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IPSBest known as editor/columnist for MyFootballWriter but, among many other things, has been an expert Norwich City voice at The Metro and BBC Sport. Is currently F1 editor at Dave.Sport and has never stopped being an idiot. A season ticket holder in Carrow Road's River End... so moans a lot.
Philippe Clement and Nathan Jones are chalk and cheese. Not literally. I defy anyone to try to write on a blackboard with Clement or try to spread Jones on a cracker. But as a metaphor, it works. And their teams reflect their respective personalities. Big Phil’s City are built on structure, high standards, and controlling […]
What the government says Norwich City Football Club PLC has been named in the government’s latest minimum wage enforcement round after failing to pay £99,021.76 to 1,152 workers. The Department for Business and Trade published the list on 19 March 2026 as part of a wider naming round in which 389 employers were penalised, around 60,000 workers […]
I’ve spent the last few days convincing myself, with the unneeded help of Southampton, Coventry and Ipswich fans (of course), that tonight doesn’t matter as the playoffs are beyond us. Some of said opposition supporters have been constructive, some have been touchy, and some have spent the week telling me that we are s**t. I’ll […]
Clement is uninterested in your play-off ready reckoners. Speaking at his pre-match press conference on Tuesday, the Norwich City head coach batted away questions about a potential charge for the top six ahead of tonight’s trip to Southampton. His message was blunt: discussions around league positions have no place inside his dressing room, and the focus […]
We’ve talked at huge length about the impact Philippe Clement has had on Norwich City, and will continue to do so. It’s a story for ages, and one that has yet (we hope) to run anything like its full course. But a question that rarely gets asked is ‘how?’ How the hell did this big […]
Same squad, same season, two completely different football clubs. City took nine points from 15 league games under Liam Manning (17 games in all competitions). Under Philippe Clement, they have earned 42 from 22. Yes, I’m stating the obvious, and, yes, we’ve all done the calculations to see where it may take us if this […]
Kenny McLean scored his first free-kick goal for City in yesterday’s 2-0 Championship win over Preston North End, and revealed afterwards that the 39th-minute strike was no accident. Norwich’s captain said that centre-backs Harry Darling and Jose Cordoba formed a decoy wall in front of Preston’s defensive line, then split in opposite directions as he […]
Philippe Clement used Wednesday night’s 2-1 comeback win over Sheffield United to deliver a message that went well beyond the final whistle: Norwich City must match Pelle Mattsson’s trajectory, or risk losing him. The Danish midfielder returned from an eight-game absence with an ankle injury to come off the bench in the second half at […]
City will be without Ruairi McConville again when they host Preston North End at Carrow Road on Saturday, but Philippe Clement confirmed there are no fresh injury concerns from the midweek win over Sheffield United. McConville, the Northern Irish international centre-back who has started nearly every game since Clement’s appointment in November, missed Tuesday’s 2-1 […]
Jose Cordoba credited Philippe Clement’s half-time intervention for City’s 2-1 comeback victory over Sheffield United. Speaking after the game to the local media, he said the head coach told his players to calm down and play at their own tempo after a disjointed opening 45 at Carrow Road. Jairo Riedewald’s well-taken 21st-minute strike had given […]
Who remembers that trip to Bramall Lane in September 2017? You don’t? Seriously? Well, it was the one when we went there, in the opening few months of the Daniel Farke era, and sh*thoused our way to a 1-0 win. It was a weird old day. Yanick Wildschut scored for god’s sake. That’s how weird […]
He doesn’t mess around does Philippe Clement. Disappoint him at your peril. He has warned Amankwah Forson and Paris Maghoma that they must raise their physical output before they can be relied upon for City’s Championship run-in, despite the club currently having 13 senior in the treatment room. Forson came off the bench in the […]
