Tuesday, March 07, 2006

(1) "Norwich crash three nil!"

In the early 1970s whilst the introductory titles to a BBC TV local sports programme were playing I (see above from circa 1971) had the certain intuition that the presenter would introduce it with the words "Norwich crash three nil."
Norwich City Football Club had suffered a surprise three goals to nil loss that afternoon.

So strong was this sensation that I even blurted out to my startled brothers, Allan http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snickometer and Robert,

"Norwich crash three nil! Norwich crash three nil!"

The introductory titles ended, the presenter said a few brief words of introduction, and then "... and Norwich crash three nil."

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