On The Ball - A show about Norwich City

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POINT OF ORDER: We're moving and this will be the last podcast on this feed. Please subscribe to 'OTB: A Norwich City Podcast' to continue listening — thanks! Slightly new name, slightly new look, same podcasters, and absolutely the same vaguely coherent waffle. The On The Ball podcast is now OTB and Norwich City have helpfully kicked off the new era with a win (they must have known), triumphing i...

After a midweek blip, normal service under Philippe Clement was resumed for Norwich City as they took to The Valley to grind out a 1-0 win at the weekend. However, in every great heroic quest there's a chippy little Welsh fella … the panel of Ryan Livermore, Dan Brigham and Steve Sanders examines the tape of the Nathan Jones vs Philippe Clement and the handshake that wasn't, as well as talking up...

As if 10 minutes of eulogising about him last week wasn't enough, On The Ball has more Kenny McLean saluting to do with his free-kick setting up a 2-0 win over Preston on Saturday and helping earn Norwich City six more beautiful Championship points this week. But the Saints are coming. Ryan Livermore, Dan Brigham, Zoe Morgan and Steve Sanders look back on a glorious week, and ahead to a make-or-br...

And so the Norwich City FA Cup dream dies for another season — at Leeds United and at the hands of the man who last got the Canaries into a quarter-final, Daniel Farke. Steve Sanders, Dan Brigham and Zoe Morgan lament a performance that didn't quite do Big Phil's yellows justice and ask what might have been if not for all the inexperience, those cursed injuries and just generally not being quite a...

Norwich City are marching into March with two 2-0 wins this week — the latest being a win at relegation (whatever that is) rivals Leicester on Saturday. Ryan Livermore is joined by Chris Goreham, Zoe Morgan and Steve Sanders for the latest eulogies on the Clement revolution, some love for Paris and of course, the fun of having a centre-half playing as your number nine. Plus, Daniel Farke stan...

Some defeats are better than others and getting warmly clapped by all four sides of Carrow Road doesn't feel like the worst response to a defeat — which was the reception for Norwich City as they went down 2-1 to Birmingham on Saturday. The On The Ball Podcast team of Ryan Livermore, Dan Brigham, Zoe Morgan and Steve Sanders reflects on yer classic game of two halves, and works out how and where t...

They're at it again. Two more wins for Norwich City in two different competitions this week, the latest for Philippe Clement's juggernaut yellows coming with a 3-1 victory over West Brom in the FA Cup on Saturday. In round five it's Leeds and Steve Sanders, Zoe Morgan and Maddie McKenzie react hot off the press to the news of a Farke v Clement showdown at Elland Road, find time to heap more praise...

Winning: it's just what we do now. The On The Ball Podcast celebrates a sixth victory in eight to open up 2026, with a no-frills 2-0 success over Blackburn at Carrow Road. Ryan Livermore, Dan Brigham and Steve Sanders zero in on some new heroes in Jose Cordoba and Anis Ben Slimane, revel in Oscar's winning role, and celebrate the potential for a new terrace hero in Mo Toure. Heck, Josh Sargent har...

The double hundred is up for the On The Ball podcast and, in a serendipitous moment, it's a live deadline day special to mark the occasion! Ryan Livermore, Dan Brigham, Zoe Morgan and Steve Sanders give Sky Sports News LIVE reaction to Sam Field being (basically) announced as the window is set to close, round-up Norwich City's many incomings and not-as-many outgoings, and reflect on the progress —...

A podcast that's a day later than usual due to the thoughtlessness of the EFL schedule, but this was not a week to be missed. Norwich City are on fire, having sprung out of the relegation zone for the first time in three long months, with a 5-0 win against West Brom last week followed by upsetting Championship leaders Coventry on Monday. Steve Sanders, Dan Brigham, Zoe Morgan and Connor Southwell...

Stick that in your documentary. Norwich City are in the ascendancy again, with an impressive 2-1 win at in-form Wrexham keeping them on the right path for their Championship survival mission. Ryan Livermore, Craig Draycott and Steve Sanders celebrate Makama again (ole ole), worship at the altar of Kenny, revel in Vlad's madcap antics after another wonder save, and hope that we might be getting pal...

The On The Ball Podcast returns for the new year to reflect on an up-and-down Christmas schedule for Norwich City — win, loss, win and finally, loss against Stoke City at Carrow Road on Sunday. A new year but the same podcasters as Ryan Livermore, Dan Brigham, Zoe Morgan and Steve Sanders put their heads together to determine whether this inconsistency is good or bad for the Canaries’ current pred...

A very merry Christmas to all listeners of the On The Ball Podcast!  Our Christmas gift to you is all eight parts of ChatGPT Get Banged, our Norwich City-based crime caper set deep in the Paul Lambert era of the 2010/11 season, back to back — from mysterious beginnings to cliffhanger end. Will crime-solving duo Wes and Holty find the tactics board of truth? Will Des Lynam return? Will anyone...

And just like that, there is hope again. Norwich City have recovered from their Vicarage Road hangover by doing what little imagined they would last week — by being good again (with a helping hand from Jovon Makama). It feels like a corner has been turned. Join Ryan Livermore, Dan Brigham and Zoe Morgan for an "end-of-the-year special" which is being used to justify an exceedingly long podcast tha...

Well, this feels new. The On The Ball Podcast reflects on another defeat for Norwich City but this time they were actually decent, before coming unstuck at Vicarage Road with a 3-2 defeat to Watford on Saturday. Steve Sanders, Dan Brigham and Connor Southwell decide to focus on the promising trajectory in performances rather than the table and talk Schwartau's upturn, flying Fisher, pressing matte...

The three musketeers of Ryan Livermore, Zoe Morgan and Daniel Brigham dissect the best week in recent Norwich City history, as an Oxford draw preluded QPR being put to the sword.  Four points from two big games is an outcome everyone around Carrow Road craved, and our panel talk Clement's communication, Kenny (for once) being the weakest of a good bunch, and Sarge's guaranteed goals at Vicara...

New manager, same old Norwich City. The On The Ball podcast is on hand again to react to a shoddy Canaries display, with their biggest defeat of the season coming at Birmingham City at the weekend — a 4-1 defeat in new boss Philippe Clement's first game. Good job the new manager bounce is a myth. Ryan Livermore, Dan Brigham, Zoe Morgan and Steve Sanders discuss Duffy's dallying, the hope of Kvistg...

So long Liam Manning, we hardly knew ye. The On The Ball team reacts after an eighth (EIGHTH!) straight defeat at Carrow Road to start the season saw the axe eventually, and almost inevitably, fall on Norwich City's (now former) head coach. Steve Sanders, Zoe Morgan, Dan Brigham and Connor Southwell analyse what went wrong and whether anything went right in his 17 games, why it's a great big blood...

Here we go again. The now familiar routine of a Norwich City defeat continued at Carrow Road on Saturday, as the Canaries fell 2-0 to Hull to make it a James Bond start to the season at home: 0-0-7. It's officially a relegation dogfight now ... only without the fight part. The On The Ball podcast regulars Ryan Livermore, Dan Brigham, Zoe Morgan and Steve Sanders try to find a new way to ask how Li...

Desperate times call for desperate measures, so please indulge this concept album of On The Ball episodes: a football podcast that doesn't talk about the football. Frankly, what is going on away from the pitch at Norwich City is far more interesting right now anyway. So Steve Sanders, Maddie McKenzie, Dan Brigham and Zoe Morgan eschew more talk about better support for Josh Sargent, giving up goal...

Just when Liam Manning thought it couldn't get worse ... it got worse! The On The Ball podcast reacts to his Norwich City team succumbing to a sixth(!) straight home defeat against his old club Bristol City, going down 1-0 at the weekend. Steve Sanders, Dan Brigham and Zoe Morgan try and stay upbeat (with the words of Steve's uncle ringing in their ears), assess where the makings of this latest lo...

We hate to be the ones to break it to you, but Norwich City's long, long, 16-year unbeaten run against Ipswich Town is finally over after the Canaries lost 3-1 at Portman Road on Sunday. Ryan Livermore, Dan Brigham and Steve Sanders don't have too much time to dwell on another dispiriting performance though, when there are murmurs of sackings in the air. The On The Ball podcasters discuss where we...

It wasn't fun and it wasn't pretty, but ultimately they did what they had to do. Not a description of this week's On The Ball podcast, but Norwich City's performance in their away point at Stoke. Ryan Livermore, Steve Sanders and Connor Southwell try not to copy and paste the review of the Coventry game as they talk about another dogged 1-1 draw with an unconvincing performance, get stuck into the...

As if it couldn't get much worse after Saturday? There's a new episode of On The Ball! Ryan Livermore, Dan Brigham and Zoe Morgan are joined by Radio Norfolk's Chris Goreham to cathartically dissect one of Norwich City's more recent darker days, home not always being where the heart is, and can we really do it on a calm, autumnal afternoon in Stoke? Liam Manning isn't the only one under pressure e...