How to spend £1,841 in Norwich shop as questions asked of PM Truss over bizarre bill

In payments highlighted by Labour shadow attorney general Emily Thornberry, £1,318 was spent at the Canaries' official store on 21 October last year and £523.50 on 21 March this year.

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Questions are being asked of Truss, who is MP for South West Norfolk and a Norwich fan, over her use of public money.

But the main one from us is: how on earth do you spend £1,841 in the Canaries' club shop?

Some have speculated over the cost of getting the Premier League badge taken off and then sewn back on every year.

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Others have suggested the prime minister may have paid for Ricky van Wolfswinkel on the back of a shirt.

But we prefer to imagine 10 Downing Street decked out in Norwich merchandise with the cabinet walking around in full kit.

In a letter to junior Foreign Office minister Gillian Keegan, Thornberry admitted there are likely to be more appropriate reasons for the vast majority of purchases.

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An influential foreign diplomat who just loves Norwich, perhaps.

But Thornberry added: "There are also numerous items and categories of spending that - on the surface - are not as easy to understand and seem unusual in the context of previous FCDO spending: high end private catering; wellness and beauty treatments; extensive supplies from UK wineries; large amounts of home furnishing; and even £1,841 of spending at the Norwich City club shop."

A Foreign Office spokesperson responded: "We are committed to using public money responsibly. Our staff follow set guidelines to ensure purchases are appropriate and achieve value for money for the taxpayer."

£1,841 gets you 33 standard home shirts in the Norwich shop, which is probably the safest and most boring guess at what might've happened.

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But with 'value for money' in mind, Max Rushden, Charlie Baker and the rest of the Warm-Up team on talkSPORT decided to try and build a shopping basket worth £1,841, without buying anything more than once.

It is the international break, after all…