MATCH REPORT

As football matches go, this was a tough a watch as you will ever get as a City fan.  Few expected Norwich to get anything from this game, but equally few could have predicted such abject misery. City were unchanged, the game plan was clear. Keep it tight. Be tough to break down. Don’t concede […]

There was a sense of cautious hope, some may even say optimism going into this game. Farke resisted the clamour for the darling of the national media, Billy Gilmour, to be included and elected to play an unchanged side, apparently citing the lack of time that the squad had had together since the last game.  The […]

Ignore the noise is the Farke mantra. It is fortunate that he is able to heed his own advice. The noise this week told him that so far this season he had made too many changes, or that he needed to make sweeping changes, switch to 4-3-3, 4-2-3-1 or even 4-4-2.  In the end, Farke […]

City’s Under-23s were beaten 5-2 by West Bromwich Albion at The Walks on Monday night, a series of defensive errors cancelling out goals by Jon Rowe and Tom Dickson-Peters for the home side. The young Canaries started well and had their visitors on the back foot from the off, Rowe forcing a good stop from […]

Cut. Copy. Paste.  From any of the games from two years ago. An all too familiar script, and all too familiar outcome. Daniel Farke retained the formation from the midweek game with Liverpool, Kabak coming in for Omobamidele, Williams in for Giannoulis.  But it was immediately obvious that this was far more a 5-3-2 than […]

Given that Daniel Farke had barely a day to work with his players since the capitulation to Watford, it should come as no surprise to any Canary fan that, once again, there was a familiar theme to this defeat. The Sky commentator summed it up in eight words. Too porous at the back. Too blunt up front. […]

So that’s it.  The extended pre-season is over. It’s down to the real games next week against Watford. Daniel Farke has a history of transformation in the post-international break period.  Perhaps it was expecting a bit much for him to pull off the same trick this time, particularly with several players away on extended international duty […]

So finally a chance to watch a match ‘live’. I was working on opening day, was half comatose with jet lag for the Man City game although, given the result, that seems to have been an advantage. That loss will be no more relevant to the Canaries’ final position than the subsequent cup win against Bournemouth. […]

Eddy Jones’ strike stole the three points for the visitors, while Norwich fans were treated to their first glimpse of new signing Liam Gibbs in competitive action and striker Shae Hutchinson made a return from his second kidney transplant surgery to complete 45 minutes of Premier League 2 action. Alan Neilson’s development side started the […]

City’s Premier League campaign got off to a disappointing, if not unexpected, start, losing 3-0 to Liverpool at Carrow Road. Goals from Diogo Jota, Roberto Firmino and Mohammed Salah earned the Reds three points at a packed Carrow Road, as City fans piled into a full-capacity stadium for the first time in nearly 18 months.  […]

Lacking in rhythm and without their full complement, City got the job done against Huddersfield.  There were shades of their clash with the Terriers in September 2019, when the Canaries dragged themselves over the line as they slowly shook off their relegation hangover. On that day, when Adam Idah’s first league goal won it late, […]

End of season games tend to have a narrative that is separated from the action on the pitch. When the team sheet dropped, it was clear that this was going to be just such a game. When Alex Tettey first came to Carrow Road nine seasons ago, few could imagine the influence that he would have […]

Not so much of a match report today – at best half a report! The weekend that football chose to have a social media blackout was also the day that iFollow chose to deny access to many Canaries fans, myself included, for much of the first half. When I finally got on with 10 minutes […]

City’s Under-23s were routinely beaten by a strong Wolves side, goals from Luke Cundle, Owen Hasketh and Jack Scott securing a 3-0 win for James Collins’ side. David Wright chose a young City development side, under-18s Sean Stewart, Saxon Early and Sam Blair selected as the much heralded Colney production line continues to produce. After […]

The question today in bright sunshine at the stadium formerly know as Loftus Road was whether there would be a hangover from the lets face it, hangover performance against Watford. The game started with a bang – Todd Cantwell, sold short with a pass out of defence, conceded possession and Kakay whipped a ball across […]

After the Boxing Day match against Watford, I remember penning my concerns that City were outdone by exactly the sort of physical, technical, and pacey side that had proven their undoing in the Premier League. Last night’s match at Carrow Road has done nothing to ease my fears. Watford started the game impressively. They pressurized City […]

As promotion parties go, it’s fair to say that it didn’t quite go according to plan at Carrow Road. Swansea and Brentford had played their part earlier in the day by failing to land three points, end even Watford stumbled. City set off at a pace. The speed of movement and the precision were reminiscent of the […]

Late goals from Burnley’s Lewis Richardson and Dara Costelloe denied Norwich City’s Under-23s a valuable three points, after goals from Abu Kamara and Matt Dennis had given the Canaries a 2-0 lead in Curzon Ashton. The match started in hectic fashion, Burnley striker Richardson smashing a volley over the bar with the Clarets’ first attack. […]

City’s Under-23s fought valiantly against a strong Leeds United side, losing 2-0 as three players were sent off. Leeds’ Nohan Kenneh’s red card was sandwiched by two for the young Canaries, midfield duo Reece McAlear and Melvin Sitti also the recipients of pairs of yellow cards. The game was won by strikes from Max Dean […]

If Brian Moore had opened tonight’s iFollow coverage from St Andrews, no one would have batted an eyelid, the pitch looking like something rarely seen since the days of Midweek Sport Special.  The rain teemed down and the opening minutes of the game were like the first weeks of Dancing on Ice. City’s players began […]