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AGM Report Tue 04th Dec 2001 00:10
Monday evening saw David Sheepshanks and the board given a largely warm welcome by shareholders, despite the current lowly position of the team. Sheepshanks faced few overly taxing or critical questions with shareholders in the main happy with the way the club has been run.

Defending Was Poor - Burley Wed 28th Nov 2001 07:38
George Burley has criticised his side's defending during the first half of last night's Worthington Cup game against Newcastle United. The Town boss switched around at half-time, however the game was very much lost by then.

Croft Joins Squad Tue 27th Nov 2001 10:13
Gary Croft has been called into the Town at the last minute as the Blues' injury crisis deepens. Sixto Peralta, Titus Bramble, Martijn Reuser and Mark Venus are all unlikley to be fit for this evening's game at Newcastle. New signing Marcus Bent is ineligible due to playing for Blackburn in the Worthington Cup earlier in the season.

Boro 0-0 Town Sun 25th Nov 2001 18:16
Town were unlucky not to get their first away win of the season as first Pablo Counago and then Hermann Hreidarsson both hit the post. The game had swung both ways and was one of the more exciting 0-0 draws that you'll see.

Town Unlucky - Hamilton Sat 24th Nov 2001 10:53
Bryan Hamilton says Town have been unlucky on a number of occasions this season and with injuries. Hamilton has watched the Blues several times this year on his media duties.

Hamilton Returns! Fri 23rd Nov 2001 10:49
In a surprise move Town have announced the return of Bryan Hamilton, as a first team coach alongside Tony Mowbray. Hamilton's return may prove controversial after his recent spell as manager at Norwich. The former Northern Ireland, Tranmere, Wigan and Leicester manager was present at Town's game last night and will start in his new position immediately, traveling with the Town party to Middlesbrough tomorrow.

Town 1-2 Bolton Sun 18th Nov 2001 18:59
Despite a complete domination of the second half of the match Town fell to yet another defeat and drop to nineteenth in the table. Bolton took the lead in the first half through Bergsson and Ricketts while Matt Holland score Town's goal just before half-time.

Ticketless Fans to Descend on Milan Thu 15th Nov 2001 14:34
TWTD has learnt that at least 350 Town fans are likely to be travelling to Milan without tickets for the second leg of the UEFA Cup, although we suspect the numbers could end up in the thousands.

Ipswich Town Reserves 2-1 Arsenal Reserves Tue 13th Nov 2001 23:27
by your Official Reporter, ColdGit@Reserves.
I have promised to be more direct. Here goes:

Darren Bent is an absolute gem. I've been saying all season that he should be in the first team and a really gamey brace tonight, leaving the winning goal till the 90th minute, will surely have clinched that exciting, fully justified reality.

A promising young Arsenal team had led, at the interval, via their dainty young centre-forward, Jermaine Brown, begloved and with corn-row hair (is that what you call it?) who took advantage of the temporary absence upfield of attack-minded Thomas Gaardsoe, to beat man-in-black Andy Marshall with a breakaway goal after 35 mins.

As crowd favourite Darren would have said afterwards, had I been able to speak to him, "I should have had at least a hat-trick, Old Git, with two half-chances just before the half hour mark, the second of which I tapped into the goalie's ample bosom - was it Richard Wright? And then, five minutes into the second half, Brian, I gently, deftly, accurately, oh no, tickled one over the bar. So far, this season, I should have scored an Axeldahl of reserve match goals."

It took an hour for Bent to strike, but it was worth waiting for. In the area, he was moving left, but flicked the ball inside his man, then curled it round the goalie and inside the right post. You beauty. 1-1.

At the death, his second goal was another peachy plum, partly because of the pin-point quality of excellent Darren Ambrose's cross from the right; all Bent had to do was control it and tuck it away, again inside the right post. He looks like Finidi George, but it's time for Finidi to take his hat off to Darren; both Darrens, for that matter: Ambrose is of the same school: eager, direct, a winner. 2-1.

Don't let's get too warmed up, though; it wasn't that sort of night for all of us. The Darrens were beacons in the mist. Urgent Yoof Ambrose replaced anonymous Nicholls after an hour, allowing begloved Nabil Abbadabba to come in from the cold on the wing into central midfield, where he continued to show delightful touch but ineffective overall impact.

Yet, in an uncertain, bump-into-things world, it was re-assuring to lie back and accept the freezing embrace - an average FPR temperature tonight of 7 degrees Celsius, whatever celcius is, but, as your Official Reporter, I have to accept that I have a worldwide audience and mustn't mention good old Fahrenheit. Mother said it was cold in Sydney today but I promise you that a couple of hours at damp Portman Road tonight would have reminded her why she emigrated 36 years ago, (and, with a worldwide audience, it is nice for them that I should make an international reference)...and yet I still cannot say, 'in Sydney' without pangs of Carry On double entendre...whoops, digressionamundo...the freezing embrace of a November evening at the Reserves, with the bizarre guarantee of safety created by a report on the BBC saying that Osama Bin Laden is an Arsenal fan. We're watching Arsenal Reserves (though this is only the official title of this team. The term has come to mean, in general conversation, something quite different: 'the team you put out against teams like Ipswich or Worthington Cup opponents.' I doubt that any of Arsenal's team tonight will ever play in the Premiership for them. Surreal. Their Yoof winger, Jerome Thomas - all their Yoof's forward line has 'J' first names - was their gem. Fabian found him to be 'unstoppable'. Umm, that doesn't make Thomas unique, though, does it? Come on Fab, shave that carpet sample off the top of your head, and play a bit. You're only up against Chris Makin.)

I'm not really digressing. It was a match without passion, without much meaning. Without Bent actually winning the match, it would have been very ho-hum, but he was this week's 'Mumo' Peralta, who was the emerging star of my last Reserves Report, and who, so soon after, is October's Third Best Player Of The Month.

In the absence of Mumo, Tommy Miller was given the opportunity to audition for Jim Magilton's shirt, but he took an early knock and that perhaps stunted his growth. Miller was derisory about Sir George's audacity, in playing 'the best midfielder in the Nationwide' on the wing; it's because Our Tom shares Our Jim's fear of wide open spaces. He feels that that circle around the centre of the pitch is there for a reason, and, tonight, he never left it. In fairness, he can sweep the ball about, though it's a little laboured, as are all his movements, as if he's a middleweight boxer with heavy legs (like Reuser, who we're coming to.)

Our team was:
Marshall
Wilnis — Gaardsoe - Justin Miller (c) - 'Gary'
Abbadabba - Tommy Miller - Ashley Nicholls - REUSER!!!!!!
Bent - 'Log' Logan

Burley on Le Pen Tue 13th Nov 2001 12:24
George Burley says Town expect to have their latest foreign transfer signed and sealed later today, although the Town boss refused to go as far as confirming that the mystery player is indeed Ulrich Le Pen, as now seems all but certain.

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