Stand By Your Man

Karma, Shakespearian justice, call it what you will there is a certain uncomfortable feeling of “serves you right” about the way Roy Keane has led ITFC to the bottom of the table. Back in April I posted my feelings about the way the board had apparently pulled out the knife and dug it deep into [...]



Media Circus and Memorials

Today is the memorial service at the cathedral for Bobby Robson. It is an invite only affair and Palace Green is pretty much sealed off at the moment.
It was surreal needing to pop into the nearest appropriate venue to do some photocopying / printing and finding that I was entering a security zone. The [...]



Thrashed

Today headed off to the Riverside to see Ipswich getting thrashed 3-1 by Middlesborough (and the penalty we got in the last minute of extra time was not even deserved).
Impressed by: the support for the Teeside steel workers Save Our Steel campaign at the beginning of the match, the beef and Yorkshire pudding wrap [...]



RIP Sir Bobby

Sir Bobby Robson died earlier today, he was a true footballing legend where I grew up. He was the manager who led Ipswich to both the FA Cup and UFEA cup victories in the late 1970’s and early 1980’s. He was the man who can be credited with developing our successful youth policy. He was [...]



Split Loyalties and Sacked Managers

Normally I want the scum, (whom we beat last Sunday to prove we are the Pride of Anglia), to not do so well. However, at the moment I desperately want them to win. They are languishing  way too near the bottom of the league table. Without the budgies in the Championship we have no local [...]