Ligakamp mot Ipswich Town på Elland Road, lørdag 15.desember kl 16.00 norsk tid!En hjemmekamp vi bør vinne, men Ipswich med Mick McCartny i ny sjefsrolle er blitt en hard nøtt å knekke etter at han ble ansatt!
Fascinating facts about IpswichThu 13th Dec 2012 23:11 by Tim Whelan
With Ipswich Town coming to Leeds on Saturday, it’s time to lift the lid on this quaint corner of Suffolk.
The modern name of the town is derived from the medieval name 'Gippeswick', taken from the River Gipping (the non-tidal section of the River Orwell). Ipswich is one of England's oldest towns and took shape in Anglo-Saxon times (in the 7th–8th centuries) around Ipswich dock.
Towards 700 AD, Frisian potters from the Netherlands area settled in Ipswich and set up the first large-scale potteries in England since Roman times. Their wares were traded far across England, and the industry was unique to Ipswich for 200 years, long before Stoke-on-Trent was even thought of.
After the Viking invasion of 869 the Norsemen captured Ipswich and built earth ramparts circling the town around 900 in an unsuccessful attempt to prevent its recapture by the English
One of Ipswich famous sons is Thomas Wolsey, was born the town in about 1475 as the son of a wealthy landowner and went on to become Henry VIII's cardinal. He founded a college in the town in 1528, but that didn’t do him much good, as a year later he was stripped of his government office and property after being too slow to get the King a divorce from Catherine of Aragon.
The Tavern hotel first opened in 1518 and became famous after Charles Dickens stayed there and used it as a setting for scenes in ‘The Pickwick Papers’. Amazingly this historic building now houses a branch of tax-dodging coffee chain Starbucks!
Another literary connection involves the novelist formerly known as Eric Blair, who became very fond of Suffolk while living up the coast in Southwold, and adopted the pen name George Orwell in 1933, taking the name from Ipswich’s river. (Or at least the tidal part of it).
The world's first commercial motorised lawnmower was built by Ransomes in 1902.
Ipswich was subject to bombing by German Zeppelins during the First World War but the greatest damage by far occurred during the German bombing raids of World War 2, especially the area round the docks. By the start of 1945 Ipswich was one of the few urban centres in Britain still within range of V2 rockets, as the Germans had been driven out of France and Belgium, but still clung onto the northern half of the Netherlands.
Despite this, the two away sections of Portman Road are called ‘ V1’ and ‘V2’. I did wonder if this was a bizarre tribute to Nazi flying bombs, but someone on the Ipswich fans messageboard assured me it just meant ‘visitors 1’ and ‘visitors 2’.
Ipswich remains a 'town' despite a few attempts at winning 'city' status, the most recent being in 1999, so they can only cast envious glances at their arch-rivals 45 miles further north in Norwich.
In 1980, Ipswich beat Manchester United 6–0 at Portman Road, a game where Man U goalkeeper Gary Bailey also saved three penalties. They could have done with those three extra goals, as in 1994/5 the Red Devils finally got their revenge by beating Ipswich 9-0 at Old Trafford. This remains the largest ever winning margin in the history of the Premier League.
The first generally-accepted use of their nickname appeared at a losing away game at Birmingham City late in the 1998–99 season, with the home fans chanting "no noise from the Tractor Boys", a name they adopted in a fit of self-depreciating humour. But former Town manager Jim Magilton commented in the local press that he disliked the nickname, saying that it conjured up, "images of carrot-crunching yokelsâ€!
Ipswich's record home attendance is 38,010 for a sixth round FA Cup match against the mighty Leeds United on 8 March 1975, and their stuck with it for the foreseeable future as this figure is nearly 8,000 larger than their current ground capacity. And on October 6th 1980 the East Anglian Daily Times carried the headline ‘Leeds still Town’s bogey team’, as we continued to carve out results in the head-to-head meetings between the clubs.
The fattest man in the world, Paul Mason, who once weighed 70 stone, lives in Ipswich. They must be so proud.
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