Ben Kensall has left to "pursue other ventures", He did a lot of good for us but was culpable for two major errors. The membership scheme and the BK8 fiasco.
Chris Goreham posed a question on twitter: Best Norwich XI with only 1 player allowed per country. His effort: please log in to view this image
https://www.pinkun.com/sport/norwich-city/canaries-onel-hernandez-cuba-gold-cup-8116228 Bad luck for Onel. Politics again interfering.
Read an article a few days ago, therefore unable to reference it, saying that "On the ball City" was written in the 1890's, cannot remember which year. Surely this can not be correct. The club was not formed until 1902. A club song written before the club existed?
Wikipedia says OTBC was in use by 1902, so I guess could have feasibly been written beforehand. There's nothing in the lyrics implying it was written with NCFC in mind. I know it's the oldest chant still in use. Edit: The Guardian suggests it was written in the 1890s too: https://www.theguardian.com/football/blog/2016/may/06/the-joy-of-six-football-chants "having been written in the 1890s by one Albert T Smith, as far as anyone can tell. Smith went on to become a director Norwich City when it was founded in 1902 and the club adopted the song, which had been originally written for a local team, possibly Norwich Teachers."
Many years ago when I was studying to be a teacher, I had to sit in on a History lesson. The History teacher had found that NCFC had the oldest chant, and that OTBC had it's origins from medieval times. I'll try and see if I can contact him somehow and see if he still has the resources to send me.
That makes sense. A significant proportion of season ticket holders have clearly taken vows of silence ...........
Russ Martin ha officially got the managers job at Swansea. Hope this doesn’t affect Josh’s playing time at MK Dons