Smalltown Boy

ITFC V Barnsley November 1st 2013

If Carling picked live matches......

Anniversary tweet

Mick McCarthy's first anniversary in charge of Ipswich coincided with a match live on Sky against his home town club, Barnsley, under the Portman Road floodlights on a Friday night. To coincide with this there was a promotion for season ticket holders to buy up to a maximum of four tickets at £10 each (bit of an insult to season ticket holders in my opinion - having said that Max, Dale & Ben took advantage).

Strange to see Bagpipes at Portman Road - it did however encourage a few poppy sales

The 18,000 plus in the ground, along with the Sky viewers were treated to the worse game of football at Ipswich in recent memory and I can only imagine some of the post match comments, "Cor I would'n pay to watch that shit every week" etc, etc. It was so boring and pretty embarrassing to be honest, a poor advert for ITFC.

Aaron Cresswell congratulates referee Andy Durso on another fine performance and gets a red card for his efforts!

We were expected to beat the struggling Tykes quite easily and when Daryl Murphy headed in the opening goal I along with most of the other fans inside the ground expected us to collect all three points.

In fact he opposite happened, we were so poor and allowed Barnsley back into the game, especially after the break. To be honest it looked more likely that the visitors would leave PR with a win after Jim O’Brien’s 70th minute equaliser.

I heard my first "grunts" towards McCarthy as the game came to a close, some supporters have got very short memories, a year ago we were craving for a manager who would sort the mess out here, Big Mick has done a massive job stabilising the club in the last twelve months, he never promised that it would be pretty.

Ipswich 1-1 Barnsley

Murphy 41                    O'Brien 70

Att: 18,361

The playlist:

Smalltown Boy by Bronski Beat - Barnsley & Mick!