Ahead of our upcoming Premier League clash with the Foxes, we take a look at a few players who have featured for both sides.
Darren Eadie
Eadie was a product of the Norwich youth system, and after making 168 appearances in six years for the side, was voted as an inaugural member of the Hall of Fame club in 2002. The club’s poor financial position meant they were forced to sell Eadie to Leicester, and he became the club’s record sale. His career, however, was stunted by injuries after the switch and he was forced to retire at the young age of 28.
Zak Whitbread
Now 31, Whitbread played for the Canaries between 2010 and 2012, featuring heavily in the Premier League season under Paul Lambert. He formed a centre-back partnership with another player who has featured for both teams – Ritchie De Laet – but injury meant he was released by the club at the end of 2012.
Iwan Roberts
Another City legend and Hall-of-Famer; Roberts scored 96 goals in 306 appearances in a very successful seven years with the club. He is also fondly remembered by Leicester fans after he helped them to Premier League promotion, in a campaign that featured him scoring three goals past rivals Derby.
Wes Hoolahan
After Glenn Roeder (yes, I know) signed Wes from Blackpool for a fee of £250,000, the Irishman has gone on to be one of Norwich’s biggest ever bargains. His first season was plagued by injury and he was forced to watch the club be relegated to League One from the touchline. Since then, he’s gone from strength to strength and at 33 is still impressing on the highest stage. Leicester may well rue turning him down after a trial there before he signed for Blackpool.
Dion Dublin
Dublin played over fifty times for Leicester, both as a defender and attacker. He later returned to Norwich for his second spell, after emerging as a professional player there almost 20 years earlier. This featured 12 goals in 70 appearances and an emotional final game of his career in front of 36,000 at Hillsborough. After he retired he made a quick transition onto our tellies, and has also invented his own percussion instrument.
