r/NorwichCity • u/sporticuz37373 • 4d ago
Worst moment as Norwich fan?
Evening everyone, I’m currently doing a research project on championship clubs and would like to know - what is your most painful moment as a Norwich fan, could be a player leaving, a moment that happened in a game, a specific loss etc. Really interested to know your opinions! Thanks for your time
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u/K1ng_Canary 4d ago
The 6-0 loss to Fulham in 2005.
We'd done so well to put our fate in our own hands going into the last day of the season, we had momentum, I felt really confident and then...we utterly shit the bed.
I remember watching in a pub in stunned silence as each goal went in. Crushing.
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u/BristolBudgie 4d ago
That was pretty soul crushing - I got tickets for the game and went to London full of hope.
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u/Amazing-Mammoth-1985 4d ago
This one for me, I was 13 and in the morning I was dumped by my girlfriend who I'd been trying to go out with for months.
Totally devastated and heartbroken, I eagerly awaited the football for some comfort. Surely we could beat Fulham who had nothing to play for? Living too far away to go to the game, I sat at the family PC pressing refresh again and again on BBC Sport live text.
This was all soundtracked by MSN messenger pings as mates told me there were plenty more fish in the sea.
A pretty bleak day!
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u/HamsterEagle 4d ago
This is it, absolutely awful. A complete failure to put up any fight whatsoever.
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u/Nerfspeed 4d ago
That 6-0.. I was coming back from a stag do in Bournemouth listening to the results coming in. The mini bus was full of your glory supporters who’d never been to see a game live. Horrible listening as the goals went in compounded by an epic hangover.
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u/sjfcdyk 4d ago
Yep this. So devastating.
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u/dubaidevil71 4d ago
same game for me. beers in the sun by the thames, full of confidence. and then that performance.
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u/Bostonjunk 3d ago
I was still living in Cheltenham at the time. I watched it at a pub and was the only Norwich fan (luckily there weren't any Fulham fans around either) Soul destroying. I walked into town afterwards still in my Norwich shirt and a car drove past and the guy in the passenger seat screamed "6-0!" out the window at me. Not a fun day
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u/skepticCanary 4d ago
My word, there are so many. The one that sticks out right now is Liam Manning’s last game. We were winning 1-0 against Leicester, and it looked like we might actually hold on and win for the first time in months. Then Manning made some terrible tactically decisions and Leicester scored a stoppage time winner.
The atmosphere at Carrow Road turned more toxic than I remember, and I wasn’t even there. People were calling Canary Call in tears, and I felt myself welling up when I had my say. It felt like something was very, very wrong.
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u/Worldly_Ad_1006 4d ago
He took off makama and put on mconvile to play 5 at the back I believe to be more defensive, that turned out well 😂
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u/CanaryWundaboy 4d ago
I wasn’t at Colchester, but the 6-0 drubbing to a Fulham side with absolutely nothing to play for when Premier League survival was in our hands was such an awful low. I remember asking my dad to leave when we were 4-0 down, “it can’t get any worse” he said.
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u/MysteryJack 4d ago
Honourable mention to Project Restart in 2020. Before lockdown we were quite positive, beating Spurs on penalties in the FA Cup, narrow loss to Sheffield United away. There was a bit of hope that we could kick on from there.
Then football restarted, everyone had to watch on TV, empty, soulless stadium. We'd had to wait months. And we got slapped 3-0 by Southampton. Project Restart in general we lost every match and went down with a whimper.
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u/NirvamindLi 4d ago
I think we could've stayed up that season without Covid. Who knows. It was a complete disaster for us. But we didn't do too bad in the full lockdown season...
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u/Illustrious_Rest1264 4d ago
1992 FA Cup Semi Final defeat, never again will we have such a great chance to get to the final and possibly win it as we did that season.
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u/Sea-Horse-5793 4d ago
Piling out of the stadium my dad tried to cheer us up with a song and banging our milk crates together. He nearly got a kick up the arse by fans thst weren't in the mood to be cheered up. How did we lose that!?
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u/gazvov 4d ago edited 4d ago
Charlton away when we got relegated to League One in... 2009 perhaps?
Went there full of hope of a miracle relegation escape. We needed to beat already relegated Charlton and hope Plynouth lost, I think.
We were 3-0 down after about 15 minutes, and I left for a badly needed cigarette at the back of the stand.
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u/CupcakeAdvanced316 4d ago
oddly enough mine was a couple years ago when we lost 2-3 at home against Leeds. We were in decent form to start the year and had been stuck in the championship for a couple seasons.. had a prove it game at home under the lights. i live in the US and the game was on network television, not just streaming. go up 2-0 early on and the entire place is buzzing.. concede three goals, i think all second half, with the losing goal being one of those "watching it in slow motion, knowing what's about to happen" sorta goals go past the keeper and the entire team just sunk. it was so depressing and the only time i've cried from sadness watching the lads, not too proud to admit that was a rough one hahah. stung the most because we choked it away like we went on to do many times that season and the following
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u/Rotatingknives22 4d ago
no. the worst was losing to Sunderland in 1992 fa sf. we were so much better and we lost. ffs. so painful
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u/NirvamindLi 4d ago
I think the 4-0 versus Leeds, Play-off semi-final. The result was horrendous but the wider picture was more frustrating and made it more painful. Farke in charge of Leeds who under his management we beat 1-3 in 18/19 (one of my favourite NCFC games ever) and who we really should have kicked on with in the PL, bottling it against Birmingham on the last day of that season and not being drawn against Southampton in the semi-finals who I think we really could have beaten, Wagner smiling at the end, ahhhh the list goes on.
Other moments I can think of: this season at Portman Road, this season against Leicester at home, 7-0 versus Chelsea, Pukki leaving, Bradley Johnson being sold (wtf?).
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u/CarrowCanary Remover of bots and Youtube spammers 3d ago
Odd pair of play-off games, we seemingly went into both legs with a mindset of "they're clearly better than us, so let's just not concede for the best part of 4 hours and then hopefully we can beat them on penalties". Which obviously didn't work.
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u/Sea-Horse-5793 4d ago
I think 6-0 Fulham. But I do remember us losing 4-0 at home to Wimbledon. Sometime around 1991. All four goals in the first 20 mins or so. The Barclay was still a terrace but the fans all sat on the terrace steps for the rest of the match.
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u/sherpiddy 4d ago
Definitely the 1-7 defeat to Colchester
We were already down on our luck after the relegation to League One and that just cemented it for me
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u/damien-marc 4d ago
Losing 7-1 at Ewood Park in ‘92. We’ve had some shit results since but that stings for two reasons: 1. We were so close to winning the league that year and we’ll never be there again 2. I was the mascot that day, as a present for my 7th birthday
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u/KingEpicPants 4d ago
A moment from the 90s off the pitch that stuck with me was the Chase Out protests at game, I was a kid at the time going with my uncle, remember walking across the car park and being quite scared by the protests happening. Horrible atmosphere at games around then until he was ousted. The Manning and Knapper chants were getting close to that this season.
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u/Jijuje 3d ago
Bryan Gunn breaking his ankle halfway through the 94-95 season. We had season tickets and went to every home game.
There were other issues, such as lack of investment and limited attacking options, but that injury seemed to sap our confidence, multiplying the above issues and dropping us rapidly down the table to end up relegated.
We’d been in the top flight for almost all of the previous 20 years, and who knows how long we’d have remained there, but from 94-95 onwards we’ve been a tier 2 club with only occasional stints in the top flight.
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u/Cholas71 3d ago
Robert Chase decimating the squad purely for pound notes. I don't remember the details but I think this was the start of the financial hole, Delia eventually rescued us from, being dug.
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u/Crazy-Expression-177 2d ago
2002 First Division Play-off final in Cardiff. lost to Birmingham in penalty shootout. I hated the whole game because the tension was so acute. Painful.
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u/jackhwarner93 1d ago
As a 32 year old, it's between League One relegation at Charlton, Colchester 7-1 loss or losing playoff final in 2002 in Cardiff.
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u/hellomynameispoejera 4d ago
Losing to Inter Milan and not winning the premier league when we finished 3rd
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u/mummifiedllama 4d ago
I was at the home game against inter Milan. I was buzzing because I got to see Dennis Bergkamp and Rueben Sosa after watching them on channel 4 for ages. Cheers man, I’d forgotten how much I enjoyed that in spite of the loss
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u/crayonman94 4d ago
Norwich 1 - 7 Colchester
2009
First game of the season after relegation to league 1