Gary Gowers

“When will I see you again?” So sang the Three Degrees. Little did Shelia Ferguson know it would become the theme (or at least my theme) of the spring of 2020. I’m missing friends and family. I’m also missing the River End like you wouldn’t believe. In particular, those I call my Carrow Road neighbours […]

There are many who pass through the Fine City in the name of professional football and fall in the love with the place. Some stay for life. I’m thinking Darren Huckerby, Iwan Roberts and Darren Eadie, just off the top of my head, but there are others. Equally, there are some who pass through for […]

Dick Gowers’ first-ever trip to Carrow Road was on August 31, 1946, when City played host to Cardiff on the opening day of the Division Three (South) 1946/47 season. They won 2-1. As well as being Dad’s first sight and sound of the old place – then not-so-old – it was the club’s first competitive […]

The creaks are rising and football means nothing. Nada. But there will come a time again when it does. It may not feel like it right now… but it will. And when it eventually resumes, or well before then in fact, there are some massive decisions to be made by those in the corridors of […]

Chris Wilder: “It was a gritty performance, we just felt we were a bit better than them in both boxes.” As loathed as I am to admit it, he’s nailed it yet again. In every sense. Sheffield United are better than us in both boxes, generally, and were better than us in both boxes yesterday. […]

As the saying goes, heroes come in all shapes and forms. They don’t have to wear capes. We know that for a fact. We now know they come in the form of nerveless, teenage Irishmen who love the FA Cup and in lanky Germans who have not had much of a look in but who […]

Wow, who saw that coming? We all expected a response to the no-show at Molineux but such was the lack of City belief in deepest darkest Black Country, it felt a bit of a stretch to see that response yielding three points. But one swoosh of Jamal Lewis’ left boot and some jiggery-pokery from the […]

The ‘little miracle’ of which Daniel Farke speaks has looked unlikely since the day he coined the phrase but fair play to the head coach for outwardly expressing his belief in his players to deliver one. To be fair, he had some of us believing too, but after yesterday’s listless, some would say gutless, offering, […]

Tomorrow night, it’s the second Old Farm derby of season, with the City ladies still bruised from the 4-1 defeat they suffered in Suffolk back in September. Time to put that one right. So, ahead of the game, I’ve been chatting with the club’s chair, Louise Riseborough, who’s updated us on developments off the field […]

It always happens when Liverpool are in town. The great and the good and the not-so-good descend on the old place. Hell, they even bring with them their very own punditry team: Jamies Carragher and Redknapp and Danny Murphy to name but three. It has a different feel to almost every other visit, not always […]

I’d hate for anyone to think ‘One from the Archives’ is a new feature, designed specifically to fill the MFW pages on a day that would otherwise be void of fresh content (as if…), but I can see that those of a cynical disposition may interpret it that way.  I’d rather look at it as […]

It’s a subject that comes up continually – at least in some quarters – and usually when the brown stuff is hovering near the fan. But not always. Even in the good times, it’s one that simmers away. It’s normally though when darkness has descended upon the Canary Nation that the words ‘ownership’ and ‘ambition’ […]

So, Spurs it is. In midweek. Presumably to accommodate the Premier League’s winter break. Weird though. But it gives the Canary Nation the chance to mobilise and, for a few hours at least, make a little patch of north London our own. (Apologies to our friends in blue for paraphrasing their wistful “a little corner […]

It’s the fact City are *that* close to being a good Premier League side that makes this all so frustrating. As ever, we were left with a litany of what-ifs as we again dominated a team that has Premier League football all but assured for next season. Again we were pleasing-on-the-eye, progressive and organised. But […]

The week after City had lost to Burnley in the league earlier this season, the Clarets’ strike-pairing at the time, Chris Wood and Ashley Barnes, were guests on Sky Sports Sunday morning show, Goals on Sunday. It was the morning after we had lost 2-0 in regulation fashion away at Palace. Burnley had drawn 2-2 […]

Maybe we’re not done after all. There looked no way out of this mess in the direct aftermath of Old Trafford, but in true footballing tradition, in true Norwich City tradition in fact, one win later and the world seems a more positive place. It may not have been seismic in the greater scheme of […]

That felt horrible. Not the losing. We can take the losing. But it was the manner of defeat that hurt. Away losses at Old Trafford are two a penny – and not just when you’re Norwich City – but the unedifying way City kowtowed to a United team that’s a million miles away from being […]

Well, that was all rather pleasant and unexpected. In a season where grind has outscored glory by around three to one, not a straw goes by without being clutched, so forgive me if I make the most of this one. A hattrick from an 18-year-old A place in the fourth round of the FA Cup […]

This is going to sound familiar. I apologise for that in advance. It felt like a play we’d all watched many times before. The problem with watching something multiple times is that you know the ending… especially when Connor Wickham comes on for your opponents as a second-half substitute. It may have taken until the […]

I deliberately avoid using this column to rant about officialdom. Social media does that far better than I ever could. But am teetering on the brink after last night. That shouldn’t, however, detract from the fact that the overriding emotion after last night’s draw with Spurs was one of immense pride. Yes, there was exasperation […]