My third outing to see Norwich this season following
a trip to Fulham with my Dad and his friends in tow, and
a mid-week hop to nearby Charlton. This was obviously the best of the three! My Dad managed to time his holiday to clash with the release of tickets but roped in one of his mates to log on and sit in a virtual queue for several hours to get us tickets. His mate was on holiday (in Southwold!) so I got his ticket.
On our trip from home to Wembley the first Canaries I saw were about 2 stops into our bus journey. We saw a few more on the tube but didn't see any red shirts until we hit Baker Street. We arrived at Wembley at about 1pm and it was already much busier than I expected. Wembley way looked great with the two distinctive colours.
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| Wembley Way |
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| The arch |
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| One proud Canary |
Some fans looked like they'd raided all their Canary accessories and had brought them out all at once, Others went for the minimal look like this one ...
Even I dug out my canary and blew him up whilst drinking an overpriced pint of generic lager pre-match.
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| A well travelled canary - he's been to Sri Lanka and Wembley |
We had great seats, right near the halfway line, so close to the Boro fans we were within range of projectiles so I wasn't keen when some Canary fans around us started baiting them, but they didn't bite.
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| So close, yet so far |
I knew we were going to win because we'd brought two mascots along to Boro's one.
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| Captain Canary and Sport-o-saurus |
Once the teams had warmed up they let each of the teams tannoy announcers loose, shouting so loud in regional accents you couldn't actually hear the team news.
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| Literally rolling out the red carpet for the teams |
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| Almost full stadium |
The match got off to an exciting start, we hit the bar then Boro charged up the other end and did the same but 10 minutes in our supremacy showed and we went one up, and a few minutes later it was two! Unbelievable! We dominated the first half despite what the stats may say, although there were a couple of wobbly moments with Ruddy not quite taking the ball as cleanly as you'd hope for a former England number 3.
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| First half action |
My half time entertainment was seeing how many different shirts I could spot - this was my favourite ... shiny and the club badge woven into the fabric - it just screams 20th Century!
The second half was mostly taken up with wondering when we'd throw it all away - maybe I've spent too much time watching Barnsley this season - but we didn't. We held on to our advantage despite the scrappier play.
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| Second half action |
The excitement started to grow in the last 10 minutes when we realised that as they hadn't really had a good chance since they hit the bar we might actually do it.
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| Almost there, don't get excited quite yet |
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| Wave your blow up canary like you just don't care! |
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| The final whistle! |
We were in the tier above the dug outs and royal box so had to watch the medal giving on the big screen.
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| Celebrity directors |
But we got a great view of the celebration (great if you have a posh camera like me).
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| Someone's got to clear up all that mess afterwards |
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| The newest Premier League Scottish manager |
We stayed until the end of the presentation and photocalls, unlike some people ... but fair enough they had just lost their 5th match at Wembley in a row.
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| Where have they all gone, there's a trophy presentation going on! |
YELLOWS! YELLOWS! YELLOWS! YELLOWS! YELLOWS! YELLOWS! YELLOWS!
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