The Norwich City Chronicle
Player ratings21 Sep 2026
Nobody could get near Jovon Makama
Successful dribbles: 27. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Squad21 Sep 2026
Kenny McLean 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.
Match19 Sep 2026
Norwich City come up short against Bristol City
Bristol City left with the points after a 0‑2 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.
Squad21 Sep 2026
The manager makes an example of Sam Field
“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.
Squad21 Sep 2026
Ruairi McConville 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.
Squad21 Sep 2026
Dylan Jones 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.
In brief
- The terraces The spotlight tightens on Vladan Kovačević
- Market The Ruairi McConville question follows Norwich City around
- Player ratings The referee tires of Pelle Mattsson
- Loan watch Ante Crnac has made AFC Wimbledon’s shirt his own