Ipswich Town played their last match of the season today. It was a win. They were very rare this year. Next year, for the first time in more than sixty years they will be in what we used to call Division 3. Having been brought up in Ipswich in the days when Portman Rod was the place to be to watch football I can't help but notice that.
So, for those seeking solace, this song from Police Dog Hogan about being the wife of the goalkeeper at Ipswich Town. It seems appropriate:
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Sorry Richard, I don’t wish to gloat, but…..
I’m not a football fan, but I remember the time when Norwich had a great FA cup run and my mother and I would open the front door and listen to the Carrow Roar when they scored another goal.
I hope Ipswich will be able to make progress over the coming years so that the derby match may be played again
That’s a while away
And I usually go to Cambridge now
That was close run too!
Yes, my mother used to live near Norwich, you used to be able to hear the Carrow Road roar in Thorpe St Andrew, over a mile from the ground. This football mass hysteria rather turns me off and I regard it rather as an opiate of the people to divert peoples attention from important matters like politics, economics, ecology etc. Though I must admit once when I went with my son to watch Swindon Town draw with Spurs in a cup match in the 1980s, the atmosphere was absolutely electric!
It is escapism: I think there is no doubt about that
But sometimes we need that
Bill Hughes says:
” This football mass hysteria rather turns me off and I regard it rather as an opiate of the people to divert peoples attention….”
Sorry, Bill Hughes, I’m with Bill Shankley on this:
‘Some people think football is a matter of life and death, but it isn’t; It’s more important than that.
Personally I hate the game. Seen one you’ve seen ’em all by my reckoning; regular attendance would be groundhog day for me. But football enthusiasts would probably say the same of Opera, Ballet, Shakespeare’s Plays and the lord knows what else. It surely wouldn’t do if we were all t’syem. 🙂
And is life worth living without an enthusiasm for something…..?
I reckon that if Ipswich Town and Cambridge were doing well in the Premiership BREXIT would have not be so much of a problem in your area!
LOL
In 1982 I took a small group on holiday to Poland. This was in period of martial law. We had to change trains at a small junction town. A steam train came puffing through. Naturally all four of us started taking photos. But it was normal in communist Poland that photographing on railway stations was forbidden and this was martial law time! Immediately two soldiers with rifles came and marched us to the captain. He with a serious face demanded our passports and barked out the question “where you live?” When he came to me and I responded ‘Ipswich’ His face changed to a great smile and he said “Ipswich Town, great football team, have a nice holiday in People’s Poland”.
I like it!
You know, I’m from Nottingham and EVERYONE on the European mainland (East & West) has heard of Nottingham Forest when they enquire where I am from and since I too like to take pictures of trains, that question (and my answer) has got me out of trouble more times than I’d care to remember.
🙂
You should hear the reaction from my friends in the USA – where teams have names like Tigers, Giants, Bears, Panthers etc – when I tell them I support Hamilton Academical.
“Do the players all stand and have serious discussions about where to pass the ball?” they ask.
“Unfortunately, no,” I reply.
You made me laugh
Jack Foley says:
” I support Hamilton Academical….”
You’ll probably be familiar with this Gem, but if not I think perhaps you could post it to your benighted American friends. 🙂
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7E_8EjoxY7Q
Very good
Not seen for ages
How about the football score: Forfar 4 Fife 5?
EAST Fife 5, Forfar 4, surely??
I went to school in Ipswich and remember regularly walking down to the ground with my mates just after halftime and the stewards letting us in to watch the second half for free. It was also a great team with Mick Mills, Trevor Whymark, Colin Viljoen and the diminutive but brilliant Laurie Sivell in goal.
You must have been there around the same time as me! And I remember the half time ruse when pocket money and weekend earnings had run out
Nice little band btw Richard; never heard of them but they are very pleasing on the ear. 🙂
A bit male and 50 but I like them, perhaps because…..
We’ll see you there in Division 3 Richard (I hope).
Given the ongoing disaster that is Bolton Wanderers I’ve had to revise my earlier hope that we start the season with 0 points to being that we do actually start the new season and only with -12 points!
My wife’s suggestions that I support ‘a decent team’ are harder and harder to counter with logic but you can’t avoid being born with a particular football allegiance virus! It’s in the blood!
I know….I’ll still support Ipswich
Bit also go to Cambridge to remind myself The Town are actually quite good…..