Gary Gowers

I need to be careful how I word this. Over the last few weeks, I’ve had a few messages bemoaning the negativity on MFW this season, with a few people telling me they are departing these pages for good. I deliberately, on request, turned to Mick Dennis and Stewart Lewis to offer a more positive […]

The second international break of the season is usually a chance to take stock and evaluate how the first couple of months have gone for City. On this occasion, it was best not to look too closely – a bonnet that didn’t really need opening. Unfortunately, said international break is also the trigger for Observer […]

Those of you who don’t frequent social media and are able to resist the dubious delights of talkSPORT may be unaware that said radio station has been less than complimentary about our beloved Norwich City over the last couple of months. Not just the once, but consistently… on what feels like a weekly basis. Some […]

To paraphrase Jarvis Cocker, we had to start it somewhere, so it started there… in Burnley. It wasn’t a rip-snorter of a performance by any stretch of the imagination, but it was resolute and gutsy; two words that have been absent from literally every Norwich City match report or thought piece so far this season. As […]

This Premier League lark isn’t much fun is it. Not when you support Norwich City. Not at the moment. In fact, it’s hard to recall a time when City have been in the top flight and things have felt quite so grim. The stats back it up. Played 6. Lost 6. Goal difference -14. Things […]

You know things are not going well when you’ve had to give Match of the Day the swerve for five consecutive Saturdays. Some of you are no doubt braver than I, but Lineker’s half-hearted ‘and Norwich?’ that invariably follows the collective gushing over the qualities of our opponents is too much to take when the […]

The joy of watching Emma Radacanu winning the US Open last Saturday evening may have temporarily eased the pain of another City defeat but was only a short-term fix. I’m not sure what specifically it is about an away defeat at the Emirates that encaptures everything about Norwich City in the Premier League (we tend […]

International breaks eh. Don’t you just love them? They never come at a good time, but those that come immediately after your club has signed what you hope will be two key players are especially annoying. Particularly when said players have literally a few hours at the club before they have to jet off and […]

As Todd Cantwell said afterwards, it would have been disappointing to have come away with a point but, of course, we would definitely have taken it. To have ended up with nothing was a proper blow to the nether regions. The longer we go without those first points, or point, on the board the more […]

Well, that was a little unexpected. Many were forecasting a Crawley (a) type performance but instead a City team made up largely of those who have yet to feature did a number on a Bournemouth team similarly made up of those who Scott Parker deemed in of need of game time. In that regard, the […]

I fully expected the fallout from Saturday’s very disappointing defeat at the Etihad to rattle through way beyond tonight’s Carabao Cup game with Bournemouth; probably right up to kick-off time on Saturday if I’m honest. Such was the dearth of positives, the Canary nation was a fractured old place as we all attempted to unravel, […]

I wasn’t really sure where to start when tasked with previewing yesterday’s game. We all knew what was just around the Etihad corner, so to try and paint a rosy-ish picture before a ball had even been kicked wasn’t the easiest of tasks.  I concluded the piece by suggesting the scoreline wouldn’t be as gloomy […]

Well, it wasn’t the homecoming we’d all dreamt of, but it was the one most expected. A City squad whose pre-season had been ruined by the infiltration of Covid leading to cancelled friendlies and eleven members of the squad undergoing periods of isolation versus the might of Liverpool whose preparations had been almost perfect. What […]

Let’s not kid ourselves. That wasn’t the ideal pre-season. In truth, it’s probably up there with the infamous pre-season of 2014. which included that tour of Italy that was well and truly and in the realms of piss ups and breweries. But this one was nothing to do with poor organisation. In terms of leaving […]

While I’m sure the majority of City fans are excited at the prospect of yet another crack at staying in the Premier League, this one comes loaded with rather more anxiety than those in years gone by. While it’s been generally regarded as a pretty good window for City so far – in terms of […]

Those who insist on telling us to stay patient and await the closure of the transfer window before judging Stuart Webber’s dealings a success, or otherwise, may have a point. But they’re ignoring the basic tenets of the football supporter: to speculate and dream. It’s therefore inconceivable that social media, websites like this one and […]

Considering we’re still nearly three weeks away from the big KO, we’re already well and truly in the throes of the highs and lows of the footballing roller-coaster. The obvious high of the week was news of Daniel Farke’s contract extension to 2025 – a fine outcome after a few weeks of speculation – but […]

And so we’re off! Well, sort of. At least the phoney war is underway, even if we have to wait a little bit longer for the real thing. Around this time, 28 days from now, we’ll be mulling over the whatabouteries and what-ifs of City’s opener against Liverpool. Hopefully in an exultant, jubilant way, but […]

Gary Neville called it right, and not for the first time. Gareth Southgate is the perfect leader, or at least is the perfect leader right now. All of the things that we love in Daniel Farke are present in Southgate. The calm measured responses to even the daftest of questions; the ability to remain calm […]