On Tuesday night, Norwich City’s Executive Committee – Ben Kensell, Zoe Ward and Stuart Webber – gave us 90 minutes of online reporting and Q&A. Fan groups logged in from across the globe (and Peterborough). As well as learning that Zoe had cut Stuart’s hair – it’s OK, they’re partners – we were given a […]
Column
TALES FROM THE CITY: Dave Stringer
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 […]
A message from the NCFC Community Sports Foundation…
The Club have announced that season ticket holders and members will be able to claim a pro-rata rebate for the remainder of 2019-20 season as a result of the COVID-19 crisis. The window for that process opens today. Supporters have the option to donate their rebate to the Norwich City Community Sports Foundation at a time when […]
For some diehards, the Carrow Road experience may be a thing of the past
Well, as we all know the wheels are firmly back on the Premier League gravy train and it’s ready to roll on June 17 with Sheffield United against Aston Villa and Manchester City versus Arsenal. The catch-up games of course. Apparently City are planned to resurface on June 19 against Southampton at Carrow Road. Not […]
Looks like it’s happening whether we like it or not. So, what chance a little miracle?
So, in theory, depending on what the TV schedule throws up, this time in three weeks I could be musing over City’s game with Southampton. Just imagine if it’s a win I’m writing about. Just imagine. Okay, so there’ll be no descriptions of Carrow Road reverberating when City inevitably take an early lead – this […]
Will it be the same? No. Does it have to happen? Yes. And imagine an FA Cup win…
When Norwich City’s second goal went in at Leeds in February last year — the Pukki tap-in which caused a delayed reaction among our fans tucked in a corner at the other end of the pitch — I turned to seek out the face of a friend in the row behind me. We shared a […]
The Carrow Road Experience (1985)
The year is 1985. Elizabeth II is on the throne, Margaret Thatcher is prime minister, and Tears for Fears are storming the charts with Everybody Wants to Rule the World. Richard Briers is wittering his way through Ever Decreasing Circles on BBC1, Morons From Outer Space is showing at the ABC, and somewhere in Croxteth, proud mum Jeanette Rooney has […]
TALES FROM THE CITY: Adam Drury
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 […]
Other than Chisholm (og), can you name City players who’ve scored in cup finals?
As the expiry date for this year’s FA Cup final slips by, maybe it’s of interest to mention those Canaries who have scored in major cup finals during their career. Do you remember any of these? FA Cup – Peter Osgood 1970 – Alan Taylor 1975 – Kevin Reeves 1981 – Andy Linighan 1993 – […]
GUEST BLOG: Hughton 2013/14 vs Farke 2019/20…
The latest blogger to grasp the guest blog baton is Jack Green, the voice of the excellent Singing From The Nest. He poses the question, who would win if Chris Hughton’s Class of 2013/14 played Daniel Farke’s Class of 2019/20? His conclusion is perhaps not what you’d expect… Chris Hughton. Two words that make most […]
FROM THE ARCHIVES: That day in May 2015…
I don’t tend to use ‘From The Archives’ for my own columns – they’re wholly undeserving – but given that it’s five years to the day that we all descended upon Wembley for that never-to-be-forgotten afternoon against Boro, I thought this may be worth another airing. Written early the following morning, so please forgive the […]
In a non-football world, we take all the #NCFC snippets we can, plus a 1996 ‘mare
Well it’s been another funny old week in this current world of non-football. Our players are back at Colney in an environment of socially distanced, non-contact training in strictly limited groups and maybe the intensity levels will be stepped up next week. Maybe. Of course, it’s now straight home for them to get a shower […]
The EPL ploughs on with their planned restart – and the boys are back at Colney
Despite being not much further forward in knowing exactly where, when, and even how, the players returned to Colney this week. While it was good to see them doing Colney stuff, albeit in a socially distanced and responsible way, the fact there remain so many unknowns makes it tricky to get too excited. It felt […]
The Cedric Interview – Part Three: Seeing the Light
In the final part of our interview with Cedric Anselin, we look at how the former Bordeaux and Norwich City player has fought depression, what he does now to help others with mental health issues, and how we can survive without football during lockdown. “I always say we are born with a mouth to talk, […]
FROM THE ARCHIVES: ‘City ’til I die’ mantra is so powerful because it’s based on a truth
We are so lucky to have had Kevin Baldwin on the MFW roster. A trawl through his MFW back catalogue, in search of a ‘From the Archive’ piece, was a timely reminder of what a brilliant writer he is, and that’s before we even get to Norfolk ‘n’ Good (still available on Amazon and in […]
The Cedric Interview – Part Two: Darkness in a world of colour
In part two of our three-part exclusive interview with Cedric Anselin, we discuss mental health in football, the blackness that overcame him despite a colourful world he lived in, and how 1999 wasn’t the time to reveal your inner demons as a professional footballer. The concept that ‘men find it hard to talk about mental […]
GUEST BLOG: Was there life before Sky ‘invented’ football? You bet…
Another member of the #NCFC Twitterati who picked up the guest blog baton was our Worthing Yellow, Mick Saunders, who describes beautifully the journey from Kent to Carrow Road via 80 Football League grounds. Take it away, Mick… I became aware of football as a “thing” during the 1970 World Cup in Mexico, helped in […]
The Cedric Interview – Part One: Far from a nobody…
In the first of a three-part exclusive interview for MyFootballWriter.com and headersandvolleys.co.uk, former France U-21 international, Bordeaux and Norwich City star Cedric Anselin tells Paul about his early career at Bordeaux, a chance encounter with the ‘Divine Ponytail’ and his relationship with Nigel Worthington. “I’m a nobody. I’m a nobody now.” It is clear from […]
A league motivated by greed, no doubt, but not the sole fault of one Mr Murdoch
Tin hat time for me: here is my defence of Rupert Murdoch. No, that’s not really what this is. But I’d like to respond to and amplify Gary Gowers’ piece about the start of the Premier League — because I had a ringside seat at the fight that transformed the game in this country. Several […]
TALES FROM THE CITY: ‘Disco’ Dale Gordon
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 […]