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Next Saturday is only the fourth meeting between The Blades and The Canaries since January 2011. As recently as the 2013-14 season, Norwich were in the Premier League but were relegated. Just one season back in the Championship (2014-15) saw Norwich promoted back to the Premiership via the play-offs, where they lasted just one season and are now back in the Championship.
The last time the teams met, The Blades triumphed 2-1 at Bramall Lane on 18th August 2018 with our goals coming from Egan and Sharp.
I'm sure Blades of a certain vintage will remember Feb. 18, 1989. The Blades were in Division 3 and would be promoted at the end of that season. Dave Bassett had guided us to the 5th round of the FA Cup and we faced Norwich from the top flight at Carrow Road. Around 5,000 Blades made their way to East Anglia using any means of transport (including, according to legend a furniture van). 1-1 at half-time with a goal from Deano, an heroic display saw a goal from Agana before we unluckily lost 3-2.
11th May 1991, the last game of the season and the kop roof had been removed prior to making it all-seater. It seemed that everybody wanted to be on the kop that day and the laughable official attendance of 21,019 surely only counted those on the kop.
23rd April 1994 and although hovering near the foot of the PL table, United finally found some form and lost only 2 games out of the last 13 - beating Liverpool, Newcastle and West Ham in this run. A trip to Carrow Road with just four games left saw Nathan Blake score the only goal in a fine 1-0 win. The sell-out Blades contingent roared "And now you're gonna believe us, the Blades are staying up!" and the Norwich fans applauded us.
Unfortunately, just 14 days later, a 3-2 loss at Chelsea (and an unbelievable sequence of events in other games) saw the Blades relegated from the PL.
To date, our League results against Norwich read:
Home: P: 32 W: 17 D: 6 L: 9 F: 45 A: 32
Away: P: 31 W: 6 D: 9 L: 16 F: 33 A: 51
The first time the clubs met since 2011 ended with a controversial 0-1 home defeat on September 16, 2017 in front of a 26,218 crowd. Controversial because the Norwich ‘tactics’ that day comprised of barely-concealed timewasting. From their goalie missing no opportunity to delay re-starts, feign injury etc. to the Canaries deliberately coming out late for the second half, Norwich proved cheats can prosper. This game also saw an increasingly-exasperated Chris Wilder attempt to boot the ball back into play. The ball had got wedged between two bags in the technical area and Chris ‘accidently’ booted the contents of these bags – drinks bottles etc. – all over the place. Typically, the referee who had indulged the cheating by Norwich sent Chris to the stand – about three rows behind the United dug-out!
Continued>>> (Gimme a couple of minutes - only five bits of media allowed...)
The last time the teams met, The Blades triumphed 2-1 at Bramall Lane on 18th August 2018 with our goals coming from Egan and Sharp.
I'm sure Blades of a certain vintage will remember Feb. 18, 1989. The Blades were in Division 3 and would be promoted at the end of that season. Dave Bassett had guided us to the 5th round of the FA Cup and we faced Norwich from the top flight at Carrow Road. Around 5,000 Blades made their way to East Anglia using any means of transport (including, according to legend a furniture van). 1-1 at half-time with a goal from Deano, an heroic display saw a goal from Agana before we unluckily lost 3-2.
11th May 1991, the last game of the season and the kop roof had been removed prior to making it all-seater. It seemed that everybody wanted to be on the kop that day and the laughable official attendance of 21,019 surely only counted those on the kop.
23rd April 1994 and although hovering near the foot of the PL table, United finally found some form and lost only 2 games out of the last 13 - beating Liverpool, Newcastle and West Ham in this run. A trip to Carrow Road with just four games left saw Nathan Blake score the only goal in a fine 1-0 win. The sell-out Blades contingent roared "And now you're gonna believe us, the Blades are staying up!" and the Norwich fans applauded us.
Unfortunately, just 14 days later, a 3-2 loss at Chelsea (and an unbelievable sequence of events in other games) saw the Blades relegated from the PL.
To date, our League results against Norwich read:
Home: P: 32 W: 17 D: 6 L: 9 F: 45 A: 32
Away: P: 31 W: 6 D: 9 L: 16 F: 33 A: 51
The first time the clubs met since 2011 ended with a controversial 0-1 home defeat on September 16, 2017 in front of a 26,218 crowd. Controversial because the Norwich ‘tactics’ that day comprised of barely-concealed timewasting. From their goalie missing no opportunity to delay re-starts, feign injury etc. to the Canaries deliberately coming out late for the second half, Norwich proved cheats can prosper. This game also saw an increasingly-exasperated Chris Wilder attempt to boot the ball back into play. The ball had got wedged between two bags in the technical area and Chris ‘accidently’ booted the contents of these bags – drinks bottles etc. – all over the place. Typically, the referee who had indulged the cheating by Norwich sent Chris to the stand – about three rows behind the United dug-out!
Continued>>> (Gimme a couple of minutes - only five bits of media allowed...)