2011/2012 season Match reports

Norwich 1 Stoke 1 (Premier League)

http://www.thesundaytimes.co.uk/sto/sport/football/Premiership/article706532.ece

Peterborough v Ipswich (Championship)

http://www.mirrorfootball.co.uk/news/Peterborough-7-1-Ipswich-Daily-Mirror-match-report-Lee-Tomlin-hattrick-Lee-Martin-and-Tommy-Smith-sent-off-article788615.html

Ipswich Town 0 Hull City 1 (Championship)

http://www.dailystar.co.uk/football/view/206130/Ipswich-0-Hull-1-Matty-Fryatt-shut...

Everyday folk appalled by the scenes on our television, and for some in their homes, businesses or neighbourhoods, reacted in a variety of ways from hel...

A WELL-KNOWN scrote in the village has been banged up for two-years after trying to blackmail a woman he secretly photographed while she was engaged in a sex act.

25-year-old Mark Linnemoller, of Kingsland, admitted threatening to spread the pictures around the village unless gave him £2,000.

His victim, who can’t be named for legal reasons, found poorly written letters on her doorstep and was sent demanding text messages.

The woman went to meet the hapless blackmailer in a pub car park...

WHILE much of this season will see me covering Ipswich Town, Norwich City, West Ham and Peterborough United, I do hope to cover some COLCHESTER UNITED games, because if I am it means they are doing well. But unlike many U’s fans I don’t let my heart rule my head and my expectation levels will be somewhat lower than theirs.

As unpalatable as it may be for many Col U fans promotion, or even the play-off places, is probably beyond them.

Given the resources, and let us be brutally honest...

OK, legend maybe over-egging it somewhat, and farewell is not totally accurate, but outgoing Ipswich Town communications director Terry Baxter (in the middle of the motley crew above right) will appreciate the irony of the headline.

The green-fingered, media-mogul wannabe, popped into the Portman Road media centre before Town's pre-seaon loss to Wolves to bid farewell to his old mates in the Press pack and their hangers-on, before embarking on a not-so-new career.  

He will know that ...

SUPPORTING the right team as a child can be a complicated affair these days.
Getting it right is important because and you can't, or shouldn't, change it and the team you support so often defines you in life.
Certainly when first introduced and that seemingly innocent icebreaker is asked. Which team do you support then? Followed by - how come?
Say Manchester United and you are from - let's say - Ipswich and you will be labeled a glory-hunter and respect is lost.
Say Ipswich and people will nod an...

Never go back. Such sound advice if taken as you can’t fail if you don’t take the risk.
The braver, if not always the happiest, thing is to grasp the nettle and give it ago.
Posh fans are delighted Darren Ferguson ignored the negative route and returned to Peterborough United, where he had once fallen out so badly with chairman Darragh MacAnthony. He quit London Road in November 2009 and watched from afar as a relatively unknown, and totally inexperienced Mark Cooper took the entertaining, ...

THE poster by the school playground wasn’t huge but it sent out a big message.

A total of £2,018.75 had been raised at a recent fair at the school, ‘A Record Amount!’ it exclaimed at the bottom, and it was that final line which no doubt prompted many a wry smile by a majority of parents of the schoolchildren.

You see, no doubt the local media will pick up on this eventually, a huge scandal has engulfed the school of late with police investigating claims that almost £10...

Say what you want about Lee Bowyer, and many people say many things about him good and bad, this battling midfielder does what it says on the tin. He can dominate in midfield, he is a ball-winner who plays his heart out closing down the opposition, scraps for every ball, can pick a pass – oh and he can score goals from outside the box on a pretty regular basis.

So why then are many Ipswich fans unhappy, nay disgusted even, at the prospect of Bowyer signing for their club – probably this ...

Affairs are common place the world over and in my little village it is no different.
However, this little tale of bed-hopping goes a wee bit further in terms of OMG and laugh out loud moments.
I got to know M and his wife B when we lived next to them. The previous owner of the house we bought warned us B was a little strange, well mad as a March Hare actually, and could be over-bearing. Husband M was as normal as an Queen and Satus Quo fan could be and was something of a motorhead but a genuine...

Marcus Evans may be many things, some say he is involved in (or has been at some stage) as a gun-runner, corrupt businessman and money-launderer, but I would never say such a thing until some of those disgruntled ex-employees grow some and actually put the evidence in the public domain.
The much-loved (by those in his pay) Ipswich Town owner is usually described in the national press, well Charlie Sale mainly, as the biggest ticket tout in the world, while the sickeningly obsequious local pres...

Connor Wickham has signed for Sunderland and good luck to him. It is a daunting enough challenge for anyone to take a major step in your career, for an 18-year-old it is all the more challenging, while incredibly exciting at the same time.
I remember joining my first ship after completing my training, I too was 18, and a month later I found myself at war. OK it was only the Cod War and apart from throwing a few spuds at the Icelandic gun boats that buzzed our warship (HMS Falmouth for those wh...