Anyone who listens to Radio Norfolk knows what a lovely chap Chris Goreham is. What you may not know, or recall, is that said lovely chap was once of this parish, before his writing skills, on top of his broadcasting skills, were snapped up by the good folk of Archant. Back in the day – […]
Chris Goreham
Greetings from Gothenburg and one foreign field that was forever Norfolk…
Ain't no mountain high enough, no river wide enough or no football ground remote enough…
Those may not quite be the words of Diana Ross, but if she had been a Norwich Ciy supporter that is exactly what she would have sung.
I had been in the tiny Swedish village of Ahlafors for no more than five minutes before a bus packed with people wearing yellow and green pulled up.
The start of City's pre-season tour against a team that plays in the fourth …
Before the final curtain falls, my chance to say: ‘Thanks a million, Dion!’
No matter what happens to Norwich City over the next four weeks or so one bright light is about to go out. There will be plenty of tributes to Dion Dublin between now and May 4th when his playing career finally comes to an end and he deserves every word.
I was lucky enough to be asked to host 'An Evening With Dion Dublin' at Carrow Road recently and it served to confirm everything I and everybody else had ever thought about him.
The fact that more than 400 people …
Why the return of the fair-weather fan means that the sun is shining again on City
They're threatening to come back out of the woodwork. Who? Those Norwich City fans who only seem to be really interested when things are going well – they have started to bring their heads out of the sand.
After Ched Evans wonder goal against Cardiff moved the Canaries to within four points of the play-off places, a few people who've not said much about Norwich City since Craven Cottage in May 2005 were asking about the possibility of getting tickets for the match against …
How long can the beautiful game survive? A while longer under Roeder's charge…
The beautiful game. We all like to believe that this phenomenon we give up our weekends for and spend far too much of our cash on is a thing of genuine beauty.
But has old age caught up with it? Or have we got to the point where substance is everything – with or without style?
Norwich City's last defeat at Stoke City got me thinking. This isn't sour grapes because Stoke won, but I can honestly say I wouldn't want to watch them every week. They bombarded the …
We’ve heard the word ‘Sorry!’ once too often. ‘Yes, I’ll come…’ will do.
Last season Norwich City performed so poorly at Plymouth Argyle that Delia Smith and Michael Wynn Jones were moved to apologise to supporters on the club's official website.
Some 14 months and two changes of manager later and 'Sorry!' just doesn't cover it anymore.
For most teams a performance like that of Norwich in the 3-0 defeat at Home Park this season would be deemed totally unacceptable.
For Canaries' fans abject displays have become …
If only any of us knew the reasons for City's plight. If only it were that simple…
It's easy to criticise football managers. Sometimes you can pick holes in team selections, tactics and work in the transfer market but there are occasions when it's difficult to see exactly where a manager is going wrong.
As news of Preston goal after Preston goal against Southampton was being whispered into my headphones during commentary on Norwich's 0-0 draw with Scunthorpe United, it was clear that the Canaries were heading for the bottom three of the Championship.<br …
To my No1 fan in Hull: I’m sorry, OK? I didn’t mean it, that way… not really…
I know what it's like to be a footballer. OK, not really…
But I have managed to experience a little taste of what it is that players and managers go through every week. And I have been blasted by a fan on a football phone-in.
BBC Radio Norfolk's post-match 'Canary Call' is supposed to be an opportunity for Norwich fans to vent their spleen, collectively worry and every so often celebrate the life and times of Norwich City.
If the football …
How far am I going to stick my neck out prediction-wise? That’s undisclosed…
There's a word which appears to have become more and more common in the world of football.
It's a word which can answer one question and yet pose several more at the same time. This word also has the power to suggest something is more exciting than it actually is. It might even be the most used word in football's vocabulary at this time of year. ?Undisclosed…?
Is it just me or are more players than ever before moving to their new clubs for an …
Lazy summers dreaming of what’s clearly going to happen this season – isn’t it?
Is there anything worse as a football fan than being out of the loop?
I returned from holiday the other day and switched on my mobile phone for the first time in a week. I quickly found myself under a barrage of text messages from fellow Canaries.
Within 30 seconds I was informed that Rob Earnshaw had gone, we'd signed Jamie Cureton and my mobile phone provider could have offered me cheaper calls had I needed to phone home while I was abroad. It's a lot of …