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Norwich City: Chris Sutton on one of promoted club's 'greatest ever seasons'

Norwich head coach Daniel Farke celebratesRex Features

Norwich appointed Daniel Farke from Borussia Dortmund's second team in May 2017

Norwich City's promotion to the Premier League caps one of the club's "greatest ever seasons", says former Canaries striker Chris Sutton.

Daniel Farke's side beat Blackburn Rovers 2-1 at Carrow Road on Saturday to end their three-year absence from the top flight, and will be crowned champions by avoiding defeat at Aston Villa on the final day.

"To do it in the manner they've done it, the brand of football which Norwich have played, is amazingly staggering really," Sutton told BBC Radio Norfolk.

"I've been pleasantly shocked. I thought at the start of the season Norwich had an outside chance of the play-offs."

The Canaries finished 14th in 2017-18 and picked up just five points from their opening six Championship games this term, prompting some questions over Farke's future.

"Some Norwich fans may tell you they predicted automatic promotion, but the truth of it is they were miles off at the start of the season," said Sutton.

"The start of the season was tough but Daniel Farke stuck with the way he wanted his team to play and had belief in the players which he'd brought in."

Since August, Norwich have lost just three times, rising to the top of the table and staying there when it mattered most.

"It's more the style. The Championship is such a tough league - I normally associate teams coming up from the Championship with real grit and resolve. Two up top and quite direct.

"Norwich have been the absolute opposite, they've played some really good stuff."

'I got it wrong on Pukki'

Striker Teemu Pukki has been the key man in Norwich's promotion push, leading the Championship's goalscoring charts with 28 goals - the most any Norwich player has managed since Sutton himself scored 25 in 1993-94 to help the Canaries finish third in the Premier League.

But BBC Radio 5 Live pundit Sutton was not initially convinced about the g of the ex-Celtic forward.

"I said 'blimey, why have they signed Pukki">