Town have announced that next Saturday’s game against Swindon will be their inaugural memorial matchday, a new annual initiative paying tribute to fans, ex-players and staff who died during the previous year at the first home game each January.

Prior to the game against the Robins there will be a minute’s applause prior to kick-off in tribute to those connected to the club who passed away during 2020.

In addition, there will be a dedicated page in the programme and messages on the scoreboard and on the club’s social media channels.

If fans want to remember a fellow supporter who died during 2020, the club are asking for their full name, date of birth and a photo to be sent by email to dan.palfrey@itfc.co.uk by 10am on Wednesday.

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heathen66 added 13:58 - Jan 1 Excellent Idea, well done all at ITFC
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masetheace added 15:40 - Jan 1 I trust that the so called supporters action group will respect the occasion and call of the proposed demo . I say this more in hope than anticipation !!
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BotesdaleBlue added 16:01 - Jan 1 This is a very good move by the Club, which I am sure all fans will support. Well done Town.
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Bluearmy_81 added 16:10 - Jan 1 This is a lovely gesture but it seems quite a coincidence, scheduling this to coincide with the protest. I can only see this as a disgusting contempt for long suffering fans.
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tractorboybig added 16:26 - Jan 1 a con
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MonkeyAlan added 16:53 - Jan 1 Good idea. But you can't help but think it's a coincidence that it's the same day as the proposed protest.
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northerngeezer added 17:38 - Jan 1 Great idea ITFC,,,,,Be interested to see this proposed protest with no fans in the ground?
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slade1 added 17:52 - Jan 1 If it is a coincidence that its the same day as the protest then good on the football club for deflecting the attention away.
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Bluearmy_81 added 19:17 - Jan 1 Yes Slade, how dare Town fans express their dissatisfaction at us becoming a joke club!! Stick with Evans and his 5 point plan, its warming up nicely.. 😂😂😂 All these things take time
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Bert added 20:45 - Jan 1 What's the problem ? The protest is outside and the memorial event inside an empty stadium. Both can happen if that's what supporters want.
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bobble added 07:46 - Jan 2 a better tribute would be to never ever vote again for the political parties and people who ignored the life's of vulnerable people over profits and political ideology....always remember that the current UK government chose this path of death and economic damage when alternatives were available.
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slade1 added 08:34 - Jan 2 Bluearmy, are you really that naive? You go along to your ridicules protest then, I'm sure more people will be laughing at you than be supporting you. Just tell me where this club would be without Evans bankrolling us and keeping us afloat? I think you already know the answer to that.
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Bluearmy_81 added 11:58 - Jan 2 Could your nose get any browner Slade? He's killing your club ffs, it's been death by a thousand cuts since around 2012. We are division 3 of 4 and its highly doubtable we will be going anywhere anytime soon. Norwich going up by the looks of it and who could argue the pride of anglia. 2 divisions between us again soon. We're a joke. What on earth is wrong with 'fans' like you?!! People that claim they support ITFC yet are satisfied we exist and are thankful to Evans for his huge, chronic failure are one of the mysteries of my life.

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Bluearmy_81 added 12:25 - Jan 2 No one made ME buy the club. There were other suitors. When he did he took on a duty of care to the club and its supporters. He has failed both miserably. The fans of just about every other club in this land would have turned on such a poor owner, demanding better for their club and would have protested against such underinvestment years ago. It's staggering how so many of you here have such little insight into how pitiful and poor fans inaction has been...

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Timefliesbyintheblue added 13:14 - Jan 2 Whow, what a miserable lot you really are. Bluearmy_81; your rhetoric and stupidity we are all used to, but bobble, surely this is not the forum and should be about football not polotics. We are all aware that you believe Messers Corbyn, Mcdonnell and Abbott would have done a much better job.
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Timefliesbyintheblue added 13:14 - Jan 2 'politics'
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slade1 added 13:28 - Jan 2 Bluearmy, I am not going to waste my time arguing with you, you obviously you're very blinkered and cant see the real picture here. Why not just thank god you actually have a team/club to support when the reality of it could be so different. PS enjoy your stupid protest
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Bluearmy_81 added 13:37 - Jan 2 Could be worse, could be Bury!! 😂😂 Or Leeds, Leicester, Burnley, Brighton, Wolves, Norwich, Brentford, West Ham, Southampton, Palace, Fulham... Probably the most extreme case of 'better the devil you know' ever. I give up.
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Timefliesbyintheblue added 13:59 - Jan 2 You read it first here folks! - Bluearmy_81 is giving up.....
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Bluearmy_81 added 14:20 - Jan 2 Sycophantic, passive, subservient, ambivalent, apathetic, resigned, accepting, acquiescent, obsequious, 'fan'atics 😂😂
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slade1 added 14:48 - Jan 2 At last Bluearmy is giving up. I have never in all my time read more ridicules posts than his. Get in the real word!!
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maninashed added 15:17 - Jan 2 Bluearmy who were these other suitors? David Sheepshanks never mentioned any at the special meeting of shareholders to discuss the offer.
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Bluearmy_81 added 15:59 - Jan 2 I have shared some of your apathetic stances with fellow footy fans of other teams, notably Everton, Liverpool, Coventry and Blackpool. To a man they cannot believe the level of acceptance and resignation from Town fans here. To just accept an owner killing your club and being thankful he pays the bills is frankly negligent. They ask the same questions, where is the pride, the fight, the passion?! Part of a fans role is to stand up for their club not sit and watch like Nero as it burns down! Unbelievable.

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Bluearmy_81 added 16:02 - Jan 2 Shed, I think Sullivan the owner of West Ham was one of them. Its largely immaterial however, under no circumstances is the level we have been allowed to fall to acceptable. And I don't care about Sunderland or Hull or Portsmouth. I'm only bothered about ITFC
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leroy2488 added 16:18 - Jan 2 It's a real pity that a post which doesn't mention protests, but is all about showing some respect to those that have died this year associated with the club, has in fact turned into a post about if people should protest or not, which shouldn't even be a consideration to anyone with intelligence whilst in a tier four area.
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