| When someone asks you 20:43 - Sep 1 with 788 views | textbackup |
What do you say/when do you start your clock for when you started supporting?
For example, if you’re 54 years old do you say 54 years… or do you go from when you first went to a game, so maybe 35 years?
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| When someone asks you on 20:46 - Sep 1 with 722 views | J2BLUE |
First game.
34 years ago. |  |
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| When someone asks you on 20:56 - Sep 1 with 652 views | DBaldy |
First game is probably the easiest way of measuring it, although there will be people who followed/supported the team that weren't able to attend any games until later. There will also be those where the first time they saw us play was on TV rather than in person, so there isn't going to be a one size fits all answer. |  | | |
| When someone asks you on 21:01 - Sep 1 with 603 views | BornDeleuze |
First game I recall being at was Mick Mills testimonial in 1977 but know I was at some before that but can’t recall which specifically. 48 years ago. Jeez. |  | | |
| When someone asks you on 21:02 - Sep 1 with 585 views | Clutch |
Since birth? |  | | |
| When someone asks you on 21:04 - Sep 1 with 581 views | SitfcB |
I started supporting Town 25 years ago, Wembley 2000, glory hunter. Had no interest in football before that.
First game wasn’t until 2002 but always go from 2000 as remember it clearly, well some of it. |  |
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| When someone asks you on 21:07 - Sep 1 with 543 views | textbackup |
| When someone asks you on 21:04 - Sep 1 by SitfcB |
I started supporting Town 25 years ago, Wembley 2000, glory hunter. Had no interest in football before that.
First game wasn’t until 2002 but always go from 2000 as remember it clearly, well some of it. |
In years to come Robson will point and laugh at you | |
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| When someone asks you on 21:08 - Sep 1 with 527 views | Plums |
Since I was 7 (now 53). Dad was in the army and working in Whitehall, we lived in North London. All the kids at school were Spurs or Arsenal. A team in blue won the cup. Being the contrary bloke I am, I liked that. I then saw a woven badge in a sports shop window with the legend "Ipswich Town FA Cup Winners 1978" on it. Told my mum 'that's my team', she eventually bought it for me (I still have it) and sewed it on my tracksuit.
Nine months later we moved to Suffolk. It was fate. |  |
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| When someone asks you on 21:08 - Sep 1 with 515 views | Reuser_is_God |
First game for me, coming up to 30 years. |  |
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| When someone asks you on 21:08 - Sep 1 with 513 views | EatonBlue |
I usually say August 1964 which was the first time that I went to Portman Road without my parents taking me. |  | | |
| When someone asks you on 21:12 - Sep 1 with 459 views | bluelagos |
I go from 78 as that is when I got a shirt and properly followed Towen. First trips to Portman Rd not til 84/5 season.
Used to work Saturdays so most of my games were midweek games, recall plenty of cup ties/replays (Everton, Norwich and West Ham) in the first couple of years. |  |
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| When someone asks you on 21:13 - Sep 1 with 452 views | SitfcB |
| When someone asks you on 21:07 - Sep 1 by textbackup |
In years to come Robson will point and laugh at you |
Yep, yep and I’ll have to take it haha.
I still sometimes sit and think in disbelief that I literally had 20+ years of shít, with just some play off heartache and a cup semi and then he came along and got a promotion from League 1, a promotion from the Championship in his first year as a s/t holder and then a season in the PL with some memorable moments.
Unbelievable haha. | |
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| When someone asks you on 21:16 - Sep 1 with 425 views | WeWereZombies |
| When someone asks you on 21:08 - Sep 1 by Plums |
Since I was 7 (now 53). Dad was in the army and working in Whitehall, we lived in North London. All the kids at school were Spurs or Arsenal. A team in blue won the cup. Being the contrary bloke I am, I liked that. I then saw a woven badge in a sports shop window with the legend "Ipswich Town FA Cup Winners 1978" on it. Told my mum 'that's my team', she eventually bought it for me (I still have it) and sewed it on my tracksuit.
Nine months later we moved to Suffolk. It was fate. |
I'm another supporter since the age of seven, my Dad was from Battersea but nominally a Spurs supporter although football came a long way down the pecking order compared to the TT races for him. So we were kicking a ball around and he mentioned Spurs and then said 'the local team won the league last season', this was in late 1962 but outside a villa in Mallorca. However I realised he meant Ipswich (we still had a place in Melton). Lucky that, I could have ended up supporting a team with Finidi George in it...
[edit: it was five or more years before I actually went to Portman Road, a reserves game against Portsmouth, 5-5] [Post edited 1 Sep 21:18]
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| When someone asks you on 21:20 - Sep 1 with 399 views | The_Romford_Blue |
3rd birthday. Was just assumed I’d be a Man U fan like my dad and grandad or West Ham like 99.9% of Romford.
My West Ham uncle bought me an Ipswich shirt for my third birthday. The orange one. As a joke because I liked tractors. So of course I’d like the tractor boys.
Little did anyone know from there I’d make sure to watch every game on tv, ask for a Southend away game ticket for my 12th birthday and make my first trip to Portman road a year or so after that. Then have a season ticket for 10 years and counting. Guess I’ve kept the ‘joke’ going. Uppa Towen. |  |
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| When someone asks you on 21:25 - Sep 1 with 376 views | Furrow |
When I was just under 7 years of age.
First game and was hooked.
Easter 67 years ago |  | | |
| When someone asks you on 21:27 - Sep 1 with 358 views | Ftnfwest |
Slightly hazy as not from Ipswich and it wasn’t linked to a particular game. More based around dear old Gerry Harrison’s (RIP) commentary and match of the week. The first cup final I can remember watching was Sunderland v Leeds 1973 and I know I was supporting town prior to that, so date it from start of that year, with first game I went to in 1975. So that rather than from birth. |  | | |
| When someone asks you on 21:46 - Sep 1 with 290 views | farkenhell |
First live game was in 78 (FA Cup v Hartlepool), but watched Town highlights on Match of the Week for years before that, always asked for ITFC presents for birthdays and Christmas, even had my bedroom walls painted blue & white with ITFC wall posters. I can recall crying my eyes out when my mum told me that we had lost in the 75 semi-final replay (b@stard Clive Thomas).
Btw, my dad refused to take me to a live game until I was "old enough". I learned years later the real reason was that he didn't want me to interrupt his pre-match routine in the pub! | | | |
| When someone asks you on 21:56 - Sep 1 with 257 views | Steve_M |
First game is the cleanest measure but not sure it’s the only one, even that’s 40 years ago this year.
I remember the parade after winning the UEFA Cup at age 4.5 so there’s that too and, at 18 months old, my teddy got renamed Wembley to mark the Cup Final so was aware of why too at some point.
So, I think the answer is it depends - especially for those of us who born into strongly Town supporting families. |  |
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| When someone asks you on 22:02 - Sep 1 with 226 views | norfsufblue |
Moved to Suffolk sometime in 1973 as a sort of West Ham following 12 year old.... got interested in the banter at school ( Eye)between the many Town fans and the less popular budgies so when my mates Dad who lived next door offerred to take me to a game with them I jumped at the chance.... From that day 22/09/1973 I was absolutely hooked, it was the Saturday after we'd beaten Real Madrid 1-0 midweek and it was v Burnley, we won 3-2 on a beautiful day, great match Colin Harper one and Bryan Hamilton scored twice and I saw Kevin Beattie for the first time.It was Burnleys first defeat of the season. My Avatar is the programme cover! |  | | |
| When someone asks you on 22:25 - Sep 1 with 179 views | floridablue |
I remember as a young teenager in the mid to late sixties and living in Ipswich town centre, with a group of 6 mates starting a Subbuteo (table football) league. We were all regular kids at Portman road, yet not one of us chose Ipswich as our team name. Well, we were in the second division at the time! My first game at PR was 62/63 so that's how long I've been following them. | | | |
| When someone asks you on 22:33 - Sep 1 with 151 views | waveneyblue |
Think it was 1985, remember the Milk Cup defeat to scum really really hurt. I was 12.
First game was 1986 |  | | |
| When someone asks you on 22:38 - Sep 1 with 132 views | monkeymagic |
Started school in 1976, most of the kids were Liverpool fans and I wanted to be a little different so picked Ipswich. First game was Jan 1980, never looked back! | | | |
| When someone asks you on 22:41 - Sep 1 with 115 views | emergencylime |
Before I left Suffolk to start college, I had little interest in football, but my new found friends were all into it so I started paying attention.
That was 1998, so good timing really.
Saying that, my first time at PR was I think when I was a cub scout, and Town were at home to Man Utd. I think it was around '94 but I remember nothing beyond going to see a game. |  |
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| When someone asks you on 22:42 - Sep 1 with 99 views | Meadowlark |
First match, October 1968. 57 years next month. |  | | |
| When someone asks you on 22:43 - Sep 1 with 98 views | Nthsuffolkblue |
My parents were fans and I can't recall a time when I wouldn't have considered myself to support Town either. As such, I say since birth. |  |
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| When someone asks you on 22:48 - Sep 1 with 66 views | TheBoyBlue |
Before I went to a match aged 9 I didn't really follow football. Neither parent was into it and I was introduced to it by an uncle. Hooked ever since. November 1987. | |
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