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When Dave went up to lift the Milk Cup

5 March 20245 March 2024 adminMemories, Shirts

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…

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Norwich City 1992 FA Cup Semi-Final shirt

4 January 20248 January 2024 adminMemories, Shirts

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…

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Norwich City 20/21 shirt

7 November 20237 November 2023 adminMemories, Shirts
Grant Hanley match worn 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…

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Norwich City 81/82 shirt

11 October 202313 October 2023 adminMemories, Shirts

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…

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Norwich City 92/93 shirt

12 September 202313 September 2023 adminMemories, Shirts

Ian Crook wore this Norwich City shirt for the final match of the 92/93 season.  That was a thrilling 3-3 draw at Middlesbrough. The result confirmed a 3rd place league finish. Watch highlights from that Middlesbrough game here. A few…

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Fixture Cards

19 June 202314 April 2025 adminMiscellaneous

The new football fixtures for the 23/24 season get published this week. I will be refreshing my phone repeatedly on Thursday at 9am to try and find out who Norwich are going to be playing, where and when. New fixture…

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Norwich City v 1966 England World Cup Squad

16 June 202316 June 2023 adminMemories

I bought a copy of the rather excellent “Three lions on a shirt” book last week.  I think it is brilliantly put together. It really does tell the story of the England shirt from 1872 to present times.  It features…

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Watford v Norwich City March 1946

9 June 202319 June 2023 adminProgrammes

The 45/46 season was a transitional season following the end of the second world war in May 1945. To re-start professional football, the Football League decided to organize the teams on a regional basis.  Norwich took part in the Division…

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4,150 programme covers added

12 May 20235 June 2023 adminProgrammes

I’m pleased to say that I’ve now scanned the covers of all of my Norwich City programmes and uploaded them to this website. It’s been a great little side project to work on over the last 12 months or so.…

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Norwich City and Admiral

3 March 20235 June 2023 adminShirts

Admiral made the Norwich kit for five seasons from 1976/77 to 1980/81.  It’s hard to imagine in today’s world of three new kits a season that there was just one version of the home kit and two versions of the…

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