Norwich have now won four away games this season – twice as
many as we won in the whole of last season. Which is great. But also
completely meaningless.
Comparisons between last season and this season have very
little worth because relegation to the Championship has made any cross-season
analysis inherently uneven. Is it any
surprise that a team will win more games in the lower division than in the top
flight?
Of course, it’s brilliant to see Norwich doing well, scoring
goals, winning games, and (at the time of writing) topping the Championship
table. But holding up these facts as
proof positive that the manager and/or the squad are an improvement on last
year’s is to misrepresent the relative levels of the Championship and the
Premier League; I’m not saying that Norwich haven’t improved from last year,
but it is foolish to ignore that the opposition have got significantly easier
also.
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