Gary Gowers

It’s never a great sign when one of your centre-backs and your goalkeeper are by some distance men of the match. But it was that kind of night. Maybe Grant Hanley and Tim Krul were able to better withstand the effects of alcohol than their younger colleagues, or perhaps they even had the resolve to […]

We did it! We only bloody did it! And there’s not a single thing Graham Scott, Jonathan Woodgate or Ben Pearson can do to either change or spoil that. While the plucky™ little Cherries still have the not inconsiderable obstacle of the playoffs to contend with before they can even contemplate life back in the […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

However poorly timed, ill-judged and bloody annoying this international break may be – and it’s all of those things – it does permit those of us who write about the club the chance to draw breath, take a step back and survey the lie of the land ahead of the run-in. The Wednesday-Saturday relentlessness of […]

All good things… etc, but it’s no less disappointing when those good thing do come to an end. And that nine-game winning run was a good thing. A bloody marvellous thing. That we let slip a couple of points yesterday was not the end of the world, especially after said run has opened up a […]

“We can still catch Norwich”. Ivan Toney. Sky Sports. March 12, 2021. Dream on, Ivan. In fairness to Brentford’s finest, he was only saying what every pro is conditioned to say and, besides, said gent has a certain swagger that probably has him believing that anything is possible. But he’s wrong, just as his manager […]

Ivan Toney is a confident chap. Bullish even. Those who watched his post-match interview on Sky last Friday following Brentford’s 1-0 win over Blackburn will know what I mean. Before presenting himself with the Man of the Match award (he would also have awarded himself the trophy) Ivan got the hump when the Sky Sports […]

I’ve been reluctant to look too far ahead for obvious reasons but even the lads at Archant are dipping their toes into the water, so I may as well put in my two-penneth. I’m talking of course of the club’s chances of making 2021-22 more than another single-season stopover in the Premier League. All caveated […]

There was a comment from Ben Gibson in the week, posted on Instagram in the aftermath of the Brentford win, that summed up perfectly the mindset in the City camp right now. “We have to win at the weekend so it isn’t wasted.” That this conversation had been had was confirmed after yesterday’s game by […]

He’s not everyone’s cup of tea and, I suspect even by his own admission, his Premier League experience was his season horribilis. Born to score goals he may be, but not so much when the Premier League is home. He wasn’t alone of course but I have often pondered what may have happened last season […]

I trust we all woke up this morning feeling fine… Emi will generate the headlines. Of course he will. And why shouldn’t he. It was a brilliant goal. But at the heart of City’s fine win over the best the Championship has to throw at us was a quartet whose influence on all that happens […]

And the wins just keep on coming. The myth, not helped by people like me, that City sometimes buckle when opponents put it up ’em should no longer even be a thing. Wycombe did everything, literally everything, to try and do a Jonesy on us but, despite a valiant attempt, came up short. Not only […]

That City were able to hit three and still find time to miss a penalty on what was, by their own admission, an off night speaks volumes for this iteration of Norwich City. Cliché time I’m afraid: they found a way. I tweeted at half-time that I would happily settle for a point and I […]

“That was a tough ol’ go, Boy!” The words of Mr Derek Gowers (aka Dad) on the phone to Gower Junior at around 5pm yesterday. As ever, he nailed in one small sentence what I struggle to do in 800 words. It was indeed a tough ol’ go, in every sense, but that City came […]

This was 2018-19 revisited. Attacking thrust with a Finn and an Argentinian at its heart interspersed with with some heart-stopping defensive scares, mostly of City’s own making. And my god it was fun. That’s not to say it was either part of Daniel Farke’s plan or is something we should yearn for a return to, […]

“I wasn’t pleased with the mistakes today and they were the reasons we lost the game.” Daniel Farke was right. It was two very preventable and careless errors that cost City the game. Of more concern though should be the fact that even taking those two errors out of the equation, at no point did […]

The #NCFC timeline last night from 8pm onwards was not for the faint-hearted. In fact, if for any reason you’d been incommunicado from the outside world but had accidentally stumbled across ‘Norwich City’, you’d assume this was a football club in crisis. As it transpired, City’s only crime was to draw a game of football […]

The thing about Jose Mourinho is that you know his intention is to make it all about him. With Neil Warnock I’m never quite sure. Mourinho does it expertly for all manner of reasons – to take the pressure off his players and to inflate his own ego among them – but Colin… who knows. […]