Pride of Anglia - Ipswich Town Football Club
since 1878
| SHEFFIELD UNITED 3 - 3 IPSWICH TOWN | ||
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Coca-Cola Championship Tuesday, September 29, 2009 Bramall Lane Attendance: 28366 | ||
| Darius Henderson (9) Darius Henderson (77) Chris Morgan (90) | Jon Walters (24) Grant Leadbitter (34) Gareth McAuley (70) | |
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| IPSWICH TOWN 0 - 4 NEWCASTLE UNITED | ||
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Coca-Cola Championship Saturday, September 26, 2009 Portman Road Attendance: 27059 | ||
| Kevin Nolan (30) Kevin Nolan (32) Ryan Taylor (34) Kevin Nolan (51) | ||
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Looking at Portman Road today, with magnificent double-tiered stands at each end of the ground flanking the impressively high Britannia Stand, it is easy to see the Cobbold Stand as the poor relation of the four but when it was built it was sleek, modern and towered above the rest of the ground. What is more, it was built - from start to finish, during the 1971 close season - in just 102 days , a great achievement in itself, and one which meant that not a single minute's football had to be played in front of a building site.
| DONCASTER ROVERS 3 - 3 IPSWICH TOWN | ||
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Coca-Cola Championship Saturday, September 19, 2009 Keepmoat Stadium Attendance: 10711 | ||
| Walde Fairhurst (13) Martin Woods (74) Quinton Fortune (84) | Jack Colback (66) Tamas Priskin (77) Lee Martin (79) | |
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Blues first competed in the FA Cup way back in 1890, a time when the Cup Final was played at the Kennington Oval, now of course a test match venue, and was being won by teams with such colourful names as Old Etonians, Royal Engineers and Clapham Rovers! Blues themselves beat teams including Huntingdon County and Old Wykehamists, but never progressed beyond the qualifying rounds.
| IPSWICH TOWN 1 - 1 NOTTINGHAM FOREST | ||
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Coca-Cola Championship Tuesday, September 15, 2009 Portman Road Attendance: 21130 | ||
| Grant Leadbitter (1) | Robert Earnshaw (59) | |
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Football had been played in Ipswich since the early 1870s - predominantly at the Ipswich School - and an amateur Club, the forerunner of Ipswich Town, was formed in 1878. For the next 50 years the amateur spirit held firm in the town and any attempts to introduce professionalism were kept at bay. The people of Ipswich, it seemed, were happy to continue the Corinthian ideals as exemplified by one of the leading amateur footballers of the Victorian era, William Nevill Cobbold.
| MIDDLESBROUGH 3 - 1 IPSWICH TOWN | ||
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Coca-Cola Championship Saturday, September 12, 2009 Riverside Stadium Attendance: 19742 | ||
| Gary ONeil (17) Jeremie Aliadiere (66) Jeremie Aliadiere (85) | Jon Walters (90) (pen) | |
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It was in the summer of 1974 that Don Revie left newly-crowned League Champions Leeds United to manage the national side. Leeds appointed Brian Clough before infamously sacking him 44 days later. For Blues the summer of 1974 was a far more peaceful time, with only Paul Cooper being added to the squad for £20,000 as cover for Laurie Sivell. Why worry about Leeds? Read on.

Signed by George Burley from Celtic in late 1995, Tony Mowbray was to become a centrepiece of Burley's attempts to get Town back into the top flight, and he soon became a firm favourite in the middle of the Blues defence.