Norwich City have led tributes to a young girl who died from cancer one hour before her ninth birthday.
Amber Sheehy from Norwich was diagnosed with terminal cancer in April and died on 14 January.
In the eighth minute of the club’s 4-2 win at Coventry City in the Championship, fans of both teams applauded for the eight-year-old.
Her mother Amanda Sheehy said on Twitter: “The love felt for our angel… was unreal.”
Amber, who played for Horsford FC’s under-nine girls’ team, was Norwich’s City FC’s Fan of the Season for 2021/22.
Her family said she died at 23:00 GMT last Saturday.
A fundraising initiative, called Amber’s Army, has been set up to help support other families.
After the game, Norwich’s players and staff were pictured holding a club shirt with the number eight on it and “Amber’s Army”, with the club tweeting “for Amber”.
A picture of Amber was shown on the big screen at the Coventry Building Society Arena during the game, encouraging fans to clap.
Ms Sheehy said: “Both clubs should be very proud of themselves.”
“I was very pleased with how the players executed our idea, to give Coventry a little bit possession, make sure we defended from a low block and be a threat on the transition.
I think it worked and they put in a real shift. Obviously you have to defend your crosses and you have to have some blocks but there were no real big chances which I’ve seen over a long period.
“We scored a great counter press goal and had two further golden opportunities from Adam Idah and Liam Gibbs where we have to kill the game, especially in the second half where we had this period of 25-30 minutes where we were very comfortable on the ball.
There we have to kill the game and this is unfortunately what we haven’t done.”
