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Friday, 3 July 2009
Town and the NASL
Part 1: Galloping Gorman
John Gorman has twice held the post of assistant manager at Ipswich, first under George Burley in 1999, and then under Jim Magilton, from December 2008 to April 2009. Prior to coaching Gorman enjoyed a relatively successful playing career starting at Glasgow Celtic and then by way of Carlisle United and Tottenham found himself playing for the Tampa Bay Rowdies in the now defunct North American Soccer League. There he proved to be popular with both team mates and fan’s alike winning Player of the Year in 1981. From 1979 to 1982 he made over 100 appearances for the Florida club as this article from a NASL match day programme explains...
Monday, 29 June 2009
The Very First European Tour
At the end of the 1910-11 season Ipswich - then competing in the Southern Amateur League - made their first visit to the Continent at the invitation of Czech side SK Slavia. Leaving Suffolk on Wednesday May 3rd they travelled by boat and train across Holland, Belgium, Germany and Czech to Prague, arriving on the Friday. They played two matches against SK Slavia that weekend, losing the first game four-nil and drawing the second one-one. William “Billy” F. Garnham, club captain at the time, was in charge of the tour party, which included several guest players from Bury United, and numbered fifteen in all.
Monday, 22 June 2009
NORWICH CITY F.C., LTD. TO BE WOUND UP
Norwich City Football Club, Ltd., after a plucky fight against adverse circumstances, has now to be wound up. This decision was made at the annual general meeting of shareholders held last evening at the Museum Café, the following resolution having been carried:- "That owing to the company being unable to meet it liabilities, it is hereby resolved that the same be wound up voluntarily, and that Mr. Robert Charles Spicer, of Queen Street, Norwich, incorporated accountant, be and is hereby appointed liquidator."
Friday, 12 June 2009
ITFC Co. Ltd., the plc and the Marcus Evans Group
Following the incorporation of Ipswich Town Football Club Company Limited in 1936 - as the club turned professional - all was pretty quite - in terms of the clubs organisation - until the new millennium, when things changed quite rapidly. First the club restructured itself to enable the issue of £25 million in loan notes and, following a period of administration - as a result of relegation from the Premiership, a bottoming out of the player transfer market and the collapse of ITV Digital - the "takeover" by the newly formed Ipswich Town plc offered Town supporters the chance to "own a bit of ITFC" while raising much needed funds as the club sought to solve all it's financial woes with a hasty return to England's top flight. That plan failed to reach fruit and in December 2007, 87.5% of the club was sold to the Marcus Evans Group.
Thursday, 11 June 2009
Famous Town Fans
John Peel, John Motson, Nik Kershaw, Griff Rhys Jones, Bill Werbeniuk, Brian Cant and Julie Andrews, have all declared allegiance to the Town cause at one time or another. An update to one of the site's most popular pages..
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