I would like to announce details of a new book called “Canary Threads” documenting a wonderful selection of 50 different shirts worn by Norwich City over the last 60 years. Each shirt is connected to a great moment in the…
Norwich City in the Texaco Cup
The Texaco Cup started in the 1970/71 season and continued for 5 seasons. For the first 2 seasons, it involved clubs from England, Scotland, Northern Ireland and Ireland that had not qualified for European football. For the last 3 seasons,…
Norwich City in the Anglo-Scottish Cup
Norwich City played in the Anglo-Scottish Cup as part of the pre-season preparations for 4 seasons in the 1970’s. The tournament was created in 1975 and played with a mix of English and Scottish teams. The competition replaced the Texaco…
Programmes from postponed or abandoned Norwich City games
It used to be quite common for games to get postponed in the winter months because of frozen pitches and snow. However, it’s unusual now for Premier League or Championship games to be called off because most clubs have good…
1942 Norwich City Football Rattle
This football rattle is a wonderful piece of Norwich City memorabilia. It is very different to the many shirts and programmes I have in this collection. It was originally purchased by a young city fan who was going to watch…
2001/02 Division One Play Off Final Shirt
It is unusual for Norwich City to reach the Championship / Division One end of season play-offs. Before this current season, Norwich had qualified just twice in the previous 20 seasons at this level since the play-offs were introduced in…
When Dave went up to lift the Milk Cup
I went to the 1985 Milk Cup final against Sunderland. Without doubt, seeing the Canaries win at Wembley has been one of the highlights of my lifetime following the club. We had come close to getting to a cup final…
Norwich City 1992 FA Cup Semi-Final shirt
This is Mark Bowen’s number 11 shirt from the FA Cup Semi-Final game at Hillsborough against Sunderland. Mark was the captain on the day and this was one of his 399 appearances for Norwich. The shirt features the one-off “FA…
Norwich City 20/21 shirt
2020/21 was a record breaking season for the Canaries. They amassed a best ever 97 points in the Championship. They won the title 6 points clear of Watford and 10 ahead of 3rd placed Brentford. It was their second Championship…
Norwich City 81/82 shirt
The Canaries wore this very stylish Adidas shirt for 3 seasons in 1981/82, 1982/83 and 1983/84. Adidas replaced Admiral as the club’s kit supplier. The pinstripe design was a template used for Norwich’s away shirt (white shirt/green stripes). It was…