Gary Gowers

City hit a blank at the Vitality, with the squad minus its two most creative sparks September 28, 2020 - There was always a danger this most abnormal of transfer windows could explode in our faces. With five, young, highly prized gems sparkling in our own shop window, this was never going to pass off peacefully. Or end well. Yet because things had remained relatively calm, we'd all been lulled… ...
Welcome Home! 1000 voices roar on City to their first home point of 2020-21 September 20, 2020 - "Unfortunately, on this occasion your application has been unsuccessful". A line I've (unsurprisingly) been on the receiving end of on numerous occasions - usually in my professional life but occasionally when hoping to attend an 'event', which on this occasion was a football match. While I missed out, one thousand… ...
NORWICH CITY WOMEN: Q&A with the new NCWFC head coach, Shaun Howes September 18, 2020 - Norwich City Women kick off their new season on Sunday with an away game at Cambridge United. Ahead of the big KO, I've been chatting to their new head coach, Shaun Howes... First things first, and I'm glad I waited until you'd done the Q&A with the club's official site.… ...
A win! … a clean sheet! … no disasters! … Who knew football could be like this? September 13, 2020 - It may not have been especially pretty but that mattered not one jot. What mattered was experiencing that winning feeling again. From top to bottom it was needed. From Delia to match-day steward. From super-fan to part-timer. From NR1 to New Zealand Canaries. That feeling of relief was palpable. No… ...
HUDDERSFIELD PREVIEW: Nausea… Jägerbombs… and some “doom and gloom” September 11, 2020 - So... here we go again. The closest we'll ever get to two seasons overlapping, which is a bit unfortunate considering the last one was really sh.it. I was determined to avoid using the word beginning with h, ending in r and which alludes to that feeling of nausea and a… ...
No Carabao Cup run for City but mitigation aplenty and all eyes now turn to Yorkshire September 6, 2020 - It was disappointing - let's not pretend otherwise - but yesterday's 3-1 defeat at Kenilworth Road will hopefully have little bearing on what happens in six days' time in Huddersfield. *Hopefully* That's not to say it wouldn't have given us all a much-needed boost. To have had 17 players unavailable… ...
The brief phoney war is almost over. Now all eyes now turn to Kenilworth Road August 30, 2020 - It's not often you get the chance to watch almost four hours of City playing live, so it would have been rude not to... even if their were friendlies. That the club was even able to field two full-strength teams without relying on some under-23s is an achievement in itself… ...
A 6-0 win… a quarantine furore… a German training camp… & a useless algorithm August 23, 2020 - I can never get too excited over pre-season wins. Essentially they're just exercises in honing the players' fitness and putting some miles in the legs. This is why, in a Victor Meldrew style, I didn't read too much into the 6-0 win over MK Dons at Colney on Friday afternoon.… ...
Just 27 days and it all starts again! But can City recreate the spirit of 2014/15? August 16, 2020 - So, the players return to training tomorrow, just three weeks and a day from the guns falling silent on our Premier League experiment of 2019/20. Weird times. That gives Team Farke 26 days to lick this sorry bunch into shape and get their bodies and, more importantly, minds ready for… ...
No bargains to be had at Carrow Road – pay up or shut up. And…… vote #Yellow! August 14, 2020 - Paddy Davitt’s inside track on the Jamal Lewis affair was fascinating. If you haven’t read it, it’s here. Paddy told beautifully the story of how the mighty Liverpool thought that ‘desperate-for-cash’ little Norwich City would be ripe for a quick-and-dirty deal for Jamal, given how needy they’d obviously be given… ...

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