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1. Ipswich Town 3 Norwich City 2 ...
(Match of the month)
... comfort from the season now nearing its end. Norwich are one of a clutch of clubs with a recent Premier League history cluttering the foot of the Championship. Though their fortunes have improved since ...
Created on 21 June 2009
2. Keeping it real: lower-league football’s growing authenticity problem
(Stories)
... student living in Norwich, and most of the friends I had who were remotely interested in football were Arsenal or Tottenham fans. As such, I was something of a curio, a supporter of a lower-league club, ...
Created on 22 June 2017
3. Classic match ~ Arsenal 2-4 Norwich, 1992 ...
(April 2016)
30 April ~ Relegation-threatened Norwich could do with a repeat of their trip to Highbury on the opening day of the 1992-93 season when they visit Arsenal today. Things did not start well for the Canaries ...
Created on 30 April 2016
4. Can Norwich's curse of Crystal Palace be lifted? ...
(April 2016)
Canaries urgently need points against their bogey team 9 April ~ In 35 years of supporting Norwich I’ve never met a fellow Canary with fond memories of Selhurst Park. We have an appalling record there ...
Created on 09 April 2016
5. Portsmouth 1 Manchester City 3
(Match of the month)
... co-opted or inappropriate, of The Great Escape tune was almost eerie in its cheerily defiant stoicism. Norwich fans have been in simi­larly full song recently, some of their fans suggesting that they regard ...
Created on 14 January 2005
6. Swansea City
(The five minute...)
... Anywhere between the First Division and oblivion. Given decent management, and luck, there is no rea­son why Swansea should rank lower than Brigh­ton, Rotherham, Grimsby or even Norwich. But long-term ...
Created on 14 June 2002
7. Instant replayed – Norwich in 1982 ...
(Clubs)
The signing of Martin O'Neill lit a fire for Norwich City's season, says Joe Ferrari Some say every successful team needs at least one ‘battler’ in midfield, one leathery, hard bastard who elbows ...
Created on 14 May 1997
8. Tights, trainers and turf thaw: how football clubs coped with the big freeze of 1978-79
(Stories)
... from the terraces as he scored in his team’s 3-0 victory over Norwich in the FA Cup third round. As the thaw set in, the country slowly emerged from hibernation. Gravediggers called off their industrial ...
Created on 29 January 2019
9. Swindon in the Premier League: pretty passing, defensive disasters and Fjortoft’s celebrations
(Stories)
...  Similarly, the 0-0 draws with Norwich and West Ham were the best the Town could manage in the first few weeks. At the time I was a lecturer at Sheffield Hallam University and one of my students, a kee ...
Created on 02 January 2019
10. "I sketched it on a sandwich wrapper" – when fans design club badges
(Stories)
... as been tweaked since to meet copyright requirements but has stood the test of time. In 1971 the Eastern Evening News in Norwich decided to run a competition for a new badge. Controversy had already ari ...
Created on 04 December 2018
11. When Neil Warnock led Notts County to a shock season in the top division
(Stories)
... a 3-1 win at Bramall Lane, and another in the next game (a 2-2 draw with Norwich), the more attacking style of play led us to believe we were on the up. Three successive 1-0 defeats put paid to that. Although ...
Created on 16 April 2018
12. Dalglish & Rush, Summerbee & Lee, Warboys & Bannister – where have the great duos gone?
(Stories)
... In the five seasons they played together (two at Bournemouth and one each at York, Norwich and Southampton) they netted a barely credible 195 goals between them. The Inverness-born MacDougall tended to ...
Created on 21 December 2017
13. Forcing away ends out of modern grounds is hurting the game’s atmosphere
(Stories)
... ground, or tucked away on a top shelf – yes Newcastle – like a seldom-used bag of self-raising. Everton, Villa, Manchester United, Coventry, Ipswich, Norwich, Cardiff – and many more – are all clubs ...
Created on 13 November 2017
14. Life during wartime: how the Second World War exposed football’s regional divides
(Stories)
... clubs were unhappy at having been split up, with the majority in South “A” alongside clubs to the north and east, such as Watford and Norwich City, while the others were allocated to South “B” to play ...
Created on 08 November 2017
15. Rangers’ “other” Glasgow derby as key to Pedro Caixinha’s future as Celtic clash
(Stories)
... back on track. Signing midfielders Ryan Jack, from Aberdeen, and life-long Rangers fan Graham Dorrans from Norwich City demonstrate Caixinha is conscious of the need for a Scottish core. But any sense ...
Created on 19 September 2017
16. From the archive ~ Homeless and broke: remembering Brighton’s darkest days
(Stories)
...  outfit enjoying county-wide support (most fans would be quite content if we became another Ipswich or Norwich). The odd promotion campaign, a few seasons in the Premier League and some decent cup runs ...
Created on 07 August 2017
17. WSC 367 & 2017-18 Season Guide out now
(Stories)
... manager Steve Bruce in 2003, before adding: “But my experience is it isn’t always like that.” Perhaps he was reflecting on his first error-strewn appearance at Carrow Road for Norwich against Liverpool ...
Created on 01 August 2017
18. Football Welcomes initiative this weekend celebrates contribution of refugees
(Stories)
... (Brentford, Southampton, Colchester and Cambridge United) and Antonio Gallego (Norwich). They were unaccompanied child refugees from the Spanish Civil War, evacuated to the UK after the bombing of Guernica ...
Created on 21 April 2017
19. MacDou-GOAL! The Ted MacDougall story by Neil Vacher and Ted MacDougall
(Players)
... international striker, whose career in the 1970s took him from the south coast to Manchester United and West Ham as well as Norwich, where he was Division One’s top scorer in 1975-76. It’s clear throughout ...
Created on 21 March 2017
20. Hope abounds Paul Clement can convert Swansea performances into points
(Stories)
...  defeated Norwich and Villa in tense, scrappy home performances that went a long way to preserving their Premier League status. Something similar is again required from the next two home fixtures with th ...
Created on 03 March 2017

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