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The key part of your post is “Nowadays every team swaps their goalie for the cup games.” It wasn’t the case in 2001/02. Don’t forget that Sereni had had a shocker in the previous game at Charlton, so the optics of him coming to the manager and saying, “I don’t want to play in this game” didn’t help him.
You might be getting your 1986/87 4-3 away wins slightly mixed up. Town were 3-2 down at half time against Bradford, only for Nigel Gleghorn’s hat-trick to help us to the win.
A month earlier Town won 4-3 at West Brom having trailed 2-0 and 3-1. John Deehan scored a hat trick and Kevin Wilson got the winner. Steve Bull scored twice for Albion shortly before he moved to Wolves.
Pedant alert but at least two posts on this thread refer to us playing at West Ham on the last day; however they’re going to come to Portman Road on the final day, we lost there at the start of October.
There’s been a slew of EFL cases dealt with in much quicker time than it’s taken the FA to do anything about this. He had until December 19 to answer the charge. If he wanted a personal hearing, they should have done either on December 20 or December 23.
Our points total is irrelevant in this situation. We won a game of football against a relegation rival, and said relegation rival’s lead striker responded to this situation by assaulting a member of our staff. He was charged and then….well, I can only presume the FA must still be getting over their Christmas parties given that nothing has happened since and the bloke has gone on to score in two games he should not even be taking part in.
I can only think he or Wolves have appealed the charge and that’s holding things up given that in the time since it’s happened, they’ve fined Angus Gunn for a tunnel incident at QPR and banned an Accrington Stanley defender for two matches for violent in-play conduct that was missed by the officials, but caught on camera on December 21. In both instances, the players admitted their guilt. Gunn’s punishment was decided by an independent tribunal, so maybe that plays a part.
At the moment, it feels as though the panel assessing Cunha’s incident was made up of Graham Turner, Steve Bull and Karl Henry.
It was deliberate. He sizes the bloke up from behind, then hits him with the elbow. When the security man turns around, Cunha holds his arms wide as if to indicate that he was jostled, and then tries to use the fact he’s being confronted as justification for grabbing the man’s glasses. And he keeps shouting him afterwards.
Anything that can be done to affect Cunha and Wolves would be justified by us I think, because the whole melee screams of the fact that Cunha and Ait-Nouri could not accept the fact that they had been beaten by us. They didn’t have any respect for us - Ait-Nouri clearly felt that Burns didn’t belong on the same pitch as him, and Cunha’s behaviour was a complete power play, “I’m a Premier League footballer, what are you Mr. Security Man?”
Compare Wolves’s behaviour with ours the previous weekend against Bournemouth. We suffered a loss that was even more agonising than the one we inflicted on Wolves, but you didn’t see our players taking out their frustrations on Bournemouth’s back room team or Morsy trying to get at Kluivert after the final whistle to get retribution for the slap he received at the start of the game. And why? Because we have a squad packed with people with good character, and Wolves have spoilt scumbags representing them.
Have they actually made a decision on it yet? He had until 72 hours before today’s game to answer the charge, so one would assume there was plenty of time for the panel to make a decision. But there’s been no announcement, and there he is out there playing after assaulting a member of our staff, while we had to do without Delap for the crime of shouting at a Wolves player.
I doubt they’ll think it worth doing, but our club should make an official complaint about how this has been handled.
He at least has the good grace to sit towards the back of the Sir Bobby Stand, surrounded by people singing and chanting. Benjamin Bloom delivers his in a more considered fashion, without histrionics, out of respect for people sitting with him. He also only films the aftermath of goals, rather than the whole match itself.
I’m grateful to streamers, but if someone offered me the chance to see every subsequent Ipswich Town match, free of charge and with complementary transport, but with the caveat that I’d have to film every match, I think I’d turn the offer down: “Did you enjoy the last minute winner at Carrow Road?” “I can’t remember, I was too busy trying to protect my phone from the flailing limbs around me.”
I don’t quite think your final sentence applies to us yet. If we have 10 points after 25 games, then maybe, but as McKenna says, we’ve taken points from half the games we’ve played and been competitive in most of them.
We just don’t quite have enough about us yet to get games over the line. Keep working at it though, and hope for a change of luck in the second half of the season.
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