Liz Edwards, chair of the ITFC Official Supporters Club, has backed the petition set up by Newcastle supporters proposing an annual friendly between the Blues and the Magpies to raise funds for the Sir Bobby Robson Foundation.
Edwards told TWTD: "I will urge the Supporters Club to give this fantastic initiative our full backing, and will ask ITFC to give serious consideration to the idea. It would enable us to pay respect to Sir Bobby in a way that brings football fans together from both his home and his adopted home clubs and raise substantial sums for the charitable cause that bears his name.
"It would be a practical statement from both Ipswich Town and Newcastle United that we each recognise the huge contribution that Sir Bobby has made (and continues to make) to our respective clubs."
The Sir Bobby Robson Foundation, the nominated ClubFanzine charity for May, was set up by the former Blues and Magpies boss earlier this year to focus on the early detection and treatment of cancer and clinical trials of new drugs that will eventually beat it.
The petition can be found here, while instigators Talk-of-the-Tyne.co.uk have set up a site in support here.
The clubs last met in a friendly at Portman Road in 2004 in a testimonial for the family of Town coach Dale Roberts, who died of Non-Hodgkin's Lymphoma in February 2003, the Blues winning 2-1.