Question for our elders

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Remember the guy who died his hair Yellow and Green? The Dumpling and the Canary. Special buses on Riverside Road after a midweek match. The dodgy turnstile at the River End that didn't click so they all took turns to man that one and pocket half the money!
And the Watford match where we were all stuck at the open end and they were coming down like stair rods. So en masse evreyone climbed the fence to get to the other covered end. One bobby tried to stop 15,000, lost his hat and somebody half volleyed it into the net! And my picture was on the back of the EEN next to the lads with the Pride of Anglia flag. If anyone still has that picture, in B&W of course, I'm the one with the Yellow and Green scarf on.
 
Laurie Sheffield's debut. Ron Davies was sold to Southampton and the 1966 season started without a proper replacement for him until Laurie Sheffield signed from Doncaster in November or December. He was a strange looking man, a bit like a cartoon character, a long body on very short legs; when he ran out to make his debut there was stunned disbelief all around. Even more so at the full time whistle, by which time he'd scored all 4 goals in a 4-1 win! Unfortunately, although he had a pretty good strike rate in his two years at Carrow Road, he never lived up to the promise of that first game!

16 goals in 27 games! He would be worth millions today even though he looked like Popeye in a City Strip!
 
johnnywarksmoustache said:
It certainly proved to be a great spring board for us at the time. We won the FA Youth Cup in 1973 with the likes of Warky and Gates in the youth team. Shame I don't remember too much about that season as I was only a small kid at the time and I didn't appreciate the giant strides we were taking with that amazing team. I do remember getting Trevor Whymark's autoghraph and Kevin Keelan signed my program!
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Your a Canary really aren't you JWM ;)
 
1950canary said:
That must have been the game in our famous Cup run as at that time Sheff Utd were 2 leagues above us. In those days there was no chanting but most Clubs had their own songs - On The Ball City, Keep Right on to the end of the road, Blaydon Races etc etc. Most kids and some adults carried old wooden rattles as used on the railways to attract attention over the noise. I never thought about it at the time but looking back on it you find it difficult to understand why. The only seating was in the Main Stand which was a wooden construction with wooden benches to sit on - you could hire a cushion if you wanted. My Dad was disabled so if I went with him we used to sit in the main stand. In front of the main stand there was what I can only describe as a pit which was a standing area between the running track and the front of the main stand. My Grandad used to take me in there in the 50's and it was quite popular with families. The kids were put at the front and your eyes were then at pitch level with the adults standing behind - if my memory serves me correctly it was about 5 deep. The other 3 sides were just plain terracing with only the Barclay end being under cover and for that pleasure you paid an extra 6 old pence - about 2p in new currency. I cannot really remember the exact years but I can recall that for many years it never changed from 3 shillings ( 15p ) for the River End and South Stand. In 1960 when I turned 15 my Mum agreed that I was old enough to go on my own and I went to what was the most popular bit of the ground in the 60's - behind the River End goal. In the 60's they increased the capacity of the South Stand and put a roof over it which increased the overall capacity from 38000 to 44000. In the 70's they put seats in the South Stand and then built the new stand behind the River End - the rest is modern history. Us old codgers love talking about years gone by so fire away if you have any specific questions - I am sure one of us will know the answer.
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I was talking about this in the Pub earlier tonight and another old codger told me that the ' enclosure ' in front of the main stand was only between the players tunnel and the River End. I could not remember and he could not remember what was between the players tunnel and the Barclay end. Can anyone with a better memory help?
 
After reading this thread I just got out my old programmes.The earliest dates from October 20th 1973 at home to a Spurs team that included Peters,Chivers,Gilzean and Cyril Knowles.City were third from bottom (We were relegated that season) and had won only one game out of eleven 1:5:5. That was a 1-3 away win at Wolves on the opening day of the season-what expectations that must have raised!

City team: Keelan,Prophett,Payne,Stringer,ForbesmBriggs,Livermore,Suggett,Cross,Paddon,Mellor.

Result :1 -1
 
Cruyff's Turn said:
After reading this thread I just got out my old programmes.The earliest dates from October 20th 1973 at home to a Spurs team that included Peters,Chivers,Gilzean and Cyril Knowles.City were third from bottom (We were relegated that season) and had won only one game out of eleven 1:5:5. That was a 1-3 away win at Wolves on the opening day of the season-what expectations that must have raised!

City team: Keelan,Prophett,Payne,Stringer,ForbesmBriggs,Livermore,Suggett,Cross,Paddon,Mellor.

Result :1 -1
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My birthday! <ok> <laugh>
 
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