A thread to while away the hours and days before our next game Sunday week against Spurs and of course in honour of our (arguably), most famous director and fan Mr Stephen Fry. I'm sure that most QI facts that are posted will be known to most posters but perhaps, just perhaps, between us we can unearth a few little known gems. Norwich City's Carrow Road ground was originally constructed in just 82 days. please log in to view this image Note that the pitch has been marked out and the goalposts erected before the terraces have even been completed The first match was against West Ham on 17th August 1935, City won 4-3 On 29th October 1938, King George VI attended Carrow Road to watch Norwich City play Millwall in the Football League Second Division, the first time a reigning British monarch had attended a league football match. Unfortunately City lost 2-0 please log in to view this image The first East Anglian derby took place on 15th November 1902, City won 1-0 Although they are not the only third tier side to reach an FA Cup semi-final, you could argue that City have gone further than any other as they were eventually knocked out after a replay. In the same season they finished 2nd in League Division 3 South but missed out on promotion as only one side was promoted back then ! When City took to the field against Manchester City at Carrow Road earlier this season, they included 6 black players in their starting lineup. This I believe to be a record for NCFC, unless of course you know different ?
Ok, not strictly Norwich City but Norfolk based gems: Several ancestors of Abraham Lincoln came from Swanton Morley and Hingham. In fact, the church in Hingham has a bust of Lincoln on the wall. Norfolk has more round towered churches than anywhere else in the world: 125 compared to a piddling 42 in Suffolk. The morphology of the name Tombland has nothing to do with dead bodies or burial but ironically the church at st. George's holds over 10,000 bodies. Robert Chase is the current holder of the record of most chins on a former premier league chairman-he has 4 Hamlet says that he can't tell a hawk from a handsaw. What he really meant was a harnser (Norfolk for heron)
An early 90's casualty episode featured every patient having a Norwich player's surname. There was definitely a culverhouse and a bowen. Can't remember the others but i'm sure it is mentioned in Norfolk and Good or this supporting life by Kevin Baldwin. Can anyone verify this?
