The Team

And finally…. part three of the team’s predictions. Please feel free to leave your answers to the same questions in the comments. On the Ball City… ***  How will Dean Smith and Shakey manage the Premier League hangover (as Daniel Farke did so brilliantly in the summer of 2020)? Louis Woodrow: There’s certainly a fair bit of […]

We promised you part two, so here we go. Same questions… ***  How will Dean Smith and Shakey manage the Premier League hangover (as Daniel Farke did so brilliantly in the summer of 2020)? Jamie Lauder: Smith and Shakey know the English game. They know what a team needs to go up and no doubt will assert themselves […]

So… ready for another ten months of stress, agony, disappointment and potential heartbreak? While the end of last season was most welcome and, at the time, football felt like the last thing any of us wanted to discuss, time is indeed a great healer. So here we are… discussing football. While there is still bruising […]

Part One, if you missed it, is here. Here is tranche two of the thoughts of the team… Thom Belk: My moment of the season has to be Mario Vrancic’s late free-kick against Wycombe. After a stuttering start, this wrapped up a third win in a week, ahead of a tough match against Brentford. For […]

As the end of one of the most successful seasons in the club’s history draws to a close, each member of the MFW team was asked to name one moment that, for them, will forever be etched in the memory and which will always scream “Norwich City 2020-21”. As ever, they didn’t let me down. […]

Ahead of the team offering their thoughts and predictions on what may or may not lie ahead for City and the Championship in general, I’d planned an opening gambit along the lines of ‘if you need a steer for the new Championship season, look away now’. But nothing could better the message I received from […]

And then there four… While the top half of the draw has panned out as many had expected, with the obvious exception of Brazil’s premature departure, the bottom half has been almost impossible to forecast (as is evidenced in the MFW writers’ World Cup prediction table!). No-one, literally no-one, had pencilled in Croatia, Russia, Sweden […]

One of the most gripping Group Stages in World Cup history is finally over, but it refused to go without a fuss. Just before it bowed out for good, 2018’s first phase claimed an almighty scalp and hurtled off into the distance before anyone had quite realised what it had done. All things considered, however, […]

Normality has been somewhat restored in the last few days, with wins for Brazil, France, Belgium, Portugal and Germany, just about. But Argentina’s comprehensive loss to Croatia means the first giant could still be about to fall – and as such La Albiceleste have plummeted down the rankings. If one team goes down, another must […]

And so, it begins… well almost. Before a ball has been kicked, this is how we rank the 32 teams. You may consider this is pure nonsense (we specialise in it). Feel free to disagree, in fact we insist. 1. Brazil A nation desperate to right the wrongs from four years ago, when the Seleção were […]

In the second part of our end-of-season summary, the MFW team give us their highs and lows … Martin Penney High… My season’s highlight began about 20 minutes before the Villa match. NCFC had an official outside stall selling quilted black managers’ jackets with OTBC in yellow on the deep-set left-hand pocket. Bought one, worn […]

Season over, and time to reflect. The MFW team, one-by-one, give us their highs and lows of a largely ‘meh’ season: Robin Sainty High… The win at Ashton Gate. We weren’t given much chance against a Bristol City team that was sweeping all before it but we produced a classic away performance as we soaked […]