Another blogger to take up the offer of an MFW guest spot was Paul Usher, co-founder of new football fans site, www.headersandvolleys.co.uk. Here he offers his take on the impact of NCFC lockdown, and launches a phrase that will soon be as familiar as Webber-lution. Enjoy… Let’s face it, this seemingly never-ending hiatus from football […]
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Can you name the ten City players who’ve gone on to manage in the Premier League?
So, how many of these managerial appointments do you remember? Cue music… 1. Martin O’Neill O’Neill’s highest league position was 6th with Aston Villa which remarkably he achieved for three consecutive seasons from 2007/08 to 2009/10. His highest position with Leicester was 9th. 2. Malky McKay Cardiff City (2013/14) Having achieved promotion as champions the previous […]
Who is, statistically, the most successful Norwich City manager in the top flight?
Fourteen managers have managed Norwich City Football Club in the top flight since Ron Saunders first achieved it in 1972/73. But how do their records compare? In the following table all fourteen managers are ranked by the percentage of games won under their leadership in the top division in English football. All competitive league and […]
GUEST BLOG: Is football losing touch with reality? Or was the plot lost years ago?
Another to answer the call for guest bloggers was a Twitter pal of mine, Mr Tim Gough, who has something to get off his chest. Take it away Tim… You cannot dispute that we’re living through unprecedented times. What was normal a few weeks ago, is but a dim and distant memory now. It seems […]
TALES FROM THE CITY: Kevin Bond
In the second volume of the Tales From The City trilogy, Kevin Bond gave a brutally frank assessment of how being the son of manager John Bond helped his career — but, despite the self-deprecating honesty, it reminded readers that Kevin became more than just his daddy’s boy. His Tale, written in 2016, has a […]
All the Germans… who’ve graced and added a certain something to our football club
🎵 All the Germans. So many Germans… 🎵 Well, since the dawn of Farkelife in the summer of 2017 we have had quite a few, haven’t we? There’s Daniel himself, who arrived from Borussia Dortmund II and on his coaching team are assistant head coach Edmund Riemer, first-team coach Christopher John and sports scientist – or head of performance if […]
Black holes of up to £35 million don’t fill themselves. But City will be far from alone…
When football eventually returns, it looks like City can expect a right royal kicking, metaphorically speaking at least. Maybe not so much when it first begins, given that it’s almost certain to be behind closed doors, but with the stadiums full of fans we look set to be the pariahs and be given the full […]
GUEST BLOG: The life of the average City fan – one who is neither ‘super’ or ‘elite’
The latest victim to take on the MFW guest blog challenge is Simon Mitton – a familiar voice for those in the #NCFC Twitter community, who describes perfectly what it is to be an “average fan”. Well worth a read… Let’s get one thing clear right off the bat. I’m not a ‘super-fan’. I’m not […]
FROM THE ARCHIVES: Finding folk to match & deliver the vision is more vital than cash
Our ‘One from the Archives’ series has already had one pearler from the boss, penned in the aftermath of that infamous 7-1 defeat to Colchester. Here’s another of Rick’s, one that was also penned in the aftermath of something infamous, namely Delia’s interview with Henry Winter in 2016. At the time, City were 16th in […]
Heroes aplenty, but who has been City’s most prolific striker of the last 50 years?
Since Ron Saunders first dragged the Canaries scratching and pecking into England’s top football division in 1972 several hundred players have represented the club – including many dozens of strikers. But which of these strikers was the best? Who managed to hit the back of the net most frequently? In short, who was the most […]
The Boys In Orange: The Canaries’ mixed fortunes with their men from the Lowlands
If you’re an Ipswich Town supporter, in order to look on the bright side of life you have to retreat into the Twentieth Century. They did something so stunningly right back in the day that we as Norwich City have yet to emulate and I don’t mean fluking an FA Cup win. They signed two […]
TALES FROM THE CITY: Michael Wynn Jones
He used to stand on the terraces. Then came the time he needed to stand by the club. After four decades as a fan, Michael Wynn Jones and his wife, Delia Smith, stepped in to save Norwich City. This third excerpt from the trilogy of Tales from the City was first published in 2015. It […]
How much are you missing matchday buddies? Oh for the day when we reunite
As the prospect of seeing real, live football seems to disappear ever further from our cognisance, I thought I might pose the MFW community a question: do you miss your casual matchday mates and if so, how much? You could [like me] sit in a Barclay rag, tag and bobtail of lifetime friends, relatively new […]
The glorious spring of 2015 relived. But how do Alex Neil’s heroes compare to 2020’s?
It wasn’t intended as a stark reminder of how our club has evolved over the last five years – but that’s precisely what it ended up being. For those that didn’t see it, or were unaware of its existence, yesterday afternoon the club ran on YouTube the full, glorious 95 minutes of City beating Ipswich […]
Crystal ball time. It’s now 2050. So what exactly does the Canary Nation look like?
It’s April 2050 and as the 2049/50 season draws to a close manager Daniel Farke comes under pressure as Norwich City sit only 2nd in the Amazon Prime Premier League, a division they’ve won for the last 11 seasons. Club chairman Sir Ian Culverhouse says Farke has the board’s full support, but ‘needs to pull […]
Not the greatest, not even the best, but let’s be having your ‘favourite’ Norwich City XI
They locked us down. A scenario I never thought I’d see, certainly in my lifetime. As I sit and pen this article I find myself gazing out over the Severn Estuary and count myself very fortunate to live where I do. We live in Portishead and have a 180-degree panoramic view of the river Severn, […]
Some of the great and good (and not so good) of the Canaries’ African imports
To continue my series of overseas Norwich City players from specific geographical areas I thought I’d set my sights on our African players by beginning with somebody I have never seen play. Sandy Kennon, from the then Rhodesia, who took over from 59-er hero Ken Nethercott between the sticks toward the end of that magnificent […]
TALES FROM THE CITY: Ken Brown
Ken Brown was manager for more games than anyone in Norwich City history — 367 competitive matches — and his spell in charge followed seven years and 340 games as assistant manager to Jon Bond. Yet, despite serving and surviving for so long in a fiercely competitive industry, he was known for his almost constant […]
GUEST BLOG: Heroes all, but what has happened to Neil Adams’ Class of 2013?
Alex Bain is back, this time with a look back to the FA Youth Cup heroes of 2013… They were supposed to be our golden generation but of our FA Youth Cup winning team of 2013, only Carlton Morris remains. Unfortunately, following a serious injury picked up on loan at Shrewsbury, his career stalled and […]
‘From the midnight sun, where the hot springs flow’ – aka City’s famous Vikings
After a brace of ear-splitting, blood-curdling shrieks from Robert Plant the first track on Led Zeppelin III in 1970, The Immigrant Song, kicked the album off. It was all about Vikings on the rob and although I think the lyrics are a bit first-year sixth form they went like this: We come from the land […]