| ITFC: the soap opera 14:10 - Feb 19 with 720 views | Illinoisblue |
The Men Who Destroyed the Town is just waiting to be written. My only wish right now is that Lambert holds on long enough until fans are allowed back and the fraud gets the send off he deserves. |  |
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| ITFC: the soap opera on 17:05 - Feb 19 with 632 views | Scuzzer |
The Man Who Destroyed the Town more like. |  |
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| ITFC: the soap opera on 17:09 - Feb 19 with 620 views | BlueWorldOrder |
| ITFC: the soap opera on 17:05 - Feb 19 by Scuzzer |
The Man Who Destroyed the Town more like. |
Marcus Evans.
Club Killer. |  |
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| ITFC: the soap opera on 17:16 - Feb 19 with 621 views | PhilTWTD |
Ha, my column in the Gazette today, which they don't publish online, was along precisely those lines: "Get out of my bloody club!" |  | | |
| ITFC: the soap opera on 17:17 - Feb 19 with 610 views | hype313 |
| ITFC: the soap opera on 17:16 - Feb 19 by PhilTWTD |
Ha, my column in the Gazette today, which they don't publish online, was along precisely those lines: "Get out of my bloody club!" |
Any chance you can copy and paste into a thread here Phil, would love to read it. |  |
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| ITFC: the soap opera on 17:19 - Feb 19 with 604 views | BlueWorldOrder |
| ITFC: the soap opera on 17:16 - Feb 19 by PhilTWTD |
Ha, my column in the Gazette today, which they don't publish online, was along precisely those lines: "Get out of my bloody club!" |
Write the book! Cash in! | |
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| ITFC: the soap opera on 18:31 - Feb 19 with 563 views | PhilTWTD |
| ITFC: the soap opera on 17:17 - Feb 19 by hype313 |
Any chance you can copy and paste into a thread here Phil, would love to read it. |
Here you go:
Remember Dream Team, Sky’s early late nineties/early 2000s footballing soap opera? Events at Portman Road over the last few days reminded me of it.
It’s sad to say but Ipswich Town has become a real life footballing soap opera with this week one of those involving major storylines which would be trailed for a fortnight beforehand.
After a Saturday trip to Shrewsbury to discover to a frozen pitch and abandoned plans to restage the game the following day, the drama really got going on Monday.
Fans’ group Blue Action staged a protest in which a flare unintentionally caused a small fire and training had to be suspended for 10 minutes.
Absent from that incident were Kayden Jackson and Jon Nolan, banished to the under-23s squad for crossing manager Paul Lambert.
Tuesday’s home 0-0 draw with lowly Northampton saw a performance so disjointed and vapid that it might as well have been a group of soap actors wearing Town shirts. Had fans been present the boos would have been deafening.
The game has already gone into football folklore for referee Darren Drysdale bizarrely squaring-up to Alan Judge and for the second time in a couple of days events at Town were all over the nationals.
Post-match, under-fire Lambert gave a rambling press conference admitting that the display and 11th in League One are far from good enough but insisting that it wasn’t all his fault, that the malaise and disharmony at the club goes back beyond him and that the club lacks a structure.
Lambert, who has only sporadically graced the local media with his presence of late, even those he hasn’t banned, continued in a similar vein on Sky Sports, talkSPORT and 5Live the following day.
He may have a point about structure and there being issues behind the scenes but making these observations now at this point after two and a half years at the club is merely deflection and obfuscation.
Meanwhile, fans have continued to tear their hair out regarding the state of their club, urging owner Marcus Evans to end Lambert’s disastrous tenure and tell him to “get out of my bloody club”, to paraphrase another soap.
Why Evans allows matters to get to crisis point before he acts only he knows but that’s where we are, as we have been almost every time there’s been a managerial change under his watch.
Has a decision now been made and will the axe finally fall once a new boss has been recruited? Tune in next week to find out. | | | |
| ITFC: the soap opera on 18:34 - Feb 19 with 544 views | hype313 |
| ITFC: the soap opera on 18:31 - Feb 19 by PhilTWTD |
Here you go:
Remember Dream Team, Sky’s early late nineties/early 2000s footballing soap opera? Events at Portman Road over the last few days reminded me of it.
It’s sad to say but Ipswich Town has become a real life footballing soap opera with this week one of those involving major storylines which would be trailed for a fortnight beforehand.
After a Saturday trip to Shrewsbury to discover to a frozen pitch and abandoned plans to restage the game the following day, the drama really got going on Monday.
Fans’ group Blue Action staged a protest in which a flare unintentionally caused a small fire and training had to be suspended for 10 minutes.
Absent from that incident were Kayden Jackson and Jon Nolan, banished to the under-23s squad for crossing manager Paul Lambert.
Tuesday’s home 0-0 draw with lowly Northampton saw a performance so disjointed and vapid that it might as well have been a group of soap actors wearing Town shirts. Had fans been present the boos would have been deafening.
The game has already gone into football folklore for referee Darren Drysdale bizarrely squaring-up to Alan Judge and for the second time in a couple of days events at Town were all over the nationals.
Post-match, under-fire Lambert gave a rambling press conference admitting that the display and 11th in League One are far from good enough but insisting that it wasn’t all his fault, that the malaise and disharmony at the club goes back beyond him and that the club lacks a structure.
Lambert, who has only sporadically graced the local media with his presence of late, even those he hasn’t banned, continued in a similar vein on Sky Sports, talkSPORT and 5Live the following day.
He may have a point about structure and there being issues behind the scenes but making these observations now at this point after two and a half years at the club is merely deflection and obfuscation.
Meanwhile, fans have continued to tear their hair out regarding the state of their club, urging owner Marcus Evans to end Lambert’s disastrous tenure and tell him to “get out of my bloody club”, to paraphrase another soap.
Why Evans allows matters to get to crisis point before he acts only he knows but that’s where we are, as we have been almost every time there’s been a managerial change under his watch.
Has a decision now been made and will the axe finally fall once a new boss has been recruited? Tune in next week to find out. |
Cheers Phil good summation of the week. | |
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| ITFC: the soap opera on 20:49 - Feb 19 with 461 views | The_Last_Baron |
Eastwood and Moyes are on the case. |  |
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