 After the war he signed professional forms with Leicester City FC and established himself as a regular in the side at first as centre-forward, but eventually centre-half.He became captain of the side during the 1948/49 season, under John Duncan, and led Leicester City to their first cup final appearance, defeating the favourites Portsmouth F. C. 3–1 in the semi-final at Highbury.On 30 April 1949, Norman achieved his childhood dream of captaining Leicester City in their first ever FA Cup Final appearance at Wembley against Wolverhampton Wanderers, led by the great Billy Wright in front of a capacity 100,000 crowd.