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The Lilywhites
Year formed: 1881
Ground: Deepdale
Capacity: 19,525
2007/08 average:
13,168
For visitors: 3,000
in the Bill Shankly Stand, can be
doubled to meet demand.
Record attendance:
42,684
Position last season:
15th in the Championship
Manager: Alan Irvine
(November 2007)
Players
in: Barry Nicholson (Aberdeen,
free)
Players out: None
Key man: Sean St
Ledger
Record transfer fee paid:
£1.5m (David Healy, Manchester
United, 2000)
Record transfer fee received:
£6m (David Nugent, Portsmouth,
2007)
Ticket office: 0870 442 1966
Official website: www.pnefc.co.uk
Journey: 263
miles
Journey time: 4hr
37mins
For directions to the ground click
here
Best League Win:
10-0 v Stoke City 14/09/1889 Division
1
 Last
meeting:
Norwich City 1, Preston North End
0 (February 2, 2008): Darel Russell
produced a stunning stoppage time
goal to give Norwich City victory
over struggling Preston at Carrow
Road. As the game entered stoppage
time, Russell finally gave the Canaries
the lead with a stunning goal. Marshall’s
drop-kick was nodded on by Dublin
to Russell, just outside the Preston
area and he chested the ball down
before swivelling to hit a stunning
left-foot volley past Lonergan.
Full
Match Report
Last Norwich
away win: 28/09/2002 Preston North
End 1 (Cresswell), Norwich City 2
(Nielsen, McVeigh)
Chances: Irvine did
a great job to save Preston from relegation
and their second half of the season
was a good as anyone else’s
in the league. They started to find
the net regularly having seemed particularly
goal-shy with the loss of David Nugent.
More than capable at the back, where
Sean St Ledger is a big presence,
North End maybe lack a touch of flair
and guile in the middle of the park
and certainly need the likes of Neil
Mellor and Chris Brown to score more
goals if they want to finish above
halfway.
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