| Stories with Town players 13:44 - Mar 18 with 5453 views | hype313 |
A couple spring to mind.
One was when you were able to watch training having spent time at Alderman Road, I remember a Mich D'Avray volley driving straight into my face as I was 20 yards away and Bobby Ferguson coming up and saying "You would have been safer stood in goal son"
The other was whilst working at a Bar in town one Monday lunchtime Marcus came in, got chatting about the Tuesday night game against Utd, and I said I would love to go but didn't have a ticket, he said "Here you go, this was supposed to be for the Mother in Law, but I'd rather you take it" Legend. |  |
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| Stories with Town players on 10:35 - Mar 19 with 808 views | ADStephenson |
When I was playing under 18 football at Hadleigh United, Drey Wright was playing in one of the younger teams as Jermaine lived in Hadleigh. I never saw JW at matches, but he did always arrange a for player to give out the end of season awards. I won the manager's player of the season and had Dean Bowditch present me my award. He was probably only a year or two older than me and not as tall and looked genuinely delighted to be getting so much adulation.
I also played against John Wark at a five a side tournament around the same time. He was old, slow and overweight and the best player there by a mile. |  |
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| Stories with Town players on 10:45 - Mar 19 with 778 views | SchancheITFC |
Got a few. I went to Myland Primary at the same time as Neil Gregory and David. Played upfront with Neil in the school team.
Met Mick Stockwell sub contracting for his joinery firm.
During an evening in the Hippodrome Colchester my mate Ryan spotted Phil Whelan who we subsequently went an chatted to for a good while. Top bloke, as was Chris Kiwomya who was there too. |  | | |
| Stories with Town players on 11:04 - Mar 19 with 747 views | FattyBoomBoom |
I did work experience with Suffolk Police in the mid 90's. Out on patrol as a spotty 16 year old with an officer and attended a call to an intruder alarm at Sir Bobby's house. Think he was managing Porto at the time so house was not occupied. No intruder but wandered around his house with my jaw dragging on the floor mainly because of the memorabilia and photos he had on display, but also in awe of how big and beautiful it was.
After a night out in Chicago's one Thursday night (all you could drink for £12 IIRC) me and 2 mates scaled the fence/gate that used to stand at the corner of the Cobbold and North stand. My mate pushed me around the pitch in a wheelchair that was near the players' tunnel. Meanwhile the third mate took a dump in the away dugout. He wasn't a town fan and we fell out over it.
Not proud of my actions but after too many WKD Blue's to count it seemed like a great idea at the time. | | | |
| Stories with Town players on 11:14 - Mar 19 with 740 views | Keno |
| Stories with Town players on 08:58 - Mar 19 by hoppy |
Yeah, I’m quite aware of that, but thanks. |
he's shagging you? |  |
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| Stories with Town players on 11:49 - Mar 19 with 696 views | monkeymagic |
When Ipswich were away, me and my mate Mick took to watching Harwich and Parkeston, as Kevin Beattie was playing for them. (1985-1986, I think) We used to sit on the 'Main Road' terrace, there was no need to stand as there was only about 10 other punters. On one occasion, Mick turned to me and said "there's Paul Mariner, he's coming over". I thought he was taking the piss but it was indeed PM and he sat with us for most of the match, just chatting about football and asking how we were doing at school etc. Unbelievably nice man. During the game, he advised me to stop smoking (PM, not Mick) : I was 14 then and am still on the tabs now : I wish I'd listened to him. Despite The Beat being unfit and overweight, he played up front for H&P and weighed in with loads of goals that season.
I also met David Lowe in Reflections nightclub in Harwich, he was the best man at a wedding earlier in the day and many of the guests (& the bride and groom) were on the lash after the reception had finished. It’s not often you see a woman in full bridal gown in a nightclub.
I remember that he was surprisingly friendly considering I was a pissed up 18 year old who was eager to make a celebrity friend!
In the mid nineties I became a borderline groupie, consistently going in the Great White Horse hotel after home comes, as it was almost nailed on that a selection of Town players would arrive at some point. I seem to recall that Naylor and D Johnson were regulars in particular. [Post edited 19 Mar 2022 11:52]
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| Stories with Town players on 11:52 - Mar 19 with 693 views | urbanblue |
As a young teenager I was making one of my early outings in Ipswich at Tracey's nightclub. I was waiting at a packed bar to get a drink and finally got through to the front. It seemed ages before the barman finally turned towards me. As I shouted my order an arm appeared over my shoulder clutching a fiver and the barman ignored me to serve the guy behind me.
I turned around to remonstrate and slowly raised my head to be greeted by a don't feck with me glare from Allan Hunter ...
... Needless to say I just nodded a greeting 🤣 |  | | |
| Stories with Town players on 14:35 - Mar 19 with 568 views | hoppy |
A fair few years back now, (2010-11 season probably) KJ and I were out out in what was Boardwalk down on the waterfront. We found ourselves drinking with Gareth McAuley, Grant Leadbitter, ALB, Owen Garvan, Jack Ainsley and a couple of others - we got a round in and various beers were asked for except Grant Leadbitter, who asked us for a bottle of Rosé... as captain, Gareth seemed a bit embarrassed that he'd asked for a bottle rather than just a drink, so quietly slipped me a £20 note to cover part of it!
Another time, Yasmin was playing with Bart's kids in the play area at the Burger King near B&Q while his Mrs was eating. Bart himself decided to go across to the pizza hut to get himself something instead of a Whopper.
I once had a lovely last train journey back from London where I was sat opposite Jay Tabb and we were just chatting the whole journey.. don't know if I've ever mentioned that before. He's a smashing bloke, is Tabby,
We almost made Janoi miss the coach back from Dartford after the pre-season match down there last summer. He'd got off the coach to come and have a chat with us, and we were talking for a fair while, when all the rest of the players were on the coach by then... one of them rang him to see where he was as they were just waiting for him!
Bumped into Cole Skuse in Argos one Christmas Eve, when he was buying a fold-up bed last minute, as they were going to be having someone stay for Christmas and didn't have a spare bed for them. Yasmin always liked talking to one of his kids, being the same age.
We had a trip to the Suffolk Food Hall one summer day, where they've got the inflatable bouncy 'jumping pillow' and Yasmin was having a good bounce and play with Chambo and Skuse's kids
Saw Grant Ward in Isaacs with his mum and other family members the evening he'd made his hat-trick debut for us. His mum was lovely, and listened to Yasmin chatting for about 20 mins!
James Norwood has now got our lawnmower, which I took over to his for him, as we no longer needed it, as we've got paving and artificial grass now, and he was needing one when his fairly new lawn started growing fast.
We were the last ones having a chat with Mick McCarthy at his leaving drinks at The Dove... it was quite a low key exit, as we finished chatting, he said goodbye and then with a bottle of water in his hand, left on his own through the back gate and disappeared.
There's a few there, but have had plenty of other occasions that I can't remember. |  |
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| Stories with Town players on 15:46 - Mar 19 with 493 views | SE1blue |
I sold Matt Holland his house in Colchester when he arrived at Town.
Manu Thetis bought me a bottle of champagne for speaking French to him when none of the players would on a night out clubbing. [Post edited 19 Mar 2022 15:46]
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| Stories with Town players on 16:07 - Mar 19 with 443 views | farkenhell |
| Stories with Town players on 22:56 - Mar 18 by Lord_Lucan |
I remember that day, there was a huge queue to have your photo with the cup.
Fast forward a few years and before the Cologne semi final me and my mate Abdul - who later defected to support Norwich - thought it would be a laugh to sit in the Cologne dug out. We were in the West stand and we simply hopped over the barrier and sat in there. When the teams came out their staff started shouting at us, Bobby heard the commotion, came over, kicked us out and told us to "Feck off you couple of hooligans' |
They had the cup on one of the corners of the pitch and when we got there, the queue was already around three sides. My old man took one look and said "feck that!" We then wandered around the ground with me moaning like a good 'un, until he (who isn't blessed with much patience) said something like "either cheer up or we're leaving". I got Roger Osborne's and one of the reserve player's (Robin Turner, I think) autographs, but barely raised a smile. It wasn't until the encounter with Robson that, apparently, my mood lifted considerably. The old man didn't waste a moment to tell me "see, if we hadn't done as I said, you wouldn't have met Bobby Robson!"
There's spin, politics, and then there's my old Dad! | | | |
| Stories with Town players on 16:13 - Mar 19 with 428 views | oldburian |
I have to go back a long way as I am now one of the crumbliest. It was my first season in village football in West Suffolk. I was sixteen, six foot and weighed just 9 stone 3. We were playing the league leaders and in goal was an exTown player called Tom Brown. He had left Town in 1953 and had played for Bury Town but that season they gone amateur.
Early in the match our inside forward got to the by line and hit a cracking drive cross which I got on the end of and easily headed it into the net.
On the next attack Tom came to me and congratulated me on a brave goal and said he and his fellow ex pro had looked at me and thought I would be no problem. He added enjoy that because that will be the last kick I would get. And that happened. I looked like a refugee from Biafra and scored a lot of goals that season because I am sure opponents all thought the same. | | | |
| Stories with Town players on 16:24 - Mar 19 with 409 views | farkenhell |
| Stories with Town players on 08:35 - Mar 19 by norfsufblue |
Spent a crowded train journey to London standing in the corridor chatting to Brian Talbot ( then with Arsenal) comparing life with the Gunners v Town . Said he hardly saw their manager (Terry Neill?) whilst Sir Bob ran absolutely everything at Ipswich and knew everyone by name, not necessarily their own!! |
Completely off topic, but in the summer of '77, I participated in a junior 5-a-side football tournament with some mates. Emlyn Hughes was the face of the tournament and there were a few pro's and celebrities there, including Terry Neill. Between matches, you could go on a celebrity hunt and during one of these, my mates and I found Mr Neill. I proudly offered up my ITFC autograph book, he spotted the badge and, out of the blue, he started to belittle the Town ("why don't you support a proper club" etc). My mates, none of whom supported Town, thought this was hilarious and egged him on. It was all light-hearted and he did end up saying "they're not that bad, I suppose" before handing the book back.
I was very disappointed in myself that I couldn't think of a suitable repost to put him, and particularly my Arsenal-supporting mate, in his place. Had the tournament happened 12 months later, I would have had the perfect opportunity of course! | | | |
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