Taking on guest blog duties today is season-ticket holder Mike Taylor who looks at what needs to change in order for the promotion push to be sustained… *** We aren’t top by a fluke: The performances against Boro and Millwall are inconsequential; take the two points and clean sheets and look forward. However, don’t be […]
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GUEST BLOG: Absent Minds
Taking up the guest blog mantle today is tweeter extraordinaire Dave Cole, who sums up perfectly the pain of not being there to witness this promotion charge … *** The benefit of an early evening kick-off and win was the chance to relax before bedtime with a cuppa as the waves of social media satisfaction […]
GUEST BLOG… It’s a numbers game
Today it’s the turn of Jim Davies, a friend of MyFootballWriter and one of our gang of regular commenters, who takes us on a little journey back to 1959. Take it way Jim… *** When I first starting watching Norwich in the mid 1950s, they played in yellow shirts and black shorts and socks, and […]
GUEST BLOG: Silly Season Part II… Brexit… Aarons… Emi… and Duncan Whatmore?
A new year and a new guest blog to welcome it in. The floor is handed over to regular commenter and occasional guest blogger Alex Bain, who looks at the changes brought about by Brexit and some of the transfers rumours already emanating… *** Well. we are now officially entering Silly Season, or at least […]
GUEST BLOG: Too Early for a Pukki Party?
As part of MFW’s continued effort to offer its floor to the columnists of the future, today’s guest blog is from Samantha Palmer… *** A win against Millwall tonight could see City, currently fourth in the Championship behind Bournemouth, Swansea City and Reading, go up to second. So far they’ve collected 17 points from nine […]
The Sounds of the Carra…
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Community, Memories and a Little Football Heaven
It was a foul. Even now I still believe it was a foul. Emi had the ball and was unceremoniously dumped on the ground. The referee signalled play on. The shouts rang out and Emi, in typical fashion, pounded his fists on the ground. Then something else happened. Emi got up, the roar of the […]
GUEST BLOG: The musings of a City supporting ex-pat
I should start by giving a little background information on myself. I’m Justin. I’ve been a Norwich fan since I was 7 years old. I’m now 39. I was born in America but brought up in Norfolk. I currently live in Japan and work as an actor under a different name. Being an expat Norwich […]
GUEST BLOG: An alternative view of Norwich City’s disastrous 2019-2020
Another day, another guest blog, with the stripes today being handed to Debbie Hewitt, who gives her take on the season that wasn’t… *** I am an avid listener of Radio Norfolk’s excellent Canaries coverage, especially the quintessential Chris Goreham commentary. I also love (most of) the partisan guest commentators. If our game is live […]
GUEST BLOG – Do we *really* love the second tier more than the Premier League?
The first of two consecutive guest blogs is from James Cushing with a timely reminder that the Championship is only fun when things are going well… “We’ll regroup and go again next season”. “It’ll be great, we can win every week”. “We need one season in the second tier to build for the future”. Sound […]
GUEST BLOG: Time for Daniel to dish out some tough love?
It’s guest blog time again, and this week it’s the turn of Anna Say who takes a look at the changing demeanour and tone of Daniel Farke… *** We know that the Daniel Farke we see is not necessarily the same guy that our players see in the dressing room but, for now, I want […]
GUEST BLOG: Same as it ever was? Or a perfect storm approaching?
It’s guest blog time again, and today it’s City fan Dave Cole, whose journey began in the late 1960s when he was warned by his grandfather that following Norwich would be ‘difficult’! Grandads always know! *** If you look out your window, you’ll notice thunder clouds hanging over Carrow Road. They’ve been steadily gathering since […]
A message from the NCFC Community Sports Foundation…
The Club have announced that season ticket holders and members will be able to claim a pro-rata rebate for the remainder of 2019-20 season as a result of the COVID-19 crisis. The window for that process opens today. Supporters have the option to donate their rebate to the Norwich City Community Sports Foundation at a time when […]
GUEST BLOG: Hughton 2013/14 vs Farke 2019/20…
The latest blogger to grasp the guest blog baton is Jack Green, the voice of the excellent Singing From The Nest. He poses the question, who would win if Chris Hughton’s Class of 2013/14 played Daniel Farke’s Class of 2019/20? His conclusion is perhaps not what you’d expect… Chris Hughton. Two words that make most […]
GUEST BLOG: Was there life before Sky ‘invented’ football? You bet…
Another member of the #NCFC Twitterati who picked up the guest blog baton was our Worthing Yellow, Mick Saunders, who describes beautifully the journey from Kent to Carrow Road via 80 Football League grounds. Take it away, Mick… I became aware of football as a “thing” during the 1970 World Cup in Mexico, helped in […]
GUEST BLOG – City FC’s first tentative steps… and some memorable Canary names
MFW’s very own Alex Bain is back, this time with a whistle-stop history lesson on how our club came into being and then gives us a few of his favourite City players… Norwich City F.C. was formed, as an amateur club, at a meeting at the Criterion Café in Norwich on 17 June 1902 . […]
GUEST BLOG: Project Restart – but with a Liverpool hue
The flurry of MFW content decrying Project Restart has provoked plenty of discussion, mostly dissenting voices but the odd one in favour. One of those has been Liverpool fan Neal Widdows, who kindly offered to write us a piece explaining the argument for. Here goes… and please let’s play nice. Firstly, I’d like to thank […]
GUEST BLOG: Five questions the EPL should answer before Project Restart can… start
The latest blogger to grasp the Project Guest Blog baton is Phil Huish, who has some searching questions to ask of the Premier League before their own pet project can safely begin… For context, I’m a City season ticket holder who lives in exile. Every match I attend includes six hours in the car and […]
GUEST BLOG: From Kent to Blackpool, via Gib, North Africa and the Fine City
A familiar voice for readers and commenters on MFW … our own Alex Bain with another guest blog, taking us on a tour, home and abroad, through the eyes of a football fan. Now in my 70th year, I was reminiscing about the games I have watched, the troubles I’ve witnessed and other things I’ve […]
GUEST BLOG: Memories of following City via the crossbar of my dad’s bicycle
In the latest of our series of MFW guest blogs, David Wild has been handed the reins and tells us of his formative years at Carrow Road, and the heady days of away fans in the old Barclay… The memory of my first Norwich City game starts with a crossbar seat on my dad’s bicycle, […]