Memries of Norwich

[grafikhaus]

We’ll be looking for at least a point at Carrow Road to make sure our ‘blip’ doesn’t turn into a mini-slump. Given that Norwich have only gained 7 points from a possible 21 at home, this shouldn’t be out of the question.

Next Sunday (8th December, 14:00 KO) is only the fourth meeting between The Blades and The Canaries since January 2011. After tussling it out in last season’s Championship, Norwich would finish as Champions and The Blades were (easily) runners-up to secure our place in the Premier League.

That season (2018-19) was met with supercilious comments from the Canaries – who had the best manager (Farke or Wilder)? Who played the most attractive football? etc. That season, Norwich were over-reliant on Teemu Pukki’s 29 league goals and United’s true quality is coming out this season…



A 2-1 Premier League defeat at Southampton on Wednesday 4th December was the tenth consecutive game where Norwich had gone behind and lost the game and saw The Canaries sink to second-bottom of the Premier League.

Only Norwich’s home form is keeping them off the bottom:

P: 7 W: 2 D: 1 L: 4 F: 12 A: 18 Pts. 7

Whereas their away form is poor:

P: 8 W: 1 D: 1 L: 6 F: 4 A: 14 Pts. 4

Premier League Table:

Thursday’s disappointing 0-2 defeat (our first defeat in seven games) to Newcastle sees us in ninth place.


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We last met at Carrow Road on Boxing Day, 2019 – a 2-2 draw:

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Recent games against Norwich:


Full history Sheffield United v Norwich City

Complete League record v. Norwich

Home: P: 32 W: 17 D: 6 L: 9 F: 45 A: 32
Away: P: 32 W: 6 D: 10 L: 16 F: 35 A: 53

The Blades triumphed 2-1 at Bramall Lane on 18th August 2018 with our goals coming from Egan and Sharp.

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A recent meeting (September 16, 2017) ended with a controversial 0-1 home defeat in front of a 26,218 crowd. Controversial because the Norwich ‘tactics’ that day comprised of barely-concealed timewasting. From their goalie missing no opportunity to delay re-starts, feign injury etc., James Maddison acting like a spoilt twat to the Canaries deliberately coming out late for the second half, Norwich proved cheats can prosper. This game also saw an increasingly-exasperated Chris Wilder attempt to boot the ball back into play. The ball had got wedged between two bags in the technical area and Chris ‘accidently’ booted the contents of these bags – drinks bottles etc. – all over the place. Typically, the referee - who had indulged the cheating by Norwich - sent Chris to the stand about three rows behind the United dug-out where he was offered a sweetie!

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[grafikhaus]

A more balanced view of the game is here:

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On December 8th, 2007 we lost 0-1 at Carrow Road, a match only remembered for an incredible series of misses by the Blades, the final – and worst – came from our number 6 (Chris Armstrong).

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I well remember our 1-3 home defeat on Boxing Day, 2005 in The Championship. Norwich had scored a first-half equalizer (Paul McVeigh) in our kop end and their celebrations were ‘rewarded’ with a bottle thrown from the kop. When sometime-Quest pundit Dean Ashton put the Canaries in front in the 62nd minute, he took the piss by ‘celebrating’ with a polite handshake with his team-mates.

23rd April 1994 and, although hovering near the foot of the PL table, United finally found some form and lost only 2 games out of the last 13 - beating Liverpool, Newcastle and West Ham in this run. A trip to Carrow Road with just four games left saw Nathan Blake score the only goal in a fine 1-0 win. The sell-out Blades contingent roared "And now you're gonna believe us, the Blades are staying up!" and the Norwich fans applauded us.
Unfortunately, just 14 days later, a 3-2 loss at Chelsea (and an unbelievable sequence of events in other games) saw the Blades relegated from the PL.

11th May 1991, the last game of the season and the kop roof had been removed prior to making it all-seater. It seemed that everybody wanted to be on the kop that day and the laughable official attendance of 21,019 surely only counted those on the kop.

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I'm sure Blades of a certain vintage will remember Feb. 18, 1989. The Blades were in Division 3 and would be promoted at the end of that season. Dave Bassett had guided us to the 5th round of the FA Cup and we faced Norwich from the top flight at Carrow Road. Around 5,000 Blades made their way to East Anglia using any means of transport (including, according to legend, a furniture van). 1-1 at half-time with a goal from Deano, an heroic display saw a goal from Agana before we unluckily lost 3-2.

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On 22nd March 1986 in a second-tier match, The Blades lost 2-5 at home. Worth watching for the old kop (if nothing else). Crowd? 11,894 (!):

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[grafikhaus]

On 28th February 1959 The Blades and Norwich drew 1-1 at Bramall Lane in the Quarter Final of the FA Cup. In front of a crowd of 56,495, Russell put the Blades 1-0 up at half-time before Norwich equalised.

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A few days later (4th March) saw United lose 2-3 the replay despite goals from Pace and Summers.

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Form Guide:

Seven points from the last eighteen means we are twelfth in the overall form guide based on the last six games.


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Top Scorers:



Men to Watch:

From left: Last season’s stand-out scorer for Norwich (with 29 league goals in The Championship), Teemu Pukki has scored two goals in the last two games after a barren eight games, and has failed to replicate his form at this level, but has a healthy eight Premier League goals so far. Second-highest scorer is 21-year-old Todd Cantwell who joined the Norwich Academy at the age of ten. Talented midfielder Onel Hernández is ‘one to watch’ and Norwich goalkeeper Tim Krul is renowned for his shithousery at penalty kicks.


The Manager:

Daniel Farke joined The Canaries on 25th May, 2017 having been in charge of Borussia Dortmund II, the reserve side of German club Borussia Dortmund, for two seasons.

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[Silent Blade]

 

[Silent Blade]

 

[grafikhaus]

28 hours to kick-off. Worth a bump?

 

[Revolution]

28 hours to kick-off. Worth a bump?

the misses video is from the FA Cup game in 1997, not 2007.

 

[Woodwardfan]

I was at the home game in 1959 and have known the Norwich fans song 'On the ball city' word for word ever since. Great fans then and now. Proper football club, big away following considering the size of the club and the distances involved.

 

[Woodwardfan]

Memories.

 

[billyblademan]

That Norwich game a couple years back will stay in the memory for a while - but did bring one of my favourite photos of Wilder (the sweetie one).

 

[United Aren't Back.]

Good memories.

 

[John Street West Terrace]

Good game with them at the Lane last time in the Hecky promotion season when we came back from 0-2 down to draw , yet again they were at it with the shithousing but managed to rescue a point

 

[Guesty]

Good game with them at the Lane last time in the Hecky promotion season when we came back from 0-2 down to draw , yet again they were at it with the shithousing but managed to rescue a point

As I recall the shithousery backfired, it got us all riled up when previously Norwich had been cruising.

 

[Rufus Smalls]

A more balanced view of the game is here:

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On December 8th, 2007 we lost 0-1 at Carrow Road, a match only remembered for an incredible series of misses by the Blades, the final – and worst – came from our number 6 (Chris Armstrong).

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I well remember our 1-3 home defeat on Boxing Day, 2005 in The Championship. Norwich had scored a first-half equalizer (Paul McVeigh) in our kop end and their celebrations were ‘rewarded’ with a bottle thrown from the kop. When sometime-Quest pundit Dean Ashton put the Canaries in front in the 62nd minute, he took the piss by ‘celebrating’ with a polite handshake with his team-mates.

23rd April 1994 and, although hovering near the foot of the PL table, United finally found some form and lost only 2 games out of the last 13 - beating Liverpool, Newcastle and West Ham in this run. A trip to Carrow Road with just four games left saw Nathan Blake score the only goal in a fine 1-0 win. The sell-out Blades contingent roared "And now you're gonna believe us, the Blades are staying up!" and the Norwich fans applauded us.
Unfortunately, just 14 days later, a 3-2 loss at Chelsea (and an unbelievable sequence of events in other games) saw the Blades relegated from the PL.

11th May 1991, the last game of the season and the kop roof had been removed prior to making it all-seater. It seemed that everybody wanted to be on the kop that day and the laughable official attendance of 21,019 surely only counted those on the kop.

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I'm sure Blades of a certain vintage will remember Feb. 18, 1989. The Blades were in Division 3 and would be promoted at the end of that season. Dave Bassett had guided us to the 5th round of the FA Cup and we faced Norwich from the top flight at Carrow Road. Around 5,000 Blades made their way to East Anglia using any means of transport (including, according to legend, a furniture van). 1-1 at half-time with a goal from Deano, an heroic display saw a goal from Agana before we unluckily lost 3-2.

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On 22nd March 1986 in a second-tier match, The Blades lost 2-5 at home. Worth watching for the old kop (if nothing else). Crowd? 11,894 (!):

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I’ve always labelled the 2-3 defeat in the 88/89 FA Cup as my “favourite Blades defeat”.

I will never forget that day out, never mind the atmosphere in the Blades end that afternoon.

It was the old away standing area back in those days and it was absolutely rammed that day.

This is the contrast us dinosaurs remember when thinking about the difference between the current apathy around the FA Cup and the buzz of the one we remember in our youth.

 

[Isar]

I’ve always labelled the 2-3 defeat in the 88/89 FA Cup as my “favourite Blades defeat”.

I will never forget that day out, never mind the atmosphere in the Blades end that afternoon.

It was the old away standing area back in those days and it was absolutely rammed that day.

This is the contrast us dinosaurs remember when thinking about the difference between the current apathy around the FA Cup and the buzz of the one we remember in our youth.

We were sat in one of the Norwich stands, when we scored hundreds of Blades scattered all over the stand jumped up celebrating. What a great day out.

 

[United Aren't Back.]

Memories.

Paul Blades v The Blades.

 

[Melbourne Blade]

One of my last games I saw before moving to Australia was the 2-1 home loss in 2011. I trained up from London with my then Aussie gf. We were absolutely shit and it was an awful game. I'm surprised she didn't end our relationship right then. I wish she had tbh in hindsight

 

[United Aren't Back.]

Interesting that there was a scrap in both those games.

 

[mattbianco1]

I miss grafikhaus

 

[United Aren't Back.]

28 hours to kick-off. Worth a bump?

Definitely.

 

[littletonyfield]

Was anyone else at Carrow Road in April (?) 1976 when Chris Guthrie scored a rare goal? We won but had already been relegated. One of Tony Currie’s last games for us I believe.

 

[Blade In Flame]

Was anyone else at Carrow Road in April (?) 1976 when Chris Guthrie scored a rare goal? We won but had already been relegated. One of Tony Currie’s last games for us I believe.

Wasn't there but I think we won 3-0. Didn't Currie score twice? We beat Leeds 1-0 at Elland Road a few days earlier. All after getting officially relegated.

 

[Silent Blade]

Wasn't there but I think we won 3-0. Didn't Currie score twice? We beat Leeds 1-0 at Elland Road a few days earlier. All after getting officially relegated.

3-1. Scorers were Guthrie, Stainrod (youngest ever scorer in our history) and TC. All goals in the first half.

 

[Eels]

We beat West Ham 3-2 the week after Norwich then Leeds on the Wednesday after that. Last few minutes at Elland road we were doing the Leeds thing of taking it from the keeper and then just passing it back - which really pissed their fans off. About the only bit of pleasure I got out of that season.

 

[Silent Blade]

We beat West Ham 3-2 the week after Norwich then Leeds on the Wednesday after that. Last few minutes at Elland road we were doing the Leeds thing of taking it from the keeper and then just passing it back - which really pissed their fans off. About the only bit of pleasure I got out of that season.

I was behind the goal when Woody smacked the winner past David Harvey.