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Ref. the attached image; the cig card is from 1922 and Reg Wilkinson is from the 1923 Handbook. The image on the right (1933-34) shows how b/w messes with our modern day perceptions, as City played in y/g halves in that season but you could never tell from the photo. Blazer was normal matchday attire for referees.
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"The old boy kicking off is Russell Colman - then head of Colman's Mustard and chairman of Norwich City. The occasion was a 'keep fit' effort for unemployed local men." Not sure if anyone can verify that, or maybe even expand upon it? It looks like Russell J Colman and it is clearly The Nest, but ... 1. The Norwich Unemployment Welfare Association (photo is from their archives) was founded in 1928 but the NCFC kits (green & yellow vertical stripes) date from 1920-23. 2. Would there be that many spectators at a keep-fit event? 3. The Norwich Records Office catalogue lists it as "...kicking off at a Club football match" (their capitalization) 4. Russell J Colman was President of NCFC, but never Chairman
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McGovern out for 3 to 4 months
NewNestCarrow replied to Crabbycanary3's topic in Main Discussion - Norwich City
Oxborough was in the process of finalising a season-long loan to Salford when he did his achilles, so the injury made little or no difference to the Norwich plan for this season (i.e. U23 backup for Krul & MM). -
That would be very welcomed
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"So am I correct in thinking from your responses that the Pink Un site does not have a league table? " Since the revamp of the entire Archant website it looks like all NCFC stats have been scrubbed. So no apps, goals, tables, stats from previous seasons or even historic stats. It is a shame but as the data on this site was often inaccurate it is not necessarily a bad thing. * If site admin points out that stats are still here, just buried in some dark corner, then accept my apologies.
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The Norwich Boxing day retrospective
NewNestCarrow replied to cambridgeshire canary's topic in Main Discussion - Norwich City
@Midlands Yellow @dylanisabaddog Can you both please post what you remember about Ryan's 'missed' penalty? Was it saved by their 'keeper, denied by woodwork or missed target altogether? This is not a test, or trick q, this is for my interest. Thanks! -
The Nest - the original H&S nightmare
NewNestCarrow replied to shefcanary's topic in Main Discussion - Norwich City
"PS: its Leitch, not Leech by the way" Obviously. There are a number of small corrections that could be made to it but, overall, it is a good piece of research. Who Knew? When the Carrow Road stadium was built in 1935 the Consulting Architects were Messrs Archibald Leitch & Partners. -
The Nest - the original H&S nightmare
NewNestCarrow replied to shefcanary's topic in Main Discussion - Norwich City
This is a nice piece, containing some first-hand accounts of the iconic venue http://readtheleague.com/the-big-feature/thenest