PREVIEW

Alright, I can save us all a lot of time on this one. If Mr Gowers would be so kind as to <INSERT LINK HERE> you can see my Cardiff preview from when we played the home fixture less than a month ago. You’re welcome. [nice try, Andy – Ed] What you want more?… Jeez… […]

So Mr Robins… we meet again. Stewart penned the preview for the home game with Cov at the end of November and confessed to having a soft spot for the Sky Blues. I too share that sentiment. Not only do they have the redoubtable Mark Robins at the helm – a name guaranteed to give […]

Shepherd’s Bush’s finest arrive in the Fine City in not-so-decent fettle having gone eight games without a win. Mark Warburton’s job is under threat and the Hoops tick every box going in a game of ‘along come Norwich’. Whether that comes to fruition or not depends on how Daniel Farke’s finest react to the defeat […]

I was proud of myself for preparing most of this column a week early. Bad idea. Like the planned visit to my mum in Norfolk over Christmas, it’s had to go back to the drawing board. Part of my preview was an assessment of why Watford’s manager won Manager of the Month for November, and […]

Having just watched us reinforce our place at the top of the Championship table by beating a decent Reading side without really getting out of second gear, it’s difficult not to get a little carried away by dreams of promotion and thinking about how great the football will be at Carrow Road on Saturday. So […]

I hesitate to mention this, as it may lead some readers to check my record. There’s no denying it’s a shocking record. And if you’re holding me to account, there are some new offences to be taken into consideration. Yes: each year the MFW writers make their predictions for the eventual top six and bottom […]

Plaudits aplenty have been heaped upon Tony Mowbray’s men this season, so when researching this piece (no, honestly) I was a bit surprised to see them down in 10th. The mind is clearly playing tricks. Every time I’ve seen them on Quest’s EFL highlights they seem to be winning, Colin Murray and his guests are […]

MFW is delighted to welcome back our favourite [well, mine anyway] Forest fan, loyal supporter and all-around scion of matters concerning activities in and around the City Ground  Christian Brown to inform us about how things stand before tomorrow’s match. Christian and I haven’t spoken for a whole season so it’s about time we did. Here we go. […]

Wednesday sees our beloved Bundesliga boss lead his bedraggled, battle-weary B-Team to Bedfordshire for a battle against Luton’s basement-bothering boverachiever’s. Okay, I overreached on the alliteration at the end, but there is one key B that will be in our favour at Kenilworth Road: Buendia. While City somehow managed to give a pleasing facsimile of […]

Let me start with a disclosure. I have a soft spot for Coventry. True, I didn’t in May 1985 when they beat champions Everton (already in their flip-flops and swimming trunks) 4-1 to ensure their survival and condemn Norwich to relegation from the top flight. But a lot of water has flowed under the bridge […]

My most memorable recollection of Stoke City came in 1967 at Upton Park when my uncles Pete and Joe took me to the game for a tenth birthday treat. To be strictly accurate, Pete took me as Joey couldn’t drag himself out of the Duke of Edinburgh on the infamous Green Street. I think we […]

We’ve tried to do previews a little differently on MFW this season, with the week’s writer given carte blanche to tackle the piece in any way he/she chooses, but there was no way I was letting the Boro game pass without input from friend of MyFootballWriter, former Match of the Day editor, author and Boro […]

A red-hot André Ayew and a resurgent Championship heavyweight descending on Carrow Road would normally fill me with dread. Swansea City, in many respects a sleeping second-tier giant, coming to town is enough to spark fears of an away day pillage in Nelson’s County.  But this is a Norwich City side motoring – and a team […]

It’s Millwall time again tomorrow as we welcome the Bermondsey-based South London side from Zampa Road to the Carra.  We meaning everybody apart from NCFC fans and Lions supporters of course. They’re as cacked off about that as we are as MFW readers will discover thanks to the excellent Nick Hart – creator of the brilliant “Achtung! […]

I’m not huge on using stats when writing about football matches because [*cliché klaxon*] “there’s only one stat that really counts”, especially when looking back over a game, but they do occasionally make for interesting reading when trying to forecast what could happen in an upcoming game or when looking further down the track. And […]

Well if ever an MFW preview was made for me this is the one. Which is probably why I volunteered for it in the first place. Now how does a singer in a half-decent rock ‘n’ roll covers band who plays [apparently – I couldn’t confirm it at time of writing] a bit of rhythm […]

A Tuesday night under the Carrow Road lights sounds perfect doesn’t it? That glare of the floodlights in the night sky as you approach the stadium, then shining like a million spotlights as you walk up the steps from the concourse into our Carrow Road amphitheatre. Magnificent, right? At least, it would be if we […]

Damien Francis’ late leveller and a helter-skelter 4-4 draw at Millmoor will forever hold a place in Norwich City’s storied 2003/04 promotion almanack. In simpler times – and a season that first ignited my 17-year love affair with City – the travelling fans swayed like daffodils under the Yorkshire lights as Francis, a key cog […]

I’m not usually a fan of previews. They all seem a bit formulaic. You take the one main talking point of the moment and bang on about it, whilst giving a cursory nod to the opposition and their form. Not much to write about. Not usually much fun to read. But this one might be […]

Let me open with a disclaimer.  I find it difficult to take a balanced view of AFC Bournemouth. The problem stems, of course, from its portrayal on the BBC and elsewhere as “plucky little Bournemouth”, “Cinderella team Bournemouth” and so on. Not to put too fine a point on it, that’s irritating garbage which makes […]