Marked for Ben Chrisene
From our football correspondent
Crisis
Player ratings13 Mar 2028
Ali Ahmed runs at them all day
Successful dribbles: 31. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Squad13 Mar 2028
“I remember the meeting. I remember exactly what was promised in it.” Norwich City may remember it differently, which is precisely the problem.
Match11 Mar 2028
5 without a win now, and the ground has developed the special quiet of a crowd that expects the worst. One scrappy 1-0 would cure most of it; that is the maddening part.
Match11 Mar 2028
5 matches, no goals, and a training ground that has tried everything. It will end — droughts always do — but nobody at Norwich City can tell you which week it ends in.
Squad13 Mar 2028
Santiago Bueno falls out with a teammate over standards
The oldest argument in any dressing room and the only one that is genuinely about football: one man thinks another is not putting enough in. It is also the row a manager privately does not mind having happened.
Squad13 Mar 2028
Ben Chrisene in a row with a teammate
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Norwich City this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad13 Mar 2028
“Nobody here is above being told.” It was not said with a name attached, but the dressing room can count, and so can everybody who was listening.
Match11 Mar 2028
Sheffield Wednesday left with the points after a 0‑1 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.
Loan watch13 Mar 2028
The goals keep arriving from Ante Crnac’s exile
5 goals in 31 games at Stockport County — numbers that travel home faster than he does. Somebody at Norwich City updates a spreadsheet every Monday, and it makes better reading each week.
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Uneasy
Player ratings28 Feb 2028
Ali Ahmed runs at them all day
Successful dribbles: 24. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Squad28 Feb 2028
Oscar Bobb in a row with a teammate
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Norwich City this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Boardroom28 Feb 2028
The paperwork is done long before the player is. Jack Hunt has agreed terms to come here when his current deal runs out, which means Norwich City have spent a summer's transfer budget on a phone call.
Match26 Feb 2028
3 games without scoring. Strikers stop looking up, midfielders take the extra touch, and every shot that clears the bar is followed by a groan that has been building since the last goal.
Squad28 Feb 2028
Mathias Kvistgaarden falls out with a teammate over standards
The oldest argument in any dressing room and the only one that is genuinely about football: one man thinks another is not putting enough in. It is also the row a manager privately does not mind having happened.
Squad28 Feb 2028
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Harry Darling, and the manager let it.
Loan watch28 Feb 2028
The goals keep arriving from Stephen Humphrys’s exile
7 goals in 27 games at Livorno — numbers that travel home faster than he does. Somebody at Norwich City updates a spreadsheet every Monday, and it makes better reading each week.
Squad28 Feb 2028
The shape wanted a different profile against this opponent, which is a real football answer and no comfort at all to the man it is about. He did nothing wrong and he did not play.
Match26 Feb 2028
Nil-nil, and few chances worth the name. West Ham United came to defend and left with exactly what they came for.
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Uneasy
Player ratings21 Feb 2028
Ali Ahmed runs at them all day
Successful dribbles: 35. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Squad21 Feb 2028
“I was told what my role would be, and I signed on that basis. It has not happened.” A grievance with a date attached is the hardest kind to settle.
Market21 Feb 2028
Only the photograph left for Dylan Jones
Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Dylan Jones will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around Norwich City the goodbyes have quietly begun.
Squad21 Feb 2028
Oscar Bobb was at the centre of it, and by the time it was pulled apart there were three or four others involved. Training grounds are small places and long seasons make them smaller.
Squad21 Feb 2028
Words at Norwich City training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Santiago Bueno is at the centre of it, and the squad will now find out whether the standard rises or the pair of them simply stop speaking.
Squad21 Feb 2028
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Paris Maghoma, and the manager let it.
Match19 Feb 2028
The run at home goes on for Norwich City
8 matches unbeaten here. Every visiting manager is asked about it in the week before, which is precisely why it keeps going.
Loan watch21 Feb 2028
26 appearances away from home and 11 goals to show for them. Every one of them makes next summer's conversation a little more expensive.
Player ratings21 Feb 2028
Marked 7.69. Ask anyone leaving the ground what settled it and you will get one name, which is the only award that has ever really counted.
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Uneasy
Player ratings14 Feb 2028
Successful dribbles: 25. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Squad14 Feb 2028
Pelle Mattsson was at the centre of it, and by the time it was pulled apart there were three or four others involved. Training grounds are small places and long seasons make them smaller.
Squad14 Feb 2028
Oscar Bobb falls out with a teammate over standards
The oldest argument in any dressing room and the only one that is genuinely about football: one man thinks another is not putting enough in. It is also the row a manager privately does not mind having happened.
Squad14 Feb 2028
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Vladan Kovačević, and the manager let it.
Player ratings14 Feb 2028
The afternoon belonged to Ben Chrisene
7.44, and no serious argument from anybody who was there. Norwich City had eleven men on the pitch and one of them decided how it went.
Squad14 Feb 2028
There is no complaint available here and everybody involved knows it, which does not make the walk to the bench any shorter. Form is the only currency in football that cannot be borrowed against.
Match12 Feb 2028
The crowd waited for a goal that never came. Coventry City defended in numbers and left with what they came for, and the two sides could be playing still without troubling a scorer.
Loan watch14 Feb 2028
“Nobody here treats me like a loan player, and that is worth more than people think.” 25 appearances and 10 goals, and a summer that will decide it.
Market14 Feb 2028
Every press conference now starts and ends the same way: with Mathias Kvistgaarden’s future. The manager has run out of new ways to say nothing.
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Upbeat
Player ratings24 Jan 2028
No sign of nerves from Oscar Schwartau at 21 — 7.70
The hardest thing about being 21 in a senior side is that nobody makes allowances. Oscar Schwartau did not need any: 7.70, and he looked the most comfortable man on the pitch.
Market24 Jan 2028
“This is not anger. I have thought about it for months, and nothing that has happened lately changed my mind.” The request is on a desk at Norwich City, and it is not being withdrawn.
Squad24 Jan 2028
Words at Norwich City training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Oscar Bobb is at the centre of it, and the squad will now find out whether the standard rises or the pair of them simply stop speaking.
Squad24 Jan 2028
Ben Chrisene was at the centre of it, and by the time it was pulled apart there were three or four others involved. Training grounds are small places and long seasons make them smaller.
The terraces24 Jan 2028
At 21 he is being sung about by people twice his age, which is an affection a signing has to earn over years and a local kid gets for turning up. It is also the hardest thing in football to live up to.
Player ratings24 Jan 2028
Successful dribbles: 19. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Squad24 Jan 2028
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Ben Chrisene, and the manager let it.
Player ratings24 Jan 2028
Ali Ahmed stands above it all
Some games turn on a moment; this one turned on a man. 7.97 on the card, and the Norwich City support went home talking about one name.
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Uneasy
Squad29 Nov 2027
Anis Ben Slimane: that is not what I was promised
“Things were said to me before I signed. I am not going to repeat them, but I remember all of them.” Norwich City have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.
Squad29 Nov 2027
Pelle Mattsson was at the centre of it, and by the time it was pulled apart there were three or four others involved. Training grounds are small places and long seasons make them smaller.
Player ratings29 Nov 2027
Successful dribbles: 21. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Match27 Nov 2027
3 matches without a goal for Norwich City
The chances are being made and something is happening between the making and the finishing. 3 matches now, and the anxiety in the ground arrives a little earlier every week.
The terraces29 Nov 2027
There is a particular warmth a ground reserves for a 23-year-old it feels ownership of. Ben Chrisene has it now, and everything he does for the rest of his time here will be measured against the goodwill he was handed for free.
Player ratings29 Nov 2027
Marked 7.37 on an afternoon he ran from the first whistle to the last. Whatever else went wrong, Norwich City had the best player on the pitch.
Squad29 Nov 2027
The manager makes an example of Lucien Mahovo
“If you cannot run for the shirt, somebody else will wear it.” No name was used and none was needed; every player in that room knew who it was for.
Match27 Nov 2027
Ninety minutes, two goalkeepers with clean gloves, and not one finish worth keeping. Charlton Athletic will be the happier side with the point.
Squad29 Nov 2027
Jacob Wright has become a man the manager trusts
Nobody at Norwich City will say this on the record and the team sheets have been saying it for weeks. There is a small group in every squad who get picked when the fixture is difficult, and he has joined it.
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Uneasy
Market15 Nov 2027
Oscar Bobb wants European nights
The general version of this complaint is that a player wants more. The specific version names the thing: he wants to walk out under floodlights against clubs from other countries, and he has stopped pretending otherwise.
Squad15 Nov 2027
Pelle Mattsson was at the centre of it, and by the time it was pulled apart there were three or four others involved. Training grounds are small places and long seasons make them smaller.
Player ratings15 Nov 2027
Successful dribbles: 21. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Squad15 Nov 2027
Oscar Bobb falls out with a teammate over standards
The oldest argument in any dressing room and the only one that is genuinely about football: one man thinks another is not putting enough in. It is also the row a manager privately does not mind having happened.
Player ratings15 Nov 2027
Some games turn on a moment; this one turned on a man. 7.68 on the card, and the Norwich City support went home talking about one name.
Squad15 Nov 2027
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Matěj Jurásek, and the manager let it.
Squad15 Nov 2027
“The easiest signature of my career.” Christopher Marshall and Norwich City agree another 4 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.
Match13 Nov 2027
The crowd waited for a goal that never came. Hull City defended in numbers and left with what they came for, and the two sides could be playing still without troubling a scorer.
Market15 Nov 2027
Another week, another link, another denial nobody quite believes. Norwich City know the market decides these things, not the back pages — but the back pages are louder.
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Uneasy
Match27 Oct 2027
The small margins put Norwich City out
Out, 1‑2 to Huddersfield Town, and the long argument about which of the small moments decided it. The league is all there is now, and everybody knows it.
Match30 Oct 2027
There is no crueller way to lose a football match. Norwich City scored in the 91th minute, the restart barely happened, and the away end was still standing when the whistle went.
Market1 Nov 2027
“I have given everything here and I need a new challenge.” The request is formal, and the relationship will never be quite the same again.
Player ratings1 Nov 2027
Successful dribbles: 26. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Squad1 Nov 2027
Pelle Mattsson was at the centre of it, and by the time it was pulled apart there were three or four others involved. Training grounds are small places and long seasons make them smaller.
Squad1 Nov 2027
Oscar Bobb falls out with a teammate over standards
The oldest argument in any dressing room and the only one that is genuinely about football: one man thinks another is not putting enough in. It is also the row a manager privately does not mind having happened.
Loan watch1 Nov 2027
“I did not go to Crewe Alexandra to sit and watch. I want to come back to Norwich City and fight for my place.” 0 appearances in 15 matches say the rest.
The terraces1 Nov 2027
There is a particular warmth a ground reserves for a 23-year-old it feels ownership of. Ben Chrisene has it now, and everything he does for the rest of his time here will be measured against the goodwill he was handed for free.
Squad1 Nov 2027
“If you cannot run for the shirt, somebody else will wear it.” No name was used and none was needed; every player in that room knew who it was for.
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Steady
Player ratings18 Jan 2027
Successful dribbles: 38. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Match16 Jan 2027
4 without a win now, and the ground has developed the special quiet of a crowd that expects the worst. One scrappy 1-0 would cure most of it; that is the maddening part.
Squad18 Jan 2027
Pelle Mattsson was at the centre of it, and by the time it was pulled apart there were three or four others involved. Training grounds are small places and long seasons make them smaller.
Boardroom18 Jan 2027
Chesterfield will keep picking him until June and will get nothing for him after it. Lewis Gordon has pre-agreed a move to Norwich City, and the only people who lose in that arrangement are the ones who let the contract run down.
The terraces18 Jan 2027
There is a particular warmth a ground reserves for a 22-year-old it feels ownership of. Moctar Diop has it now, and everything he does for the rest of his time here will be measured against the goodwill he was handed for free.
Player ratings18 Jan 2027
Marked 8.07 — the sort of number a correspondent writes down twice to be sure. Everything he tried came off, and what he did not try was not worth trying.
Squad18 Jan 2027
“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Ben Chrisene commits to Norwich City for another 4 years.
Squad18 Jan 2027
The manager makes an example of Mirko Topić
“If you cannot run for the shirt, somebody else will wear it.” No name was used and none was needed; every player in that room knew who it was for.
Match16 Jan 2027
1‑1, and both dressing rooms will call it two points lost. A draw that asked plenty of questions and answered none of them.
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Steady
Player ratings19 Oct 2026
Ali Ahmed runs at them all day
Successful dribbles: 38. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Match17 Oct 2026
4 matches without a win for Norwich City
The run now stands at 4, and the questions being asked around Norwich City are no longer polite ones.
Squad19 Oct 2026
Form comes and goes; this has not gone. Harry Amass is 19, and the version of him training now would not have got into the side he was in a year ago.
Match17 Oct 2026
Hard to beat is not the same as winning, but 7 matches without defeat is a foundation Norwich City did not have in the autumn.
Squad19 Oct 2026
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Norwich City this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Match17 Oct 2026
4 matches without a goal for Norwich City
The chances are being made and something is happening between the making and the finishing. 4 matches now, and the anxiety in the ground arrives a little earlier every week.
The terraces19 Oct 2026
There is a particular warmth a ground reserves for a 22-year-old it feels ownership of. Ben Chrisene has it now, and everything he does for the rest of his time here will be measured against the goodwill he was handed for free.
Squad19 Oct 2026
Sam Field gets it from the manager
“Nobody here is above being told.” It was not said with a name attached, but the dressing room can count, and so can everybody who was listening.
Player ratings19 Oct 2026
Some games turn on a moment; this one turned on a man. 7.40 on the card, and the Norwich City support went home talking about one name.
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Uneasy
Player ratings7 Sep 2026
Ali Ahmed runs at them all day
Successful dribbles: 35. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Match5 Sep 2026
4 matches without a win for Norwich City
The run now stands at 4, and the questions being asked around Norwich City are no longer polite ones.
Squad7 Sep 2026
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Norwich City this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
The terraces7 Sep 2026
There is a particular warmth a ground reserves for a 22-year-old it feels ownership of. Ben Chrisene has it now, and everything he does for the rest of his time here will be measured against the goodwill he was handed for free.
Squad7 Sep 2026
No hiding place for Sam Field
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Sam Field, and the manager let it.
Squad7 Sep 2026
Kenny McLean dropped after a run of poor form
The one version of being left out a player cannot argue with, and the one he takes worst. Somebody else has been better and the team sheet says so, in public, every week until it changes.
Player ratings7 Sep 2026
Marked 7.33. Ask anyone leaving the ground what settled it and you will get one name, which is the only award that has ever really counted.
Squad7 Sep 2026
Moctar Diop named in the team of the month
A month is long enough that nobody gets in by accident. Moctar Diop is in the division's best eleven for it, which is a quieter compliment than an award and a more reliable one.
Match5 Sep 2026
Point won or two lost for Norwich City?
Ninety minutes, no goals, and the argument started before the car park emptied: a point gained, or two thrown away against Hull City? Both sides of it will still be going on Thursday.