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We haven’t played the ‘Tractor Boys’ since the 2010/11 season (our last season in the Championship before six long years in Division One). The last meeting was on Feb. 5, 2011 at Portman Road where we lost 0-3. The home fixture that season was on November 6, 2010 when we lost 1-2.
To be fair, memorable games between us and Ipswich have been few and far between. Ipswich FC mirror their manager (Mick McCarthy) – dour, unadventurous and worthy of little comment. The highest aggregate score between the two teams came on Saturday 25th January, 2003 in the fourth round of the FA Cup at Bramall Lane and The Blades won 4-3 (after leading 2-0 at half time). Our goals were scored by Michael Brown (2), Jagielka and Peschisolido. This was the ‘Triple Assault’ season and this run in the FA Cup would finally end at Old Trafford in the semi-final versus Arsenal. Despite the excitement of this season (and to prove how remarkable our crowds are now) the crowd for this Ipswich game was just 12,757.
The most goals Ipswich have ever scored against The Blades in a game came in the 3-3 draw at Bramall Lane in the 2009-10 season. Scorers for United that day were Henderson (2) and Chris Morgan. On the last day of that season, The Blades won 3-0 at Portman Road (Yeates, Ched Evans and Cresswell).
In the 1971-72 season, we were in the top flight and John Harris was still in charge. On November 27th at Bramall Lane, United won 7-0 in a remarkable game. 4-0 up at half-time, our scorers that day were Woodward 4 (1 pen.), Reece, Badger and Dearden. Promoted the previous season, our crowds were holding up well and the crowd for this game was 26,233.
Something of note that season (although probably only to myself) was the return fixture at Portman Road on April 15, 1972. My dad had just bought a brand-new Ford Capri and, back then, new cars had to be ‘run in’. I suggested a trip to Ipswich might be a good idea, so me, ma and pa set off on what was, back then, a grueller. The roads in East Anglia were mostly single carriageway, full of caravans and tractors and it took about 7 hours one-way. The game was shit – a 0-0 draw – and about the only thing I remember was seeing 5 coachloads of Blades heading off to Great Yarmouth after the game. My mum expressed surprise that so many girls were on the coaches…
Another big game against Ipswich came in the 1996-97 season when we met each other in the Division One (now Championship) semi-final play-offs to try to get back in the top tier. The first game at Bramall Lane was a 1-1 draw (Fjortoft) and we drew the return leg at Ipswich 2-2 (Katchouro, Walker) so we went through to the play-off final at Wembley to play Crystal Palace where – if you don’t know the outcome – you haven’t been watching United long enough!
The only other thing of note that I remember about Ipswich is a dirty fucker of a player they had called Mauricio Taricco. This Argie played for Ipswich between 1994 and 1999 before he went on to pollute Spurs for 5 years. In his time with Ipswich, we played them at home 4 times – all in the second tier. In one of these home games, the dirty twat did an unforgivable foul on one of our players. After the match (which some of you might help me with), me and my mates were in the south stand social club. The Ipswich team coach came round to the players entrance and a few Blades stormed out of the social club and got on the team bus where – I hope – they hammered the little cunt. Hopefully somebody can add some details?
So that’s about it. The manager Mick McCarthy has been in place since November 2012. We’ve met Ipswich in the League a total of 60 times so far:
Home: P:30 W:13 D:9 L: 8 F:51 A:34
Away: P:30 W:4 D:12 L:14 F:25 A:47
Can’t wait to do ‘Memries of Reading’…
To be fair, memorable games between us and Ipswich have been few and far between. Ipswich FC mirror their manager (Mick McCarthy) – dour, unadventurous and worthy of little comment. The highest aggregate score between the two teams came on Saturday 25th January, 2003 in the fourth round of the FA Cup at Bramall Lane and The Blades won 4-3 (after leading 2-0 at half time). Our goals were scored by Michael Brown (2), Jagielka and Peschisolido. This was the ‘Triple Assault’ season and this run in the FA Cup would finally end at Old Trafford in the semi-final versus Arsenal. Despite the excitement of this season (and to prove how remarkable our crowds are now) the crowd for this Ipswich game was just 12,757.
The most goals Ipswich have ever scored against The Blades in a game came in the 3-3 draw at Bramall Lane in the 2009-10 season. Scorers for United that day were Henderson (2) and Chris Morgan. On the last day of that season, The Blades won 3-0 at Portman Road (Yeates, Ched Evans and Cresswell).
In the 1971-72 season, we were in the top flight and John Harris was still in charge. On November 27th at Bramall Lane, United won 7-0 in a remarkable game. 4-0 up at half-time, our scorers that day were Woodward 4 (1 pen.), Reece, Badger and Dearden. Promoted the previous season, our crowds were holding up well and the crowd for this game was 26,233.
Something of note that season (although probably only to myself) was the return fixture at Portman Road on April 15, 1972. My dad had just bought a brand-new Ford Capri and, back then, new cars had to be ‘run in’. I suggested a trip to Ipswich might be a good idea, so me, ma and pa set off on what was, back then, a grueller. The roads in East Anglia were mostly single carriageway, full of caravans and tractors and it took about 7 hours one-way. The game was shit – a 0-0 draw – and about the only thing I remember was seeing 5 coachloads of Blades heading off to Great Yarmouth after the game. My mum expressed surprise that so many girls were on the coaches…
Another big game against Ipswich came in the 1996-97 season when we met each other in the Division One (now Championship) semi-final play-offs to try to get back in the top tier. The first game at Bramall Lane was a 1-1 draw (Fjortoft) and we drew the return leg at Ipswich 2-2 (Katchouro, Walker) so we went through to the play-off final at Wembley to play Crystal Palace where – if you don’t know the outcome – you haven’t been watching United long enough!
The only other thing of note that I remember about Ipswich is a dirty fucker of a player they had called Mauricio Taricco. This Argie played for Ipswich between 1994 and 1999 before he went on to pollute Spurs for 5 years. In his time with Ipswich, we played them at home 4 times – all in the second tier. In one of these home games, the dirty twat did an unforgivable foul on one of our players. After the match (which some of you might help me with), me and my mates were in the south stand social club. The Ipswich team coach came round to the players entrance and a few Blades stormed out of the social club and got on the team bus where – I hope – they hammered the little cunt. Hopefully somebody can add some details?
So that’s about it. The manager Mick McCarthy has been in place since November 2012. We’ve met Ipswich in the League a total of 60 times so far:
Home: P:30 W:13 D:9 L: 8 F:51 A:34
Away: P:30 W:4 D:12 L:14 F:25 A:47
Can’t wait to do ‘Memries of Reading’…
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