Mick Dennis

It wasn’t very gracious, perhaps. And I know I’ve spent a good few years extolling the virtues of Norwich being an upright, socially responsible club. But seeing our manager being a not-particularly-good winner was much more fun than all those seasons of trying to be a good loser.

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When I talk to people involved in club takeovers, they say that Norwich City’s overall indebtedness remains the big problem. If you want to buy a football club, there are much better deals to be had. The frightening finances confirm that Peter Cullum was trying it on when he asked Delia Smith and Michael-Wynn Jones to give him the club just over two years ago.

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For Walsall – and, unbelievably, some City fans – to criticise Paul Lambert for the postponement of the game at the Banks’ Stadium was just plain wrong.

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I once spent nearly six hours in the back of a Bentley with David Sullivan’s partner, Eve, and that is why he probably won’t buy Norwich City. Perhaps I’d better explain.

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While I am retracting criticisms of City players, it’s time to own up that I was horribly wrong about Simon Lappin and marginally mistaken about Chris Martin. I made up my mind about them both on that horrible night at QPR two seasons ago which proved to be the last fixture of Peter Grant’s flawed tenure as manager.

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Heavens, that was better!

The numb fatalism before the start at Yeovil was replaced by nerve-shredding tension as the home side pummelled the City defence for a 20-minute spell in the first-half. Then came that glorious second-half romp, with all four Norwich goals scored in front of the terrace on which their supporters were standing.

And the Yellow Army, engulfed by relief, became quite brilliantly silly. “Que Sera Sera,” sang somebody, “We're going to …

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January 8th, 1994. FA Cup Third Round day. The mood of Norwich City fans standing at Adams Park, Wycombe, is fraught because our club is in turmoil.

Mike Walker, who led a swash-buckling crusade into Europe a few months earlier, has just decamped to Everton.

City attack the goal behind which the anxious Yellow Army is massed. Seven minutes before half-time Ruel Fox gallops away on the right and slings over a cross. Chris Sutton, our 20-year-old central striker, dives to …

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My wife spent the last 20 minutes repeating: ?I can't watch…?

My son, who was prevented from attending by work, begged me to keep my mobile phone line to him open so that he could hear the Yellow Army singing. I shouted my voice into a hoarse croak.

Those who went to Loftus Road will recall the game for all time.

It demonstrated many things. It showed for instance, that Queen's Park Rangers, the self-styled richest club in the world, still have a small …

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So we've got the Sheriff and a Crook. All we need is the loan arranger to sort us out a biggish striker…

Bryan Gunn has not earned the job of managing Norwich City on the strength of the second-half of his one match in caretaker control. It is because of his 22-year association with the club.

From the days when he used to try to head the crossbar, through an era when he could be spotted quite often at away matches as a fan (with a flat cap that was as much a …

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As the crass campaign to get rid of Glenn Roeder gathers support from destructive Pink Un posters and embittered writers, it is time to tell what I know about events when Peter Grant quit 15 months ago.

Norwich City, you recall, were at their lowest ebb for more than 40 years ? bottom of English football's second tier, four points below the safety line, packed with poor players and, as I wrote on this site at the time, looking like a team for whom relegation would only …

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