New manager, just back from New York, exudes calm and denies he is taking a risk at the Premier League’s bottom club
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Speaking during his first appearance as the manager of Norwich City, Dean Smith made it clear that there was only one issue he wanted off the table: the events of his city break to
New York last week.
“I can’t say too much about New York, I’m afraid!” he beamed, with the glint of a man who really wanted you to know he had some stories to tell, if only he could. Smith had been in the Big
Apple with his wife to see their son and, while he was there, mull over the prospect of taking the Canaries
Job. What precisely had he got up to? “A cycle round Central Park, trip to the Empire State Building, ferry to Staten Island; you know, typical tourist stuff.” Another big grin.