – it’s City’s transfer business that will keep us occupied this summer

18th May 2016 By Stewart Lewis 9 Comments

I’ve seen suggestions from fans about our summer business, including some who want to keep all our top earners and most valuable assets, then add some. Unless Bournemouth’s billionaire suddenly feels an irresistible urge to relocate to Norfolk, that’s not happening.

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The end of a season and an era, a team not quite good enough and how lonely it can be at the top of the tree

10th May 2016 By Stewart Lewis 11 Comments

Faced with the inevitability of City’s relegation, he will have turned in on his own role. The clear shortcomings of player recruitment, especially in the summer, are at his door. He’ll have felt, I suspect, that he let us down.

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If it’s pain and frustration you want, football is the right place to be. We’ve just had more than our fair share lately

4th May 2016 By Stewart Lewis 13 Comments

At least 85 per cent of football fans will finish this season frustrated. Television will show celebrations from across the leagues, but the norm is actually despair and recrimination.

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A Comedy of Errors, a Tragedy, or All’s Well that ends Well? Trying to make sense of City’s prospects

27th April 2016 By Stewart Lewis 14 Comments

The coming weekend may be difficult for us. The season climax always brings unexpected results, but in theory our rivals’ games are easier than ours this time, and we may find ourselves deep in the bottom three by Saturday night.

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Allardyce may be in Wonderland for now, but it wasn’t a City no-show and there’s more drama to come

20th April 2016 By Stewart Lewis 15 Comments

Our performance was variously described by fans on Saturday night as a “no-show”, “capitulation” and “disgrace”. I’ve checked back over the action and match figures, and they back up my recall. It was none of those things.

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A while yet before the fat lady sings. In the meantime opera can tell us something about Norwich City FC

13th April 2016 By Stewart Lewis 7 Comments

I thought that seven points from three games might create sufficient composure that we wouldn’t panic at a setback. Apparently not. Saturday night saw gloom-and-doom set in with a vengeance; on social media fans queued up to express their despair.

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Another special Carrow Road day to add to the Pantheon but still plenty of twists and turns ahead

6th April 2016 By Stewart Lewis 27 Comments

While Jeff Stelling announced our winner as “the goal that could keep one club up and send another down”, the Sunday Telegraph billed it as a goal that “set Norwich on course for Premier League safety”.

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How David McNally ruined Easter. And emotional battles with Newcastle, past and to come

28th March 2016 By Stewart Lewis 10 Comments

The meaning of Easter has always been clear to me: a biting east wind and two league games. We’ve had the wind, but it’s Leagues 1 and 2 who have the games. Even with an unexpectedly heartening England performance, it just doesn’t feel right.

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The pitfalls of pre-season forecasting – and how to deal with that old Bear of Relegation

22nd March 2016 By Stewart Lewis 7 Comments

Our belief, and its translation into vocal backing, can genuinely help the club we love. Though I hated not being able to go to The Hawthorns, it was wonderful compensation to hear On the Ball City loud and clear over the radio.

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A point no-one expected, won by dogged resilience and collective desire, offers hope for Prem run-in

17th March 2016 By Stewart Lewis 11 Comments

The table may not look much different after Saturday, but the landscape does. I don’t know whether the players were losing belief after Swansea, but every social medium told us graphically that the fans were. The performance and result on Saturday has turned the mood around.

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The need for nerve and unity; the enigma of City’s downward spiral and can we break the code?

8th March 2016 By Stewart Lewis 6 Comments

After Saturday it’s easy to say we lack the fight and determination to claw our way to safety. But that wasn’t the case against Leicester and Chelsea, or indeed West Ham. In three of our last four we’ve shown plenty of heart – that doesn’t look like a lost dressing room to me.

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Inevitably on the way back to the Championship? It’s no foregone conclusion. The Yellow Army must keep believing

1st March 2016 By Stewart Lewis 5 Comments

I’d be more pessimistic if City were being regularly outclassed, but that’s not the case. In games I’ve seen, only Tottenham have done that. We’ve made life more difficult for ourselves by missing chances for three points such as at Villa.

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No shortage of advice for Alex Neil – we’re all managers, it’s just a pity we don’t agree on anything

8th February 2016 By Stewart Lewis 14 Comments

I think Alex Neil was right to change our approach after Newcastle; if he hadn’t, we were heading the way of Ian Holloway’s Blackpool. He was even right, in my view, to change for the Stoke game following the home wins against Villa and Southampton, both of whom have very different styles and strengths to Stoke’s.

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