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Burton ghosted in to head home Tommy Spurr's fine cross to give the Owls a two-goal advantage with 15 minutes remaining.

The Wednesday striker had held his nerve in front an increasingly desperate home crowd to convert a 21st-minute penalty after Darren Huckerby had slammed home from 15 yards to give the Canaries a flying start.

The Owls, who needed a win to guarantee they stayed up, looked nervous in the opening exchanges and Matty Pattison and Dion Dublin were inches away from adding to the visitors' lead.

But Wednesday looked much more assured after the break and after Ben Sahar had eased fraying home nerves with a close-range second, Burton's second rendered results elsewhere on a nerve-jangling final day irrelevant.

Substitute Leon Clarke added a fourth for the home side in the 87th minute, bustling in on Bartosz Slusarski's pass and somehow keeping both his balance and the ball to poke home a fourth.

A crowd of 36,208 was not quite the biggest in the Football League this season - 38,256 had witnessed Leeds' win over Gillingham on Saturday - but it was a fitting end for the Owls and popular manager Brian Laws, whose side has been decimated by injury throughout the campaign.

They also witnessed Canaries star Dion Dublin back in Norwich's side for his final appearance. Dublin was given a standing ovation to mark the end of his colourful 22-year career when he was replaced by Jamie Cureton with 25 minutes left.