{"id":269257,"date":"2025-11-07T17:37:17","date_gmt":"2025-11-07T17:37:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/269257\/"},"modified":"2025-11-07T17:37:17","modified_gmt":"2025-11-07T17:37:17","slug":"norwich-city-football-club-say-fans-abuse-will-not-be-tolerated","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/269257\/","title":{"rendered":"Norwich City Football Club say fans’ abuse will not be tolerated"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Some Norwich fans protested outside the directors’ entrance of Carrow Road after their team’s loss to Hull on 1 November<\/p>\n

The “personal abuse” directed at players and their families has been criticised as Norwich City prepare for another high-pressure game.<\/p>\n

Hundreds of fans protested outside Carrow Road last Saturday as The Canaries’ miserable Championship season continued with a 2-0 defeat.<\/p>\n

Liam Manning’s side ended a run of six successive losses with a 1-1 midweek draw at Sheffield Wednesday but remain in the relegation zone ahead of Leicester City’s visit on Saturday.<\/p>\n

A club spokesman said: “The club would like to remind supporters that it will not tolerate abusive behaviour towards its players, their families and staff, or behaviour that has a detrimental impact on other supporters.”<\/p>\n

Norwich are 22nd in the table and four points adrift of safety before the visit of mid-table Leicester.<\/p>\n

Just two wins in 14 games<\/a> has set alarm bells ringing about the club potentially slipping into the third tier for just the second time in 66 years.<\/p>\n

Last weekend’s loss to Hull was preceded by a small protest but followed by much larger and angrier crowds outside the stadium.<\/p>\n

City are appealing for restraint to be shown this weekend though, after reports that a small number of people allowed their temper to boil over, leaving some of the players’ families scared as they left the stadium.<\/p>\n

The statement continued: “Following our most recent home fixture against Hull City, a small number of supporters directed personal abuse towards several of our players and their families.<\/p>\n

“All at the football club understand the frustration felt from supporters during this period.<\/p>\n

“Supporters have every right to show their emotions towards the club, be that love and support, or anger and frustration, but please do it in the right way.”<\/p>\n

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Some Canaries supporters also gathered outside the South Stand entrance used by players and their families after the defeat to Hull<\/p>\n

A very small protest also happened during the first half of the Hull match, when five tennis balls were thrown onto the pitch.<\/p>\n

That was seemingly aimed at anger about a proposed revamp of Carrow Road that would have forced 3,000 season-ticket holders to move seats.<\/p>\n

However, majority shareholder Mark Attanasio had told BBC Radio Norfolk that he had put those plans “on pause”<\/a> three days earlier.<\/p>\n

The statement concluded: “It is a criminal offence to throw objects onto the field of play.<\/p>\n

“Anyone found to have done so will be removed from the stadium and reported to the police, as well as being referred to the club’s sanction panel, where a ban may be imposed.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Getty Images Some Norwich fans protested outside the directors’ entrance of Carrow Road after their team’s loss to…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":269258,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[563],"tags":[64,63,596,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-269257","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-football","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-football","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/269257","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=269257"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/269257\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/269258"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=269257"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=269257"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=269257"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}