SING UP THE RIVER END !: Welcome

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Thank you for visiting Sing Up The River End! However long you stay, I hope you find something of interest.

My name is Andrew Harrison, though in the land of blogs I call myself aitch. I was born in Norwich in 1959, just a few months after the great Cup run. I went to my first match at Carrow Road in 1969. I LIKE football to this day. But I LOVED football from the late 60's until I guess, the mid to late 80's.The game was not necessarily better then - but it WAS different.

I have followed the Canaries all my life, from the terraces, the seats, and the comfort of my armchair. They have been a constant source of both inspiration and frustration.

There are plenty of fine sources of information on the net relating to the history of Norwich City Football Club. This blog is my attempt to pull it all together in one place, in a manner which is readable, interesting, and mildly entertaining. Hopefully the end result will be a fitting tribute to the club.The current items are put in to bring some degree of modern perspective - after all anything happening right now will soon itself become history. The site is however, essentially history based, something I make no apologies for.

The personal stories are as accurate as my sense of recall will allow.

If anything on this blog stirs memories for you please feel free to leave comments, or add your name as a follower, irrespective of the club you support. I want this to be a record of football - players, clubs, events - so as long as your comment has some relevance to NCFC, thats fine by me.

Also take time to correct me when nostalgia has overtaken fact !!

'We should always be aware that what now lies in the past, once lay in the future' - F.W. Maitland 1850-1906

'Life must be lived forward - but it can only be understood backward' - Søren Kierkegaard 1855

'Sing Up The River End' was a chant used by the Barclay Boys to get more noise and atmosphere at Carrow Road. Surely they knew people in the River End didn't go to football matches to sing - aitch 2010

'History will be kind to me for I intend to write it' - Winston Churchill

'All I know most surely about morality and obligations, I owe to football' - Albert Camus

'Now, what I want is, facts. Teach these boys and girls nothing but facts. Facts alone are wanted in life' - Charles Dickens (Hard Times)
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I will probably never tell the whole story of Norwich City here, but intend to have a real good go ! I post items randomly, as they come to mind, and the slow feed of information is intentional. Taken in large doses, history can be boring. As nobody can possibly read everything on this site in one visit, I hope readers will return often to explore the archives. For some the site has become a resource for NCFC information. For others it is a memory jogger. Either way, I hope you enjoy your visit.

Please remember when reading facts and figures on Sing Up The River End! that they were accurate at time of writing. Life moves on and sometimes events change things. Whilst I endeavour to update articles and re-publish where I can, the sheer volume of information on the site makes this an almost impossible task.

If you are a visitor from another club, you can see how they feature in Norwich City's history by using the search facility in this sidebar.

Comments can be left under any post should you wish to do so and should you need to contact me directly, please use the address shown at the bottom of the site.

Seen It Before ?

The total content of Sing Up The River End! has now reached such a high level that updating old items has become an issue. Therefore I am dedicating part of my time to putting this right. It does mean slightly less new material appearing as there are only so many hours in the day available for my hobby. But hopefully visitors will enjoy reading articles for a second time. Some items will never be re-published as they need to sit on the site in chronological order. But for all others that are worthy of re-publication, I intend to put them back on the front page every 12 to 15 months, with updated information added where necessary.

Mike Davage

The deeper I go with this project, the more I realise the importance and extent of the work carried out by Mike Davage. Much of what is known about NCFC in the past comes from his books Canary Citizens and Glorious Canaries. This includes things you read elsewhere on the internet and in other people's books, as well as here on Sing Up The River End! This fact is further acknowledged in the sources section at the top of this blog. The truth is, without his painstaking historical and statistical research, little would be recorded. I try to bring new things to the attention of Norwich City supporters, and often the information to do this is extracted from those resources Mike Davage brought to the world. I spend many hours analysing, listing and interpreting. Often this results in facts about our great club, Norwich City, being presented in a different and refreshing way, not seen anywhere else before now. As with Mike Davage, I cannot write history or make it happen. Hopefully though, I am, like him, succeeding in passing the baton on to the next generation, in my case via the power of the internet. I spend a lot of time on this site talking about NCFC legends. As far as writing about the club is concerned, Mike Davage is as legendary as they come.

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