.I’m writing with the memory of the Swansea capitulation firmly in mind, so I’m attempting to find the eye of this storm of rage, and focus on how we progress through to the other side, where we can see a football team worthy of the name once more. I want to look forward, but divining […]
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MATCH REPORT: CITY 0, SWANSEA 3
The only people with a tougher gig than me were the 20,000 or so City fans forced to endure yesterday’s game at Carrow Road. All I have to do is find some words to describe it On the face of it, that’s an easy task. Read the QPR write-up. Delete the City equalizer. If you […]
CITY v SWANSEA (H) – THE PREVIEW
I’m writing this on Tuesday night so at this stage I have no idea how Swansea did on Wednesday at home to Preston (they won 4-2 – Ed), or how Norwich did at QPR (hmm – Ed). But having made the trip to Middlesbrough last Friday I’m at the point of not caring anyway. I […]
Halcyon days… Lambo 2009… ‘damaged and fragile’… & still 20,000 season tickets
Can you remember a time when you were happy? I mean truly happy with bugger all to worry about in those halcyon days before acquiring children or career-based employment and you felt the world was your crustacean of choice? I’ve only really enjoyed one period like that in my life which turned out to be […]
Oh for a full-scale summer reset – but how realistic is that?
Does anyone remember those heady, pre-covid days of 2018-19 when, almost from nowhere, our footballing world exploded into life in a frenzy of tiki-taka, fluid movement, goals, and flags? Amazing wasn’t it? Between them, Stuart Webber, Kieran Scott, and Daniel Farke pulled together a squad of youngsters and misfits who ended up taking the Championship […]
MATCH REPORT: QPR 1, CITY 1
First things first. I was lucky enough to miss Friday’s horror show. As I drove home, I listened to the first 10 minutes on TalkSPORT2. It was a close run thing which was worse – the game or the coverage. Then I remembered good old Radio Norfolk on the medium wave and got my answer. […]
ACADEMY: City’s Under-18s fight back against a strong Palace team
With the first team playing away in Middlesbrough last Friday night, I had the opportunity to travel down to London, to watch the Under-18s play Crystal Palace. With the U18s failing to pick up a point since December, my hopes for a positive result were limited but I was proved wrong with a spirited performance […]
Would the alien concept of owner investment make a big difference?
In today’s Pink Un, City’s Executive Director Zoe Webber says that surviving in the EPL is getting more and more difficult. She admits that because we have no owner investment it makes it even harder. But she is wrong… it makes it impossible. She also hinted at player sales this summer, not a surprise but […]
CITY v QPR (A) – THE PREVIEW
Norwich City travel to Loftus Road on Wednesday night as they are hosted by Queens Park Rangers as we look to record a much-needed victory in our hunt for a place in the Championship playoffs. At the time of writing, we currently sit in 10th after Friday night’s horror show at Middlesborough, QPR are down […]
The hardy 600 deserved so much more than a Teesside no-show
Nightmare disorder is referred to by doctors as a parasomnia – a type of sleep disorder that involves undesirable experiences that occur while you’re falling asleep, during sleep or when you’re waking up. Nightmares usually occur during the stage of sleep known as rapid eye movement (REM).*** But nowhere is there any mention of it being […]
A Teesside Nightmare, starring a chirpy AJ and other assorted horrors
Where the hell do you start? There have been some grim days this season, but few as grim as Friday 14th April on Teesside. The mitigation for such an undiluted catastrophe of course centres on the injury list with which David Wagner is dealing; not so much in terms of numbers but more around how […]
CITY v BORO (A) – THE PREVIEW
We always look forward to City v Boro on MFW, and not just because it gives us a chance to rehash that now-famous YouTube clip of that Boro fan telling us “yous is shite”. While the above is of course true, our real reason for looking forward to Norfolk colliding with Teeside is that it gives us […]
The ‘do we really want to go up?’ conundrum…
Of late the #NCFC Twittersphere has been full of discussion and arguments around how vital (or not) it is for City to get promoted this season. There are some for whom promotion is a big no no, and they have what appears a solid case – namely that to go up now would merely inflict […]
Huffing and puffing aplenty but not enough quality in final third to go fifth
Remember the story of the three little pigs? How they built their house of stone and no matter how much the wolf huffed and puffed, he couldn’t blow the house down? While I appreciate that using an analogy involving a Wolf and scoring goals may invoke other memories for City fans, this really was the […]
Where there’s a manager there’s usually an excuse, but Wagner had a point
Some stand elegantly besuited and booted with a look as inscrutable as that of Confucius sipping a squat cup of his favourite 龙井** on a balmy day back when Beijing was just plain old Peking and the Giant Panda was yet to appear in a Disney. Others patrol the technical area in the manner of a would-be whirling […]
This Yellow and Green beast of ours simply refuses to die
What do Easter on terrestrial television and the early holiday period at Norwich City Football Club have in common? More than we might think would be my answer and we must surely start with the small screen in order to gain some perspective. Easter has become the traditional time for BBC #Channel27 to fight with […]
Ewood joy for City as Gibbs and Sara dance to the beat of the City Elite drum
Blimey, that was unexpected! In his preview piece, Stew quite rightly pointed out that there was no way of making a rational prediction ahead of our trip to Blackburn, given our tendency to seamlessly flit between the sublime and the awful. Of late, of course, the awful has held the upper hand but every so […]
MATCH REPORT: BLACKBURN 0, CITY 2
After the loss to Sheffield United last week, many City fans were resigned to missing out on the playoffs. My conclusion was that City had players who could improve that performance, but that they were on the treatment table. I was half right. The surprise inclusion of Onel Hernandez looked set to give City the […]
CITY v BLACKBURN (A) – THE PREVIEW
I knew it would be painful. But it had to be done. I just checked back to the pundits’ and bookies’ pre-season view of this year’s Championship. Favourites to win the division were … yes, Norwich City. “With not too many changes to the squad and Dean Smith in charge, Norwich are looking for a […]
City Elite help Canaries Trust drum up support for Norwich Foodbank
The Canaries Trust annual collection for Norwich Foodbank is something we all look forward to because we know how generous City fans are to those in need, but this year’s also carried an element of discovery for us. Norwich Foodbank have always provided volunteers to help but this year we were joined by the lads […]