Allan Kemp

Super Saturday – We Canary fans have not had many of those over the last couple of miserable seasons. But this was more than football, much more, as the 4th of August 2012 has gone down as the greatest night in British sporting history. And I was privileged to say ‘I was there’. It was […]

City are back in the Championship and it’s a very familiar fixture list that the Canaries face in 2022-23.  But this being football, there will be a few new(ish) faces and, as such, an opportunity for a brief return of ‘We Meet Again’, the series that looks back at the history between Norwich City and […]

The Premier League dream is over (again!). City are back in The Championship and it’s a very familiar fixture list that the Canaries face in 2022-23.   But this being football, there will be a few new(ish) faces and, as such, an opportunity for a brief return of ‘We Meet Again’, the series that looks […]

So, here we go again, starting with a trip to South Wales. To kick things off, what better way than to revisit Allan’s ‘We Meet Again…’ series, where he takes us back to battles of old with our latest opponents. Also, don’t forget to have a listen to ‘Al and Val’s We Meet Again’ podcast […]

On Saturday, Newcastle United are visitors to Carrow Road. The same Newcastle United against whom we were once battling relegation but who now, helped by a ginormous injection of Saudi Arabian cash, have miraculously secured mid-table safety. While City spent the princely sum of zero in January, the Toon spent 490 million Saudi riyals (circa […]

On Saturday, it’s the so-called Theatre of Dreams for City as we take our imaginary relegation battle to (don’t for god’s sake tell them) one of the world’s great sporting arenas. In ‘celebration’ of that, we are revisiting one of Allan’s We Meet Again… classics, adapted in places to make it 2022-friendly. *** This Saturday […]

As this seemingly interminable international break finally draws to a close, it’s time now to reluctantly re-focus on City’s fight against relegation. I suspect we all know how this ends, but the least we can hope for is the team to rally over these final nine games starting on Saturday at the Amex. So, in […]

For those who didn’t see Allan’s excellent Bristol City ‘we meet again’ from when we played them back in October … *** It is one of England’s largest cities and home to two professional football clubs but neither Bristol City nor their city neighbours, Rovers have played in the Premier League. The closest Norwich’s next […]

Next up for City, a team that is always a welcome sight on the fixture list. Some teams, Fulham and Manchester City spring to mind, we just can’t buy a result for love or money. Some, such as Saturday’s opponents Barnsley, we can do no wrong. Irrelevant of form, whatever the league, a game against […]

With 125 matches to date, not including meetings in the old Southern League, QPR is (I believe) our most played opponent. City has faced the blue and white hoops more than any other and, after a break for one season, this Tuesday we do battle yet again. QPR turned professional entering the Southern League at […]

With November’s manager of the month award nestling on the corner of his (old) desk, it seemed fair to assume Vladimir Ivić would be in the opposing dugout on Boxing Day. But no… this is Watford. So, it’s with Xisco Munoz in charge that City face the Hornets, hoping the Spaniard is unfamiliar with the […]

Sadly, there will be no away fans at Carrow Road for this Saturday’s game but with a lunchtime kick-off and a dismal record of just three wins in 28 trips, maybe, in this case, it’s one Cardiff fans would be better off watching from the comforts of their living room? We’ll see. Cardiff were elected […]

Wednesday night and the Championship’s relentless march continues to a town where I lived for a decade, Reading. A team recently managed by Norwich City Hall of Famer, and arguable Norwich’s greatest-ever left-back, Mark Bowen.  Our first meeting with Reading came in the 1908/09 FA Cup. The two were drawn in the first round and […]

It’s hard to believe now but Norwich’s next opponents can boast of a Premier League title. 1994/95 was a historic season for Blackburn Rovers, while for Norwich it signalled the end of ten consecutive years in the top division. Rovers were themselves relegated, among growing fan/ownership tensions, in 2012, and have never since come close […]

It’s not often City face a former European Champion, even less so one that has won it twice, but this Wednesday Norwich welcomes a club that has two of those iconic cups in the trophy cabinet. Yet another ‘sleeping giant’ its Nottingham Forest. Forest won those European Cups with back-to-back victories in 1979 and 1980. […]

Next up for City is Sheffield Wednesday, one of the Championship’s few ‘sleeping giants’. They have not been in the top-flight in 20 years now but still, they are an attractive opponent on the fixture list with an illustrious history, sizable fan-base and a grand old stadium, in Hillsborough. That history that I referred to […]

We have played them in the top division and again when they have been in the Football Conference. Tomorrow night we look forward to a trip to one of the more old fashioned grounds in English football. It’s a short(ish) trip to Kenilworth Road and a re-acquaintance with one of our friends from the old […]

Next up for Norwich, a team that plays in sky blue but fortunately it’s not Manchester City. FA Cup winners in recent memory, once top-flight regulars and Premier League founder members, Coventry City have fallen on hard times recently. The last eight seasons have been spent homeless and bouncing around the lower leagues – yet […]

A visit to one of the Football Leagues founder members is always extra special for those fans who appreciate the rich heritage of English football. To others, no other place represents the clichéd ‘cold, wet, and windy away trip’, the very definition of a horrible away-day than a visit to the Britannia Stadium, Stoke-On-Trent. Of […]

Tomorrow’s opponents need no introduction. We played them in one of the greatest games in our club’s long history. Think Middlesbrough and your mind will be cast back to a glorious day in the Wembley sunshine. It was a day when Norwich played with confidence and style in front of a yellow wall numbering 40,000. […]