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Hopeless Football League Teams 9: Ipswich Town 1994-5

By on June 18, 2013 in the Category Hopeless Teams with 2 Comments
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Technically, our Hopeless Teams series (for which further entries will be most welcome) should be reserved for teams operating beneath the top tier of English football, but Ipswich Town’s 1994-5 vintage have earned entry for masquerading as a Premiership club when they were really nothing of the sort. Here, regular contributor Gavin Barber recalls the horror while he can also be seen expounding on the subject of summer football …

TTU Awards 2012-13: Manager of the Season

By on June 7, 2013 in the Category TTU Awards with 3 Comments
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Of all the categories this year, our opinion formers were most divided on this. Sure, the collection of silverware is all important but it’s as much about the raw materials and how far they are stretched. Hence, a number of bosses deserve credit for exceeding expectations - those gentlemen who chose to forget this when assessing Nigel Adkins and last year’s winner Brian McDermott would do well to take …

Ipswich Town are on the Up if the Boardroom will Let them

By on May 23, 2013 in the Category Conversations with with 3 Comments
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Few Championship teams will have endured a more curious season than Ipswich Town. Down among the dead men when Paul Jewell departed Portman Road in the autumn, the Tractor Boys embarked on a notable run under Mick McCarthy and ended up squarely in mid table. Here, TTU regular Gavin Barber and Susan Gardiner, purveyor of history blog, Those Who Will Not be Drowned, chew the fat …

TTU’s Goodreads: 15-02-13

By on February 15, 2013 in the Category Uncategorized with No comments
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An eclectic bunch of pieces relating to Football League clubs make up this week’s trio of recommends…

EXCLUSIVE: Graham Westley’s final column, Lancashire Evening Post

A rare spot in Goodreads for a column from a local rag. Here, in the first of a two parter, Graham Westley defends himself following his departure from Preston earlier in the week. It seems that it was one of those appointments that just …

Leeds, Ipswich and Crystal Palace meet their Deadlines

By on February 1, 2013 in the Category Uncategorized with 4 Comments
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Radio Five Live’s evening long special on transfer deadline day saw presenter Mark Chapman ask whether this bi-annual occasion is beginning to resemble the NFL draft in its endorsement of razzmatazz.

Certainly, it’s a more involved affair than it used to be and we’ve come a long way from the brisk late March afternoon of yore – a low key set of transactions that overwhelmingly featured lower league clubs.…

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