PREVIEW

If MFW did short straws… Our preview rota dictates that responsibility for “celebrating” Norwich City’s final EFL Championship match of the season has fallen to me. And I reckon I have drawn the shortest straw of them all since poor Owen Coffin on the Nantucket whaling ship Essex in 1821, who was “put to sleep” by his […]

As ridiculous as it seems, there remains a mathematical route by which City can still sneak into the top six. Even off the back of a terrible run of one win in nine games, it’s still vaguely there for them, and even though they haven’t scored a goal at Carrow Road since 25 February – […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

Hello, and welcome to the latest edition of “What can we expect from the world’s most frustrating and inconsistent team”? To be fair, Sheffield United fans are probably feeling at least a fraction of what we are as, since January, their previously unchecked drive to promotion has started kangarooing along a winding road. A “win […]

With nine games to go in this ever-interesting Championship season, it feels like City are truly in must-win territory now if they are to give themselves even the slightest chance of finishing in the playoffs.  David Wagner will take his men to the Bet365 Stadium to face Alex Neil’s Stoke City off the back of […]

City will be looking to bounce back from their 1-0 defeat to Sunderland at Carrow Road as they are hosted by relegation-fighting Huddersfield Town tomorrow night. Both sides come into this game with a 1-0 loss in their last fixtures – Neil Warnock’s side falling to defeat against West Brom at The Hawthorns. The last […]

As ever when Canaries and Black Cats meet, it’s to my old mate from the brilliant Wise Men Say podcast that I turn, Stephen Goldsmith. We managed to have a whole conversation without mentioning the Friendly Cup – which was a first. *** G. When we last spoke, in August, you’d made a decent start […]

In MFW’s latest encounter with Nick Hart – creator of the brilliant Achtung! Millwall podcast – we have sensibly put the ball entirely in his court and asked him to give us the lowdown on how things are going down at the New Den.  What follows is enlightening enough for us to allow Nick’s opening remarks about the […]

Norwich City will be looking to win three successive home games at Carrow Road as they host relegation-fighting Cardiff City on Saturday afternoon. Both sides come into this game with wins in their midweek fixtures – Norwich beating Birmingham City 3-1 while the Bluebirds beat Reading 1-0 thanks to a stoppage-time winner from Romaine Sawyers […]

The matches are hitting us like a rivet gun at the moment and the latest quick turnaround pits us against Birmingham City at Carrow Road tomorrow night. I rather insensitively described the Brummies as “dung” recently when I suggested on these very pages that everyone, coaching team, players and supporters alike, would benefit more from […]

One of my pet hates is the over-hyping of a single game’s importance. To describe a match in the middle of a 46-game season as “make-or-break” or “a six-pointer” is ridiculous. Unless it’s referring to the employment prospects of a Watford manager, of course. Then “make-or-break” may be fair enough – but absurd if it’s […]

If nothing else, we live in interesting times with Norwich City. Following the euphoric triumphs against Preston and Coventry that washed away much of the negative detritus of Smithball, we promptly got our backsides handed to us last weekend. To be fair, it was a bit much to expect us to ride that wave of […]

It’s been a long two weeks. While the extra seven days spent on the fields of Colney will have hopefully worked well for David Wagner as he looks to embed Wagner-ball in the psyche of his new squad, for the rest of us it’s felt like an age. Given the excitement generated by the German’s […]

Could someone please explain this weird feeling? I refer of course to that rare phenomenon known as looking forward to a Norwich City game. To use the common vernacular…“buzzing”. I should add, as a City supporter it’s an emotion to be very wary of because it invariably ends in disappointment but, as hard as I […]

It’s hard to know where to begin. I mean, it is the FA Cup Third Round, which for some is the ‘best weekend of the season’, but for Norwich fans that’s been almost lost amid the hullabaloo of a new coach arriving. It may have been the most dragged-out saga since Edward III first invaded […]

If you find yourself on the rota to preview a Norwich-Watford, game, the cardinal rule is “Don’t write it too early”. The usual reason is the likelihood of Watford changing manager in the days before the game. Though it would be rash to discount the possibility of Watford carrying out one of their regular executions […]