ON THIS DAY

Wimbledon were elected to the Football League in place of Workington. Eleven years later they were FA Cup holders and members of the top division. In 2003 they controversially left London to set up home in Milton Keynes and changed their name to Milton Keynes Dons a year later. That move saw AFC Wimbledon formed who were to become Football League members themselves in 2011. On June 17th 1977 who would have guessed any of that was going to happen!

Tuesday 17th June 1902 was the date of the formation of Norwich City Football Club. Two team-mates from the Norwich CEYMS club - well that was Norwich Church of England Young Men's Society FC to give it its full name - set up a meeting with friends at the Criterion Cafe in Norwich to form a new and hopefully more ambitious club. From that meeting Norwich City was formed. Norwich City joined the Norfolk & Suffolk League in the 1902/03 season when they finished in third place, one place behind the club who would become their greatest rivals, Ipswich Town. It doubtless took a lot of hard work from generations of people but they joined the Southern League in 1905/06, the Football League in 1920/21 and by 1992/93 had become founder members of the Premier League. Well, they certainly became a more ambitious club than Norwich CEYMS who now play in the Anglian Combination.