Blog Norwich

I actually read some newspapers this weekend, the kind that are printed on paper and you hold in your hands and everything. I was particularly interested in the reporting on those essential games in league one that get all that high-profile coverage. After having leafed through 3 or 4 reams of back pages and supplements, it was clearly not the place to find out about another Norwich win, albeit probably not a very exciting one. But that’s fine. I’d much rather have an entire season being ignored by popular press if it means we can quietly slip up a division while nobody is looking.

What did occur to me, however, as I perused the stats like some anorak, which I am, was that notwithstanding the lack of press coverage, there are still an inordinate number of people who will religiously attend the games at Carrow Road, whatever the prospects for entertainment. I know, because I am one, that Norwich fans generally like their entertainment to be painful, cringe-making and exhausting, which presumably explains the 25,000 attendance to a game against the mighty Swindon. That’s 25,000. That’s not only the highest attendance in league one, its higher than most championship games. In fact, as far as I could make out, its the 10th highest attandance in the entire football league. Even if you throw in Scotland, only Rangers got more, so Norwich had the 11th highest attandance this weekend in all divisions in England, Scotland, Wales, Ireland, Northern Ireland and even the Channel Islands.

Norwich City fans are bloody marvellous.