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History of Norwich City F.C.

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The result was: not scheduled by Jimfbleak - talk to me?  14:51, 7 February 2017 (UTC)



The history of Norwich City F.C. stretches back to 1902. After a brief period in amateur football, the club spent 15 years as a semi-professional team in the Southern League before admission to The Football League in 1920. For most of the next 50 years, Norwich City F.C. sat in Division Three (South), then the joint lowest tier of the football league, a period that was distinguished by "a thrilling giant-killing sequence which took them to the FA Cup semi-finals" in 1959. Shortly afterwards, the club won its first major trophy, the 1962 League Cup. Norwich finally reached the pinnacle of the league structure in 1972, with their first promotion to the top tier. Since then, Norwich City has acquired a reputation as a "yo-yo club", with 22 seasons in the top league and 15 in the second tier. During this period the club has achieved most of its greatest distinctions, claiming the League Cup in 1985, reaching two more FA Cup semi finals, 1989 and 1992, finishing fifth, fourth and third in the top division and beating Bayern Munich in the UEFA Cup. In the course of its history, Norwich City has survived a number of incidents that threatened its survival, including financial crises.
 * Most recent similar article(s): 16 October
 * Main editors: Dweller
 * Promoted: 2008
 * Reasons for nomination:
 * Support as nominator. Gerda Arendt (talk) 22:31, 5 November 2016 (UTC)
 * Support ...it's football season in UK...Cas Liber (talk · contribs) 00:32, 8 November 2016 (UTC)
 * Oppose. Has neither of you read the article before supporting? This was promoted back when the FA standards were very different, and hasn't been maintained for some years (the fact that it ends with discussion of the forthcoming 2015 season should surely be a clue), and is packed with unsourced statements and obvious omissions. (Which country is this team from, for instance? It's not reasonable to expect readers to have a clue where Norwich is. Who is their current manager, and when was he appointed? Why are there no notable players mentioned after 2006?) &#8209; Iridescent 20:14, 10 November 2016 (UTC)
 * Oops, ok. fixing time....Cas Liber (talk · contribs) 19:43, 11 November 2016 (UTC)

I can take a look when I get a minute. We'll need to avoid/remove recentism, as that's often the most serious issue in these "History of" type articles. --Dweller (talk) Become old fashioned! 16:47, 14 November 2016 (UTC)
 * Unusually, I'd say the problem in this particular case is the opposite; aside from a bit of gloating about results over Ipswich, it has virtually no additions since you stopped working on it, so just kind of fizzles out somewhere around Gunn's sacking. (No mention of Ed Balls, for instance, who aside from the sainted Delia is probably the only person associated with NCFC 99.9% of readers have ever heard of.) &#8209; Iridescent 17:49, 14 November 2016 (UTC)
 * I can fix that, but it is suffering from recentism. The last 16 years dominates the article. I'll get stuck in. --Dweller (talk) Become old fashioned! 14:17, 15 November 2016 (UTC)
 * Dweller, Iridescent, Cas, Gerda: what's the status on this? I've scheduled up to 10 January and was considering this for 11 January.  The article history shows a few edits after the last comment above, but it also includes a comment that more work might be needed. Mike Christie (talk - contribs -  library) 12:49, 23 December 2016 (UTC)
 * Paging The Rambling Man, as if it's not up to scratch any complaint is most likely to come from him. The "comes to a grinding halt two years ago" issue has been fixed, but at the time of writing I still see six "citation needed" tags (although it looks like most of those can be fairly easily fixed). &#8209; Iridescent 15:13, 23 December 2016 (UTC)
 * No edits here for six weeks, so no consensus. I would have closed this by now if there were not vacant slots, any reason not to do so now? Jimfbleak - talk to me?  08:03, 5 February 2017 (UTC)

History of Norwich City F.C.


The history of Norwich City Football Club stretches back to 1902. Based in Norfolk, England, the association football club spent 15 years as a semi-professional team in the Southern League before admission to The Football League in 1920. For most of the next 50 years, Norwich City F.C. sat in Division Three (South), then the joint lowest tier of the football league, a period that was distinguished by "a thrilling giant-killing sequence which took them to the FA Cup semi-finals" in 1959. Shortly afterwards, the club won its first major trophy, the 1962 League Cup. Norwich finally reached the pinnacle of the league structure in 1972, with their first promotion to the top tier. Since then, Norwich City has acquired a reputation as a "yo-yo club", with 22 seasons in the top league and 15 in the second tier. During this period the club has achieved most of its greatest distinctions, claiming the League Cup in 1985, reaching two more FA Cup semi finals, 1989 and 1992, finishing fifth, fourth and third in the top division and beating Bayern Munich in the UEFA Cup. In the course of its history, Norwich City has survived a number of incidents that threatened its survival, including financial crises.
 * Most recent similar article(s): there's a cricketer on 31 Juy, but we had no club for a long time
 * Main editors: Dweller
 * Promoted: 2008
 * Reasons for nomination: first game of the club in the season, said the main editor
 * Support as nominator. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 07:40, 25 June 2018 (UTC)
 * Support and thank you, Gerda. Can I suggest 04 August, which is the first game of the season --Dweller (talk) Become old fashioned! 08:06, 25 June 2018 (UTC)
 * Support for first day of the season. Joseph2302 (talk) 22:05, 26 June 2018 (UTC)
 * Support as per date suggestion of above commenters. Chetsford (talk) 16:46, 9 July 2018 (UTC)