We visit Norwich City on Saturday, with the kick off at 3pm.

Carrow Road is about a mile to the south-east of the city centre, and if you're coming by car, the best way is to travel around Norwich on the A47 till you reach the A146, then take that road into the city. At the traffic lights turn right and follow the outer ring road, then go left at the next roundabout.

Turn right at the next lights and follow the inner ring road round to the right, over the river and the ground is on your right. If in doubt follow signs for the railway station until you get to the river (where the rail station is off to the left and ground on your right).

The nearest streets to the ground are all residents only for parking, but you can invest £6 to park at the County Hall. This is well signposted and close to the A47 exit, and holds 2000 cars. If you're parking here it's best to get to arrive before 1pm to get a decent spot, otherwise you may get stuck in spaces at the back, and it would then take ages to get out at the end of the game.

The ground is approximately a five minute walk from the railway station. You need to turn left outside the station and walk along Koblenz Avenue, which will take you all the way to Carrow Road. This goes past a new leisure complex called the Riverside, which contains plenty of bars and fast food outlets, though this is predominantly an area for home supporters and most of the bars there will not admit or serve fans in away colours.

The main away fans' pub is the 'Compleat Angler', which is by the river opposite the railway station, and last time we came to the ‘fine city’ , the Leeds fans who crowded into that establishment were treated to a police escort to the stadium half an hour before kick-off. Another option is the 'Coach and Horses' on Thorpe Road, which brews its own beer and is around a 10 minute walk away from the ground.

Carrow road now holds 27,220 fans, and it has been virtually re-built since the early 90's, with all four sides of the ground having new stands. The redevelopment was completed when the old south stand was replaced by the new Jarrold Stand during the 2003/04 season.

Norwich's official website promised that the new stand would "make Carrow Road one of the country's finest grounds". In total that stand holds 8200, and to make sure that the really important people were looked after they included 297 Premier Seats in the centre of the stand which are padded for extra comfort, as well as 15 new executive boxes.

The away allocation is 2,500, and we get a corner of the in the Jarrold Stand, close to the most vocal home fans it the Barclay stand. The facilities and view of the playing action are good, with plenty of leg room. But at some games the stewards try to order away supporters to keep seated throughout the game, which could cause a few clashes during our visit.

And now we come for the ticket prices, which are (deep breath) £40 for adults, with various categories of concessions at £30, £25 and £17. Yes, they’ve managed to charge away fans even more than we do for category A games (if tickets are bought in advance) which is quite an achievement. Norwich have five different price categories for different games and home non-season ticket holders in the same stand will be paying the same amount.

Our allocation was sold through the ‘attendance tracker’ system, with priority given to those who had been to at least three away games, and it has now sold out. That’s a pretty good effort at these prices, though this might be down to a good take-up from the East Anglian whites, who have no choice but to pay £40 if they’re to watch a Leeds game in their local area.

Norwich are pretty close to selling all the tickets available in home stands, and might have done so by the day of the game. After a bit of bother a couple of years ago, this has become one of the few grounds where the fans are still segregated by the police as we exit the ground, with Leeds fans marched either to the railway station or their coaches.

The Club have announced that at some point they would look at possibly replacing the Geoffrey Watling City Stand with a new 12,000 seat stand, and they could add an additional tier to the Jarrold (South) Stand, where the foundations are already in place. If both these schemes were carried out the overall capacity of Carrow Road would be increased to around 39,000.

This might all depend on Norwich re-establishing themselves in the Premier League, though even in the Championship they get pretty close to selling out for most games, and they could do with an increase in capacity. So we might get a bigger allocation at Norwich at some point in the future, though hopefully at a more reasonable price.

Some of this stuff came from www.footballgroundguide.com, and many thanks to Norwich fan Richard Woods for helping me with his expert local knowledge. The snide comments about the ticket prices were entirely my own work.

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