PREVIEW

I am a great fan of Pink Floyd up until Wish You Were Here and my favourite Roger Waters couplet has always been: The memories of a man in his old age are the deeds of a man in his prime.** So much so in fact that I have the phrase tattooed on my right forearm. In this […]

In Martin’s Monday piece, he spoke of his relief at not being on the rota to pen the Burnley preview. That particular honour is mine. Whoopee! I pondered whether it was time to dip back into the cesspit of celebrity fan previews but the best I could come up with in terms of A, B […]

We play Everton at Goodison Park tomorrow, which is almost certainly the last chance our loyal group of away supporters, both regular and casual, will have the opportunity to visit that grand old stadium before, with a little financial help from Liverpool City Council, a new stadium is built not too far away from the […]

We’ve got a repeat of the opening Premier League fixture on Wednesday night with the return of the mighty Liverpool to Carrow Road in the Carabao Cup third round. I’ve discovered via another chat with the excellent Tony Evans, who is a columnist for The Independent, a former Football Editor of The Times, a contributor to […]

The real test of whether Norwich City can survive in the top flight begins at Carrow Road tomorrow. Before we come back and expand on that, a brief detour to Watford – the club closest to where I live, though not to my heart. My Watford-supporting friends assure me I’m safe to write this column. […]

The last time Norwich City went to the Emirates they were soundly beaten by a superior Arsenal team backed up by a superior Arsenal squad and the London club had an exciting young coach in Mikel Arteta. The Gunners were trending upwards and City clearly downwards as they meekly surrendered their Premier League status. Taking […]

Saturday 5.00 pm: “Jesus, that defending… and still no defensive midfielder in sight… it’s eerily reminiscent of the last ten games of 19/20… I’m getting nervous”. Monday 12:00 pm: “Brandon Williams has been confirmed. He might be more needed than we thought after Saturday. Good signing that”. Monday 10:00 pm: “Leicester took a pasting and […]

Hhmm… not sure where to start. Even on a good day, it’s a fixture that makes the sphincter twitch. Even if Norwich were at full strength, with a squad bulging full of new signings, all fully fit and embedded after a full, testing pre-season behind them, we would still be more than a little apprehensive […]

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 […]