Fixture Computer Must Be a Norwich Fan! - Ipswich Town News
Boss Mick McCarthy joked that the Football League’s fixture computer must be a Norwich fan with the Blues facing back-to-back lengthy trips twice in the next few weeks.
Town, who have seven games March, travel to Middlesbrough on Saturday and then Yeovil on Tuesday and they start April with two similarly long treks within a few days of one another.
"It is what it is. It’s not ideal,” McCarthy said. "I think the fixture computer’s a Norwich fan! We’ve got to go to Blackburn and Huddersfield on a Saturday and the following Tuesday as well.
"The question is, if you go up do you stay up? It’s a long old time, going up Friday afternoon and not getting back to Wednesday morning.
"I think the balance of being up there and preparing is counter-balanced by them being away from their families, not seeing the kids, being bored out of their boxes and not being able to do anything on the Sunday.
"So we take them to the pictures or 10-pin bowling or something boring and they don’t want to be there. It’s difficult.”
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