Premier Cup Semi-Final Set for Neutral Venue - Ipswich Town News
Town’s Suffolk Premier Cup semi-final at Lowestoft, scheduled for next Wednesday, is set to switch to a neutral venue following complaints from the other clubs in the last four. The Trawler Boys’ Crown Meadow was to have staged the game but the Suffolk FA website now states that Kirkley and Pakefield’s Walmer Road will host the match, in which the Blues will field a reserves side (KO 7.45pm).
Premier Cup rules state that semi-finals are to be played at neutral venues, but the clubs and the Suffolk FA initially agreed to play the game at Lowestoft’s Crown Meadow.
But complaints from Bury Town and Leiston, who meet at Needham Market’s Bloomfields on March 12th, have led to the switch to a neutral venue.
It's not the first time there has been controversy in this year's competition with the Blues readmitted after their quarter-final opponents Felixstowe and Walton were kicked out for fielding an ineligible player during their 2-1 victory last month.
Town beat Walsham-le-Willows 5-1 away in the first round.
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