Lee's Link With Blues Legend - Ipswich Town News
Ipswich star Lee Martin has revealed a link with one of the club’s greatest-ever players, League Championship-winning defender Billy Baxter, who was 70 when he died in 2009.
Martin’s best friend, Scott Fordham, is the grandson of Baxter, who clocked up 459 first team appearances and scored 22 goals between 1960 and 1971, when he left for Hull.
Many supporters who saw him in his prime rated Edinburgh-born Baxter so highly that they voted for him in polls to find the club’s greatest-ever player.
Martin said: "Scott has been my best pal for years and when Ipswich came in to sign me he was telling me I had to join them because his grandfather had played for them.
"I still see Scott regularly and he’s coming up to Ipswich next week for the Middlesbrough game to help me celebrate my 25th birthday.”
Scott’s mother, Elaine, is Billy and Dorothy’s only daughter. She was born in Ipswich and later lived with her parents in Scotland before moving to the London area.
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