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Chapman to enjoy the best football writing anywhere just as the season makes its return. In this

episode, we are discussing Norwich City, who sit bottom of the Premier League.

We can welcome the athletics dedicated Norwich City writer Michael Bailey to the show.

He's also the host of the On the Ball podcast, which has been running episodes all season and throughout lockdown.

Michael, thanks very much for coming on.

I mentioned the podcast there.

It's been a busy time, even though we haven't had football. You've had plenty to talk about. Yeah, we've had, we've had loads of reminiscing. We've spoken to loads of former Norwich City figures. I think it's been busier than if they had actually been football, if I'm brutally honest. It's been a bit of a paradox. But yeah, we got Norwich,

former Norwich players to go and nominate who we should speak to next and we developed a bit

of a chain. It's lovely catching up with them and actually just having the time to have a proper

chat about their careers. So Russell Martin, Andrew Croft, Dean Ashton was a chat I did before

lockdown as well. So yeah, some lovely, lovely pensive conversations, which is always good fun.

Yeah, definitely check out the On the Ball podcast.

Right, let's deal with where we find Norwich.

Bottom of the table, 21 points, six points from safety.

But has this reset given you reasons

to be potentially cheerful, that it might give Norwich an opportunity to claw back those points

and potentially get out of the trouble that they're in? Yeah, I think it's, obviously, it's such a surreal situation we're now heading into.

So you feel like you can't now write anything off.

I think now that it's come into focus and the players got back into contact training,

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