Norwich City: Michael Bailey – 6 lessons learned from the QPR rout | Norwich City News

The fans of Norwich City were later beaten by their 25th league win. Image: Paul Chesterton / Focus Images

1 – The records are there to be beaten

You have probably watched the championship table a few times recently – of course only if; it sounds phenomenal. But did you really watch it?

For example, the fact that Norwich City lost three games less than anyone – three of them in the first five games; or seven goals more than anyone else. Or two more victories. The scoring of points is not bad either.

Indeed, the Wolves, so vaunted and extremely expensive, scored 82 goals in 46 games; The city did it with six reserves and about a tenth of the budget. Dig a little further and even the defense challenged by the City kept 13 blank sheets – only four clubs did more.

The city's eight consecutive victories in all competitions equal their club record in Ligue 1, making it their best performance in the top two. It is also 30 years that City has named eight XI unchanged.

And I have not even mentioned Teemu Pukki yet.

Norwich City head coach Daniel Farke appreciates his moment among the Carrow Road crowd after his victory over the Queens Park Rangers. Image: Paul Chesterton / Focus Images

2 – Bitterness says it all

This was in 2004, when Alan Pardew made some remarks suggesting that City was lucky to win 94 points and the second-place title – especially on his side of West Ham.

Bless these "big" clubs with the burden of everyone playing against them, while Norwich is offered "gifts", with presidents choosing the best time to dismiss a coach.

Norwich's perception in the rest of the country is probably not a coincidence if, hopefully, many larger fish are struggling to manage it – of course, nowadays we usually talk about a proportion more Internet fans than managers and staff.

In truth, Norwich has gained immense respect for his style, his recruiting and his style.

The worst team to ever win the championship, suggested a tweeter. All of this is part of the coping mechanism of all others. This means that the City has done its job – and it also means squatting.

Teemu Pukki, the division's top scorer, added another advantage, as Norwich City beat QPR at Carrow Road to increase his lead in the championship. Image: Paul Chesterton / Focus Images

3 – Pukki will remain in the legend

Finnish and English journalists asked more questions in the Finnish press than last week, mainly wanting to know how much everyone in Norwich likes Teemu Pukki.

Objectives help. Doing them, scoring them and the pace at which Pukki did both in his first season of the championship is breathtaking.

Running 60 meters from the edge of the opposing penalty area to cover a break also helps. Whatever football lessons Pukki had to learn during his formative years, to say that City has benefited from it would be quite ridiculous.

City's history now extends to 117 years – in which only two players have scored more goals in a season than Pukki this season, and there are still six games left. And he continues to expand his new Finnish record for goals scored in an English season. He would not even consider answering a question about his fortune next season. Instead, all welcome a free transfer for ages.

(Now of course the EFL Championship player Teemu Pukki – a huge congratulations to him and to the newly-crowned young EFL player of the year Max Aarons – a breathtaking football couple).

Daniel Farke pondered what would follow after Emi Buendia's red card in Norwich City's 4-0 victory over QPR. Image: Paul Chesterton / Focus Images

4 – A lesson for Emi – and the FA

I am afraid of having the reputation of improperly hammering the referees. So, for starters, there is not much to say about Emi Buendia's red card. It was the dismissal that Marco Stiepermann had the chance to avoid against the Nottingham Forest in December, and the first of the campaign for City.

There is no doubt that the clubs have played well throughout his career, so it is almost surprising that Buendia has not been fired before. The way he will answer and learn the lessons will be the key, and I have no doubt that he will do it.

But let's also be clear: Buendia, who now has to play three games for a tackle that was barely worse than the one Josh Scowen gave Max Aarons about two seconds earlier, seems like a huge setback.

I sincerely hope that football will adopt technology to make refereeing easier and better, so that matches and seasons are treated fairly.

Being smarter than automatic with bans would be a step forward.

Queens Park Rangers Acting Director John Eustace could do nothing to restrain Norwich City at Carrow Road. Image: Paul Chesterton / Focus Images

5 – You can also have a bad culture

Despite all the praise and impact of the Norwich season, their patience and approach – more off the pitch than on the pitch – give many more examples of what went wrong. And not much better than QPR.

Both clubs have always been locked. At one point, Tony Fernandes was in front of his Norfolk-based F1 team, looking to see if he could add the Canaries to his wallet. A few fans here wanted this to happen.

In the end, he opted for QPR. The Rangers' woes have not started here, but it's part of a journey that has left one of London's tempting clubs heavily indebted to an unbalanced team, players out of contract this summer, looking for a manager and of a long lasting plan.

The Rangers attack on Carrow Road is not new. Their record in Norfolk is really awful: a victory in 25 years and 16 visits.

But it is beyond this that QPR must determine what they are and what they should do about it.

Norwich City Sports Director Stuart Webber (center) launched a breathtaking revival at Carrow Road. Image: Paul Chesterton / Focus Images

6 – It was only two years to the day

So, 40 games and six to play. At this point in the year 2017, City had just been crushed 3-0 at Huddersfield Town and Russell Martin had to explain everything.

In fact, QPR's win on Saturday was a birthday – two years into the day, Stuart Webber was named City's first sporting director. Four transfer windows matched his expectations – he probably only took three, and now Norwich is flying without wings.

Of the 18 players in the City of Terriers team, 14 left permanently or on loan. Every aspect of the current city comes from the painting painted since the arrival of Webber – and talented individuals set up to achieve it. The words do not cover how impressive he was.

My Finnish interviewers asked what the city meant for the region. Saturday's community day did a good job of proving the point.

As did the buzz around and in the ground. Special moments, in a special place.

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