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Norwich City Football Club (also known as The Canaries) is an English professional football club based in Norwich, Norfolk. Norwich play in the Football League Championship, last appearing in the FA Premier League in 2004–05, having first been promoted to the top flight in 1972. Norwich have won the League Cup twice, in 1962 and 1985. The club was founded in 1902. Since 1935, Norwich have played their home games at Carrow Road and have a long-standing and fierce rivalry with East Anglian rivals Ipswich Town, with whom they have contested the East Anglian Derby 134 times since 1902.
The fans' song 'On The Ball City' is regarded as being the oldest football song in the English speaking world.
Nation: England
Year Founded: 1902
Chairman Status: Enjoying life at the club
Favoured Personnel: Darren Huckerby, Chris Sutton, Craig Bellamy
Fierce Rivals: Ipswich
Finances: Okay
Estimated Value: £9.75m (Loan Debt: £17m)
Stadium: Carrow Road, Norwich
Capacity: 26034 All-Seater with under-soil heating
Training Facilities: Good
Youth Facilities: Good + Youth Academy
Media Prediction: 8th
Squad Average Age: 25
It's the 1st of May 2007. Under 2 different managers this season Norwich City have found themselves rock bottom for most of the season in the Coca-Cola Championship and now there is just 1 game left to go. Unfortunately the Canaries were already relegated quite a long time ago.
It was only 2 seasons ago the Canaries were battling against Relegation from the Premiership, losing 6-0 to Fulham on the last day of the season, condemning them to the Championship again. And of course, it was only around 12 years ago that Norwich finished 3rd in the Premiership, going on to beat Bayern Munich 2-1 in the Uefa cup. Norwich are the only English team to beat Bayern Munich in the Olympic Stadium.
With one game of the season left, a visit to Pride Park; The Norwich board have sacked their old manager and have approached you with intentions of making you the replacement. Of course it won't be a glamorous job, you'll manage one game of Championship football before you're cast into League one, with a Squad that was small enough as it is without injuries. Not only that but the Board have informed you that the team is £20,000 over the Wage Budget and cuts to your already drying up squad will have to be made. Of course, your squad still has some of the big names it started the season with; Darren Huckerby, Rob Earnshaw and Adam Drury among other key players. But the question is how long will you be able to hold onto them?
If you should choose to partake in this Challenge, you can either play it with your own system and your objective is to secure the Norwich finances and ultimately win the Premiership and a European cup. Or you could follow this points system:
Promotion to the Championship in just 2 seasons - 500 pts
Promotion to the Championship in 3 seasons - 300 pts
Promotion to the Championship in 4 season - 150 pts
Promotion to the Championship in 5 seasons - 50 pts
Win the Premiership - 1000 pts
Win the Champions League - 1000 pts
Win the UEFA Cup - 500 pts
Be at least £10,000 under Wage budget in your first season - 100 pts
Beat Ipswich at Carrow Road - 30 pts
Lose to Ipswich at Carrow Road - -50 pts
Beat Ipswich at Portman Road - 50 pts
Lose to Ipswich at Portman Road - -30 pts
Beat Fulham 6-0 anywhere - 150 pts
Beat Bayern Munich at the Allianz Arena - 200 pts
I think I've covered everything, you can download the save game from below. All you need to do is save it to: My Documents/Sports Interactive/Football Manager 2007/Games
Then when you load it up in game, add yourself as the Manager of Norwich.
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[Challenge] Make The Canaries Fly Again! 
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