Norwich City joint-majority shareholder Delia Smith says the club made a mistake by not sacking former manager Chris Hughton in January. The 55 year old was replaced by Neil Adams in April, but the Canaries were still relegated from the Premier League.
"We didn't feel at that time there was anybody out there," Smith said.
"We got it wrong. It might have happened where if we got a caretaker manager we might have stayed up. But there was no guarantee."
Speaking to BBC Radio Norfolk, Smith said she felt the season seemed to have a "deadly curse" on it.
"Whatever we did didn't seem to work," she added.
