- RiverEnders … don’t get too cosy August 18, 2026 - I am going to make three assumptions about you, dear reader. Don’t be insulted. I’m basing them on someone I know very well: me. The assumptions are: 1) You have heard or read about new finance rules for Championship clubs this season. 2) You subconsciously filed that news in your… ...
- A final farewell to a fine man: the Cornish Canary December 13, 2024 - What makes a “proper fan”? There’s no such thing, of course: no hierarchy of supporters, no rankings based on the number of matches attended or the loudness and enthusiasm with which folk chant. If there were, then a very good friend, who has died, suddenly, aged 77, wouldn’t score very… ...
- Four games? Unfortunately, justice is blind to all of our partisan angst December 12, 2024 - In 2017, Carlisle’s Shaun Miller was suspended for two games when an FA commission ruled that he had won a penalty with a dive. The game was on a Tuesday. The commission sat on the following Friday. The ban began with the following day’s game. It was a noteworthy case… ...
- Good, kind people who care about others – and about the great club in the fine city August 15, 2024 - Delia Smith and Michael Wynn Jones could have sold their shares to Mark Attanasio for whatever price they could haggle out of him: certainly not less than the £10m he stumped up for an earlier, much smaller tranche. He would then have owned about 80 percent of the club, and… ...
- A tale of two love stories, and two restrained and grounded multi-millionaires August 12, 2024 - The story which best sums up Delia Smith involves a bloke trying to flog her a personalised number plate. Michael Wynn-Jones, her husband, answered a telephone call to their cottage home. The caller announced that he had acquired the registration DEL1A and was prepared to sell it. He named a… ...
- A top 26 finish in 11 of the last 14 seasons – not a feat to be underestimated May 19, 2024 - Sometimes a significant part of a football club’s summer business can go unnoticed or, at least, be undervalued. It is when a key player is persuaded to stay. So, for instance, although signing Grant Holt was a magnificent piece of work by Bryan Gunn ahead of the 2009-10 season (in… ...
- A magical day prompted by the jumping, thumping atmosphere of The Carra April 8, 2024 - There is frequent talk in football about “wanting it”. Usually, it is total tosh. But … Sixty-seven minutes gone. Kieffer Moore finds himself accidentally in possession inside Norwich City’s penalty area, near the River End goal-line on the City Stand side of the box. There is nobody near him. He… ...
- Kenny bites back… a deluge of biblical proportions… & the heroes of the CSF March 4, 2024 - Kenny McLean became the latest staff member to bite back – very mildly – against frustrated supporters as City eventually got the better of Sunderland on Saturday. On a sodden pitch, another sodding draw was looking probable. But then McLean and the much-maligned Ben Gibson combined to create an 81st-minute… ...
- Why Delia and Michael should be judged gently… December 5, 2023 - Mysoginist, ageist, defamatory … take your pick. Many of the opinions expressed about Delia Smith and Michael Wynn Jones since Norwich City’s AGM were appalling. And even most of those who managed to remain civilised and decent were still profoundly wrong. Ah, but I am their friend, so my views… ...
- SPORTING MOMENTS: Slow swimming… schmoozing… & the great Peter Jones June 1, 2023 - A few days by the seaside in a decent hotel, on expenses, with merely a soupcon of unexacting work? Great. I mean, how taxing could it be to report on swimming, even if it was my first ‘away’ gig in my first Fleet Street job? My new employers – The… ...
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