Ipswich Town: The worst team in the Championship?

Posted by on Dec 7, 2011 in Championship, Ipswich Town, The Seventy Two | 6 Comments

Two months and one day since they looked the best team in the Championship, Ipswich Town could now be labelled the worst. Gavin Barber (and his forever increasing menagerie) laments the current decline of the Portman Road club.

Who’s the most interesting footballer of the last 10 years? Crazy-assed one-man-high-jinks-machine Mario Balotelli? High achiever and uber-pro Paul Scholes? Gonzo journalist and occasional Palace midfielder Aki Riihilahti? Maybe. But my …

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One match that defines my club - #1: Ipswich Town

Posted by on Nov 21, 2011 in Championship, Ipswich Town, The Seventy Two | 8 Comments

Each Monday, The Seventy Two will be playing host to a rather ambitious new series in which supporters will tell us about one defining match in the history of their club - 77 weeks, 77 clubs, 77 matches, 77 writers, 77 articles.

First up is Gavin Barber with an epic tale from just over a decade ago - the match that he feels, more than any other, defines Ipswich Town …

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Stepping Up: Will Ipswich graduate Wickham make it with Mackems?

Posted by on Nov 7, 2011 in Championship, Ipswich Town, The Seventy Two | No Comments

In the first of a mini-series looking at players who made the step up from Championship football to the Premier League over the summer, Gavin Barber relays a brief history of Ipswich Town graduate Connor Wickham, now of Sunderland.

August 15th, 2009. Ipswich Town’s first home game since the death of Sir Bobby Robson. The great man’s statue on Portman Road is almost lost amidst a vast and agreeably colourful …

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Ipswich Town’s clown prince and cartoon villain gunning for Cardiff City

Posted by on Oct 13, 2011 in Championship, Ipswich Town, The Seventy Two | 6 Comments

Sometimes it’s easier to write about your club when events on the pitch have taken a turn for the worse. It can be quite cathartic to really lay into the layabouts at fault for the side’s lowly league position. It takes a skilful writer to glean the same level of comedy from an in-form outfit. Like Ipswich fan Gavin Barber, for example.

Clearly, I haven’t been paying attention. When …

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Ipswich Town: The best team in the Championship

Posted by on Oct 6, 2011 in Championship, Ipswich Town, The Seventy Two | 3 Comments

When West Ham fell to only their second league defeat of the season last week, Sam Allardyce became the third manager this season to make the following statement: “Ipswich Town are the best team we’ve played so far”. Amy Downes isn’t one to argue with Big Sam. Here’s why she thinks there is no better team in the division than the boys from Portman Road.

Ipswich’s current haul of 10 …

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