And thanks for posting. It's good to see the brilliant performances we've had over the last two years - but it's something else to see the games from your youth and the way those guys played which will stay with you forever.
Oh dear whatsgoing on??nobody rolling around with a sore finger nail,no game stopped for 5mins for var to check for offside,game not being stopped for 25mins to make ten substitute's.games played at 3oclock on Saturdays,not midnight to suit sly tv. players only numbers 1to 11.
I went to this as a Ipswich fan,we were lucky.When was let out at the end i remember Charlton being very pissed of with us.Some old fella tried to get at us by trying to push a police horse out of the way.🐎 The coppers then took no crap in those days and shoved the old coot onto his arse.
Every time you see Muhren you wonder how he did it. Skin and bone, one footed but l cannot recall another player with greater intelligence and such precision in everything he did
Went to this game ,it was pissing down .Remember a few hundred Roma fans present, all it seemed had black umbrellas 🌂Gates goal was class,but alas not enough on the night going put 4.3 on agg
Any younger Ipswich fans watching this: Forest won the European Cup in 1980 and were reigning champions. They were lucky it was only 2-0. Those were the days. We had the perfect midfield: Warky central breaking up play and scoring a hatful; Muhren the best crosser and passer in the league and Thyssen the best dribbler. Up front Mariner, the complete striker and Brazil, another great dribbler. The back four were not just solid but both full backs provided attacking options. They were everyone’s favourite second team except in Norwich. At the time their shirts were yellow, hence the Canaries. Since everyone in Norwich turned green with envy, it was incorporated into the shirts where it remains to this day.
Great Ipswich side - were on for the treble in April and best side in terms of talent in the country but had 13 players and played 67 games ! Injuries added up and they only ended up with European trophy.
That free kick for time wasting!!! Cooper had the ball from the initial challenge, released it onto the ground and then picked it up for 5 seconds! In the first half!!! Not a murmur of complaint by the Town players. How times have changed 😂
@@thevillaaston7811 because ipswich played something like 65 games that season and Villa played around 40. The FA cup games and replays came at the crunch end of the season for Ipswich and caused fatigue and fixture congestion. It’s hardly controversial.
@@thevillaaston7811 ha ha - the real reason ipswich didn’t win the league was that they didn’t have three or four more first team players. Had they had those; they would have won the treble. It’s no one else’s fault than Ipswich’s. They were firing in three competitions with only 12 first team players and they were playing three or four games a week by end of March and April. No point ipswich blaming anything or anyone but themselves for blowing it that season at least with the league. Robson went to England after town came second next season too but he always wondered if he had stayed what would have happened because that side was young and would have developed and been a dominant force in the 80s - but it wasn’t to be and when England come calling it’s hard to turn down. Villa won it fair and square, ipswich should have had more players simple as that.
Mr Cholmendley Walker doing the commentary. Great to see Stumpy Eric, my favourite player from that era net one. Also loved his forward roll. Very graceful
Town were very good & should've won more under Robson. Along with Forest, Villa & Liverpool & Arsenal, Tottenham, Man City these were tough dudes in Div 1 at the time.
I was behind the goal with the other Ipswich fans. It was a wonderful time to be a supporter as we had so much confidence in the ability to score. As l remember things we often had less possession than opposing teams but did a lot more with it so that highlights give a false impression. I loved Stumpy Eric. Never seen another player like him
Mariner was not a great all time goal scorer but bis ability to work the line, aerial skills and bringing in players into the attack was first class, a top rate footballing brain on him..
Indeed it was a night match on a Saturday, I travelled up from southampton. Nobody down here can remember why it was night game, any ipswich fans know? It was at least a decade before live tv games
70s and 80s the best era to be a ipswich fan.. Mills beattie muhren mariner tjissen why Mark burley Cooper butcher hunter osman and the list is endless.. Bobby Robson built a amazing squad Priveleged to have enjoyed my childhood at Portman Road
I went to this game and was in the away end, right behind the goal, when John Wark scored that screamer 0:28 Chelsea had a huge away following that season, 78/79, despite being relegated.
My first ever match watching Ipswich at Portman Road with my dad and uncle. Unusually (in those times) it was a night match on a Saturday. Walking up the steps to the stands and then seeing the floodlit pitch and the noise from the crowd is something I will (as would any fan of any club) never forget. I can remember my uncle asking how I had enjoyed my first game to which I replied “brilliant” his response was “yes, it was. But remember it won’t always be like this”. 48 years on, goodness he was right . But it doesn’t matter, the ups and downs, the club you choose to support is already part of you, it stays with you and it’s……. “brilliant”
