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There are a lot of people outraged at the extreme greed shown by the "elites" but were also wanting us to join in in the unsustainable spending frenzy when we went up last time. I am glad we have gone down this sensible, long term route and hope we can be an example to other clubs. Yes, we didn't get the results we had hoped for but we are in good health and much fitter to face the new season.

Quite a few Norwich fans with them as well by the looks of it.

You may not have seen Alyson Rudd’s article last Sunday in the Times re. Yo yo clubs and Norwich City in particular but I was so incensed that I had to reply and was so lucky that my reply was printed today. I have tried in my clumsy way to reproduce both items for you to share and I hope it had worked and if anyone else feels like writing please do so

One part of it had me chuckling... "success will see you visit these guys (cue clip of Man City), failure these guys (cue clip of Ipswich) 😂

To be fair hearing 'Wow this guy is playing so poor at Celtic right now can't even cut it in the Scottish divison!' is something we have heard before.. 😉

Actions speak louder than words. Good on them for protesting. Its their football club not a hedge fund.

Articles like that are written by people who look at the Championship table for 2 minutes and think 'oh, they're yo-yoing back up again' and make their conclusions shortly after, without doing any research whatsoever. Compare that to the article (never thought I'd say this) in the Daily Mail, and you can see how a reporter has identified the growth of the club over the past four years. We may go down again, however you can be sure that we'll have a better squad, better facilities and more points than the last time we were there.

Harsh to drop Dowell. Think it will be Sorensen and Tetts to come on late in the game as a goodbye gesture. I’ll miss him, and his smile being around the place.

The Glazers have never put a penny of their own money into Manchester United - they have though, taken hundreds of millions of pounds out. I've never liked Man Utd as a club, but their fans have every right to protest at what the Glazers have done to them.

Team news from Old Trafford.

Great article from one of the top two newspapers in U.K.

God knows, I loathe the Daily Mail - but that is a great article. Let’s hope some neutrals read it and get onboard, rather than repeat stupid comments like Bilic’s at the start of this season.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/football/article-9532957/The-inside-story-Norwichs-return-big-time-details-not-dollars-matter.html Reveals that we almost had some money stopped due to ESL, the vegetable patch and more about the new training system coming in and plans to install swimming pools for injury recovery.

A big thank you to this very talented lady, one of many unsung, and exceptionally hard working people who have played a key role in all the club has become.

I don't know if you were trying to be ironic in choosing QPR as an example. Of course they DID have parachute payments - TWICE!!! The fact that over a three year period from about 2012 to 2015 they gave a 'master class' in catastrophic financial mismanagement, driving a coach and horses through Financial Fair Play rules and gambling insanely recklessly explains why they are where they are now - nothing to do with the inherent fairness or otherwise of parachute payments.

Bethnal - I think you are falling into the same trap. One could debate endlessly about the merits or otherwise of parachute payments but they were brought in for a reason and yes this season looks like a exception. We have been astute enough to use the payments wisely where others have not. We may or may not yo yo forever but to say it is purgatory or sucking the life out of the Championship is just nonsense.

It’s a great team effort, 3-0 now great Bale hatrick...... Thanks to all PUPS, we nailed it today, brilliant picks by you all. 💛💚👍

Odd, I took to the streets to demonstrate against Robert Chase, now I’d do the same to support our owners.

I think you are right. I still think the greatest risk comes in June. Especially if half the nation clears off abroad because they are "in desperate need for a holiday for their mental health".

I'm surprised that you don't think Skipp has the physicality for the prem but you think Sorenson does? IMO Skipp is the stronger and more athletic player, he plays with so much energy and aggression in the press and in the tackle. I would fancy him to do well next season for us. Sorenson on the other hand, whilst being a great one v one tackler and silky with the ball, I don't see him as the 'covers every blade of grass' type of player we will need in there next season; he doesn't play with anything like the same level of intensity or physicality as Skipp. If we don't get Skipp then we will need to sign a more like-for-like replacement IMO.

In a way it's disappointing that the centre left parties couldn't combine ahead...a Green / Lib / Lab coalition. The Tories get in under our electoral system because they are right / centre right and apart from the DUP there are precious few other bedfellows. A bit of work to do in terms of a shared manifesto accepted but the one overwhelming unifying aim must be to provide an effective opposition to the current mad 'box of frogs' populist conservative party. Looking at the range of opinion polls it's clear the centre/left forms the majority of opinion in the UK but there is no vehicle to mobilise it, save for localised voting.

Best thing Man U fans have done in years

Us lefties lead more rewarding lives because we're part of something bigger and happier. Sorry that you find it hard to care about other people or see the bigger picture. Ironically, the Norwich City model is about as close to a left-wing model of running a football club as you will see. Progressive, sustainable, self-sufficient. A joy to behold.

We went to Germany last summer so I expect us to go again this summer.

Hopefully Rotherham win their remaining 2 games and relegate Derby and Sheffield W.

I'm pretty sure everyone in football is itching for Derby, and their cheating owner to get relegated next week.

The contrast between JPMorganite "ESL" yacht clubs and Norwich City couldn't be starker. We come out looking like the future.

I'd like to think that this is satire but...

Is this the scene where John Walk breaks out of the POW camp in the film "The Great Escape" ? or is it just a massive sewer rat going to fancy dress party?

Not a strong enough defender for the Prem IMO.

I'm really surprised at the lack of preparedness of the authorities. I've known that this was going to take place for 3 days now (general chat down the pub amongst fellow football fans, including a Man U fan). Whether you agree or not, the aim is for the fans to show owners like the Glazers that the fans decide when and where clubs play, and projects like the ESL need to involve them.

Remember, discontent was such that FC United of Manchester was formed in the aftermath of the Glazers coming in. I don't condone vandalism in terms of littering / breaking things, or leaving coppers with cuts and bruises, but just getting into the stadium / getting onto the pitch was fine in my book. Hard to get a more symbolic image than the fans being on the grass itself.

At the risk of opening up Brexit again, it was a ridiculous thing to ask the public to choose in or out. We didn't know all the nuances, the potential outcomes, even if we had good foresight (though we had a view based on our own prejudices etc). It concealed far too much and was even manipulated as such through dark arts (imo) with huge exaggeration on both sides (at times). Then we had the 'will of the people' narrative once cracks were appearing in the enormity of the result. It would have killed parties to go against that (which indeed it did for the Liberals, who staked their whole claim on it). Agree that a second referendum alignment would have helped (but Corbyn never pushed for this...a big failure) yet again that would have been against the 'peoples' will'. The country was fair enough split 50/50 in the matter. Unity? Not a chance... I don't believe anyway. What conditions ahead might the centre and left coalesce is far more interesting. I watched the piece on SC4 on Labour's view on independence and the election next week. Very illuminating to hear so many good contributions (all parties). It showed me debate can happen. At present we have a dearth of serious debate, just a hollow sounding government that is: (a) always seemingly in campaign mode, not governing (b) an annoying characteristic of defensiveness against all kinds of challenge (c) empty grandstanding rhetoric. The country needs better😐

Anyone else thinking it's go more to do with loosing to Liverpool and giving the title to the other side of the city?

Mosconia won 2-0.

Are parachute payments any more or less unfair than being financially backed by a billionaire owner? Fact is when we were promoted two seasons ago, we had one of the tightest transfer and wage budgets in the league, with the sale of our star player essential in us balancing the books. To attribute our success purely to the parachute payments ignores the fact that we earned those payments thanks to fantastic leadership from top to bottom within the club. That same stewardship also turned a mentally broken team at the end of its relegation campaign, into a title winning side the next season. Or was that the parachute payments too? Are people saying that the gap between the champs and prem two seasons ago much less than it is now, so easier to punch above our weight back then but not anymore? Just thinking of the last couple of years, us, Sheff United and Leeds have all been promoted with relatively small budgets. Swansea and Barnsley are right up there despite spending very little / needing to cut back on spending. Brentford have been there or there abouts for the last few seasons. So are things going to now erode with only the recently-relegated competing at the top of the champs? I seriously doubt it. I can see how things could widen when looking at it on paper, with COVID a clear factor and the importance of the parachute payments increasing, but in practice football is much more unpredictable than parachute payments = success, no parachute payments = failure.

A simple solution to the arguments against parachute payments is to change Premier League rules to make sure all player and staff wages reduce in line with revenues on relegation. Otherwise you're just condemning the relegated clubs to bankruptcy.

It is clear to see that the Parachute Payments are getting too large for the relegated clubs in relation to the incomes of most Championship clubs. If they are not changed it is possible to see a future where fewer and fewer clubs get promoted and the same old 5 or 6 clubs bounce between the leagues. I can see why from a neutral point of view Norwich and Watford (and likely Bournemouth) bouncing back up is fairly boring. Hopefully this season is a bit of an anomaly and the Championship can remain competitive but with Covid impacts on the budgets of all those clubs without parachute payments, there is a real risk of the best feature of the Championship, its competitiveness, being lost.

Good response OP to a pretty silly article. If she’d thought about it maybe she’d have realised football purgatory is clubs like Sunderland or Wigan who fall down out of sight from the top. Our ability to bounce straight back should be praised and there are plenty of Champs clubs that are very well resourced but don’t make promotion. lazy journalism.

If someone doesn't like that Bach piece then maybe music isn't really for them.😉👍

Her dad works at Norwich too?!

I've read the article and now I feel dirty - I need to go take a shower.

I think the part of the story that doesn't get played is that it worked for us, but it isn't a guarantee. It's a very bold, long-term approach that many wouldn't have the balls to see through, and even then the chances of it working so thoroughly as it did for us are relatively slim. Personally, growing up as a Norwich fan, we've always been seen as the brightly coloured, slightly strange club from Norfolk- and if this is what embracing that is, I'm all for it. Happy to be the exception.

I hope he'll be back next season. Doubt he gets in the Spurs side right now, but his reading of the game and knack of being in the right place at the right time is what we've lacked for years and what we'll need in the Premier League

It won't be Beloved Brentford because I don't think you're allowed to win the league and the play-offs in the same season... 😉

Let’s wait to see who succeeds and none will be relegated before a ball is kicked next season. Our last 2 limp attempts at surviving in the big boys league should teach us some humility before judging other clubs chances of survival.

I’d keep Hernandez over Placheta.....

I'm pretty confident that you are aware exactly how dumb what you are posting is, but are looking for attention so this will be my only response to you, and I won't make the mistake of clicking to see what's beneath the blocked post again. A man died. Murdered by police. You think a legitimate response to that is to criticise him for a funeral he didn't arrange because celebrities didn't have funerals that were "as good"? Jesus, that's a really hot take... or an incredibly stupid one that would only find favour with basement dwelling morons. Don't bother responding because I have no interest in feeding your pathetic attention seeking further.

You must be having a laugh? Holt was far more mercenary, wanted that Wigan contract for the extra year. Were Hoolahan's tears in his last game for us when being subbed off, and then his tears during his goodbye speech, not enough evidence? F*cking hell - where do people get this tripe!