Canary stars rise to Tim's charity challenge
 Evening News columnist and former Norwich City winger Neil Adams proved a star turn with bat and ball to collect the man of the match award in a charity game.
01 July 2009
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Hardy annuals hit the road with Saxlingham
It is a schedule that would test even those in their cricketing prime yet Saxlingham's evergreen Gents will take four games in as many days in their stride when they depart on their annual tour tomorrow.
01 July 2009
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Smells like team Spirit at award-winning Drayton
One of the Norwich area's oldest cricket clubs is winning friends as well as matches as it sets its sights on a unique hat-trick. For Drayton's fair-minded approach to the game has made them the only team to win the Norfolk League's Spirit of Cricket Award two years running.
24 June 2009
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Saints go marching on
St Andrews are being spurred on by thoughts of absent friends as they set their sights on top flight cricket for the first time. The Thorpe-based club has been hit by triple tragedy since the end of last season with the deaths of former president Monty Montague, chairman Ian Gilmore and player Steve Martin.
17 June 2009
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 Hall’s well that ends well for run machine Michael
Run machine Michael Hall has won the Norfolk League player of the month award for the third time in three years. Felthorpe's star man scooped the honour after scoring unbeaten centuries in the first four games of the season, amassing a total of 483 runs for the Lucas Fettes Divison Four table-toppers.
17 June 2009
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 Luckless linesman's nightmare continues
A youth football team linesman is still being dogged by serious problems 15 months after a freak accident put him in hospital for a fortnight. The road to recovery is proving a long and painful one for luckless Andrew Nurse, who is now unemployed and unable to run as a result of injuries suffered while officiating for Sprowston Lads Under 16 at Horsford in March 2008.
10 June 2009
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 Star signing Scott boosts Yachtsmen
New Wroxham manager David Batch has received a major boost in his battle to recapture the Ridgeons League crown after luring King's Lynn's ex-Canary goalkeeper Scott Howie to Trafford Park.
10 June 2009
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 No venue too big or small for Canary legend to give it his best shot
Golden greats: In the last of his series of features celebrating 50 years of the Norwich Sunday League, Milton Lindsay recalls the stars who made their mark at grassroots level.
03 June 2009
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 50 years of Sunday League: City league was a gateway to soccer's grandest theatres
The Norwich Sunday League has been a stepping stone to some of football's great theatres for local match officials over the years. In the early years Horrie (Robbo) Robinson became a successful Football League referee, whilst continuing to officiate locally on Sundays, retaining his contact with the league.
03 June 2009
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 Stars of the season are saluted
Team of the season Marlborough completed a silverware hat-trick at the annual Evening News Norwich Sunday League awards night. The north city pub outfit scooped the league's top flight title for the fourth year in a row, as well as winning the Norfolk Sunday Senior Cup, and also added the secretary of the year award just for good measure.
27 May 2009
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 Costessey cup kings set sights on Carrow Road
Costessey Sports underdogs who upset the formbook to lift one of the local Sunday soccer scene's premier prizes have been urged to set their sights even higher.
20 May 2009
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Hellesdon set to celebrate a half-century
Hellesdon footballers will be rolling back the years at a 50th anniversary gathering this month.
A reunion has been organised at the community centre on Saturday, May 30 (7.
20 May 2009
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Norman clinch second spot
Progressive Norman Wanderers have taken another giant stride forward by clinching runners-up spot in the Evening News Norwich Sunday League's Premier Division.
20 May 2009
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 50 years of Sunday League: Hobbies Sunday best after an FA Cup war of attrition
Hobbies United wrote their name in the annals of Sunday soccer history with a feat that has only ever been achieved by one Norfolk team and will almost certainly never be done again.
20 May 2009
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50 years of Sunday League: Hobbies heroes - player by player
Goalkeeper Paul Dunger: He was a very fit, athletic goalkeeper with a tremendous kick. Played for Fakenham, Yarmouth and Hobbies. Lives at Binham, plays cricket for Fakenham.
20 May 2009
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50 years of Sunday League: Hobbies roll of honour
Hobbies were formed in 1963 as a Dereham works side and competed in the Norwich Sunday League reaching Division One in 1967/68. They won the league cup beating Lingwood in 1978.
20 May 2009
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 50 years of Sunday League: Macs gave us a run for our money
The skipper of the Liverpool pub team which broke Mackintosh hearts in the 1981 FA Sunday Cup final has recalled the epic 1981 encounter saying: “I think we deserved to win but only just.
20 May 2009
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 Goalkeeper Robert still can't kick his scoring habit
Robert Woodcock is a goalkeeper with dynamite in his boots for he likes nothing more than keeping the ball out at one end and firing it in at the other.
13 May 2009
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Progressive Wanderers closing in on runners-up spot
Norman Wanderers can crown a memorable season by clinching a best-ever runners-up spot in the Evening News Norwich Sunday League's top flight. The up-and-coming Mile Cross-based outfit, hit by the tragic death of young star Elliott Cooper this season, beat AFC Wanderers 3-0 on Sunday and can overtake current second-placed outfit Dog House by winning their final game.
13 May 2009
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 Labour of love for Socialists
Norwich Young Socialists line up in their 1963-64 Norwich Sunday League debut season. The side, with several players from the highly-successful Gothic Minors Youth team, worked their way up the Norwich Sunday League, reaching the top division in the 70s where on their day they were a match for some of the leading sides of the era.
13 May 2009
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Unicorns ready to roll back years at milestone event
The club that might just hold the record for being the Norwich Sunday League's most lethal hotshots of all time is holding a 25th anniversary reunion later this month.
07 May 2009
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Wymondham Town host memorial match
Wymondham Town FC are holding a charity match between Leo Parke's Anglian Combination Division One promotion side from 2000/2001 plus guest veterans v the current Wymondham Town first team.
07 May 2009
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Golden opportunity to relive Poringland's proud past
The Evening News Golden Greats series has added another string to its bow - with exclusive video footage of Poringland Wanderers' finest hours. The team, one of the elite five to do the coveted Sunday Senior Cup, league cup and league championship treble, has been captured in all its glory during the early 90s golden years, which brought two trebles featuring Carrow Road cup final success for sides managed by Ben Casey and John Glen.
06 May 2009
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 Never-say-die Mousehold are the lowest of the low
It's official - AFC Mousehold are the worst team in the Evening News Norwich Sunday League this season... but only just. The battle between the teams who finished bottom of division 4a and 4b ended in a 4-3 defeat for Mousehold by Dancing Farmers - the side formed by workers at Norwich City's Carrow Road ground.
30 April 2009
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 Champions are on a mission to improve
Marlborough proved themselves to be the Evening News Norwich Sunday League's modern-day golden greats as they wrapped up their fourth consecutive top flight title at the weekend.
30 April 2009
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 Mattishall are great sports
The Evening News Norwich Sunday League's biggest losers are determined to look on the bright side as a season which has so far failed to produce a single point draws to a close.
22 April 2009
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Busmen hoping four cup triumphs come along at once
Norwich Busmen will be going for their fourth Pink 'Un League Cup triumph when they face Costessey Sports at Wroxham FC next month. The Busmen, who are midtable in Division 1A, edged a penalty shoot-out 4-3 in their semi-final against Premier Division strugglers Hethersett Athletic, having drawn 1-1 after extra-time.
22 April 2009
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Season has silver lining as Fox reach top flight
The Silver Fox have got their tails up after booking their place in the Evening News Norwich Sunday League top flight for the first time ever. A dramatic win at lowly Hainford YCOB clinched the Division 1A title for Fox, leaving runners-up Norwich CEYMS to contest the play-offs with current Division 1B table-toppers Acle Rangers or title favourites Wymondham Rangers.
15 April 2009
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 Park Rangers were a tidy outfit on their day - Privett
Co-Op Central, a team based around workers at the St Stephens store, joined the Norwich Sunday League in 1962-63. Early games were played at the St Faiths Ponderosa Ground.
15 April 2009
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 Dream was not Pye in the sky!
City pub side Marlborough's long wait to get their hands on the Norfolk Sunday Senior Cup ended on an emotion-charged day at Carrow Road. They swept aside Yarmouth's El Sol, and with it over a decade of frustration at not being able to land the county's premier piece of Sunday silverware, despite winning everything else in sight several times over.
08 April 2009
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 El Sol's Mick is honoured
The Norfolk Sunday Senior Cup final was a proud day for El Sol secretary and chairman Mick Houghton, who founded the club 40 years ago.He said after the 5-1 defeat by Marlborough: 'We've got no complaints about the result - we were beaten by a better side.'
08 April 2009
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 50 years of Sunday League: Hardy annuals Aylsham heading for half-century
Although their honours list is far from extensive Aylsham Sunday have the distinction of being one of the Norwich Sunday League's greatest survivors. The hardy annuals are still going strong during the league's golden anniversary season as they head towards an impressive half century of their own.
01 April 2009
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 AFC's Roy is a heart-op supersub... at age of 69!
Supersubs come in many shapes and sizes. Liverpool's flame-haired destroyer David Fairclough immediately springs to mind as the original bearer of the mantle way back in the 70s, while Manchester United's baby-faced assassin Ole Gunnar Solskjaer was another best used sparingly.
25 March 2009
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Dog House's slip-up gives Marlborough a title race helping hand
Two shock results have placed question marks over the destination of the Evening News Norwich Sunday League's prime silverware this season. Dog House, who had nosed ahead of Marlborough in the race for the Premier Division title, were surprisingly held to a goalless draw at home by Poringland Wanderers.
25 March 2009
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 Super Macks who did the city proud
Golden Greats: How the Candy Stripe Kids gave Liverpool legend Thommo a run for his money.
18 March 2009
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 The Candy Stripe Kids
Alan Arber - Aged 22 and in his second season with the club. He plays for Hoveton and has been signed by Norwich City on a non-contract basis.
18 March 2009
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 Anglians played it by the book on rise up rankings
There's no excuse for forgetting Anglians - who made their mark off the pitch as well as on it during over 30 years on the Norwich Sunday League scene.
13 March 2009
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Will's golden greats
Former Anglians kingpin Will Jeffery has compiled his list of the top players he encountered in Norwich Sunday League action:
“Some of the best players I have played against included: Ronnie Spelman (ex-Norwich), an excellent winger who sadly passed away recently.
13 March 2009
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Dog nose ahead in title race
The Dog House have turned the psychological screw in their battle to wrest the Evening News Norwich Sunday League Premier Division title from Marlborough.
13 March 2009
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 Roy's still the boy for Ketts
A team which began life as Melchester Rovers in a tongue-in-cheek tribute to the legendary comic book soccer heroes is still putting smiles on faces 15 years after it was formed.
13 March 2009
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When Busmen were driving force
Norwich Busmen are aiming to mark their 80th anniversary next season with a return to the Norwich Sunday League top flight they made their home for 31 years.
25 February 2009
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 Volunteers are worth their weight in gold
The volunteer army which keeps grassroots football alive was praised at the Evening News Norwich Sunday League's golden anniversary dinner. League president Ray Kiddell, who was awarded an OBE last year for his services to football at local, national and international level, told guests: “Volunteers are the heartbeat of grassroots football and we all know what happens if the heart stops beating.
18 February 2009
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League weighs up the options as crisis grows
Evening News Norwich Sunday League officials are weighing up their options, which include scrapping promotion and relegation, after growing increasingly concerned about the deepening fixture backlog crisis.
18 February 2009
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Mark's sweet Sol music
Veteran Mark Vincent was on target as Yarmouth outfit El Sol booked their place in the final of the Norfolk Sunday Senior Cup at Carrow Road. Vincent scored the equaliser after visitors Norman Wanderers had taken the lead through Ben Abrahams in the semi-final replay.
12 February 2009
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 50 years of Sunday League: They came, they scored and how Loke conquered!
The series, to mark the 50th anniversary of the Norwich Sunday League, continues with the tale of Loke United. The Earlham outfit rose from humble beginnings to become the finest team in the league's history (probably!)
11 February 2009
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 50 years of Sunday League: So who were the league's greatest players?
Loke legend Dick Cann has added more fuel to the debate over the Norwich Sunday League's best players of all time. The skipper of the all-conquering Earlham-based outfit which enjoyed unprecedented success in the 60s and 70s has named his personal galaxy of stars.
11 February 2009
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 Marlborough manager's finally in seventh heaven
Marlborough player/manager Matthew Foulger has at long last reached his first Carrow Road final after being forced to swallow the bitter pill of semi-final defeat six times. And he admitted this week that it will take a while for it to sink in that he has finally achieved the elusive goal. Years of galling disappointment were swept away as Matt, pictured, guided the north city pub side into the final of the Norfolk Sunday Senior Cup with a 2-1 win over Yarmouth outfit Arches.
04 February 2009
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 50 years of Sunday League: When a miss was a hit for Carrow
The dramatic moment when Carrow RS won the Norwich Sunday League Cup to complete a double is captured in this picture. But it's not a goal that Carrow players Neil Rafis, Steve Buxton, Chris Browne and Andy Alcock are celebrating.
04 February 2009
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Marlborough manager aims to make it seventh time lucky
Two city-based teams will be this weekend be bidding to make the Norfolk Sunday Senior Cup final at Carrow Road an all-Evening News Norwich Sunday League affair.
28 January 2009
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 50 years of Sunday League: Home-grown heroes were treble top twice
Poringland Wanderers carved their name indelibly in Norfolk Sunday soccer history by winning the coveted treble not once but twice. They achieved the feat under two different managers, both employing a home-grown formula which produced stunning success in the space of three golden years.
28 January 2009
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 50 years of Sunday League: Unity Emeralds were a team with the ex factor
Unity Emeralds didn't have to wait too long to enjoy their finest hour - for they achieved the hallowed treble in their very first season. The club formed after a merger of city sides Unity and Emeralds, emphatically announced their arrival with the hat-trick of Norfolk Sunday Senior Cup, Norwich Sunday League title and League Cup in their debut season in 1971-72.
22 January 2009
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Norman conquerors one step away from Carrow Road final
Norman Wanderers are one step away from a dream Carrow Road final appearance after winning their Norfolk Senior Cup quarter-final replay against Camden Tavern 1-0.
22 January 2009
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50 years of Sunday League: Freescoring Thorn's first season was their best
A member of one of the first pub teams to enter the Norwich Sunday League has recalled how the freescoring outfit's debut season ended agonisingly short of championship success.
14 January 2009
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 50 years of Sunday League: Forefathers paved way for Quebec treble
These are the players who helped to lay the foundations for one of the great success stories in Norwich Sunday League history. They are among the earliest players to turn out for Quebec Rovers - one of only five teams to land the coveted treble of league title, league cup and Norfolk Sunday Senior Cup.
14 January 2009
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Pitch is blacklisted after Norfolk County FA safety probe
A West Norfolk football pitch has been declared a county cup no-go zone after an inspection.
The pitch at Marshland St James near Wisbech was originally earmarked as the venue for the Englands Hope v Acle Rangers Reserves Norfolk Sunday Intermediate Cup quarter-final 10 days ago.
14 January 2009
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 50 years of Sunday League: Oval roll back years
Oval Rangers are the latest team to pitch in with their memories after answering my Norwich Sunday League golden anniversary appeal. "We played against Loke in the early days of the Sunday League. Although not a match for them, I had some good games against Dick Cann when he played centre forward and I was centre half for Oval Rangers," said Mike Smith.
12 January 2009
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