On The Ball - A show about Norwich City

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 from a Celtic nation put in a complaint about the dodgy accents?It's truly the only entertainment you'll need this festive season, so let Daniel Brigham, Ryan Livermore, Zoe Morgan, Steve Sanders and Connor Southwell, with a little help from AI, guide you through to 2026 with a serial thriller. See you in the New Year!

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 that covers near perfection, marvellous messrs Makama & Mattsson, and answers the question: who on earth is El Lappino?

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 matters, Liam Manning's holidays and the return of a hero for our times: Tony Gary Springett.Elsewhere, there's an accidental theme and a quiz in Useful or Useless Mulumbi, the greatest Norwich City comebacks since Lazarus/Springett, back-four conundrums, Linkin Park fans and, like an ultras convention in Brussels, Connor comes armed with some bald Belgians.

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 Vicarage Road this weekend.Plus there's a rearranged quiz on Norwich City managerial debuts, the origins of our football love and where on earth have the coloured nets gone?

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 Kvistgaarden, and try to unearth a light at the end of the tunnel, courtesy of what our new manager might bring. And then there's Better-Late-Than-Never-Ben's press ganging. "It's on me" etc.Plus, an absolutely mammoth game on Tuesday, Kenny from the halfway line, what's the most creative vegetable, proof that the panel knows nothing about construction, and your best Philippe Clement pun features (none of which were used for the title of this episode, really sorry guys).

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 bloody shame it didn't work out, and pick the bones out of the Leicester defeat that sealed his fate.Plus, there's a run through all your favourite and least favourite names in the frame (there's a few you'll have heard of), a few Warnock and non-Warnock suggestions for the next boss from our listeners, the week in Vlad, and a moustachioed gent shows up on the team coach to give Wes and Holty a steer in the right direction in ChatGPT Get Banged.