Morning folks. I've been looking at the Sunderland board, and found this type of thread on there. I thought it was very interesting, so I have shamlessly nicked the idea The idea is to ask any question NCFC related, and then see if anyone can answer it. My starter is. What are the largest and smallest crowds at Carrow Road. I remember being at a game against WBA when there was 36,000, but that was the game when the tickets for the cup final against Villa went on sale. Anyone remember bigger? One for Dave, RBF and a few more older/mature fans?
Resurgam bor, was at a game when if I remember right had about 40,000 odd. The opponents were in blue so could have been Ipswich or Leicester. You will have to look to an earlier thread to see my comments on that game. Before seating only came into force. Would be in the 1950s having a guess. Folk were perched on the roof of the Barclay enclosure and also sat on top of the railway sleeper fence at the top of the terracing. ground was jam packed. Edit. I was about 16yo at the time, would make it 1948.
The club record is 43,000 (something in an FA Cup game) against Leicester but that was way before I started following. The highest attendance I was part of was the famous game against QPR in the 75/76 season with 32,000+ packed in.
Highest for me was 36,625 against the Scousers in October '72 Edit - team that day: Kevin Keelan, Clive Payne, Geoff Butler, Dave Stringer, Duncan Forbes, Max Briggs, Doug Livermore, James Bone, David Cross,Graham Paddon, Terry Anderson
Hi Dave, I stood on the terrace opposite the main stand in front of a crush barrier. Never got behind them, too risky LOL. Remember the atmosphere, just good natured banter and seeing folk who had fainted being passed down over the heads of the crowd to the waiting St John Ambulance.
I remember that one Dave, standing room only. I´ve just looked it up, March 30th 1963, 43,984, Leicester FA Cup quarter final - we lost 2- 0 Sandy Kennon Phil Kelly Barry Staton Ollie Burton Ron Ashman Joe Mullett Gerry Mannion Tommy Bryceland Terry Allcock Jimmy Hill Bill Punton
What I remember is a rasping shot from about 30 yards that beat Gordon Banks all ends up and rattled against the cross-bar. That would have been goal of the century!
Hi bors, reproduced from Wiki. Summary of ground records Highest attendance: 43,984, Norwich City 0–2 Leicester City, FA Cup Sixth Round, 30 March 1963.[2] Highest attendance (all-seater): 27,108, Norwich City 4–5 Liverpool[3] Biggest margin of victory: 8, Norwich City 8–0 Walsall, Football League Third Division South, 29 December 1951, Norwich City 8–0 Sutton United, FA Cup Fourth Round, 28 January 1989.[72] Biggest margin of defeat: 6, Norwich City 1–7 Colchester United, Football League One, 8 August 2009.[73] Goals in a game: 9 (several occurrences).[74] Most recently; Norwich City 4–5 Liverpool, 2015–16 Premier League, 23 January 2016.[3]
In my living memory it would probably be Kevin Keelan. I guess going back to the pre-60's I guess it's possible there was the odd ol' fuddy duddy in our ranks. Maybe going back to the very early days it was like an average age of 35 in the squad - a bit like a men's working club team
