Yesterday Gary asked whether or not we folks of a Canary persuasion, aka the Great Unwashed, are ready to re-engage with our Club as we head towards the resumption of EFL Championship season 2022-23. He expressed some natural and quite understandable doubts about whether many of us are actually looking forward to the restart. Based […]
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With season ticket renewal just around the corner, an interesting few months await
As one who frequents Twitter far more than is healthy, it’s become clear over the last few weeks that there is little appetite right now for anything Norwich City-related. MyFootballWriter’s Google Analytics page confirms as much. Numbers are at quiet-period-of-close-season levels. All of which is fine but not ideal if you’re the editor of MFW, […]
Upsets, thrills and spills at the World Cup, plus sycophancy of the highest order
For the many reasons we’ve already discussed on MFW, and as highlighted perfectly by Robin, this World Cup, on a wider scale, has been a tough watch. FIFA and the state of Qatar have made it so. But for those who’ve been able to strip away all the bad stuff – an inept, corrupt governing […]
GUEST BLOG: Any chance of movement at NCFC before battle recommences?
It’s a big MFW welcome back to guest blogger, Alex Bain as he voices some thoughts on how and why team selection is what it is at the moment and ponders a few problems that might add to or detract from the very essence of Norwich City FC in the future. Over to you, Alex: […]
Qatar reverting to type… Infantino rambling… and FIFA being FIFA
We’re still in the group stages of the World Cup but already the pre-tournament concerns that Qatar would revert to its standard approach of oppression of minorities and strongarming journalists, and that FIFA would simply roll over and do nothing about it have been shown to be totally accurate. A Danish film crew filming a […]
No Rangers return for the Mayor who extends his stay in the Fine City to 2025
It’s nice to be proven right occasionally and I am no exception to enjoying that all-too-rare feeling. It did not take the scrying glass of Nostrafarmus [or Chris Sadler’s dodgy old sphere of clear plastic from the charity shop] to predict the obvious but ’twas a week ago to this very day that I loudly proclaimed on […]
Remember that community club that prided itself on being transparent & open?
It was nice to be able to afford MyFootballWriter readers a glimpse behind the Iron Curtain. When I say Iron Curtain, what I really mean is an account of City’s open-to-all, 90-minute training session in Tampa, but the fact Dave Bowers’ much-appreciated account of events and a few posted images on social media are as […]
A Black Friday in Tampa… with Norwich City
Yesterday, between fifty and one hundred Norwich City fans travelled from across the US to Al Lang Stadium in St. Petersburg, Florida. Two weeks prior, the club announced they would hold an open training session “allowing football supporters in the area a chance to meet the Norwich City players” at the home of the Tampa Bay Rowdies. The date for the […]
Deano’s stats are as grim as his Smudger-ball, yet we plod on regardless
The Posse and I have enjoyed many a recent conversation about the merits or otherwise of the various Norwich City managers from Ron Saunders to Daniel Farke, while all the time considering how Dean Smith has fared in comparison with the others. As I hinted at the end of their article last Thursday, you only […]
Why did England have to go and play well and offer us all hope?
Just typical of England. In a tournament that just feels (and is) wrong on so many levels, they go and turn in a performance that gets some of us interested and engaged. Not how I’d imagined it or even really wanted it. I’ll be honest, my patriotism is not unconfined – particularly at the moment […]
How has the Club ended up in this state? And what will it take for a reset?
The World Cup is upon us. Domestic top leagues are paused and we are left with a few weeks of reflection. The headline act has to be the fact that Dean Smith has utterly failed to connect with the City fans. It may be easy to blame this upon the often turgid football his team has […]
MFW… and the World Cup break (we’re going nowhere)
You may or may not have noticed that the Sunday stripes this week have been passed to our Martin. For reasons too trivial to mention, he and I have swapped for today and I’ll be here in the week. In fact, we, as in the MFW team, will be here for the duration of the […]
Who stays and who goes? Either way, the door is ajar for the stars of the Academy
Friday turned out to be the most exciting day I’ve had for ages. Why I [faintly] hear you wondering? It’s because I went to Riverside for a first solo excursion in over three months – the first time I’ve driven by myself during that period due to a lengthy period of acclimatisation to the effects […]
The Posse speaks out… on where the land lies at Carrow Road and Colney
As we are surely all thoroughly mentally exhausted by considering matters both on and, particularly, off the Carrow Road turf, I thought I would turn to the Posse to provide a bit of light relief. Or to be strictly truthful, Posse member David C, better known to MFW types as Cutty, turned to the rest of […]
Happy Anniversary?
It’s a year to the day since Dean Smith and Craig Shakespeare rocked up at Carrow Road. The Club decided to commemorate the anniversary with a tweet of a beaming, yellow-and-green-scarf-adorned Deano standing in the tunnel. If you can stomach it, it’s at the foot of this piece. You don’t need me to expand on […]
It rarely gets better from here so twist sooner rather than later
While to me it feels pretty clear-cut that the club as a whole, and the team in particular, needs a change, there are still people urging the Carrow Road hierarchy to show patience and back the current manager through this period of underperformance. I do, however, also think that’s irrelevant. Simply put, I have never […]
Time for the Club to change direction or face being stuck in a cycle of toxicity
We’ve all been there, sadly. That time when a relationship starts to turn sour: a bitter taste left in the mouth where there had previously been an intoxicating sweetness of optimism and hope. Who hasn’t suddenly been stranded in a position when you know things need to change despite having wanted it to work out? […]
Should now be the time to pull the trigger? Yep. … Will it be? Not a chance
Instead of a nerve-steadying three points at Carrow Road against Middlesbrough on Saturday, we were served up another four weeks of angst and anxiety concerning our beloved City between now and a trip to play Russell Martin’s Swans on December 10, thanks to a soul-destroying but ultimately deserved 2-1 defeat. So it will doubtless be […]
Disharmony off the pitch, two wins in ten on it. A long 28 days awaits
In the aftermath of Arsenal’s 2-0 win against Wolves last night, Mikel Arteta was asked the reason for his team’s outstanding start to the season. His reply was obvious, yet telling. ”The unity… from the top of the club through to every single member of the team and the staff”. Something that, right now, we […]
MATCH REPORT: CITY 1, MIDDLESBROUGH 2
I usually write my match report immediately after a game. My thinking is a bit like The Likely Lads – I’m trying to avoid seeing the reaction of others which may colour my judgement. Well, it’s 7.30pm here now. While I have avoided all other reports on the game, I’m still not even sure what I […]