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Rick Waghorn

Lessons to be drawn from today’s derby point? That there are worse No9s than Daryl Murphy in this world…

21st August 2016 By Rick Waghorn 11 Comments

More importantly, he gives a side a focal point. Something strappy and stroppy to punt at in true Championship-style. As importantly, he must already live relatively local; his Mrs probably shops in Norwich…

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Neil still desperate to sign the next Grant Holt as City fire big, fat blanks against the visiting Owls

14th August 2016 By Rick Waghorn 12 Comments

“We need to bring in a striker to give Cameron [Jerome] a hand,” said the City chief afterwards, speaking to Canaries TV. “That’s not news to anybody, we just need to try and get that work done as quickly as we can…

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Home is where fainter hearts are; why judgement will be served on Neil on the basis of success at Carrow Road…

12th August 2016 By Rick Waghorn 5 Comments

Those that travel to Ewood Park on a Saturday in August will not be the first to grumble. They might be the reverse – they might be the last to grumble if events don’t go quite to the Neil plan…

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Two for the price of one – why the Murphy twins might be just the ticket for City’s ever-hungry boss

7th August 2016 By Rick Waghorn 1 Comment

What intrigues me is what flashed through Josh’s mind the moment his bro let fly. Or, indeed, the moment when Alex Neil pinned the team-sheet to the door of the changing room. And it wasn’t the J Murphy he had hoped for.

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Football’s an ugly business. Playing nice gets you nowhere as City have found to their cost

11th May 2016 By Rick Waghorn 15 Comments

David McNally’s rise to fame and considerable fortune came on the back of a spell as Commercial Director at Celtic. Where, one presumes, his awareness of Paul Lambert started. Celtic Park and Glasgow’s tribal divides is a School of Hard Knocks.

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No surprises as Master Bamford is finally unveiled holding the shirt. Twitter had done it 21st century-style

31st January 2016 By Rick Waghorn 4 Comments

Going forward, of course, in my little world if you deliver free and ubiquitous wifi across a city such as Norwich, not only could Phoebe have pushed out a pic off her mobile, better still she could have broadcast a live, video update.

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A favour, good folk. Please can you help us ‘Pitch to Rich’ and get MyFootballWriter safely to 2026?

14th January 2016 By Rick Waghorn

Get a ‘Message’ from the Coach & Horses that they have got an offer on – as you read a match preview en route to the ground on a new and free MFW mobile app. Or an offer from the East of England Co-Op as you read the same preview pulling into Thorpe Station.

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Rivers of gold that flow through the Prem must find their way back into communities that they serve

30th December 2015 By Rick Waghorn 8 Comments

You can meet various politicians – of every hue – and be struck by just how shallow and simple they are; that their sole purpose around the Cabinet table was to be the court jester – the one that was always good for a whoppee cushion moment.

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Was today the greatest ever day in Norwich City history? And if so, where now for Delia and Co?

26th May 2015 By Rick Waghorn 6 Comments

For 40,000 City supporters, it is a day that they can now treasure for the rest of their lives. Not just for the eventual outcome, but for the whole manner in which it was achieved. They walked it. 

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Dreams and fairy tales. But who will manufacture the headlnes? And who those truly magic moments?

24th May 2015 By Rick Waghorn 3 Comments

Wembley and 39,000 of your kith and kin make sure that it will be a one-off occasion like no other for a generation of Norwich City supporters. For whom a trip to Wembley is a dream come true. Far more so than it will be for, say, an Arsenal supporter making another return visit for yet another FA Cup final appearance.

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Still too early to justify the ‘natural born manager’ tag but with every forward step the Neil stock rises

18th May 2015 By Rick Waghorn 3 Comments

His substitutions invariably appear well-reasoned and timely; equally, they tend more towards the positive than the negative. This is a man and a manager that would rather be hung for a sheep than for a lamb – an attitude that will win him many a fan amongst the Canary faithful.

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A frosty one awaits Grabban as the the fallout from the New York stadium rumbles on

27th April 2015 By Rick Waghorn 12 Comments

Should the video replays confirm that he had, indeed, thrown a sneaky punch in the midst of a tangle with a Millers’ defender, he would be well advised to stick a cushion down his trousers on Monday morning as Neil prepares to deal with matters ‘interally’.

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As Kamal signs a ‘long-term’ deal, and Bamford struts his stuff in red, what next for youth ‘products’?

21st April 2015 By Rick Waghorn 6 Comments

Why the kid is there putting pen to paper on a ‘long term’ contract. Aged 15? The interest was sparked by the story of Patrick Bamford. As in the 19-goal England Under-21 striker short-listed as the SkyBet Championship Player of the Season who rocked up in Norfolk on Friday night with Middlesbrough.

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The door to a swift return to the top flight is now banging wide open as Alex Neil’s stock rises

2nd March 2015 By Rick Waghorn 3 Comments

“As a group, we’re doing well – we’ve put ourselves into contention,” said Neil this afternoon, as goals either side of the break from the unstoppable Bradley Johnson and the tireless Lewis Grabban confirmed Norwich’s premier status locally.

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Tomorrow’s bear pit might just be what A Neil was invented for and could offer him a place in legend

28th February 2015 By Rick Waghorn Leave a Comment

To pick up a seventh win out of his first nine games at the helm – and all at the expense of the neighbours one point above Norwich in the Sky Bet Championship – is the sort of opportunity the footballing fates offer up only very rarely.

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City approach the 400m final bend in decent fettle and with the benefit of an ‘unknown’ in charge of the tiller

24th February 2015 By Rick Waghorn 5 Comments

In short, next Sunday’s encounter might be tailor-made for the Neils of this world. I would expect him to rise to the occasion. If his team does too, that’s another big moment on our famed back bend.

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Judge Adams gently. A natural born leader he wasn’t but the hand he was dealt was a tricky one

19th February 2015 By Rick Waghorn 7 Comments

He was still offered the gang plank with the Norfolk club in seventh; that’s no mean feat in your first season out of the Premier League. And, in particular, with arguably your best player having sulked off to Vicarage Road for the autumn.

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For Lambert read Walker. Both departed the Fine City amid a fallout with the Norwich powerbrokers

13th February 2015 By Rick Waghorn 9 Comments

Walker’s tenure on Merseyside didn’t pan out as well as everyone hoped. Or, indeed, maybe expected. There is no doubt that in that autumn – in Munich and Milan – Walker’s star was firmly in the ascendant. He had something. He had presence in front of the cameras; made friends in the media easily. And, of course, the shock of white hair helped the image.

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Dorrans finally arrives, and with his head screwed on and his feet firmly on terra firma

4th February 2015 By Rick Waghorn 18 Comments

Pulis’ sides tend to see midfield as a nice to have, but not a necessity. And if they have to have one, then graft not craft is the order of the day. Run, run, run… Not pass, pass, pass. What it means for those already sat in the City dressing room is another interesting question.

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Recent history and expectation combine to make it a minefield out there for any Norwich manager

26th January 2015 By Rick Waghorn 8 Comments

The more the Neil regime stutters a la Brentford, the more the Adams reign starts to shine. Not perhaps as the brightest star in the managerial firmament, but it will beg ever more pressing questions as to why, exactly, the former Youth coach was pointed in the direction of the gang-plank.

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