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The Official Ipswich Town v Bristol City Match Day Thread

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Drowned in a sea of salt, hit by a plague in 1665, bombarded by Zeppelins and attacked by Danish Marauders. Ipswich, lying on the Rivers Orwell and nearby Gippin and open to invaders has had its fair share of turmoil down the centuries. Gip's Wic became a port and trading settlement in the 7th century. It traded with the Germans long before it was attacked by them, trading millstones for wool. And they were potters and minted money. Maybe that is what attracted the Danes who occupied the settlement in the 9th and 10th centuries. 

The destructive forces of the North Sea have seen the East Coast battered for centuries inexorably losing land and settlements to the sea; Dunwich was a thriving 'city' completely lost to the crushing waves. But Ipswich grew slowly through all of this making boats, rope, machine parts and iron and exporting grain. And like all towns and cities in these isles it reacted to our manufacturing decline by entering the service industries in the latter part of the 20th century and its population all but stopped growing in recent times to around 133,000 before expanding rapidly over the past 15 years or so.

Ipswich will not enamour itself to anyone, especially not Big Tone, but I am reasonably reliably informed it is small enough to be able to get out of if one finds oneself in a bit of a sticky wicket. The surrounding countryside is littered with attractive and historical little villages where there for sure are super little pubs to try local ales. As for the accent?.. people take the proverbial out of the Bristolian but Ipswich may feel is easily less attractive. One local resident wrote this on a forum..

The accent is horrific though eek.gif

That is his emoticon. Says more than the words.

At least the locals can concentrate on one league club to take their minds off other matters and since 1878 too. They won the top flight in 1961 as well so have a reasonable history and who can forget the time when Sir Bobby Robson was in charge? Finishing as runners up twice under his reign. Ipswich were always the team breathing down the neck of Liverpool and all non-Liverpool fans had Ipswich as their 'second' team back in those days. What a team they had with the two Dutchmen, Muhren and Thjssen (apologies for the spelling). I am sure others will recall the other English names of the day.

Well, so here we are on Match Day 9 hoping to turn the tide of relative failure. Can we bury the nightmare of 2007? I was there that day so please lads and lasses roar City on to something to celebrate at 1745 today. And my admiration to all of you going; that is one hec of a journey. Fabulous support, as always.

1-1.. arrest the naysayers and set us up for a spanking of MK next week.

Flint with a bullet equaliser in the 2nd half.

U Riddddddddzzzzzzzz.

Watch that Ipswich accent my babbers.

.. p.s. excuse any spelling errors.. gotta run, no time to double check. :)

 

 

Great write up per Havana.

 

I'm going for a 1-2 win with Kodjia and either Bryan or Freeman getting the other. COYR'S always believe!!!

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