EVERTON and Tottenham fought-out an exciting FA Cup fith round tie this week, with the Toffees winning by the odd goal in nine. It has been 26 years since Everton lifted a trophy, 33 since the league title last ended up at Goodison Park. Having made it to the last eight, the blue half of […]
IN the mid-1970s, there was a certain fascination for all things Dutch among the football fraternity. Some managers, such as Dave Sexton, Ron Greenwood and Bobby Robson, were students of the European game and attempted to bring elements of the continent to England. It didn’t always work, for English players were not schooled in the […]
IPSWICH Town have not fallen as far as the third tier of the English game since 1957, but unless something dramatic changes in the closing weeks of the season, the club looks set for relegation. The club’s owner, Marcus Evans, has publicly stated the drop into League One will not create massive financial problems and […]
SEPTEMBER 1970. Chelsea, FA Cup holders, had started the season reasonably well, although not with the swagger of the previous campaign when they were London’s most compelling team. There had been an air of expectation at Stamford Bridge that in 1970-71, the Blues could make a genuine challenge for the Football League Championship. Even the […]
CARDIFF CITY have made quite a few headlines over the past few years. The controversial switch from the club’s traditional blue shirts to red, initiated by Victor Tan and his associates, did little to endear the administration to the fans. Thankfully, the club reverted to blue, but the episode merely underlined the lack of understanding […]
Even in the this age of stadium sanitisation, a trip to Millwall does make you a little apprehensive. There’s a good reason for that. Picture this: a 17 year-old making his first trip to South-East London to see the London derby between Millwall and Chelsea. Alighting at New Cross, there was a tense atmosphere, a […]
Anyone who grew up in an era when Ipswich Town were among the top clubs in the country, playing a brand of progressive football that drew comparisons with the best that Continental Europe could offer, has difficulty in coming to terms with Ipswich’s current reduced status. Portman Road is still a neat stadium, imposing in […]
It’s hard to get over excited by the Football League Cup in its early rounds: defeats can be explained away easy enough and crowds are invariably disinterested in the balmy heat of August. Not so at Stevenage, where the home side added Ipswich Town to its list of cup scalps. OK, so it isn’t the […]
Look at the foot of the Championship table and you’ll see evidence of the continued decline of a club that was once progressive, exciting, multi-talented and…successful. Ipswich Town used to be one of those clubs that could easily be categorized as “everybody’s second favourite team”. Like a number of clubs that have flirted with greatness […]
