Never Mind the Canaries E-Book

Edward Couzens-Lake

• Herausgeber: The History Press
• Kategorie: Lebensstil
• Sprache: Englisch

Seitenzahl: 88

Veröffentlichungsjahr: 2015

Beschreibung

So, you think you're a true Norwich City fan? A proper Canary? Yes, you've a shirt or two, you even know the first verse of 'On The Ball City', but do you really know the history of the club? Do you know the substitute in the 1985 League Cup Final? Or who our captain was in the 1983 FA Cup quarter-final? Or from which club Gordon Bolland joined us? Test yourself here with the ultimate quiz book on Norwich City FC. A book for any and all supporters of that mighty team in yellow and green, it's 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 in here, designed to tease and test your knowledge of the club. So get your Canary thinking caps on – it's quiz time!

Leseprobe

This book is dedicated to all Norwich City supporters. On the Ball, City!

Acknowledgements

First and foremost to The History Press. To Matilda Richards for commissioning me to write this book and Ruth Boyes for editing it. Thank you.

Rob Butler and Paul McVeigh for their contributions and for entrusting Canary Mastermind to me on their show on BBC Radio Norfolk. I know Holty said some of my answers to his questions were wrong. They weren’t.

To Chris Goreham. ‘CHANNNNNCEE!’

Peter Rogers and all at Norwich City FC. The support and backing you and the club always lend me in my various projects is, and will always be, hugely appreciated.

Chris Rushby and all at Jarrold Books in Norwich.

Likewise to all at Waterstones in Norwich.

And to my wife Sarah for her tolerance and patience with me in absolutely everything!

Contents

Title

Dedication

Acknowledgements

Foreword by Rob Butler

Foreword by Paul McVeigh

How This Book Works

Round 1

In the Beginning

Round 2

Into the Big Time!

Round 3

Canaries Before and After

Round 4

Consolation Goals

Round 5

Loan Canaries

Round 6

The League Cup

Round 7

Who Was the First?

Round 8

From Which Club?

Round 9

The 1970s: Part 1

Round 10

Football’s Gone Too Commercial

Round 11

Norwich are on the Telly Again

Round 12

Ever-present

Round 13

Record Breakers

Round 14

Britain’s Number One

Round 15

The 1980s: Part 1

Round 16

Great Scots

Round 17

The 1970s: Part 2

Round 18

Obscure is the Word: Part 1

Round 19

The FA Cup

Round 20

Millennium Canaries

Round 21

To Which Club?

Round 22

Canary Mastermind

Round 23

The 1980s: Part 2

Round 24

The East Anglian Derby

Round 25

Shirt Numbers

Round 26

Obscure is the Word: Part 2

Round 27

The Swinging Sixties

Round 28

The Lambert Years

Round 29

Name the Ground

Round 30

They Think It’s All Over …

The Answers

Bibliography

About the Author

Copyright

Rob Butler, ex-Canary legend Grant Holt, and Paul McVeigh compete in a spot of ‘Canary Mastermind’ on BBC Radio Norfolk.

Foreword by Rob Butler

I’d known Ed for a while through other books that he’d written, or else when he’d appeared on shows at Radio Norfolk to talk about the game and projects he was involved with, and soon realised he’d be the ideal person to set the questions for the regular feature that Macca (Paul) and I wanted to include in ‘McVeigh & Butler’ which we called ‘Canary Mastermind’.

It was a bit of fun, a chance for our studio guests to show off their knowledge of the Canaries by answering a few questions about the club. For some of the players who came on as guests we made it a bit easier by getting Ed to set questions about themselves and their own careers, confident that they’d get most of them right, accepting the fact that their overall knowledge of the club might not have been as comprehensive as that of the fans!

Amongst the players who came along and had a go were Grant Holt, Darren Huckerby, John Ruddy, Darren Eadie, Jeremy Goss, Leon McKenzie, Tony Spearing, Neil Adams and Gary Holt.

Gossy came on the show with Ed, who hadn’t told him beforehand that he was doing a quiz about himself live on air, so it was a bit of a surprise for him – especially as Gossy doesn’t like quizzes! – but he got most of them right nonetheless.

Grant Holt disputed just about every answer Ed gave to his questions about him whilst Hucks thought he’d scored loads more goals than Ed had listed. Neil Adams and Gary Holt did it together and showed as good a knowledge about each other’s careers as they did their own.

Some players were ever so competitive about it, like Elliott Bennett who treated it all very seriously and got nearly all of them right, as did Darren Eadie and a few others who gave additional, previously unknown details to some of the answers they gave. That, for me, is one of the great things about Canary Mastermind, the fact that someone can answer a question and then go on to tell a little story relating to it, which is always really interesting to hear.

It’s something that was, and remains, a bit of a light-hearted interlude on the shows. But people do take it seriously, sometimes arguing with the answer given and, more often than not, wanting to know how many points a teammate or friend got so they can do whatever’s needed to beat them in order to get the banter in!

This book will give all Canaries the chance to test each other on their Norwich City FC knowledge. And I bet everyone will be just as committed to getting one up on their mates by getting more right than them, else quoting that certain little detail from the club’s history that no one else will know.

I expect I’ll have a copy about me somewhere on some of the longer away trips. Except I’m going to be the question master this time – it’ll be easier than having to try to know the answer to some obscure fact about a game played in 1969. Because, knowing Ed, there’ll be a few in here like that.

Enjoy.

OTBC!

Rob Butler

BBC Radio Norfolk presenter and Canary fan

Foreword by Paul McVeigh

Norwich City fans know their football.

I know this because I’ve talked to them on the radio phone-ins that I’ve done on BBC Radio Norfolk with Rob and you can be sure that if you’re making a comment about a previous game or a player from the past, whenever it was, they’ll come right back at you with all the relevant information needed.

Past players, matches, games won, lost or drawn, goals scored and points won or lost. It’s like talking to an encyclopaedia sometimes!

When we did Canary Mastermind in the studio, I’d be sat there without a clue, sometimes I didn’t even have the beginnings of an answer in my head, and I’d say ‘Oh come on, how on earth is anyone meant to remember THAT?’

Yet Ed, who set the questions, clearly knew that most Norwich fans would as, more often than not, they got the answer right.

Ask away, ask them anything.

Scorer of the Norwich goal in the 1–0 win over Aston Villa in October 1982? No problem. Opponents in first game to be played at Carrow Road? Easy. Player signed for £50,000 from Bournemouth in 1977? Got that, next?

As someone who had a go at the quiz himself one week and didn’t do so well, I was always hugely impressed with the people who’d come on and get most of them right without hesitation or the need for a clue.

It says a lot about Norwich fans’ love and respect for their team. Their interest and devotion to the Canaries is not just about the now, it’s about the club as a whole – including the rich legacy of its history; players, managers and matches included.

So it’s good to see that Ed and The History Press have got together to do a quiz book all about the club, so everyone can have a go at showing off their knowledge about the Canaries; a book that will, I’m sure, come out on some of the longer away trips (that would be all of them then) and maybe start a few arguments into the bargain.

I loved my time playing for Norwich City; one of the reasons for that was the club’s fans. They always provided great support, home or away, there in numbers and always loud and colourful. It was great to play in front of them and to celebrate with them whenever I scored a goal. Now, how many would that be and in how many appearances I wonder?

Enjoy it!

Paul McVeigh

Broadcaster and former Canary

How This Book Works

Football trivia, questions and minutiae.

They’re what make the world go round. Honestly, they do. Just ask Albert Einstein. That famous equation, you know the one, E=mc2?

The E stands for football trivia, a little-known but crucial fact. Einstein knew the score. In fact, as a scientific genius and visionary, he often applied his massive intelligence to football tactics, advocating the now widespread 4-2-3-1 system long before anyone else did. Football’s loss was, unquestionably, science’s gain. Just think what he could have done on the blackboard in the home team dressing room; never mind all those complicated formulas and calculations, he’d have devised and chalked up a way to defeat Arsenal’s offside trap in no time.

He would have known what item is brought to the FA Cup Final every year but never used – as, of course, will you, dear reader, knowing such things is part of the very foundation of footballing trivia so I’m not going to give the answer here. No, far from it. You’re here because you moved away from the basics and on to a specialist subject, namely anything and everything to do with our great club and our shared passion … Norwich City FC.

The boys in yellow and green. Except they weren’t always.

The Canaries. Except they weren’t always that either.

Carrow Road. Well, for at least part of our history anyway.

This book is for you.

And, first and very much foremost, it’s a quiz book.

So it contains no recipes, no funny pictures of cats or any celebrity gossip of any kind. If that’s what you are after, then put this book down and walk slowly away. There’s nothing for you to see here.

I’m asking the questions, you’re providing the answers. And every question is about Norwich City Football Club. You’ll find no Manchester United or Liverpool in here, no Chelsea either. So, again, if they are your thing then move along quietly please. Thank you.