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Crafty Canaries gain from the long game

Chris Dunlavy

ONLY five sides in Premier League history have collected fewer points than Norwich managed last season. 
By any measure, Daniel Farke’s men endured a woeful campaign. But does that represent a failure? Certainly not.
A toddler who tumbles to earth whilst attempting those first faltering steps would not be considered a failure by any reasonable person.
Nor the maths student who fluffs an equation or the trainee programmer who botches a line of code.
We’d call that learning -and we’d be right. Yet very few of those who run football clubs apply that sa...

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