My Way

ITFC 3-1 Bristol Rovers 14th August 2012

It has been a long close season with no competitive action for Ipswich since the end of April. The Euro’s did shorten the break and the time has past really quickly, in fact I don’t really feel ready for football yet! I think that is partly down to the summer’s (what summer?) lack of decent weather, at least it stayed reasonably good for the two weeks of the Olympic Games.

At £12 a ticket we decided to sit in the newly named co-op stand

Because of the Olympics  the league season has been pushed back a week so it was a strange feeling going to a league cup game first, it felt a little like a pre-season game. Paul Jewell put out a strong side unlike the corresponding round last year where we paid the price for too many changes and were knocked out at home by Northampton.
A decent size crowd of over 8,500 turned up and although we shouldn't get to carried away put in a good performance. Michael Smith gave Town an early shock scoring for the visitors with a left foot shot from outside the box midway through the first half. Jason Scotland had us level before the break.

A new shirt

In truth the Blues dominated the game and took the lead through Olympian Tommy Smith, heading in a JET corner, following Rovers on loan keeper Sam Walker saving Michael Chopra’s penalty awarded for a trip on Luke Hyam. JET tried a few long range shots, he seems desperate to tryout his Usaine Bolt celebration. When he finally got one on target it was parried by Walker but Aaron Cresswell followed in for a simple header to put the game to bed.
The league season starts on Saturday, so we can maybe get an idea of how good we are or not!

Here we go

Playlist

My Way - Frank Sinatra. The song which will be played as the team enter the pitch and immediately before kick-off which was chosen by ITFC fans in a poll, it was also Sir Bobby Robson’s favourite.