Martin Penney

Is there room for a self-financing football club in the Premier League of the 2020s? October 21, 2021 - Over the last few years, Norwich City FC have proudly, if quietly, waved the banner of self-financing. All the noise has come from critics, many from within of course. I'm not a fan of the concept myself, but I obviously know that some of you lovely MFW folks and others… ...
The Seagulls sniffed blood but this time our slowly improving Canaries held the line October 18, 2021 - A few years after I was born in late 1957, there were two well-known USA sitcoms shown on black and white TV in the UK that were beloved of ex-servicemen everywhere. The first was Sgt Bilko, aka You'll Never Get Rich or simply the Phil Silvers Show. As a kid growing up I… ...
BRIGHTON PREVIEW: Floyd… the Harlow Gazette… and that likeable Graham Potter October 14, 2021 - I am a great fan of Pink Floyd up until Wish You Were Here and my favourite Roger Waters couplet has always been: The memories of a man in his old age are the deeds of a man in his prime.** So much so in fact that I have the phrase tattooed on… ...
Still early days, but who have been the hits and misses of the transfer window so far? October 11, 2021 - The one positive I get from international breaks is that it gives the Canary Nation time to relax, consider, look to the future and also take a bit of a glance over the shoulder at what has gone on during, in this case, the first 20 per cent of the… ...
Where do you stand on the Krul/Vydra debate? Team Wright or Team Gallagher? October 6, 2021 - When it comes to famous writers, many are entombed within the confines of Poets Corner Westminster Abbey, as in Geoffrey Chaucer, Lord Byron and Philip Larkin amongst shedloads of others. These writers generally got their inspiration from sitting down at places like Tintern Abbey, skulking with understandable fear and dread… ...
Our first little acorn of the season has fallen… in Turf Moor. Thanks Sean October 4, 2021 - From little acorns mighty oaks do grow, proclaims a proverb that originated in England during the 14th century**. If they fall far enough away from the tree not to be suffocated by the arboreal donor, passing squirrels do not hoard them over the winter so that they shrivel and die… ...
Some hits and misses of the Norwich City production line… September 30, 2021 - A while ago now I was speaking with MFW regular Alex Bain and somewhere in the conversation there emerged the concept that when it comes to buying low and selling high, it doesn't always work out that way. And nor does it for many home-grown Academy lads either. For every… ...
Too early for the white flag? Or are we not long for this plush Premier League world? September 27, 2021 - Almost to this very day two years ago I had to go to the NNUH for a full dental extraction. The guy in the next bed to me was a Polish fella called Marek who was in for some kind of preventative DVT operation. Neither of us could stand the… ...
EVERTON PREVIEW: The final Goodison hurrah for the travelling Yellow Army? September 24, 2021 - We play Everton at Goodison Park tomorrow, which is almost certainly the last chance our loyal group of away supporters, both regular and casual, will have the opportunity to visit that grand old stadium before, with a little financial help from Liverpool City Council, a new stadium is built not… ...
Press high, pick off an early City mistake, score from it and it’s all but game over… September 23, 2021 - How often have us Norwich City types come across the phrase *Boys against Men*? Quite a lot if you've seen its use as many times as I have recently - I've lost count in all honesty. But on Tuesday night against Liverpool at Carrow Road there was a novel twist… ...

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