Mick Dennis

“This club is a laughing stock” … “A fish rots from the head down” May 24, 2022 - Here are some comments made in the last month. I have précised some a little, but the tone and specifics are faithfully recorded. The names of those saying these things and the people to whom they are referring have been replaced by letters, to protect the guilty. I offer them… ...
You say you don’t want the Webberlution? May 5, 2022 - There is some symmetry at least. Stuart Webber enraged Norwich City supporters with an interview in The Times and now he is so upset by an Eastern Evening News front page that he has stopped talking to reporters from the Archant group. But let’s be clear: he hasn’t banned them.… ...
As we watch the fall of Roman’s empire, we at NCFC should be careful what we wish for March 7, 2022 - It is extraordinary that City’s encounter with Chelsea on Thursday is likely to be the last before the fall of the Roman empire. The arrival in West London of Roman Arkadyevich Abramovich in June 2003 began the transformation of the Premier League into a rich men’s playground. English football has… ...
It’s the hope… September 30, 2021 - What if, improbable as it seems, we claw our way to safety in the brutally unforgiving Premier League? Without quibble or fudge I agree with those who say that, currently, we look a long way off being able to compete, let alone linger, in the top tier. I’ve been there… ...
The salutary tale of Graham Poll – a fallible human, alone in the centre of a storm September 15, 2021 - When he realised his career had imploded in a moment of global humiliation, referee Graham Poll needed to be alone. But solitude is hard to find when you are at a World Cup match. Eventually, he managed to shrug off solicitous colleagues, forced his head up and walked out into… ...
They’ll Never Stop Us Dreaming – Part Two July 12, 2021 - Trust the process, ignore the noise. The Norwich City mantra, invented and applied by sporting director Stuart Webber, should be the England motto now. After previous disappointments by and for the national team, the upset has sometimes been so great and the failure so abject that managers have fallen on… ...
‘They never stopped us dreaming’ – Part One July 11, 2021 - Cliched appraisals of Sir Alf Ramsey say he looked like a bank manager, sounded as if he’d had poor elocution lessons (a myth) and was cold and unapproachable. But I had the joyful privilege to meet most of the men who won the 1966 World Cup under Ramsey’s management and… ...
Glenn Roeder: elegant player & holder of the City reins at an incredibly difficult time March 1, 2021 - Common decency has prevented Norwich City fans talking ill of Glenn Roeder, who died this week at just 65. But it is the nature of football that he will be remembered by those supporters for one moment in his 15 months and 65 games as manager. Just over a year… ...
Jamal floundering, Soto arriving and the ongoing threat of a Euro Super League January 22, 2021 - First came the sight of Jamal Lewis, flailing and failing in Newcastle’s humiliation. Then came the news that Norwich City have brought USA striker Sebastian Soto to England at last. And, finally, there were accounts of the threat of a breakaway European super-league. Three disparate sets of circumstances, they coalesce… ...
How journalism works in 2021 … #NCFC … #ITK … #yawn January 5, 2021 - How journalism works in 2021 module 1: On 9 December, a story appeared in The Metro. Its headline was: “Emiliano Buendia’s agency respond to Arsenal fan asking for transfer”. The report included two facts: an Arsenal fan tweeted Emi, urging him to join Arsenal, and the agency who represent Buendia… ...

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