For many clubs, it’s time to push on towards security - securing that play-off place, securing that place in a division for another season. For those, like Ipswich Town fan Gavin Barber, safely in mid-table without fear up of heading up or down after the final ball is kicked, talk starts to turn to whether you are willing to go through it all again for twelve more months… “What is a club anyway? It’s the noise, the passion, the feeling of belonging, the pride in your city” - Sir Bobby Robson Oh look - the season ticket renewal brochure has…
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The Window: A short story
Gavin Barber can see into the future. Well, as far as this evening anyway. And this is what he sees… Like so much else about that night, I had no idea how I got there. Mind and memory were a hectic blur of flashing lights and rapid movement. All reassurance was gone – familiar faces and comforting surroundings were now distant, way way back in that place called sanity that I could just about recall having once known. All around me: shiny surfaces, busy people, white teeth, shouting, shouting, SHOUTING, numbers, names, men bought, men sold, an Old Testament-like litany…
Desperate Scouse Jibes: Poor Public Relations at Portman Road
There have been so many articles on these pages featuring Ipswich Town recently that their supporters may as well have set up camp out in the woodlands of the estate and waited patiently for the next big story at Portman Road to come along. Paul Jewell, who today celebrates his first anniversary as manager of the club, duly obliged this week with his criticism of female official Amy Fearn following Ipswich’s game at Birmingham City. Regular Suffolk correspondent Gavin Barber drove his tractor back onto The Seventy Two’s land overnight wielding a piece of paper containing these words. Just before…
The Colossus of Jordan Rhodes: Part 1 - Ipswich Town’s loss
The Seventy Two doesn’t focus on League One as much as it would like. So, with a guilty conscience firmly in mind, let’s over-egg the pudding and mix a few metaphors by taking an indulgent three-part look at one of the Football League’s hottest properties - the Huddersfield Town striker Jordan Rhodes. Part One of our trilogy concerns his exit from Ipswich Town, who are supported, amongst other lucky souls, by our regular correspondent Gavin Barber… Most relationships – whether with colleagues, friends or partners – have a recurring niggle: a past misdemeanour that one of you just can’t let…
Ipswich Town: The worst team in the Championship?
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 vote would go to ex-Ipswich keeper Shane Supple. You may not have heard of Shane. In fact, he’s not even a footballer any more, at least not in the way that…
BTFM: One glaring omission
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