Cracking club, Ipswich, and a cracking opportunity for him.
Their heyday was the early 80’s, with the great team they had, including the likes of John Wark, Eric Gates, Paul Mariner, Kevin Beattie, and the Dutchmen, Arnold Muhren and Franz Thyssen. They won the Uefa cup.
Also, they are a remote club, so the locals get behind them. A big club? Yes, I think so. Hell of a lot of potential there, with a big clubs foundations already laid. Be interesting to see what he makes of Jason Scotland as well, I suppose.
Lovely place to live down there as well, for Paul and his family. Wish him all the best.
I’m so old I remember them winning the League title with Alf Ramsey as manager and Ray Crawford at centre-forward :(
Didn’t they get promoted in something like 1960/61 and won the old First Division title in their first season up? I’m assuming that’s what you’re talking about, GL.
I’m not sure if that ever happened before that, or since. Well no, it’s certainly not happened since.
(and no, I didn’t google that. I used to collect programmes and the old Charles Buchan books and magazines-sold them on ebay when I got wed. )
Jay, strangely enough it was PJ’s decision not to take the team until after Wed ! To me that doesn’t send out a good vibe to the players !!
i think it does send out a good message to the squad. From what i can gather he has basically acknowledged that it was Roy Keane & his squad/preferred starting team that got the club to this stage & it wouldn’t be right of him to come in 2 days before the semi-final, pick his own preferred players from what he’s seen in training & get em to use his style of playing – possibly in the process not picking players who’ve been involved all the way through & causing resentment within his squad straight away
Cracking club, Ipswich, and a cracking opportunity for him.
Their heyday was the early 80’s, with the great team they had, including the likes of John Wark, Eric Gates, Paul Mariner, Kevin Beattie, and the Dutchmen, Arnold Muhren and Franz Thyssen. They won the Uefa cup.
Also, they are a remote club, so the locals get behind them. A big club? Yes, I think so. Hell of a lot of potential there, with a big clubs foundations already laid. Be interesting to see what he makes of Jason Scotland as well, I suppose.
Lovely place to live down there as well, for Paul and his family. Wish him all the best.
Why do you pretend to know about all these clubs, people, heritage etc etc. Im betting you are just king of Google and Wikipedia.