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!
Of course he is surgeryman. To quote the Spice girls... "It's what he wants, what he wants, what he really really wants....."
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
