If David Cameron really does support Aston Villa, as he has sometimes claimed, then what a lovely first day on the job this was for the new Norwich City chairman, Ed Balls. The former shadow chancellor watched Jonny Howson and Dieumerci Mbokani score the goals that boosted his team’s chances of ending the campaign triumphantly and cut the fallen Midlands aristocrats further adrift at the bottom of the table. With half the Premier League season gone, Villa have one foot in the Championship.