Tales From The City .

Throughout football’s shutdown, Mt Football Writer has been publishing weekly chapters from the trilogy of Tales From The City books. Here is our final extract.  With Project Restart just days away, it is particularly apt that we can retell the ‘Tale’ of Norwich City’s greatest ever reboot. From their lowest point for half a century, […]

As the days dawdle along towards an FA Cup quarter-final which will be like no other — one without fans — our latest extract from the Tales From The City trilogy recounts (along with many other remarkable yarns) the story of when the entire country was enthralled by City’s greatest FA Cup run of all […]

Dave Stringer is ‘one of our own’. He has lived all his life in Norfolk — and gave all but four years of his entire playing, coaching and management career to Norwich City. He played 499 games for the club, was voted player of the season as the club won promotion to the top tier […]

Adam Drury wore the Canaries’ yellow for 11 years (and eight managers), and saw it all: the rise, decline and rise again of the great club in the Fine City. If, as cliché insists, football can be a rollercoaster, then he was at the club for the entire ride. His self-critical account of that adventure […]

Dale Gordon is one of our own. He first trained with the club at eight, made his debut at 17 and was in City teams who finished fifth and fourth in the top division. The story of the kid from Caister who became a Norwich Hall of Famer is reproduced here from the third volume […]

Iwan Roberts not only needs no introduction, he doesn’t need his surname. Just saying ‘Iwan’ is enough. Here is his chapter in the first volume of the Tales From The City trilogy, reproduced here with the kind permission of Adam Leventhal for the publishers and editor Mick Dennis. It was first published in October 2015 […]

Robert Fleck was leading scorer for four consecutive seasons for Norwich and player of the year in 1992. He had two spells at the club, making more than 250 appearances and scoring 84 times. His contribution to the second volume of the Tales From The City trilogy was perhaps the most surprising of all 33 […]

In the second volume of the Tales From The City trilogy, Kevin Bond gave a brutally frank assessment of how being the son of manager John Bond helped his career — but, despite the self-deprecating honesty, it reminded readers that Kevin became more than just his daddy’s boy. His Tale, written in 2016, has a […]

He used to stand on the terraces. Then came the time he needed to stand by the club.  After four decades as a fan, Michael Wynn Jones and his wife, Delia Smith, stepped in to save Norwich City. This third excerpt from the trilogy of Tales from the City was first published in 2015. It […]

Ken Brown was manager for more games than anyone in Norwich City history — 367 competitive matches — and his spell in charge followed seven years and 340 games as assistant manager to Jon Bond. Yet, despite serving and surviving for so long in a fiercely competitive industry, he was known for his almost constant […]

By kind agreement with the publishers, Tales From Ltd, MyFootballWriter today begins the serialisation of the three Tales From The City books, which were put together by our own Mick Dennis. Each chapter in the books is a personal account of one person’s association with Norwich City. They are “Tales” from ex-players, former managers, directors […]