| History fatigue 13:05 - May 19 with 3639 views | Illinoisblue |
Anyone else exhausted by the relentless looking back at our history? 20!years ago... 40 years ago.... there’s a fine line between being proud of our history and wallowing in it. And I realize the irony of posting this on Those Were the Days.
Put another way: it’s time for some new heroes |  |
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| History fatigue on 20:04 - May 19 with 690 views | ITFC_Forever |
| History fatigue on 13:50 - May 19 by PhilTWTD |
Just happens that a couple of big anniversaries are a day apart. |
As the Liverpool fans say, May is cup gathering season - as in “here we go gathering cups in May” - it was banner some Reds fans took to a final that had its 15 minutes of fame in a newspaper. |  |
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| History fatigue on 20:24 - May 19 with 656 views | Mullet |
Drink it all in. That generation won’t be around too much longer and once they go we are on to fairly thin gruel when it comes to nostalgia innit. |  |
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| History fatigue on 20:27 - May 19 with 651 views | jeera |
| History fatigue on 20:24 - May 19 by Mullet |
Drink it all in. That generation won’t be around too much longer and once they go we are on to fairly thin gruel when it comes to nostalgia innit. |
"That generation won’t be around too much longer."
And before that there will the forgetful stage.
So the stories will be muddled and possibly far fetched.
That's assuming log-in details are even remembered. |  |
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| History fatigue on 20:32 - May 19 with 641 views | Mullet |
| History fatigue on 20:27 - May 19 by jeera |
"That generation won’t be around too much longer."
And before that there will the forgetful stage.
So the stories will be muddled and possibly far fetched.
That's assuming log-in details are even remembered. |
Got Snr to retell a few on audio for that busy Harry a few years ago when he was only a bit sozzled. There are a chunk of fans who grew up without family who lived through it so I think for them it has a whole new meaning. I think HfB really enjoyed them because of that.
Even though I know the anecdotes and consumed the vhs and other memorabilia vociferously as a kid, that era is what defines Ipswich town for me. Anyone who knows football knows about them and respects the club for it etc | |
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| History fatigue on 20:42 - May 19 with 635 views | jeera |
| History fatigue on 20:32 - May 19 by Mullet |
Got Snr to retell a few on audio for that busy Harry a few years ago when he was only a bit sozzled. There are a chunk of fans who grew up without family who lived through it so I think for them it has a whole new meaning. I think HfB really enjoyed them because of that.
Even though I know the anecdotes and consumed the vhs and other memorabilia vociferously as a kid, that era is what defines Ipswich town for me. Anyone who knows football knows about them and respects the club for it etc |
As for the memories, it is important to record them properly and I really feel the club's history should still be something to be proud of, even for those who didn't get to witness some of it.
I love to read about Town winning the League and the recollections of those who witnessed it even though it happened years before I was even born.
Still makes you feel a bit proud, no matter how daft that sounds. | |
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| History fatigue on 20:52 - May 19 with 631 views | Nthsuffolkblue |
I never tire of watching back our play-off victory, the seasons in the Premier League and European matches. I quite enjoy watching back when we beat Norwich 5-0.
Although I wasn't fortunate enough to experience them first-hand, I enjoy our FA Cup, UEFA Cup and even Division 1 success.
Yes, I so hope the good times return and we desperately need some new heroes. |  |
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| History fatigue on 20:59 - May 19 with 623 views | blueislander |
| History fatigue on 20:42 - May 19 by jeera |
As for the memories, it is important to record them properly and I really feel the club's history should still be something to be proud of, even for those who didn't get to witness some of it.
I love to read about Town winning the League and the recollections of those who witnessed it even though it happened years before I was even born.
Still makes you feel a bit proud, no matter how daft that sounds. |
Whilst it is important to record the memories properly. Everyone doesn’t have the same memories of a given event. Memories are personal and this should be recognized. PHJ’s are very comprehensive as he attended lots of matches. Mine go back to the mid 50s , but they are selective. |  | | |
| History fatigue on 21:11 - May 19 with 610 views | patrickswell |
I do feel for fans who've followed the club since 2009. I mean forget about Robson or Ramsey's achievements and Burley's team, anyone following since then doesn't know what it's like to enjoy an FA Cup run or beat Norwich. They haven't even had a 1991/92 type season to come, apparently, out of the blue even though that appeared to be Evans's grand plan under Mick. |  | | |
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| History fatigue on 21:23 - May 19 with 602 views | Churchman |
| History fatigue on 20:42 - May 19 by jeera |
As for the memories, it is important to record them properly and I really feel the club's history should still be something to be proud of, even for those who didn't get to witness some of it.
I love to read about Town winning the League and the recollections of those who witnessed it even though it happened years before I was even born.
Still makes you feel a bit proud, no matter how daft that sounds. |
There is nothing daft about it. It makes me feel proud. My dad saw the early years and never really talked about them until recently. His first game was against Street (a team near Yeovil?) in the mid/late 1930s. His dad went long before when we were in the SAL. I’m proud of that.
What I know is that if the new owners can push us in the right direction, we will be a force again. Not Ramsey/Robson levels, but the long suffering supporters that have endured years of abject dross will see something well worth seeing. Something better than wondering if we can survive in the Championship in a year or two’s time.
We’ve served our time. |  | | |
| History fatigue on 21:40 - May 19 with 593 views | JonBlue |
Nah, it's great looking back over talented teams who won major honours while being managed by two of England's greatest ever managers.
What would be very tiresome is the sort of club that continually makes a big song and dance about a cup run that ended at the last 16 stage.
Tinpot. |  | | |
| History fatigue on 22:05 - May 19 with 560 views | Melford |
I was too young for Sir Bobby's team, I went to most of Lyall's team's glory but I was only 13-14. Missed out on most of the 2000 stuff because I was getting kicked out of University and was completely off my face most of the time, spring of 2000 I was doing some serious drugs so I don't really remember much of actually being there when I was.
I don't mind it, look where we 've been the last few years. If there was an Ipswich highlights video of the post Mick years it would be about 5 minutes long. There's nothing to enjoy there. It's natural to look back on better days. When Swindon do us at home, I'll play the video of us doing them 6-0 at their place under Burley. When we drew 0-0 at Charlton I played the video of Noel Hunt's goal when we nicked the last minute winner. |  |
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| History fatigue on 23:43 - May 19 with 523 views | stonojnr |
| History fatigue on 13:14 - May 19 by Steve_M |
Yes, finishing fifth in 2001 is now as far removed from today as 1981 was then. The fact that we've been in decline - with a couple of brighter periods - for two decades is fairly miserable. No promotions, no finals just three lots of play-offs and a League Cup semi final.
The combination of Sheepshanks & Burley fecking up the Summer of 2001, Royle just failing, Evans frittering money away on Keane and then not backing MM, then the post-MM era is five or six eras of failure rolled into one. |
thats the weirdest thing for me as 81 still felt alot further removed back in 01, than 21 does to 01, if that makes sense.
like I was at the Derby game, I remember it still fairly well,probably still have the ticket somewhere, one of those weird games that felt almost pre-season as you didnt really care how it turned out,and even still being fairly happy that we "only" qualified for the UEFA cup in the end given we'd been all the bookies favourites for relegation, so it doesnt feel that long ago to me, like Im thinking wow has it been 20 years.
but the 81 team felt like a world apart even in 2001 and much as they still do now to me, they were the team of legends, of the glory days, when those really were the days.
so maybe I can understand why younger people struggle with this heritage stuff, and because the past 20 years hasnt really delivered anything for them to celebrate much, no-one is going to reminisce in years to come about countless dreary games we've lost or rainy away days playing league 1 football.
oh and just a heads up its 60 years since Town won were first division champions next season...surprised it hasnt queued lots of why dont we have the 61/62 season kit style next season posts ;) | | | |
| History fatigue on 23:50 - May 19 with 521 views | TieDyedIn95 |
Yes, when it's mentioned every year - 41 years since won this, 21 years since we did that, 20 years fine, 40 years okay but harping on every year... yup... tedious. |  |
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| History fatigue on 09:11 - May 20 with 447 views | Sharkey |
I have a history question. What time did people start going into Churchman's before a big game, in the standing days? My brother and I were discussing it and reckoned we would be in there (waiting on the terrace with hundreds of others, not eating or drinking below) at least an hour before kick-off. Are we exaggerating things in our memory? |  | | |
| History fatigue on 09:16 - May 20 with 439 views | hype313 |
| History fatigue on 09:11 - May 20 by Sharkey |
I have a history question. What time did people start going into Churchman's before a big game, in the standing days? My brother and I were discussing it and reckoned we would be in there (waiting on the terrace with hundreds of others, not eating or drinking below) at least an hour before kick-off. Are we exaggerating things in our memory? |
I vividly remember being there at Midday most weeks, remember one occasion Micky Quinn was doing some warm ups, but basically spent the time chatting to all of us for half an hour, he was hilarious. |  |
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| History fatigue on 11:03 - May 20 with 395 views | Churchman |
| History fatigue on 09:11 - May 20 by Sharkey |
I have a history question. What time did people start going into Churchman's before a big game, in the standing days? My brother and I were discussing it and reckoned we would be in there (waiting on the terrace with hundreds of others, not eating or drinking below) at least an hour before kick-off. Are we exaggerating things in our memory? |
No, I don’t think so. Digging into the failing memory, if you wanted your usual spot for a ‘normal’ game you needed to be on the terrace an hour before kick off and earlier for the big games.
During say the 91/92 promotion season, most of the games, like the Duncan years, were poorly attended up to Christmas, but even with a crowd of say 10,000, you needed to be in a good time before kick off if you wanted a central view. | | | |
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