SING UP THE RIVER END !: September 2010

Thursday, 30 September 2010

Adam Drury Breaks A Five Year Duck

..............history isn't just about yesteryear, it's also happening right now, and is brought to you on a regular basis in The Canary Chronicles

When full back Adam Drury smashed home a Wes Hoolahan pass in Tuesday night's Championship game against Leicester City, it was his first goal for Norwich City since January 2005. Many fans will have a joyous recollection of his last strike which came in the epic Premier League game against Middlesbrough, which ended in a 4-4 draw. This time around, Adam's little piece of history helped the Canaries to a 4-3 win and moved them up to third spot in the table. It was only his fourth career goal in 333 senior appearances for Norwich and we wonder whether we need to wait until 2015 for the next one !

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Tuesday, 28 September 2010

Final League Placings 1914-1915

Southern League 1914-1915
First Division

Watford 52
Reading 49
Cardiff City 48
West Ham Utd 45
Northampton Town 43
Southampton 43
Portsmouth 42
Millwall 42
Swindon Town 41
Brighton 39
Exeter City 38
QPR 38
Norwich City 36
Luton Town 34
Crystal Palace 34
Bristol Rovers 31
Plymouth Argyle 30
Southend United 28
Croydon Common 27
Gillingham 20

Full City Record : P38 W11 D14 L13 F53 A56 PTS 36 Manager : Bert Stansfield

Everton were English Champions
Sheffield United won the FA Cup

In This Year : Stanley Matthews is born

RMS Lusitania is sunk by a German U-boat

The Panama Canal is formally opened

Final league placings will be posted on a regular basis until every table is listed - click on the label below for years posted so far.
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Saturday, 25 September 2010

First & Last - Dennis van Wijk

First game : 18th September 1982 (sub) v Everton away Division One 1-1 draw

Last game : 6th May 1986 v Liverpool away Screen Sport Super Cup 3-1 defeat

Signed from : Ajax Amsterdam
Next club : Club Brugge
Played professionally : until 1995

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Thursday, 16 September 2010

The Winning Years

1933-1934

CHAMPIONS

DIVISION 3 SOUTH

Players

Jack Vinall (42 appearances)

Norman Wharton (42 appearances)

Tom Halliday (40 appearances)

Lionel Murphy (39 appearances)

Billy Warnes (39 appearances)

Stan Ramsay (38 appearances)

Ken Burditt (37 appearances)

Bernard Robinson (33 appearances)

Doug Lochhead (31 appearances)

Joe Hannah (26 appearances)

Albert Thorpe (20 appearances)

Thomas Scott (17 appearances)

Harold Houghton (11 appearances)

William Smith (11 appearances)

Sam Bell (10 appearances)

Theo Pike (8 appearances)

Rod Williams (8 appearances)

Robert Morris (6 appearances)

Alf Kirchen (1 appearance)

Frank Perfect (1 appearance)

Tom Williamson (1 appearance)

Gordon Wilson (1 appearance)

Record

P42 W25 D11 L6 F88 A49 PTS61

Goals

Vinall 21, Warnes 21, Burditt 14, Scott 9, Murphy 7, Williams 6, Bell 3, Pike 3, Houghton 2, Lochhead 1, Williamson 1

Manager : Tom Parker

The Short History Of Norwich City Football Club

It occurred to me the other day that nowhere on Sing Up The River End! can you find the club's complete history in one short (well relatively short!) article. I have put that right by knocking something together and putting it into the tab bar at the top of the blog. It is not the finished item, I will iron out any wrinkles as I find them over the next few days.

But in composing the piece, it made me realise how horrendously unfortunate our history has been at times - last day relegations and by the narrowest of margins, three FA Cup semi final defeats by one goal to nil, two League Cup Final defeats by one goal to nil, and probably worst of all, three exclusions from European competition. I knew all of this of course, it was just that in writing it all up over a couple of hours, the painful truth hit me once more.

Another thing that comes over strong is that Norwich City have never had the benefit of a seriously rich benefactor, something others have enjoyed more than once in their history. You get the impression that balancing the books has always been a hard slog for the Canaries.

They often say in sport that good fortune and bad fortune evens itself out in the course of a season. Can the same be said about the course of a lifetime? I won't live another 50 years to find out, but I hope it does, because Norwich haven't always had the breaks when they needed them most, that is for sure.

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Monday, 6 September 2010

Current Canaries Love Playing Away

When Andrew Crofts netted in the 42nd minute of the game at the City Ground against Nottingham Forest on the 28th of August, it was the 29th consecutive away match in which Norwich City had scored.

This incredible run started on the 21st of March 2009 with a Sammy Clingan goal against Birmingham City in the Championship. The Canaries then went on to score in their remaining three away matches against Swansea City, Ipswich Town, and Charlton Athletic. The last away game in which Norwich failed to score was at Blackpool on the 7th of March 2009.

In last season's League One campaign, Norwich scored in every away game - an all time record for English third tier football.

City also scored at Scunthorpe this season.

We hope that Sing Up The River End! has not put the mockers on this fine record continuing. The next opportunity comes on September 14th with a trip to Doncaster Rovers.

To put the record into historical context, the best ever run of consecutive away matches scoring a goal is 40, achieved by Arsenal between the 19th of February 1930 until the 25th of December 1931.

Second to that are Wolverhampton Wanderers between the 20th of December 1958 and the 2nd of April 1960 - a total of 29 games. Therefore even if we fail to find the net at the Keepmoat Stadium, we are still assured equal second place in the all time Football League records.

Needless to say, this run is a record for the club.The best achieved by some other clubs is Manchester City (25), Manchester United (24), Aston Villa (19), whilst of more interest to Norwich City supporters might be Ipswich Town (20), Leeds United (18) and Colchester United (16).

pictured : Sammy Clingan, whose free kick at Birmingham City set the Canaries on their way to a record

Update 14.9.10 : Although Norwich lost the game at Doncaster 3-1, a Russell Martin header ensured the record progressed to 30 matches.
Update 18.9.10 : A 1-0 win at Preston - that makes it 31.
Update 2.10.10 : And now it's 32 - goals from Simeon Jackson (2) and Wes Hoolahan in the 3-0 win at Bristol City
Update 16.10.10 : The run ends, 0-0 at QPR. So, for the record books it was 32 consecutive away matches scoring a goal, bettered only once in history.
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Seen It Before ?

The total content of Sing Up The River End! has now reached such a high level that updating old items has become an issue. Therefore I am dedicating part of my time to putting this right. It does mean slightly less new material appearing as there are only so many hours in the day available for my hobby. But hopefully visitors will enjoy reading articles for a second time. Some items will never be re-published as they need to sit on the site in chronological order. But for all others that are worthy of re-publication, I intend to put them back on the front page every 12 to 15 months, with updated information added where necessary.

Mike Davage

The deeper I go with this project, the more I realise the importance and extent of the work carried out by Mike Davage. Much of what is known about NCFC in the past comes from his books Canary Citizens and Glorious Canaries. This includes things you read elsewhere on the internet and in other people's books, as well as here on Sing Up The River End! This fact is further acknowledged in the sources section at the top of this blog. The truth is, without his painstaking historical and statistical research, little would be recorded. I try to bring new things to the attention of Norwich City supporters, and often the information to do this is extracted from those resources Mike Davage brought to the world. I spend many hours analysing, listing and interpreting. Often this results in facts about our great club, Norwich City, being presented in a different and refreshing way, not seen anywhere else before now. As with Mike Davage, I cannot write history or make it happen. Hopefully though, I am, like him, succeeding in passing the baton on to the next generation, in my case via the power of the internet. I spend a lot of time on this site talking about NCFC legends. As far as writing about the club is concerned, Mike Davage is as legendary as they come.

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