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Concrete Sport speaks to Helle Aanonsen as she explains the background behind her drive to set up a club at UEA for Scandanavia’s most popular sport, handball.

There may already be clubs for nearly every sport you can imagine – from korfball to ultimate frisbee – but UEA’s already extensive sports society is about to get another member, as a Norwegian student is planning to establish a handball club.

Norwich City have been on fire in recent weeks, achieving 44 points out of a possible 48, which is an astounding feat for a club in any tier of English football.

Since smashing Colchester United on their own ground last month Norwich have gone from strength to strength, thanks to a number of gutsy performances, all within the space of seven days.

UEA runner Hollie Rowland stormed to a gold medal with the GB under-23 women’s team at the European Cross Country Championships in Dublin over the Christmas break. Rowland, who currently trains with UEA Athletics and the City of Norwich, ran a storming race as she finished an impressive fifth place out of sixty competitors.

The team championships award scores were based on the aggregate positions of each nation’s runners, and Rowland’s fifth position, allied with several other impressive GB performances, saw GB take the gold medal from a strong Russian challenge.

Having established themselves as a force to be reckoned with in League One, Norwich continued December in fine form. On December 1st they travelled to Southend and triumphed convincing 3-0 winners - a brace from Grant Holt and a Korey Smith goal being the difference between the sides. Holt also scored the first in a 2-0 home win over Oldham. Wes Hoolahan grabbed the other goal as Norwich’s unstoppable home form continued. Norwich’s next opponents were Yeovil Town, a team they had thrashed 4-1 in Bryan Gunn’s last game in charge back in August.