HIGH-FLYING CANARIES
Nowadays, Championship miners send the Canaries into the Premier League to see if it’s safe, but back in 1992-93 Norwich were title contenders. Yep, right up to the final weeks. Though they’d wasted their eight-point lead from December, Mike Walker’s Norwich were still top on April 3, with Mark Robins and Chris Sutton converting chances set up by the East Anglian estate agent firm of Fox, Crook, Goss and Phillips. Aston Villa actually had it in their hands from there, but Manchester United won their final seven games while Norwich conceded 16 in six – which, together with October’s 7-1 defeat at Blackburn, explains how they ended up finishing third with a-4 goal difference. No league title, then, but a UEFA Cup jaunt made Norwich the only British team ever to beat Bayern Munich at the Olympiastadion.
THE TRAGEDY OF TAIBI
It’s a sad, misremembered tale. Yes, Massimo Taibi joined Manchester United from Venezia for £4.5 million on a four-year
