PREVIEW

I hadn’t anticipated giving the Euros anything more than a light touch on the pages of MyFootballWriter, but then again I hadn’t anticipated England getting to the final. So, given that England appearing in the final of a major tournament is a once-in-a-lifetime moment, I couldn’t let the moment pass. With Italy being England’s opponents […]

A lot has changed since we got duffed up by tomorrow’s hosts in the FA Cup back in January. It certainly wasn’t one of City’s finest afternoons of the season although it was clear from Barnsley’s relentlessness that afternoon that they had enough about them to get themselves into the promotion frame. At the time, […]

Okay, I confess. If Watford hadn’t won on Saturday, this would have been about half a paragraph long because we’d have had the title and Reading are out of playoff contention so both teams would be on the beach. Yarmouth admittedly, but the beach nonetheless. But bloody Sarr had to go and score didn’t he? […]

It matters, and it won’t be easy. I’ve spent a chunk of the past week pushing back on suggestions that it would be a let-down if we fail to win the title. The first and overriding aim of this season was promotion back to the Premier League. It’s fantastic that we achieved it with five […]

Norwich City v Watford. It’s being billed as the Championship title shoot-out between ourselves and our friends from Hertfordshire but I don’t really go along with that if I’m honest. Some might suggest we’ll take our foot off the gas now we are promoted but the indicators seem otherwise to me, especially in light of […]

‘We are close, we are so close!’ Those who have watched the Amazon documentary All or Nothing, which follows Man City throughout the course of the 2017-18 season, will recognise Pep Guardiola’s words as his team closed in on their first title under his tenure. Given that Pep is a self-proclaimed watcher of Norwich City […]

It was time to get the band back together for this week’s preview. Off the back of the most thrilling Tuesday evening since the dawning of time, Colin Michael, Andy Delf, Don Harrold and John Scent have dusted down their instruments, scraped themselves off the ceiling and given us their considered thoughts ahead of City […]

A Tuesday night at home, under the floodlights, with promotion inching closer. How good would it be to have Carrow Road packed to the rafters for this one? Sadly, we’re still a few months away from such lofty ambitions of normality, but as the potential for such activities gets closer and closer, so does the […]

“The closer he looked, the less he could make out, the deeper everything sank into the gloom” No need to know the literacy reference (though big respect if you do). The quote is from Kafka’s The Castle. It’s indelibly marked on my memory because it was a question in my final university exam. Just the […]

Norwich City’s under-18s face West Ham this afternoon in the FA Youth Cup fourth round; a tie that is, according to Head of Football Development Steve Weaver, by no means a gimme. More than three months after the third round- a Covid-related pause in the competition postponing the fixture until now- Kevin Keen will bring […]

It’s to the gang of four I head for some help with this week’s preview: Andy Delf, Colin Michael, Don Harrold and John Scent. Take it away guys… So, how did you watch/listen to events at the City Ground unfold? iFollow? Sky red button? Radio Norfolk? And where does that opening half-hour rank in your […]

MFW is privileged to once again welcome back our favourite Forest fan, loyal supporter and all-round scion of matters concerning activities in and around the City Ground Christian Brown to inform us about how things currently stand on the banks of the Trent before our meeting with the men in Garibaldi red. Christian and I hadn’t spoken for […]

Ahead of City’s attempt to make it eight in a row in South Yorkshire, I was lucky enough to chat to presenter, podcaster, former Sky Sports and Blue Peter presenter, President of Blood Cancer UK and, of course, City fan, Mr Simon Thomas. *** Thanks for joining us, mate. Appreciated. Has been an impossibly hard […]

So once more, I’ve drawn the lucky straw and got the preview for the same team I did earlier in the season. If you want to know how that went, I’m sure Mr Gowers will be kind enough to insert a link here. Having read it back, I wasn’t far off. Luton, coming off a […]

This is not a six-pointer. This is not a six-pointer. This is not a six-pointer. It’s as well that I’ve come to that conclusion, as our editor Gary made clear he’d disapprove any use of the phrase. There are extreme cases where I might try to persuade him that a match deserved the label, despite […]

Two games in close proximity, the first one a (narrow) win for City, so why change a winning team? Therefore it’s again to Andy Delf, Don Harrold, Colin Michael and John Scent I turn for their thoughts on City’s return to St Andrew’s. Lads, you know the drill… How are the nerves after Saturday’s second […]

We’ve tried to mix the MFW match previews up a little this season and so it’s to four friends of MFW that I’ve turned for their thoughts ahead of tomorrow’s visit by Paul Warne’s Rotherham, namely Andy Delf, Don Harold, John Scent and Colin Michael. To keep it simple (for me, not them) I asked […]

This could have been a very different task on paper had Norwich not done a professional demolition job against Stoke on Saturday. Despite throwing opportunities at the opposition, having a week of uninterrupted preparation allowed the instinctive passing, movement and creativity to flow in the final third in a way that had been absent in […]

Let’s take a breath. With 18 games remaining, nothing is “must win”. Panic is neither helpful nor justified. We’re second in the league, and we’re what commentators say we are: a very good team at this level, with a formula for success. That said, our mini-blip has of course put added focus and pressure on […]

And so we make a trip into the valleys for what can only be described as a promotion six-pointer against Swansea City, the club with the best redesigned official logo I have ever seen. The designer that remains within me tells me it’s cucumber cool and I love it. Fear, not I appreciate ours equally […]