Norwich City chief David McNally says staying up was their main goal last season.

McNally acknowledged the decisions to cancel both the official end-of-season dinner and to delay the annual player-of-the-season award, won by Sebastien Bassong, did not meet with universal approval but clinching survival was the sole priority.

He told the Canary Magazine: "What we did do towards the end of the season was to make sure everybody focused on the business at hand.

"We may have upset some supporters and of course we apologise to those fans for cancelling a few end of season dinners and not presenting the player-of-the-season award on the pitch, but we did that because we had football business to complete, we needed to get some points and all of those things could wait for another day."