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Mathie 2, 27,42, Petra 56,81. A day the home fans will never forget. Mathie snaps up a joyous first-half hat-trick, the first after 64 seconds. He departs at half-time to protect a calf problem. After Robert Fleck's comical miss, Holland rolls the ball to Petta for the fourth goal. A run into the box leads to Petta's second. Town
Wright Stockwell Clapham Mowbray Cundy Uhlenbeek Holland Petta Johnson Mathie
Attendance 21,858. Season review 1987-98 Finished 5th P 46 Home W 14 D 5 L 4 F 47 A 20 Away W 9 D 9 L 5 F 30 A 23 83 points Player of the year: Matt Holland Leading scorer: David Johnson (22) Double wins: (6) Reading, Port Vale, Man City, Swindon , Portsmouth, Bury Double loss (1) Nottingham Forest Reached the play-offs Only one league defeat after the season's halfway point. The cup victory over Manchester United Seven successive home wins. Stockwell's superb winner at Bury to clinch a play-off spot. Eight missed penalties ( Johnson 2, Mathie, Dyer, Tanner, Stein, Scowcroft and Taricco). The unsavory incident which left Taricco covered in blood in the player's bar after the first play-off game. The home defeat by Stockport in November, leaving Town in 22nd spot. Average home attendance 14,973.
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On this day 1998 Ipswich 5 Norwich 0 on 11:37 - Feb 21 with 5205 views
On this day 1998 Ipswich 5 Norwich 0 on 11:37 - Feb 21 by BlueinBrum
My first derby, aged 6. Have some really vivid memories though, particularly the helicopter delivering the ball pre-kick off.
Interesting that our avg attendance that year was under 15k despite us being relatively good.
I remember the helicopter and it caused a bit of a delay to kickoff, so Rob Chandler basically quickly read out the Ipswich team and said something like "won't bother reading their team - who cares"
As so often in following Ipswich, a high point is followed by an ongoing low. We’ve only won 5 of the 28 derbies played since then.
I’ve supported Town for over 30 years and only made it to about 70 games in that time. I often feel that the period I would have most wanted to see week in/week out from that time would have been the last 20 league matches of the 1997/98 season. We picked up 52 points out of 60, hit 5 goals on four separate occasions, won every match in March and played splendid football by all accounts.
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On this day 1998 Ipswich 5 Norwich 0 on 12:37 - Feb 21 with 5100 views
On this day 1998 Ipswich 5 Norwich 0 on 12:37 - Feb 21 by Pinewoodblue
Hadn’t realised we missed so many penalties.
We scored five goals in three consecutive home games. TWTD.
Oxford and Man City were the other games I think. Didn’t Wright get clattered in the head and come back to finish the Oxford game with 2 dozen stitches in his head?
On this day 1998 Ipswich 5 Norwich 0 on 12:37 - Feb 21 by Pinewoodblue
Hadn’t realised we missed so many penalties.
We scored five goals in three consecutive home games. TWTD.
A club record. Huddersfield 5-1 Holland, Johnson (2), Mathie, Naylor. Att 10,509. Norwich 5-0 Oxford 5-2 Mathie, Johnson hat-trick, Holland. Att 11,824
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On this day 1998 Ipswich 5 Norwich 0 on 12:49 - Feb 21 with 5070 views
On this day 1998 Ipswich 5 Norwich 0 on 12:45 - Feb 21 by monytowbray
Oxford and Man City were the other games I think. Didn’t Wright get clattered in the head and come back to finish the Oxford game with 2 dozen stitches in his head?
It was against Oxford. Wright goes off for stiches and stand-in Holland is beaten by Kevin Francis.
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On this day 1998 Ipswich 5 Norwich 0 on 13:18 - Feb 21 with 5024 views
I remember the helicopter. Boy that thing was loud, ringing around those stands. Great game. Bobby Petta was a good little player. Always liked his style. Bit underrated l always thought. Anyone know whatever happened to him?
On this day 1998 Ipswich 5 Norwich 0 on 13:18 - Feb 21 by r2d2
I remember the helicopter. Boy that thing was loud, ringing around those stands. Great game. Bobby Petta was a good little player. Always liked his style. Bit underrated l always thought. Anyone know whatever happened to him?
god i remember this game, it was such a beautiful thing to behold.
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On this day 1998 Ipswich 5 Norwich 0 on 11:53 - Feb 21 by ParisBlue
I remember the helicopter and it caused a bit of a delay to kickoff, so Rob Chandler basically quickly read out the Ipswich team and said something like "won't bother reading their team - who cares"
A perfect day...
Glad you mentioned the helicopter. I mentioned this to various supporters who had been there over the last few years and they couldn't remember it. I was starting to thing I imagined it at one point. Can't imagine they would ever allow that now - I'm surprised it was even allowed then. Amazing, amazing afternoon and the last one (probably ever) on Saturday at 3pm
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On this day 1998 Ipswich 5 Norwich 0 on 13:51 - Feb 21 with 4961 views
I remember the match report in the Telegraph on the Monday after. It said something like "they usually say the form book goes out of the window in a local derby. Well in this case it came straight back in the window and hit Norwich squarely on the head"
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On this day 1998 Ipswich 5 Norwich 0 on 13:56 - Feb 21 with 4945 views
On this day 1998 Ipswich 5 Norwich 0 on 13:18 - Feb 21 by r2d2
I remember the helicopter. Boy that thing was loud, ringing around those stands. Great game. Bobby Petta was a good little player. Always liked his style. Bit underrated l always thought. Anyone know whatever happened to him?
Bobby real name is Alfred Manuel Petta.
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On this day 1998 Ipswich 5 Norwich 0 on 13:34 - Feb 22 with 4568 views
On this day 1998 Ipswich 5 Norwich 0 on 12:24 - Feb 21 by patrickswell
As so often in following Ipswich, a high point is followed by an ongoing low. We’ve only won 5 of the 28 derbies played since then.
I’ve supported Town for over 30 years and only made it to about 70 games in that time. I often feel that the period I would have most wanted to see week in/week out from that time would have been the last 20 league matches of the 1997/98 season. We picked up 52 points out of 60, hit 5 goals on four separate occasions, won every match in March and played splendid football by all accounts.
Was the last derby victory I saw :( first season I had a season ticket too so didn't even get to keep a ticket from the game as a reminder.good chunk of their fans left at half time,but Marshall was at fault for at least 2 of our goals,it wasnt a game we thought we could win 5-0 to be 3-0 halftime was surreal, still got my Evening Star 5-0 badge and Ltd edn score cards. Always a shame they never released the whole game on video,only highlights.
The thing is at the time you dont really appreciate it as a this is a golden age of Town you are watching and 22 years later we'd be scrapping around in L1 so make sure you take it all in. It was just going to games was fun and enjoyable win lose or draw
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On this day 1998 Ipswich 5 Norwich 0 on 15:23 - Feb 22 with 4408 views
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