Norwich City F.C.

Norwich City
Full name Norwich City Football Club
Nickname(s) The Canaries
Founded 17 June 1902[1]
Ground Carrow Road
(Capacity: 26,034)
Chairman Flag of England Roger Munby
Manager Flag of England Glenn Roeder
League The Championship
2007–08 The Championship, 17th
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Norwich City Football Club (also known as The Canaries) is an English professional football club based in Norwich, Norfolk.

Norwich are currently members of the Football League Championship (second tier of the English football pyramid). They were founder members of the Premier League in 1992–93, and played in its first three seasons reaching the UEFA Cup 3rd Round, returning for one season in 2004–05. They first won promotion to the Football League First Division in 1972, and have played a total of 18 seasons in the top flight, with a longest continuous spell of nine seasons. Norwich have won the League Cup twice, in 1962 and 1985.

The club was founded in 1902. Since 1935, Norwich have played their home games at Carrow Road and have a long-standing and fierce rivalry with East Anglian neighbours Ipswich Town, with whom they have contested the East Anglian Derby 137 times, winning 51 since 1902.

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History

Main article: History of Norwich City F.C.
Carrow Road towards city

Norwich City F.C. was formed following a meeting at the Criterion Cafe in Norwich on 17 June 1902 by a group of friends led by two former Norwich CEYMS players,[1][2] and played their first competitive match against Harwich & Parkeston, at Newmarket Road on 6 September 1902.[3] Following a FA Commission, the club was ousted from the amateur game in 1905, deemed a professional organisation. Later that year Norwich were elected to play in the Southern League and with increasing crowds, they were forced to leave Newmarket Road in 1908, moving to The Nest, a disused chalk pit. During the First World War, with football suspended and facing spiralling debts, City went into voluntary liquidation on 10 December 1917.[4] The club was officially reformed on 15 February 1919. In May 1920, The Football League formed a third Division and Norwich joined the Third Division for the following season.[5] Their first league fixture, against Plymouth, on 28 August 1920, ended in a 1–1 draw. The club went on to endure a mediocre decade, finishing no higher than eighth but no lower than 18th.[4] Their original nickname was the Mustardmen since the famous brand Colman's (who have sponsored the club) was based in the city and they played in a distinct yellow colour.

The following decade proved more successful for the club with a club-record victory, 10–2, over Coventry and promotion as champions to the Second Division in the 1933–34 season under the management of Tom Parker.[6] With crowds continuing to rise, and with the Football Association raising concerns over the suitability of The Nest, the club considered renovation of the ground, but ultimately decided on a move to Carrow Road. The inaugural match, held on 31 August 1935, against West Ham United, ended in a 4–3 victory to the home team and set a new record attendance of 29,779. The biggest highlight of the following four seasons was the visit of King George VI to Carrow Road on 29 October 1938. However, the club was relegated to the Third Division at the end of the season.[7] The league was suspended the following season as a result of the outbreak of the Second World War and did not resume until the 1946–47 season.[4] City finished this and the following season in 21st place,[8][9] the poor results forcing the club to apply for re-election to the league.[10] The club narrowly missed out on promotion under the guidance of manager Norman Low in the early 1950s, but following the return of Tom Parker as manager, Norwich finished bottom of the football league in the 1956–57 season.[11]

The 1958–59 season saw Norwich lose in the semi-final of the FA Cup as a Third Division side, defeating two First Division sides on the way: Tottenham Hotspur and Matt Busby's Manchester United.[10][12] In the 1959–60 season, Norwich were promoted to the Second Division after finishing second to Southampton, and achieved a fourth place finish in the 1960–61 season.[10] In 1962 Ron Ashman guided Norwich to their first trophy, defeating Rochdale 4-0 on aggregate in a two-legged final to win the League Cup.[13]

Sixth place in the league was the closest the club came to promotion to the First Division during the 1960s, but after winning the division in the 1971–72 season under manager Ron Saunders, Norwich City reached the highest level of English football for the first time.[14] They made their first appearance at Wembley Stadium in 1973, losing the League Cup final 1-0 to Tottenham Hotspur.[15] Relegation to the Second Division in 1974 resulted in the resignation of Saunders and the appointment of John Bond.[14] A highly successful first season saw promotion back to the First Division and another visit to Wembley, again in the League Cup final, this time losing 1-0 to Aston Villa.[16] Bond resigned during the 1980–81 season and the club were relegated, but bounced back the following season after finishing third.[17]

The 1984–85 season was of mixed fortunes for the club; under Ken Brown's guidance, they reached the final of the Milk Cup at Wembley Stadium, having defeated Ipswich Town in the semi-final. In the final, they beat Sunderland 1–0, but in the league both Norwich and Sunderland were relegated to the second tier of English football. Norwich were also denied their first foray into Europe with the ban on English clubs after the Heysel Stadium disaster.[18][19] City bounced back to the top flight immediately by winning the Second Division championship in the 1985–86 season.[20] High league placings in the First Division in 1986–87 and 1988–89 would have been enough for UEFA Cup qualification, but the ban on English clubs remained.[19] They also had good cup runs during his period, reaching the FA Cup semi-finals in 1989 and again in 1992.[21][22]

In 1992–93, the inaugural season of the English Premier League, Norwich City led the league for most of the season,[23] before faltering in the final weeks to finish third behind the champions, Manchester United, and Aston Villa.[24] The following season Norwich played in the UEFA Cup for the first time, losing in the third round to Internazionale, but defeating Bayern Munich. Winning 2–1, Norwich are the only English team to beat Bayern Munich in the Olympic Stadium.[25] Mike Walker quit as Norwich City manager in January 1994,[26] to take charge of Everton and was replaced by 36-year-old first team coach John Deehan who lead the club to 12th place in the 1993–94 season in the Premier League.[27] The club were relegated to the First Division the following season.[28] Shortly before relegation, Deehan resigned as manager and his assistant Gary Megson took over until the end of the season.[29] Martin O'Neill, who had taken Wycombe Wanderers from the Conference to the Second Division with successive promotions, was appointed as Norwich City manager in the summer of 1995.[30] He lasted just six months in the job before resigning after a dispute with chairman Robert Chase over money to strengthen the squad.[31] Soon after, Chase stepped down after protests from supporters, who complained that he kept selling the club's best players and was to blame for their relegation.[32] Chase's majority stakeholding was bought by Geoffrey Watling.[33]

English television cook Delia Smith and husband Michael Wynn-Jones took over the majority of Norwich City's shares from Watling in 1996,[33] and Mike Walker was re-appointed as the club's manager.[34] He was unable to repeat the success achieved during his first spell and was sacked two seasons later with Norwich mid-table in the First Division.[35] Nigel Worthington took over as Norwich City manager in December 2000 following an unsuccessful two years for the club under Bruce Rioch and then Bryan Hamilton. He had been on the coaching staff under Hamilton who resigned with the club 20th in the First Division and in real danger of relegation to the third tier of English football for the first time since the 1960s.[36] Worthington avoided the threat of relegation and, the following season, led City to a playoff final at the Millennium Stadium, which Norwich lost against Birmingham City on penalties.[37]

City players celebrate winning the First Division Championship, 2004

The 2003–04 campaign saw the club win the First Division title, finishing eight points clear of second-placed West Bromwich Albion and returned to the top flight for the first time since 1995.[38] For much of the 2004–05 season however, the club struggled and, despite beating Manchester United 2–0 and Newcastle United 2–1 towards the end of the season,[39] a last day 6–0 defeat away to Fulham condemned them to relegation.[40] A mediocre season followed in The Championship as the club finished in ninth despite hopes of bouncing straight back up to the top flight,[41] and as results in the 2006–07 season went against City, the pressure mounted on manager Nigel Worthington, culminating with his sacking on 1 October 2006, directly after a 4–1 defeat at the hands of Championship rivals Burnley.[42] On 16 October 2006, Norwich held a press conference to reveal that former City player Peter Grant had left West Ham United to become the new manager,[43] and in February 2007, Grant replaced assistant Doug Livermore with his fellow Scot, Jim Duffy. [44] Grant's side struggled for most of the season and worse was to follow. Norwich made a terrible start to the 07–08 season, with only two wins by mid October; following a 1-0 defeat at fellow-strugglers QPR, Peter Grant left the club by "mutual consent" on 9 October 2007.[45] On 30 October 2007, former Newcastle United manager Glenn Roeder was confirmed as Grant's replacement.[46] Roeder, hired with the goal to keep Norwich in the Championship, managed to do so with a 3-0 win over QPR, Norwich's penultimate game of the season.

Colours and Crest

Norwich City's nickname, "The Canaries", has long influenced the team's colours and crest. Originally, the club was nicknamed the Citizens ("Cits" for short), and played in light blue and white halved shirts,[4] although the halves were inconsistent; "the blue was sometimes on the left hand side of the shirt and sometimes on the right."[47] The earliest known recorded link between the club and canaries, comes in an interview recorded in the Eastern Daily Press with newly appointed manager, John Bowman in April 1905. The paper quotes him saying "Well I knew of the City's existence... I have... heard of the canaries."[48] "This as far as we can tell is the first time that the popular pastime of the day ie... rearing... canaries was linked with Norwich City FC... the club still played in blue and white, and would continue to do so for another two seasons."[48]

By February 1907, the nickname Canaries had come more into vogue; thoughts that an FA Cup tie against West Bromwich Albion (nicknamed "Throstles" after a bird) was "a bird -singing contest" were dismissed by the polymath C.B. Fry as "humbug" but Bowman and Fry's colleagues in the national press increasingly referred to the team as Canaries.[49]

City of Norwich Coat of Arms

The following season, to match the nickname, City played for the first time in Canary livery; "yellow shirts with green collars and cuffs. One paper produced the quote 'The Cits are dead but the Canaries are very much alive'."[50] Apart from the obvious colour link, a canary may seem an odd choice; however, many English football clubs have adopted small birds as emblems that symbolise agility and deftness around the field.[51]

While the home colours of yellow and green remain to this day, the away colours have varied since introduction; the away kit is currently black shirts, black shorts and black socks.[52]

A simple canary badge was first adopted in 1922.[53] The current club badge consists of a canary resting on a football with a stylised version of the City of Norwich arms in the top left corner.[54] A competition was held to select the badge, with the winning entry designed by local architect Andrew Anderson.

For the club's centenary celebrations in 2002, a special crest was designed. It featured two canaries looking left and right, and a ribbon noting the centenary.[55]

The French Ligue 1 team FC Nantes which was founded 41 years after Norwich City is also nicknamed The Canaries (Les Canaris) and again, like the Norfolk team, also sports a green and yellow home strip.

Stadia

Main article: Carrow Road
View of the "River End" of Carrow Road, decorated by fans holding fliers distributed by a local newspaper.

Norwich City F.C. played at Newmarket Road from 1902 to 1908, with a record attendance of 10,366 against Sheffield Wednesday in a second round FA Cup match in 1908.[56] Following a dispute over the conditions of renting the Newmarket Road ground, in 1908, the club moved to a new home, in a converted disused chalk pit in Rosary Road which became known as "The Nest".[57] By the 1930s, the ground capacity was proving insufficient for the growing crowds and in 1935 the club moved to its current home in Carrow Road.[58] The original stadium, "the largest construction job in the city since the building of Norwich Castle... was "miraculously" built in just 82 days... it was referred to [by club officials] as 'The eighth wonder of the world'"[59][60] An aerial photograph from August 1935 show three sides of open terracing and a covered stand, with a Colman's Mustard advertisement painted on its roof, visible only from the air.[61] Floodlights were erected at the ground in 1956 whose £9,000 costs nearly sent the club into bankruptcy but the success in the 1959 FA Cup secured the financial status of the club and allowed for a cover to be built over the South Stand, which was itself replaced in 2003 when a new 7,000 seat South stand, subsequently renamed the Jarrold Stand was built in its place.[58]

1963 saw the record attendance for Carrow Road, with a crowd of 43,984 for a 6th round FA Cup match against Leicester City, but in the wake of the Ibrox stadium disaster in 1971, safety licences were required by clubs which resulted in the capacity being drastically reduced to around 20,000. A two-tier terrace was built at the River End and soon after seats began to replace the terraces. By 1979 the stadium had a capacity of 28,392 with seats for 12,675. A fire in 1984 partially destroyed one of the stands which eventually led to its complete demolition and replacement by 1987 of a new City Stand, which chairman Robert Chase described as "Coming to a football match within the City Stand is very much like going to the theatre – the only difference being that our stage is covered with grass".[58] After the Hillsborough disaster in 1989 and the subsequent outcome of the Taylor Report in 1990, the stadium was converted to all-seater with the corners being filled. Today, Carrow Road is an all-seater stadium, with a capacity of 26,034.[62]

The club installed new electronic screen/scoreboards at either end of the stadium during the off-season, 2007. They were first utilised in the 5–2 Carling Cup victory over Barnet F.C. on 14 August 2007.

Supporters

See also: On The Ball, City, Pride of Anglia, and East Anglian Derby

While much of the support that the club enjoys is local, there are a number of exiled fan clubs, notably in London and Scandinavia.[63]

The fans' song, On the ball, City, is the oldest football song anywhere in the world still in use today; the song is in fact older than the club itself having probably been penned for Norwich Teachers or Caley's FC in the 1890s and adapted for Norwich City.[48] Although the first use of the tune and song is disputed, it had been adopted by 1902 and it remains in use today in part if not the whole.[48] The chorus is:[64]

“ Kick off, throw it in, have a little scrimmage,

Keep it low, a splendid rush, bravo, win or die,
On the ball, City, never mind the danger,
Steady on, now’s your chance,
Hurrah! We’ve scored a goal.

 ”
Norwich City fans at the 2002 Play-Off final at Cardiff's Millennium Stadium

Locally, much is made of the informal title "Pride of Anglia". Fans variously claim the title for either winning the East Anglian Derby, finishing highest in the league, having the better current league position, having the more successful club history or for reasons without any apparent logical basis. The club's main local rival is Ipswich Town. When Norwich and Ipswich meet it is known as the 'East Anglian Derby', or, informally, as the 'Old Farm Derby', a comic reference to the 'Old Firm Derby' played between Scottish teams Celtic and Rangers.[65] Over the 134 matches played against Ipswich since 1902, Ipswich boasts the better record, having won 45% of the matches to Norwich's 37%.[66][i] Another commonly employed measure for "Pride of Anglia", and one that encompasses all of the East Anglian teams is to dub the side finishing as the highest placed East Anglian team in the Football League as the Pride of Anglia.[67][68]

Ownership

Norwich City F.C. is a public limited company that, in 2003, comprised approximately 8,000 individual shareholdings.[69] Since purchasing their shares from Geoffrey Watling, Delia Smith and husband Michael Wynn-Jones have been joint majority shareholders.[33]

Michael Wynn-Jones and Delia Smith at a fans' event

At the 2006–07 Norwich City FC Annual General Meeting (on the 18 January 2007) Smith and Wynn-Jones announced that they would be open to offers to buy their majority stake-holding in the club. However, they made clear that any prospective buyer would have to invest heavily in the squad, with regards to team improving.[70]

“ The only way we would relinquish our shares is if somebody is going to put money into the football ... Only if they put money into the squad - not if they buy our shares, we don't want money. It has to be that there is money for the squad, serious money for the squad. ”

On the 8 May 2007 the football club announced that Andrew and Sharon Turner had bought out all 5,000 shares belonging to former Board member, Barry Skipper and had given the club an interest-free loan of £2m. Mr and Mrs Turner are owners and directors of personal finance company Central Trust plc.

During July 2008 Peter Cullum declared that he was interested in a takeover of the club, and pledged that he would invest £20m for enhancement of the playing squad. On 8 July the EDP reported that Delia Smith and the board had invited Peter Cullum for talks. Reports later stated that the talks had been terminated with immediate effect, and no deal was to be reached.

On 2 September 2008, Andrew and Sharon Turner announced that they were leaving the football club's board of directors. This left a £2 million hole in Norwich City's budget. On 4 September 2008, Delia Smith and Michael Wynn Jones announced that they would be injecting £2 million, avoiding financial problems for the club.

It is, however, widely believed despite this £2 million injection, Delia Smith and Michael Wynn Jones are interested in selling their majority shareholding in the club. Chairman Roger Munby confirmed on 4 September 2008 that talks are ongoing with multiple potential investors.

Board members

Position Staff
Chairman Flag of England Roger Munby
Joint Majority Shareholder Flag of England Delia Smith
Joint Majority Shareholder Flag of Wales Michael Wynn-Jones
Director Flag of England Michael Foulger
Chief Executive Flag of England Neil Doncaster

Last updated: 5 September 2008
Source: Norwich FC

Statistics and records

Main article: List of Norwich City F.C. club records

Ron Ashman holds the record for Norwich appearances, having played 592 first-team matches between 1947 and 1964. Ralph Hunt holds the record for the most goals scored in a season, 31 in the 1955–56 season in Division Three (South), with Johnny Gavin the top scorer over a career - 122 between 1948 and 1955. Mark Bowen holds the club record for most international caps, with 35 for Wales.[71]

The club's widest victory margin in the league was their 10–2 win against Coventry City in the Division Three (South) in 1930. Their heaviest defeat in the league was 10–2 against Swindon Town in 1908 in the Southern Football League.

Norwich's record home attendance is 43,984 for a sixth round FA Cup match against Leicester City on 30 March 1963. With the introduction of regulations enforcing all-seater stadiums, it is unlikely that this record will be beaten in the foreseeable future.

The highest transfer fee received for an Norwich player is £7.25 million, from West Ham United for Dean Ashton in January 2006, while the most spent by the club on a player was £3.5 million for Robert Earnshaw from West Bromwich Albion in the same month.[72]

The club's highest league finish was third in the FA Premiership in 1992–93.[62] The club has won the League Cup twice (most recently in 1985) and also reached the FA Cup semi-final three times, most recently in 1992.[62] Norwich have taken part in European competition just once, reaching the third round of the UEFA Cup in 1993–94 and are the only British side to beat Bayern Munich in the Olympic Stadium.[23]

Club sponsors

Between 2006 and 2008 the club were sponsored by airline Flybe but on 26 April 2008, it was announced that they were stepping down as the main sponsors.[73]. On the 29 April 2008 it was announced that Aviva would be the new shirt sponsors having signed a three year contract. Aviva are the parent company of Norwich Union. [74]

Players

First-team squad

As of 27 November 2008.[75]
No. Position Player
1 Flag of Scotland GK David Marshall
2 Flag of England DF Jon Otsemobor
3 Flag of England DF Adam Drury
5 Flag of Scotland DF John Kennedy (on loan from Celtic)
6 Flag of Serbia DF Dejan Stefanović
7 Flag of England MF Lee Croft
8 Flag of Northern Ireland MF Sammy Clingan
9 Flag of France MF Antoine Sibierski (on loan from Wigan Athletic)
11 Flag of England MF Luke Chadwick
12 Flag of Ireland DF Gary Doherty
13 Flag of England GK Declan Rudd
14 Flag of Ireland MF Wes Hoolahan
16 Flag of Scotland MF Mark Fotheringham (captain)
17 Flag of Ireland MF David Bell
18 Flag of Italy FW Arturo Lupoli (on loan from ACF Fiorentina)
No. Position Player
19 Flag of Scotland MF Simon Lappin
20 Flag of England MF Darel Russell
21 Flag of England DF Ryan Bertrand (on loan from Chelsea)
22 Flag of England DF Elliot Omozusi (on loan from Fulham)
23 Flag of The Gambia FW Omar Koroma (on loan from Portsmouth)
24 Flag of South Africa MF Matty Pattison
25 Flag of England GK Stuart Nelson
26 Flag of England MF Robert Eagle
27 Flag of England DF Troy Archibald-Henville (on loan from Tottenham)
30 Flag of England FW Korey Smith
33 Flag of Scotland FW Kris Renton
34 Flag of England MF Tom Adeyemi
36 Flag of England MF Damon Lathrope
39 Flag of England FW Luke Daley
44 Flag of England FW Leroy Lita (on loan from Reading)

Out on loan

No. Position Player
10 Flag of England FW Jamie Cureton (at Barnsley)
28 Flag of Ireland MF Michael Spillane (at Luton Town)
No. Position Player
35 Flag of England FW Chris Martin (at Luton Town)

Notable players

Past (and present) players who are the subjects of Wikipedia articles can be found here.

During the club's centenary season, a "Hall of Fame" was created, honouring 100 former players chosen by fan vote and a further 10 players were inducted into the Norwich City F.C. Hall of Fame in 2006.

Players of the Year

For a more detailed list of these winners of the Barry Butler trophy, see List of Norwich City F.C. Players of the Year.
Year Winner
1967 Flag of England Terry Allcock
1968 Flag of Scotland Hugh Curran
1969 Flag of Scotland Ken Foggo
1970 Flag of Scotland Duncan Forbes
1971 Flag of Scotland Ken Foggo
1972 Flag of England Dave Stringer
1973 Flag of England Kevin Keelan
1974 Flag of England Kevin Keelan
1975 Flag of Scotland Colin Suggett
1976 Flag of England Martin Peters
1977 Flag of England Martin Peters
1978 Flag of England John Ryan
1979 Flag of England Tony Powell
1980 Flag of England Kevin Bond
 
Year Winner
1981 Flag of England Joe Royle
1982 Flag of England Greg Downs
1983 Flag of England Dave Watson
1984 Flag of England Chris Woods
1985 Flag of England Steve Bruce
1986 Flag of England Kevin Drinkell
1987 Flag of England Kevin Drinkell
1988 Flag of Scotland Bryan Gunn
1989 Flag of England Dale Gordon
1990 Flag of Wales Mark Bowen
1991 Flag of England Ian Culverhouse
1992 Flag of Scotland Robert Fleck
1993 Flag of Scotland Bryan Gunn
1994 Flag of England Chris Sutton
 
Year Winner
1995 Flag of England Jon Newsome
1996 Flag of England Spencer Prior
1997 Flag of England Darren Eadie
1998 Flag of England Matt Jackson
1999 Flag of Wales Iwan Roberts
2000 Flag of Wales Iwan Roberts
2001 Flag of England Andy Marshall
2002 Flag of Scotland Gary Holt
2003 Flag of England Adam Drury
2004 Flag of England Craig Fleming
2005 Flag of England Darren Huckerby
2006 Flag of Ireland Gary Doherty
2007 Flag of England Darren Huckerby
2008 Flag of England Dion Dublin

Captains

For a list of Norwich City captains, see Captains of Norwich City F.C.

Managers

As of 25 November 2007. Only professional, competitive matches are counted.[76]
Name Nat From To P W D L %W
John Bowman Flag of England 1 August 1905 31 July 1907 78 31 23 24 39.7
James McEwen Flag of Scotland 1 August 1907 31 May 1908 43 13 10 20 30.2
Arthur Turner Flag of England 1 August 1909 31 May 1910 86 27 22 37 31.4
Bert Stansfield Flag of England 1 August 1910
1 March 1926		 31 May 1915
1 November 1926		 248 78 75 95 31.4
Major Frank Buckley Flag of England 1 August 1919 1 July 1920 43 15 11 17 34.9
Charles O'Hagan Flag of England 1 July 1920 1 January 1921 21 4 9 8 19.0
Albert Gosnell Flag of England 1 January 1921 28 February 1926 223 59 79 95 26.5
Cecil Potter Flag of England 1 November 1926 1 January 1929 101 30 26 45 29.7
James Kerr Flag of England 1 April 1929 28 February 1933 168 65 43 60 38.7
Tom Parker Flag of England 1 March 1933
1 May 1955		 1 February 1937
31 March 1957		 271 104 69 98 38.4
Bob Young Flag of England 1 February 1937
1 September 1939		 31 December 1938
31 May 1946		 78 26 14 38 33.3
Jimmy Jewell Flag of England 1 January 1939 1 September 1939 20 6 4 10 30.0
Duggie Lochhead Flag of Scotland 1 December 1945 1 March 1950 104 42 28 34 40.4
Cyril Spiers Flag of England 1 June 1946 1 December 1947 65 15 12 38 23.1
Norman Low Flag of Scotland 1 May 1950 30 April 1955 258 129 56 73 50.0
Archie Macaulay Flag of Scotland 1 April 1957 1 October 1961 224 105 60 59 46.9
Willie Reid Flag of Scotland 1 December 1961 1 May 1962 31 13 6 12 41.9
George Swindin Flag of England 1 May 1962 30 November 1962 20 10 5 5 50.0
Ron Ashman Flag of England 1 December 1962 31 May 1966 162 59 39 64 36.4
Lol Morgan Flag of England 1 June 1966 1 May 1969 127 45 47 35 35.4
Ron Saunders Flag of England 1 July 1969 16 November 1973 221 84 61 76 38.0
John Bond Flag of England 27 November 1973 31 October 1980 340 105 114 121 34.5
Ken Brown Flag of England 1 November 1980 9 November 1987 367 150 93 124 40.9
Dave Stringer Flag of England 9 November 1987 1 May 1992 229 89 58 82 38.9
Mike Walker Flag of Wales 1 June 1992
21 June 1996		 6 January 1994
30 April 1998		 179 69 46 64 38.5
John Deehan Flag of England 12 January 1994 31 July 1995 58 13 22 23 22.4
Martin O'Neill[ii] Flag of Northern Ireland August, 1995 December, 1995 26 12 9 5 46.2
Gary Megson Flag of England December, 1995 21 June 1996 32 5 10 17 15.6
Bruce Rioch Flag of Scotland 12 June 1998 13 March 2000 93 30 31 32 32.3
Bryan Hamilton Flag of Northern Ireland 5 April 2000 4 December 2000 35 10 10 15 28.6
Nigel Worthington Flag of Northern Ireland 4 December 2000 2 October 2006 280 114 104 62 40.7
Martin Hunter[iii] Flag of England 2 October 2006 14 October 2006 1 0 1 0 00.0
Peter Grant Flag of Scotland 13 October 2006 9 October 2007 47 17 11 19 36.2
Jim Duffy[iii] Flag of Scotland 9 October 2007 30 October 2007 3 0 0 3 00.0
Glenn Roeder Flag of England 30 October 2007 present 34 13 9 12 38.2

Honours

Norwich City F.C. have won a number of honours, including the following:[77]

Honour Year(s)
Second tier Champions 1971–72, 1985–86, 2003–04
Third tier Champions 1933–34
Third tier Runners Up 1959–60
League Cup Winners 1962, 1985
League Cup Runners Up 1973, 1975

Friendship Trophy

Each time they meet, Norwich and Sunderland contest the Friendship Trophy, an honour dating back to the camaraderie forged between fans of the two clubs at the time of the 1985 League Cup final that they contested.[78] Sunderland are the current holders of the cup, having defeated Norwich 1–0 on 2 December 2006.[79]

Norwich City in popular culture

Making of Mike Bassett: England Manager

In the 2001 film Mike Bassett: England Manager,[80] the eponymous hero, played by Ricky Tomlinson, rises to prominence as a result of success as manager of Norwich City, having won the 'Mr Clutch Cup'. The celebratory scenes of the open-top bus ride around the city (right) were actually shot in St Albans, rather than Norwich.

In 1972 the Children's Film Foundation released a movie called "The Boy Who Turned Yellow", about a boy living in London who supports Norwich City. In the film, he and everyone and everything else on his tube train are turned yellow. That night he is visited by a yellow alien called Nick, short for electronic, who teaches him all about electricity. The link to the football club is used to explain why the boy already has so many yellow things in his bedroom.[81]

Notes

i^ : This includes matches played at an amateur level.
ii^ : Moved to Leicester City after just six months at Carrow Road.
iii ^ : Caretaker manager.

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