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So, you're a Norwich City fan back for more? You've worked your way through Never Mind the Canaries and are more than ready to tackle our second quiz book on all things yellow and green. Well, it's time to be tested once again. How familiar are you with the club's FA Cup run in 1967? Or the former manager of St Mirren, who went on to be the first Canary boss to win a major trophy? How about the name of the player who was in the match day squads for Daniel Farke's first and last match as Norwich coach? Or which Canary was first to see red in the Premier League? And that's just a few of the easier questions. You've talked the Norwich City talk, now it's time to show that, as far as Canary facts and trivia are concerned, you sit at the very top of the perch. This book is the perfect companion for those long journeys to away games or nights down at the local. From famous players, managers and matches, to transfers, incidents and trivia, it's all here, designed to tease and test your knowledge of our great club. Get your Canary thinking caps on – it's quiz time!

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Leseprobe

First published 2024

The History Press

97 St George’s Place, Cheltenham,

Gloucestershire, GL50 3QB

www.thehistorypress.co.uk

The right of Edward Couzens-Lake to be identified as the Author of this work has been asserted in accordance with the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988.

All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reprinted or reproduced or utilised in any form or by any electronic, mechanical or other means, now known or hereafter invented, including photocopying and recording, or in any information storage or retrieval system, without the permission in writing from the Publishers.

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ISBN 978 1 80399 252 5

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Introduction

How This Book Works

Round 1 The Gaffer

Round 2 1980/81

Round 3 New Signings

Round 4 Alex Neil

Round 5 Simply Strips

Round 6 Player Departures

Round 7 Ken Brown

Round 8 Playing at Home

Round 9 Leading Goalscorers

Round 10 Club Firsts

Round 11 Eleven Hat-Tricks

Round 12 The Caretaker

Round 13 Martin O’Neill

Round 14 The Magic of the Cup

Round 15 Farke Life I

Round 16 Premier League Firsts

Round 17 The Swinging Sixties?

Round 18 Three League Cup Finals

Round 19 Farke Life II

Round 20 League One Memories

Round 21 Sold!

Round 22 1991/92

Round 23 Name that Year

Round 24 Up for the FA Cup

Round 25 Away Days

Round 26 Footballing CVs

Round 27 Poacher Turned Gamekeeper?

Round 28 Common Ground

Round 29 League and Cup Double Anyone?

Round 30 From the Fans

The Answers

Acknowledgements

About the Author

In the unlikely event that an error or factual inaccuracy occurs within this book, please contact the author so that a suitable amendment can be made for future editions of Never Mind the Canaries 2.

All facts, figures, records and items of general trivia are correct up to and including May 2024.

Introduction

So, I’m with friends here.

We’re all birds of a yellow and green feather.

Y’Army in fact.

You’ve either bought this book or had it bought for you because you are a big Norwich City fan.

So, my thanks to you or whoever gave it to you as a gift.

You have impeccable taste.

I’ve been writing about the Canaries for more than a decade now and, as the years have passed, have become more and more absorbed in the club’s past, a history that is as colourful and compelling as most others, including one of our acquaintance that’s just down the A140.

Admittedly, and without even the slightest twinge of envy, we don’t exactly have a past that trophy-rich and festooned in national and international glory.

If we wanted to boast about that sort of thing, we could all go off and support Manchester United or Liverpool.

No, supporting Norwich City is more, much more than ‘just’ racking up the trophies and the stars on the shirt.

It’s about following a club that is more than the sum of its parts.

One that represents a city and county and the people who live in it and are proud to do so.

A club that oozes character and personality.

And has done so right from the very beginning.

Which makes writing quiz books about the Canaries so very interesting because there is so much material to draw on.

I’ve tried to capture some of it within these pages.

Thirty rounds. Eleven questions per round. Three hundred and thirty questions in total.

Ready? Let’s go …

How This Book Works

If you bought the first volume of this book then you can probably skip this part.

On second thoughts, don’t do that. A little revision didn’t hurt anyone. Except me when it came to my GCE ‘O’ Level in Mathematics. I did a ‘little revision’ and failed the exam as a result.

I was probably too focused on how the Canaries were faring as they swapped between looking like relegation candidates and possible title winners in their final eight matches of the 1979/80 season to be that bothered about such trivial matters as exams to be honest. Besides, the pleasing symmetry that could be found in that run of fixtures (L W L W L W L W) was, and remains, infinitely more compelling than anything that needed the dreaded book of log tables that dominated my maths lessons at the time.

The first volume of this little book was published in 2015. So I’d like to take this opportunity to thank each and every one of you out there who bought it, including the Amazon reviewer who wrote, ‘I know nothing about football, so can’t comment on (the) content.’

At least he or she is honest. Most of the rest of us think we know absolutely everything there is to know about football, the proof of that evident in some of the comments made on Canary Call, BBC Radio Norfolk’s splendid post-match offering on a Saturday afternoon during the season.

This book gives you a chance to prove that, at least as far as the Canaries are concerned, your knowledge about the club and its history is as good as it gets and that you are the undoubted Canary Mastermind Champion.

Never Mind The Canaries 2 is very much what it says on the tin, or, in this case, the front cover. It’s a quiz book. A footballing quiz book. A quiz book about Norwich City.

The questions and answers will, of course, not only be unfailingly accurate but will also represent the facts given or quoted as accurately as possible – given, of course, the very real possibility that, if you’re reading this in April 2030, some of them may no longer be true. So I’ll be covering the club’s entire history, from its formation in 1902 to around about a third of a way into the 2023/24 season or thereabouts. Bearing in mind that, as time goes on, some of the answers to the questions that follow might change – records only stand to be broken or change, as do facts, figures and statistics – all the answers and accompanying information is believed to be correct as of May 2024.

Each of the thirty rounds that follow has been researched thoroughly, checked and double-checked by myself with regard to the accuracy of both the question asked and the answer given. If I haven’t been entirely sure about something, then I will have triple-checked with an independent source such as the club itself, another book or publication or a fellow fan and Canary devotee.

Ultimately, however, the responsibility for all of the information presented in this book is mine. So, if you do come across something that is incorrect, it’s down to me and I can only offer my deepest apologies for the error.

But it won’t, hopefully, come to that.

Some of the questions asked here will be easy, while others will be a little more difficult. Not unlike the ‘quiz of the week’, yes, Norwich’s and Anglia TV’s very own Sale of the Century, which started out with easy questions worth £1, before graduating on to slightly more difficult ones worth £3 and £5.

Except, of course, you won’t be winning any money by answering any of the questions here. But you might, at least, have some fun. And, after all, isn’t that what football and supporting your club is supposed to be about?

It’s all very straightforward. Thirty rounds in question with eleven questions in each themed round.

This is the 4–4–2 of football-related books, in other words. Simple, retro and easy to follow.

So it’s time to, once again, get your yellow-and-green-tinted glasses on and find out who among your Norwich City-supporting brethren can not only talk Canary trivia but can walk the walk on our own version of the yellow brick road as well?

I hope you enjoy working your way through it as much as I have enjoyed writing it.

OTBC!

Edward Couzens-Lake@edcouzenslakeMay 2024

The Gaffer

Norwich City have had, at the time of writing, forty-nine different managers since the club’s formation back in 1902. This round focuses on some of the men who have occupied the hottest seat in Norfolk football since then and their careers, both with Norwich City and elsewhere in the game.

1. Who was the Norwich City manager from August 1996 to April 1998?

2. Bruce Rioch took charge at Carrow Road in June 1998. Which team had he managed prior to joining Norwich City?

3. Queen Elizabeth II was crowned at Westminster Abbey on 2 June 1953. Who was manager of Norwich City at that time?

4. John Bond managed five different football league clubs after he left Norwich in 1980. Name them.

5. On a similar theme, name the three clubs Paul Lambert was manager of before he joined Norwich City in August 2009.

6. Who were the two managers who have led Norwich City to success by winning the League Cup?

7. Name the man who temporarily replaced Peter Grant as manager of Norwich City in October 2007 who then proceeded to lose all three of the games that saw him in charge?

8. Who was widely believed to be set to take charge at Norwich City in the summer of 1992 only to withdraw from the pending position at the last moment due to his supposed reluctance to move to Norfolk?

9. This Norwich City manager resigned from the position on 4 December 2000. Who was it?

10. Just one Norwich City player made the match day squad for both Daniel Farke’s first and last game as Norwich City head coach. Who was it?

11. Bryan Gunn gave Canary debuts to fourteen different players during his twenty-one-game spell as Norwich City manager from January to August 2009. How many of them can you name?

1980/81

Yes, it’s the season that got underway with ‘The Winner Takes it All’ by ABBA at number one in the charts and a day after Smokey and the Bandit was premiered in the USA. Let’s see what happened to the Canaries at the beginning of the decade that brought us leg warmers, mullets and EastEnders …

1. Norwich won their opening day fixture against Stoke City 5–1. Who scored a hat-trick for the Canaries in that game?

2. The Canaries used three different goalkeepers throughout the 1980/81 season. Name them.

3. A then record signing for Norwich made his debut in the 1–0 win over Southampton on 13 September. Who was he and which club did we sign him from?

4. Which team beat Norwich 6–1 on 4 October 1980?

5. That 6–1 defeat was the last game in charge of the Canaries for which manager?

6. John Bond and predecessor Ron Saunders had something in common when they left Norwich City. What was it?

7. Which former Liverpool player made his debut for the Canaries in the 2–0 defeat at Ipswich Town on 26 December 1980?

8. Two more Norwich City debutants appeared in the 3–0 defeat at Wolves on 14 March 1981, one of whom, signed from Arsenal for £175,000, later went on to have a short spell as a coach with the club. Who was it?

9. Norwich exited the FA Cup at the fourth round stage, courtesy of a 6–0 defeat to Manchester City. Two former Bournemouth and Norwich players were in the Manchester City line up on the day. Who were they?

10. Only one Norwich City player, who was in his second spell at the club, started all of the Canaries’ forty-two league games that season. Who was he?

11. Who did Norwich City initially offer the manager’s job to after John Bond left the club to join Manchester City and why did that person turn the job offer down?