The view within the Norwich-supporting bubble is a very different one to that being espoused by fans of other clubs across the country. Forget the rather bizarre and twisted perception that our country cousins down the A140 currently have of the world following the takeover by new American investors. With just five games remaining we […]
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GUEST BLOG: Off to ‘The Promised Land’
It’s guest blog time again but it’s a familiar voice you’re about to hear. Colin Michael has been kind enough to help MFW this season with some of the match previews and as a regular commenter, has more than earned his stripes. Here he takes us to the *inverted commas* Promised Land. Take it away […]
The Barry Butler voting is open and the club is confident it will be a fair fight
Norwich City will ensure due diligence is carried out on their player of the season poll, after fears that fans from rival clubs could hijack the vote. After a series of man of the match awards had been dubiously awarded to loanee Oliver Skipp amid calls from fans of parent-club Tottenham to vote for the […]
From the Cobbolds to Uncle Sam, but is there a phoenix on the rise down the A140?
At long last something’s stirring down the A140. After more than a decade in a comatose state, Ipswich Town have been given the kiss of life by Uncle Sam With their local rivals about to rejoin the Premier League, this revival comes not a moment too soon for the Tractor Boys who for several years […]
MATCH REPORT: Burnley Under-23s 2, Norwich City Under-23s 2
Late goals from Burnley’s Lewis Richardson and Dara Costelloe denied Norwich City’s Under-23s a valuable three points, after goals from Abu Kamara and Matt Dennis had given the Canaries a 2-0 lead in Curzon Ashton. The match started in hectic fashion, Burnley striker Richardson smashing a volley over the bar with the Clarets’ first attack. […]
Looking ahead: what needs to change and improve if we are to compete next season?
Identifying areas of improvement isn’t moaning. It is part of a healthy cycle to make the team get better. This piece is about learning from lessons past; especially as we know 4-2-3-1 will persevere. WARNING: It will sound like a moan. There is no substitute to for paying for quality unless it is free or […]
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 […]
Hanley excels in the edgiest of City wins, but the prize is now in touching distance
The trouble with 7-0 wins is that they set the bar impossibly high. And it wasn’t just the seven goals. It was the quality of performance; the ebb and flow; the relentlessness; the precision. What followed was only ever going to be a pale imitation in terms of its beauty. While some were expecting another […]
MATCH REPORT: Dowell’s first-half free-kick edges the weary Canaries ever closer
After the midweek mauling of Huddersfield, the question was whether Norwich could avenge the loss to Derby at Carrow Road, which ranked as the biggest picking of pockets since Oliver Twist. The game started in familiar fashion, City confidently stroking the ball at the back, retaining possession and waiting for openings. Derby, predictably, dropped right […]
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DERBY PREVIEW… with a little help from some of MyFootballWriter’s friends
It was time to get the band back together for this week’s preview. Off the back of the most thrilling Tuesday evening since the dawning of time, Colin Michael, Andy Delf, Don Harrold and John Scent have dusted down their instruments, scraped themselves off the ceiling and given us their considered thoughts ahead of City […]
Wayne Rooney’s pre-Norwich press conference: “We’re not underdogs”
Derby County manager Wayne Rooney is aware of the strong City side his injury-hit squad will come up against tomorrow, praising the Championship leaders but dispelling any suggestion of a ‘free hit’ for his team. “It’s a very tough game,” Rooney said at his pre-match press conference on Thursday afternoon. “Norwich are a very good […]
City strikers hit Farke’s target. Now it’s time to start setting next season’s goals
At the start of the season, Daniel Farke outlined the goals target his strikers had to hit: 30 between them. He didn’t care who, how or when, as long as Teemu Pukki, Jordan Hugill and Adam Idah’s tallies totalled 30 or more. On Tuesday night, they hit that target. Pukki’s hat-trick clinching goal, the sixth […]
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 […]
As it happened: A blow-by-blow account of City’s seven-goal demolition of the Terriers
I’ve been away with work for the last few weeks. Seven games have passed – I’ve caught something of most of them but at other times I’ve only the odd text message to go on: ‘Dad, we’re murdering them…’ The snow cascaded down on a wintry Carrow Road but the Canaries really turned on the […]
City deliver a near-fatal blow to Watford’s title hopes while smashing records aplenty
Wow. Where to start, other than to say this really this is the ultimate test of not too high, not too low. So forget that. 99.9 per cent of City fans will need scraping off the ceiling this morning after, arguably, the most exhilarating 93 minutes of NCFC football in all of our lifetimes. As […]
Omobamidele at the forefront of a new generation of City youngsters
The 2019/20 season provided a clearly defined four; the first generation of young City talent hot off the Farke production line. Max Aarons, Todd Cantwell, Ben Godfrey, Jamal Lewis- the boyband. Fast forward two years and while there was disappointment evident at Deepdale, in the background, a second generation was forming. On the pitch were […]
TERRIERS PREVIEW: Plodders… water carriers… and Frazier Campbell worldies
A Tuesday night at home, under the floodlights, with promotion inching closer. How good would it be to have Carrow Road packed to the rafters for this one? Sadly, we’re still a few months away from such lofty ambitions of normality, but as the potential for such activities gets closer and closer, so does the […]
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 […]
A late blow to the solar plexus at Deepdale but City edge ever closer to the big prize
In anyone’s book, a point away at Deepdale in those most trying of circumstances should be seen as one gained, and it was, but try telling that to the good folk of the Canary Nation. For all the bravado mustered upon the final blast of Dean Whitestone’s whistle (more on where I’d like to shove […]