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Blog		 Time's Up Mark
by bluelagos at 15:04 27 Mar 2026

Trust is a funny thing, it takes years to develop and in extreme circumstances, minutes to end. Whether that's in a relationship, a friendship or in a commercial setting, when it breaks down it is simply time to move on.
Blog		 Between The Lines, The Irreverent Poetry Of Ipswich Town. No.39 - Pains In The Neck
by The_Flashing_Smile at 09:18 26 Mar 2026

At the end of my last intro I said, “See you again for more of the same next week”.
Blog		 Faragegate
by bluelagos at 09:33 25 Mar 2026

"Is that Chelsea?"
"How did that happen?"
"Massive own goal"
Blog		 The Evolution of Referees
by essexccc at 21:15 17 Mar 2026

The quality of officials - or lack of it - has taken up a lot of space in Town discussions in the last two weeks or so. Personally, I have been appalled at the penalty decisions which have cost us four points - assuming we had scored the spot-kicks we should have had. And you could extend that to six, if you include the Preston game.
Blog		 Between The Lines, The Irreverent Poetry Of Ipswich Town. No.38 - Shockaholics
by The_Flashing_Smile at 10:12 16 Mar 2026

It’s been an interesting week or so, to say the least.
Blog		 Between The Lines, The Irreverent Poetry Of Ipswich Town. No.37 - I Don’t Want To Write This Poem
by The_Flashing_Smile at 12:59 12 Mar 2026

Well I was angry. And speechless. And then I calmed down. Terrible defending at the end of the first half saw two conceded. Then a stirring second-half comeback to go 3-2 up - were we finally to get that ‘win from behind’?
Blog		 Between The Lines, The Irreverent Poetry Of Ipswich Town. No.36 - Bogies
by The_Flashing_Smile at 16:58 8 Mar 2026

My last poem involving this ref (v Preston), you might recall was less than flattering. Once again he dominates the match and the poem, nothing any ref should ever do.
Blog		 Between The Lines, The Irreverent Poetry Of Ipswich Town. No.35 - A Matusiwa Smile
by The_Flashing_Smile at 08:55 6 Mar 2026

This was tense. Hull came to battle hard, defend deep, and hit us on the break if they could. And they did a pretty decent job of it, despite, bizarrely, not actually fashioning an effort on target. So why did it feel so tense then?!
Blog		 Between The Lines, The Irreverent Poetry Of Ipswich Town. No.34 - A Variety Of Jams
by The_Flashing_Smile at 12:48 2 Mar 2026

I think you, the reader of these poems, needs to feel my pain. This weekend it wasn’t with the football, which was excellent. Instead it was a traffic jam on the A12 heading back to my mum’s in Essex, which I was in, and not moving, for three hours. I managed to weave that into this poem, so it wasn’t a total waste.
Blog		 Between The Lines, The Irreverent Poetry Of Ipswich Town. No.33 - Unconventions
by The_Flashing_Smile at 13:12 25 Feb 2026

Well this was much better, unconventionally so. A solid, largely untroubled away win, with a couple of unconventional goals. And even - unconventionally by Town’s standards - a penalty save. Suddenly we’re all unconventionally happy again!
Blog		 Between The Lines, The Irreverent Poetry Of Ipswich Town. No.32 - Disney Princesses
by The_Flashing_Smile at 09:57 22 Feb 2026

I started writing this one before the game even finished, so prepare yourselves for a curled out stream of spit-filled consciousness.
Blog		 Between The Lines, The Irreverent Poetry Of Ipswich Town. No.31 - Heads Tales
by The_Flashing_Smile at 10:02 8 Feb 2026

A much better away performance than we’ve come to expect, albeit with the usual not-taken-chances that would’ve made this early kick-off more relaxing.
Blog		 Between The Lines, The Irreverent Poetry Of Ipswich Town. No.30 - Writ Chefs
by The_Flashing_Smile at 09:49 2 Feb 2026

Well I know we weren’t good enough. And we can’t blame the ref, John Busby, for everything. But he was terrible, and this poem is mostly blaming him. So sue me.
Blog		 McKenna's Men Part Three: A Bridge Too Far?
by Edmundo at 22:32 26 Jan 2026

The final (for now) part of a look at Kieran McKenna's (and let's be honest, many others') incomings during the season just gone.
Blog		 Between The Lines, The Irreverent Poetry Of Ipswich Town. No.29 - Soft Balls In A Steel City
by The_Flashing_Smile at 10:28 25 Jan 2026

One of those days when everything goes wrong, but my overall feeling was of being dragged down to the Blades’ level and bullied into submission. Not helped by the ref. Or his watch in the first half. Or missing gilt-edged chances. Or luck. Or a quiet crowd getting fired up. Or Wilder’s antics. Just an absolute mess in every sense.
Blog		 Between The Lines, The Irreverent Poetry Of Ipswich Town. No.28 - Iván Azón, Cursed
by The_Flashing_Smile at 09:51 21 Jan 2026

Poor old Iván. You’ve got to feel for the guy, haven’t you? He doesn’t seem to be doing a lot wrong, in fact this was probably his best game. But he just gets no luck in front of goal. Quite the opposite in fact. This time it was an almost unexplainable save that denied the Spaniard.
Blog		 Between The Lines, The Irreverent Poetry Of Ipswich Town. No.27 - More Pitch Problems For Rovers
by The_Flashing_Smile at 10:25 20 Jan 2026

I was surprised at how many times Blackburn players kicked the ball into touch in this game. A different kind of pitch problem to the rained off game at their place…
Blog		 McKenna's Men Part Two: The Championship of Dreams
by Edmundo at 12:53 5 Jan 2026

Following on from Part One: League One Days, I'm continuing my look at the signings made under Kieran McKenna's stewardship. This time we look back on the signings that took us from League One runners-up to the Premier League.
Blog		 Between The Lines, The Irreverent Poetry Of Ipswich Town. No.26 - Two One And Tickled Pink
by The_Flashing_Smile at 18:20 2 Jan 2026

Poems, like matches, come thick and fast this time of year! I felt the amazing pink sky that appeared just before the start of the second half was quite poetic, more so than the game itself, so I focused on that. The result, and other results, left us sitting in the pink in second.
Blog		 Between The Lines, The Irreverent Poetry Of Ipswich Town. No.25 - Ruff Justice
by The_Flashing_Smile at 10:00 1 Jan 2026

I started writing this one in an NHS walk-in centre, having been bitten by a dog in Nottingham. Up until then I was, despite the fantastic performance and result, struggling to find a theme to pull it all together. So every cloud, and all that.
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