My parents' house yeah. He used to do the NCFC scratch card thing and delivered them

to the newsagents (next to the greengrocer's). My parents knew him via the owners of the shop, so he would pop in for a cup of tea sometimes after delivering the cards. Liked a digestive with it, so we used to call him Duncan Biscuits.

In fact I got a little plastic black and white camera for my birthday when I was about 5 I suppose, and the first photo take with it was of me in the garden, taken by Forbes after he'd helped me put it together.

My family and the family who ran the shops were friends (still are) so I would often hang around the shops when I was a young kid, and "help out". The Fashanus often came in, usually together, and were always polite and friendly. Must have been just before, and just as Justin broke through to the first team.

So basically, that's how I started supporting Norwich City, which I think is a nice reason, looking back - I felt the "family club" atmosphere before I even knew anything about the team. Neither of my parents gave a s**t about any sport. My mate's dad used to take me along to my first games (even up to Wembley in 85) since my own dad was uninterested.

Used to get a lot of Norwich players around those shops across from where we lived - Fleck and Putney were always at the Chinese too (Fleck was really friendly and always said hello, Putney used to pose and do stretches in front of the window). Norwich used to train at Trowse and think back in those days, before they were all multi millionaires, quite a few lived out around the Poringland area.

Posted By: Steve in Holland on August 30th 2018 at 11:19:43

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Which year did you start supporting City? 1980 for me. (NCFC) - ghost of hucks, Aug 30, 10:17:08
- March 1963 - City 6 Stoke 0 (NCFC) - White Van Man, Aug 30, 20:22:10
- First game Everton 1984. 4-2. Cracker! (NCFC) - Wilts, Aug 30, 15:48:09
  - Micky Channon. (n/m) (NCFC) - protheroe fitzgibbon, Aug 30, 15:57:24
    - And one hell of an Everton team! (n/m) (NCFC) - Wilts, Aug 30, 16:02:52
- 1988-89 season (n/m) (NCFC) - essexcanaryOTBC, Aug 30, 15:43:17
  - My first Norwich game was the John O'Neil testimonial (NCFC) - essexcanaryOTBC, Aug 30, 15:44:07
- 1976 (NCFC) - Barno, Aug 30, 15:31:27
- Moved to S Norfolk from That London in ‘76. (NCFC) - avenging canary, Aug 30, 14:01:46
  - 👏.a wide move old boy. (n/m) (NCFC) - protheroe fitzgibbon, Aug 30, 14:22:59
- 1988/89-season (NCFC) - Molmans Custard, Aug 30, 13:59:47
  - And my first time at Carrow Road...... (NCFC) - Molmans Custard, Aug 30, 14:01:19
    - Christian Dailly I presume?? (NCFC) - Molmans Custard, Aug 30, 16:19:04
    - Dirty bastard! 😊💛💚💛💚👍 (n/m) (NCFC) - protheroe fitzgibbon, Aug 30, 14:27:33
- 1962 or 1963 (NCFC) - Dunney, Aug 30, 13:58:23
- 85/86 when we were in Div 2 (NCFC) - Knitted Jesus, Aug 30, 13:44:43
- 1992 Norwich 0 Arsenal 3 - under the lights (NCFC) - Canary Marshall, Aug 30, 13:27:06
  - One of the last Barclay terrace games? (NCFC) - APB, Aug 30, 15:35:05
  - yeah i was in the Barclay that night,not so special to me with all the (NCFC) - protheroe fitzgibbon, Aug 30, 13:32:12
- 1970. (n/m) (NCFC) - CROYDONCANARY, Aug 30, 12:51:04
- January 1994. West Ham 3-3 Norwich. (n/m) (NCFC) - tim berry, Aug 30, 12:20:48
- 1973 watching the League Cup final on TV in Gibraltar. (NCFC) - APB, Aug 30, 12:09:51
- First game Mar 59 v Bradford City 0 - 0 (NCFC) - trt354, Aug 30, 11:32:48
  - Oops I mean 1960 (NCFC) - trt354, Aug 30, 11:37:40
- Early seventies (1973?) First match 1978, Orient 1 Norwich 1 (n/m) (NCFC) - Worthing Yellow, Aug 30, 11:29:43
- The day I was born (NCFC) - Charles21, Aug 30, 11:06:50
- 2009 - Norwich 5 Wycombe 2 (n/m) (NCFC) - MIKEWALKER, Aug 30, 10:58:34
- 1969 1-1 at home to Sheffield United (NCFC) - Pompatus of Creosote, Aug 30, 10:49:10
- 1965/66 0-0 against Preston (n/m) (NCFC) - colincanary, Aug 30, 10:39:22
- First game for me was a 3-0 win against Bristol City in March 1979. (n/m) (NCFC) - norway, Aug 30, 10:34:15
  - was that a midweek game? think i was there if so. (n/m) (NCFC) - protheroe fitzgibbon, Aug 30, 10:35:44
    - No mate... a Saturday. (n/m) (NCFC) - norway, Aug 30, 10:52:39
- 1993 vs Swindon... 0-0 (NCFC) - Since1902, Aug 30, 10:31:23
  - Excellent (n/m) (NCFC) - Worthing Yellow, Aug 30, 11:31:38
- No idea. Late 70s. Duncan Forbes used to pop in for a cup of tea and the (NCFC) - Steve in Holland, Aug 30, 10:28:54
  - To your house? (n/m) (NCFC) - protheroe fitzgibbon, Aug 30, 10:36:34
    - My parents' house yeah. He used to do the NCFC scratch card thing and delivered them (NCFC) - Steve in Holland, Aug 30, 11:19:43
      - Cor,that's ace. (n/m) (NCFC) - protheroe fitzgibbon, Aug 30, 11:39:17
      - That’s a great story, yes Fleck was always friendly. Met his parents on holiday once. (n/m) (NCFC) - ghost of hucks, Aug 30, 11:31:01
        
        He was in that Chinese VERY OFTEN which might explain a lot ;-) (n/m) (NCFC) - Steve in Holland, Aug 30, 12:03:07
- 1986, Norwich 3 Brighton 0 (n/m) (NCFC) - Hit Squadie, Aug 30, 10:24:55
  - I was at that game . (NCFC) - CROYDONCANARY, Aug 30, 12:58:59
    - Yes, due to the city stand being built. (n/m) (NCFC) - CROYDONCANARY, Aug 30, 13:21:55
    - All I can really remember is the players coming out of a portacabin (NCFC) - Hit Squadie, Aug 30, 13:15:17

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