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Jack Goddard

The end of the Pukki party…

5th May 2023 By Jack Goddard 4 Comments

It’s July 2022, about 11 pm, in the Spanish Quarter of Naples. I’m walking between the crowded bars, wearing my beautiful, new, pinstriped Norwich shirt for the first time. Out of nowhere, a man whizzes past on the back of a moped, punching the air in my general direction and yelling ‘PUKKI PUKKI PUKKI!’ in […]

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Blaming the fans usually spells the beginning of the end…

19th December 2022 By Jack Goddard 9 Comments

On Saturday night in the NFL, the Minnesota Vikings trailed 33-0 at home with five minutes to go in the first half. The crowd were stunned into silence, except to boo their own team before the half-time whistle had even blown. In the second half, Minnesota rallied to win 39-36, and complete the biggest comeback […]

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Progressive, inventive football is the way ahead; the age of the dinosaur has passed

13th August 2019 By Jack Goddard 10 Comments

When Divock Origi headed Liverpool into a 4-0 lead on Friday night, my friend turned to me in the briefly silenced Murderers pub and said what we were all thinking: “I can’t believe it.” Before kick-off, another friend (who doesn’t follow football) asked how likely it was for Norwich to snatch a win, so I […]

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The future is bright, the future is yellow, regardless of this season’s final outcome

6th August 2019 By Jack Goddard 6 Comments

A quick game before we get started: two of these statements are false, while the other is undeniably true. Can you pick out the correct one? The only way to stay in the Premier League is by spending hundreds of millions of pounds, no matter who the money is spent on. Aston Villa were clearly […]

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On the basis of one player winning it… who’ll have his hands on the Barry Butler?

2nd April 2019 By Jack Goddard 31 Comments

Norwich City’s Player of the Season Award has rarely been a tight contest. In recent seasons, James Maddison and Bradley Johnson had it wrapped up by mid-December, Wes Hoolahan and Jonny Howson unsurprisingly won amid weak competition, and Robert Snodgrass battled off a strong late challenge from Carlo Nash to rightly scoop the prize. Even […]

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German import or ‘one of our own’, every player in this group oozes class

25th January 2019 By Jack Goddard 8 Comments

As Norwich fans, we take a lot for granted – a financially secure club, a stadium overlooking our magnificent cathedral and even good football every once in a while. But what we’ve never fully appreciated is our club’s greatest pulling power – an Argos right in the city centre. Don’t worry though, Onel Hernandez didn’t […]

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In the true spirit of Christmas, “I believe!” The stats, not the stars, have convinced me

24th December 2018 By Jack Goddard 9 Comments

When Norwich play away, my Saturday afternoons usually consist of just one thing – whether I’m at home, in a pub, or standing in line at Primark holding any assortment of my girlfriend’s shopping bags, I’ll be on Twitter, endlessly checking the score. This usually results in embarrassment for the people I’m with. On the […]

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It’s results against teams in bottom half of table that will define City’s season

26th November 2018 By Jack Goddard 6 Comments

Being a Norwich fan is getting just a bit too barmy right now. City being top in late November is one thing but to have ‘them lot down the road’ languishing behind by 25 points? What did Ipswich do to pee off the football gods quite so much? Please, forgive me then, for being sceptical […]

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The curse of October? Can City rally against recent history and make it a good one?

15th October 2018 By Jack Goddard 5 Comments

October is definitely the worst month of the year. The clocks go back, the leaves fall from the trees and people begin wandering the streets dressed as axe-wielding clowns or blood-sucking vampires. Fittingly then, it also happens to be the exact time every year that the life is sucked from City’s season. Nearly one year […]

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If we really must boo, let’s at least save them for when they’re *really* deserved!

24th August 2018 By Jack Goddard 17 Comments

I’m going to admit something here that I’m not proud of: I used to be a *boo boy*. It’s okay though, honestly. It was simply borne out of young frustration and I stopped many years ago. I’m sure some of you reading this boo Norwich City every so often and, quite frankly, they do sometimes […]

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Marshall sees togetherness, Holty sees goals. The Canaries appear good to go

4th August 2018 By Jack Goddard 4 Comments

On a blissfully warm August day, standing on the pristine Carrow Road pitch and watching on as a host of representatives from the club and Woodforde’s Brewery smile for the cameras at the official launch of the newly-sponsored Barclay, it’s hard not to think that everything is well under control at Norwich City. Of course, […]

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WORLD CUP – ‘Power Rankings’: An intro…

13th June 2018 By Jack Goddard Leave a Comment

It’s been a long four years. Since Mario Goetze poked in Germany’s winning goal in the 2014 World Cup final, we’ve had two general elections, voted to leave the European Union and seen a reality TV star elected as leader of the free world. Norwich, meanwhile, spent a season in the Championship just to make […]

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Safe Standing: June 25 is the day, when it finally gets its voice in parliament

17th May 2018 By Jack Goddard 14 Comments

Ironically, English football is arguably facing its biggest crisis since the 1980s. Well, not a crisis as such. Of course, in the ‘80s, hooliganism was rife to the point where attending a football match was almost deemed unsafe. Attendances were spiralling downwards and, on April 15 1989, football in this country hit its lowest low […]

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Maybe we shouldn’t think about what could have been and instead look ahead to what will be… hopefully for years to come

14th April 2018 By Jack Goddard 7 Comments

The last few days have been a good reminder of what could have been for Norwich City fans. Last Saturday, the Canaries hosted a Villa side that got relegated alongside them two seasons ago. Unlike Norwich, they are in the play-off places this year, but City outclassed them anyway, and we were reminded of just […]

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What constitutes progress for City? Here’s a five-point plan that could possibly help

28th March 2018 By Jack Goddard 14 Comments

Progress can be a tricky thing to judge. Sometimes, when your football club signs Steven Naismith for £8 million, you think they’re making progress when, actually, they’re probably not. On the other hand, they can replace him with a German whose name begins with far too many consonants to pronounce and things can start looking […]

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Two training sessions a day, just one day off, but stats clearly tell us it’s a change that’s paying dividends

6th March 2018 By Jack Goddard 4 Comments

Football is supposed to be a simple game. To paraphrase Gary Lineker, 22 men kick a ball around a field for 90 minutes and at the end James Maddison curls in the winner from 30 yards. As it turns out, however, it’s not simple at all. For example, Norwich scored 85 goals last season, the […]

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If we’re looking for good Canary omens, look no further than the run-in of 2002

8th February 2018 By Jack Goddard 4 Comments

Some things in life simply don’t make sense. I’ll never be able to explain, for instance, why Kylie Jenner has 103 million Instagram followers. I can’t explain why people listen to Coldplay. And why would someone watch Mrs. Brown’s Boys? We may never know. What I truly cannot understand, however, is why Norwich City are […]

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If this is to be Russ’s farewell, let’s remember fondly the man he is and the player he was

16th January 2018 By Jack Goddard 19 Comments

“When you start supporting a football club, you don’t support it because of the trophies or a player or history. You support it because you found yourself somewhere there – found a place where you belong.” – Dennis Bergkamp I’ve asked myself why I support Norwich many, many times over the course of the last […]

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In a world of trigger-happy boards, evidence suggests a little bit of patience can go a long way

21st December 2017 By Jack Goddard 12 Comments

I can’t have been the only Norwich fan who sat awestruck last Sunday evening as Manchester City knocked three second-half goals past Tottenham with mind-boggling ease. It reminded me of Mayweather v McGregor back in August; City danced around their opponent for a while, even making you question if it actually was a fair contest. […]

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Reasons to be cheerful: Hope on the horizon although it rests on young shoulders

16th December 2017 By Jack Goddard 8 Comments

To Norwich City fans, the town of Odessa in West Texas may sound vaguely familiar: it’s entirely isolated for dozens of miles in any direction, surrounded only by perfectly flat fields, and is considered a sleepy backwater by much of the rest of the country. And yet, much like Norwich, more than 20,000 people will […]

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