The idea for the Norfolk & Norwich Hospital Cup originally came from a local bookbinder called Mr E Smith. The intention being to hold an annual end of season football match to raise funds for the hospital. Working with a…
Category: Programmes
When the Canaries beat Manchester City 5-0 in a cup final
The Daily Express Five-a-Side was a national tournament that ran from 1967/68 to 1986/87. Competitors were mostly English league teams with occasional invites to Scottish teams. The annual event was held at Wembley Arena with crowds reaching 10,000. The 4…
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…
Watford v Norwich City March 1946
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…
4,150 programme covers added
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.…
378 programme covers added
I’ve got an ambition to upload a scan of the cover for every match programme I have in the collection. It’s a big task and I think it’s going to take a long while to finish. However, I’ve made a…
Hello and welcome!
I started watching Norwich City as a kid in the late 70s. Like lots of others, I started buying the programmes for the games I went to. Then, I started trying to get the programmes for the games I couldn’t…