City try to revive their faltering automatic promotion drive tomorrow at a ground where they have done a little better in recent visits than they did in my youth, here’s six Norwich related questions – the answers to be posted on here tomorrow.
60s. It sounds like the player pictured, who spent most of this decade at Norwich, was ahead of his time with his haircut, but it hardly seems like it does it?
70s, He had a connection with Cardiff and Norwich during this decade, but who is the player facing the camera in this picture?
80s. This midfielder still enjoys cult status at his first club where he set a post was record, but it was a case of blink and you’d have missed him when he moved on to Norwich. Having suffered a serious knee injury five years earlier, another one in pre season at his new club meant that you could count on the fingers of two hands how many times he would play for them. He moved on as he headed back to the area he had come from and did pretty well for a team who would have been classed as local rivals for him once, before a two year spell in stripes by the seaside only brought more injury problems. During this time he made a round trip of over a thousand miles to play one game on loan for a team on the blue, not orange, side of the street and stayed in that colour for another short spell, this time close to a border. His final two years in the game saw him at the claret, but, in truth, if he is remembered these days, it is almost entirely for his exploits at his first club – he probably doesn’t remember Cardiff City with too much affection though after what happened to him one April afternoon in the seventies, but who is he?
90s. Another player to identify from these clues;-
A goal for Norwich against Wolves as a teenager right at the start of his career was as good as it got at Carrow Road for this striker who, for me, fits the description “lower league journeyman” better than any one else I can think of. In saying that, his first transfer fee to a London club now in the Championship, ran to six figures. However, he was soon into a routine of leaving his clubs on “frees”. In all, he played for twenty two different clubs, but the fact that he had two spells at three of them meant that he was able to became what must be a tiny number of players who have managed to reach a quarter of a century when it comes to transfer moves!
Among others, he turned out for MK Dons and AFC Wimbledon, while he also crossed into Wales once to play in red. Never a prolific scorer, the nineteen he managed in two spells for some Worcestershire Harriers was the most he ever scored at one club – he also played more games for them than anyone else. In fact, apart from the sixteen he netted in his two spells for some defunct Diamonds, he never got into double figures for goals at any other club, yet there was always some struggling team somewhere who would offer him a deal right up until 2012 when he signed off with some Quakers who had fallen on very hard times.
00s. Three parts to this question – these players formed an attacking three in International football at Under 18 level. Two of them started their senior career in this country,with a team that enjoyed a tremendous result this week, as much hyped teenagers, but the trio only managed a solitary full international cap between them. It took the third member of the group longer to reach the UK, after he started with a team beaten by City in the Cup Winners Cup nearly fifty years ago and when he did arrive over here, it was with us. He made a minimal impact with us, but one of the few matches in which he started was at Norwich. His only goal in this country came for an athletic bunch during a loan spell, but, like the other two, he is still playing today. He is back home in the lower leagues, while one of his one time colleagues is still performing in the second tier in the same country, while the other one has turned up in Thailand via Dundee United!
Can you name the three players?
10s. Despite the 0-0 scoreline, the game between us and Norwich at Carrow Road in October 2013 featured thirty seven goal attempts in total, with us managing just six of them, there was another odd occurence that afternoon in the team line ups, what was it?
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Answers.
60s. Joe Mullett.
70s. Billy Kellock.
80s. Until Kevin Phillips broke his record in 2001, Gary Rowell was Sunderland’s leading post war goalscorer – he missed out on another goal though, when Ron Healey saved his penalty in a 2-1 win for City at Roker Park in April 1979 which would eventually cost the Wearsiders promotion. After playing just six times for Norwich during the 1984/85 season, Rowell went on to play for Middlesbrough, Brighton, Dundee, Carlisle and Burnley.
90s.Drewe Broughton, rather than list all of his clubs, here his Wikipedia page!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drewe_Broughton
00s. Luigi Glombard, Anthony LeTallec and Florent Sinama Pongolle.
10s. Both teams started with a number six with the surname Turner (Ben for us and Michael for Norwich).