We have recently received unsubstantiated information to the effect that "tight shorts" Daley Tompson is a true blue.

In 1984 Daley Thompson, became only the second person in Olympic history to claim the decathlon gold twice. Thompson first competed in the decathlon in the 1976 Montreal Games as an 18-year-old finishing 18th! However, four years later at the Moscow Olympics, he won the gold medal, finishing 150 points ahead of his nearest rival. Until Daley arrived on the scene, the decathlon was one of the least popular spectator events in athletics. Daley changed all that with his colour and flamboyance, making each element of the decathlon a drama in itself. In the 1984 Los Angeles Olympics, Thompson was at his peak. He won the gold with a total of 8797 points, equalling the USA's Bob Mathias' achievement of two decathlon golds. A year later, the IAAF adjusted the scores and Thompson was given the world record with 8847 points.

The great hard-core band Snuff have two loyal fans of the Super Blues in their lineup. Founder member, drummer and the all round talented Duncan, and his trombone playing brother Dave have both worn Ipswich tops on stage. They still play to big crowds in the UK and Europe and are very big in Japan. Peely had got a session or two out of them, as has Jo Whiley.

Dave was kind enough to drop us a line and says: "I grew out of various glory hunting type delusions in 1976 and started going to Portman Road with the whole of the rest of the family including Duncan. We didn't miss a home game over the next couple of years and went to all of the cup winning run except Cardiff".

Dave moved away from Suffolk after the '78 Cup Final returning just a few years ago but has been to as many Town games as band commitments have allowed. He continues "Now they're more popular its not so easy. I'm on the ballot so I've got to a few games this season".

Look out for an upcoming Nike advert which uses one of the band tracks, in the meantime here is a list some of Snuff's Album releases: Caught in Session, Demmamussabebonk, Flibbiddydibbiddydob, In The Fishtank, Kilburn National, Numb Nuts (one of their most recent releases - album cover pictured above), Reach, Scminkie Minkie Pinkie, Snuffsaidbutgorblimeyguvstonemeifhedidn'tthrow, Tweet Tweet My Lovely and Potatoes and Melons at Wholesale Prices Direct to You the Public.

More info on the band can be found at www.snuff.net

Diminutive singer, guitarist, songwriter Kershaw shone brightly for a couple of years in the mid-80's UK charts before taking a more behind the scenes role in the 90s, writing for the likes of Elton John and notably Chesney Hawkes' massive hit 'The One And Only'.

Kershaw, although Bristol born, was a regular at Portman Road during the 1970's and 1980's.

Recently corroborated with Spencer Vignes, of Match of the Day magazine, to produce "Wouldn't it be good to be a Bluenose" the un-official Birmingham City song for the Worthington Cup Final. Hmmm !.

TV Comedian of Not The Nine O'Clock News and Alas Smith & Jones fame.

Last seen (at Portman Road that is) in a rather excited mood in Churchmans in 1993.

Director of the Royal National Theatre since October 1997. Appointed as youngest ever Artistic Director of the Royal Shakespeare Company in 1965.

Made an Honorary Master of Arts by the University of East Anglia at the same ceremony as Bobby Robson.

Veteran BBC DJ John Peel died at the age of 65 while on holiday in Peru in 2004. Peel, who lived just outside Stowmarket, was on a working holiday with his wife Sheila when he suffered a heart attack.

Peel, BBC Radio 1's longest-serving DJ, was a big football fan and despite being a diehard Liverpool supporter had adopted Town as his second club and along with his wife - a passionate Blue's fan - was a season ticket holder at FPR.

Peel was one of the first DJs to give exposure to punk, reggae and hip-hop, and was highly regard in the music industry around the world. In addition to his Radio One programmes, he could also be heard on the World Service, and most recently on Radio Four.

Ipswich born Keith Deller, a former Portman Road ball boy (see picture at the top of this page), was Embassy World Professional Darts Champion in 1983 and British Professional Champion in 1987.

Here he is pictured in '83 with the first of those two trophies, then Town manager Bobby Ferguson and a number of Town first team players.

He has represented England, won Double Diamond Masters and World Cup Team Championship medals, and also set a Guinness World Record for the fastest game of 301 in just 97 seconds.

See Famous Town Fans: Brian Cant

David Ford from London reports: "Having read your little piece on Brian Cant [see link above], I can say with hand on heart that he is an Ipswich supporter and has been to Portman Road. I wore an Ipswich top to a pantomime in the late seventies that he was acting in (in Guildford), and my my mum dragged me along to the greenroom afterwards where I spoke to him. He talked about ITFC a bit and said that that year he had not managed to see many games that year, due to all his TV comitments."

Many thanks to Ixworth Blue, James Partridge, Timm (at ITFC Video), Pat Robinson, David J Hetherington, David Ford, Simon Garrad, Doug Hasseler and Mark Pritchard for their input.