Deon Burton sparked wild celebrations at a sold-out Hillsborough as Sheffield Wednesday ended a wretched season on a high note by securing Championship survival with a 4-1 win over Norwich.

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.