Some of you may well be familiar with our venture “On the Stall City” (OTSC) by now. For those of you who don’t know us, we run a stall with our son Jacob on Norwich Market where we sell NCFC replica kit, training wear, leisure wear and memorabilia, and donate all profits we make to […]
German Tour – Part 3: The Hacienda… the Bronx… and a bundle of ACN stickers
In the final part of the Bowles’ family Teutonic odyssey, they head to Lotte to see City play Schalke… Schalke, Friday 19th July The last fixture of the German leg of the pre-season brought with it some sadness that this brilliant trip was coming to an end. We had visited a local vet the day […]
German Tour – Part 2: Late-night snacks… ‘proper’ WI-FI… and Teemu meets Teemu
In part two of the Bowles family’s German adventure, Sharon takes us to the open training session and has a brush with German TV. Hotel Klosterpforte open training session, Wednesday 17th July Having taken the decision to come and see the team, we assumed that an open training session would be on offer. We didn’t […]
German Tour – Part One: The Bowles family embark on #NCFC road trip number 2
The wonderful Bowles family promised us a travelogue of their German road trip and, as ever, they delivered. Here, Sharon takes us on the journey to Germany and to the first friendly of the tour… What a difference a year makes. Last year we made the pre-season trip to see Daniel Farke’s work in progress, […]
Letter from America – Part 3: Eric & Ernie… ACN flags… PG Tips… and home sweet home
Day 3 -Wednesday 14th November After another jumbo breakfast (we by now have acquired the art of blagging a box of croissants for Jacob’s “avoid night time hypos bedtime snack”) it was time for a Q&A session with Daniel Farke and Stuart Webber hosted by the Morecambe and Wise of Norwich City: Grant Holt and […]
Letter from America – Part 2: Lightning… boozy receptions… and cheeky Jacob
Day 2 – Tuesday 13th November The day began with buffet breakfast in the hotel with players and staff everywhere around us. Maggie and Colin, competition winners, filled us in on the dinner the night before. They were on the same table as Stuart Webber and he was really friendly and laid back. Breakfast US-style […]
Letter from America – Part One: From Carra Rud to Tampa Bay with Holty for company
As some of you may know from our summer blogs, our son Jacob is autistic, a type-1 diabetic, has a severe peanut allergy and has suffered from terrible bouts of PTSD-type anxiety attacks which have resulted in visits to A & E. Norwich City FC is central to his life and his love of all […]
Road trip of the highest order, as Bowles family’s day in the blue half of Sheffield delivers!
“…YEAOAHHHHHH WHAT A GOALLLL!!” The date: 5th March 2017, the place: Hillsborough. The time: 14 minutes into the first half. John Ruddy scrambles back towards a flailing Russell Martin who attempts to make a goal line clearance from Ross Wallace’s shot from 40 yards out. Instead he passed it to Wednesday’s Wallace who stuck the […]