Norwich's return to the top flight of English football also means a welcome return for reserve league fixtures at Carrow Road after the occasional games played on the Colney training pitches at odd hours of the afternoon since November 2009, which were more or less impossible for anyone bar those involved to attend. Tonight's game against a young Blackburn Rovers Reserves side saw a run out for some familiar faces form the last couple of years, plus a first outing for brand new signing Dani Ayala, who looked comfortable, if not hugely creative at the back.
Unfortunately, some hard work from Simon Lappin, Adam Drury and Chris Martin failed to pay off in a game of few real chances and little to offer in the way of excitement, barring the display board's first half blunder of showing the official attendance as 10,290. It was perhaps a measure of the game that the majority of those officially considered present decided it wasn't worth hanging on for the second half, as the post break attendance was announced as a more plausible 1,029 - still a very good turn out for a first reserve game in the middle of August when schools and youth football clubs are yet to get organised for group bookings.
At £3 per ticket and £2 for parking at the ground, you can't complain too much, though, even if there isn't a feast of goals. And, as ever, much of the entertainment comes from the banter in the stands, with the added bonus that the smaller crowd allows everything on the pitch to be heard, even when it does have you racing to cover the kids' ears.
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