Carrow Road

The home of Norwich City FC, including a review of the logistics, catering and matchday experience, along with details of visits to the stadium on this site.

Arrival

There is only one sensible way to get to Norwich, and thats in a helicopter. Getting into the stadium is fine, but getting to Norwich is either an arduous trawl along the few A roads from civilisation, or a train into London and back out from Liverpool Street.

We couldn't work out where we were supposed to park the coach to begin with, but fortunately we were allowed to drop off outside the stadium, and to collect outside the self-storage facility nearby - much closer than the walks of previous years from the Network Rail depot.

Stadium

Unlike the journey, Carrow Road is a fantastic, proper football ground.

Visitors are seated in the safe standing section of the South Stand, next to the Holiday Inn which overlooks the pitch from the corner, with the Geoffrey Watling City Stand sitting opposite.

The double tiered Barclay Stand (to the right) and Regency Security (River End) Stand sit opposite one another behind the goals.

With the exception of the Holiday Inn, the other corners within the ground have been filled with seating to provide for an overall capacity a little over 27,000.

Program

Norwich publish a program that can be procured from sellers around the ground. It costs £4 (2024) and is a really good program - but suffers from the absence of a spine binding.

Food

The food is excellent, if expensive at the level for £4.95 for a Pukka Pie and £3.00 for a healthy sized tray of fries. The serious omission though is the absence of any zero beers on the menu - I had to drink coke.

Atmosphere

Proper football clubs do not need drums. I was so mesmirised by the drum and the happy clapping brigade in the Barclay Stand that I completely missed the first goal. Get rid of the damn thing.