http://www.ipswichstar.co.uk/news/f...so_great_about_canaries_anniversary_1_2910487 I dunno whether to laugh or cringe!
No doubt it made the author feel better about life, so that's okay I does make me laugh though, all the 'we are bigger/better' cobblers. Perhaps someone could write a piece comparing Ipswich to Huddersfield, and send it to him to put what happened 30 years ago in to some kind of perspective. Of course the poor old Tykes never played in Europe, although not their fault, a bit like Norwich actually, who would have played in Europe more often had there not been a blanket ban on English football clubs, and who knows what would have happened. The bit I really laughed at was the "they beat a poor Bayern Munich side over two legs" - when exactly in the last 40 years have Bayern been a poor side?
Sure, what he says is mostly accurate, but pretty needless. Having said that, I did not get over excited about the 'Anniversary', because to me it is not that important at all. I lived through it, I watched it, I came in my pants when we won in Germany, but I am also over it now
oh dear. to be honest, i personally don't see the need to bring up the bayern match - it was great but its not as if we won the competition. i can understand why the beeb wrote an article about it though - it was a momentous achievement at the time but i find it a bit embarrassing that it seems to be our biggest achievement to most neutrals. however, to write an article as an ipswich fan moaning about it is pretty damn petty. best not let mick mccarthy see this after what he said about town fans 'not living in the past' thing is, norwich actually qualified for europe four times but were robbed on each occasion by the heysel ban. i think many people forget that norwich were unable to fully exploit our most successful period in our history because of the actions of liverpool fans. we'll never know if we'd have been able to build on what was a very good and exciting team during that era. we didn't win things (other than a league cup) but we challenged. european football might have brought new players, better players with it. ask any norwich fan and they will tell you that the local media always favours ipswich. its pathetic - its just the blinkers on. it actually depends who is doing better at the time - that team will get more press than the other. when ipswich were doing great under burley, all we ever heard about was ipswich, ipswich, ipswich. swings and roundabouts.
football has changed. check out who ipswich beat on the way to winning the uefa cup: Aris Thessaloniki Bohemians Praha Widzew ŁÃ³dź Saint-Ãtienne (i'll give them that one - they were a good side back then) FC Köln AZ Alkmaar not exactly the powerhouses you'd have to beat to win it these days. take nothing away from them, they still won it, but as we know, ipswich live in the past. a long way in the past. they are the new huddersfield...
Yeah, and they only had the German (Mattheus), Dutch (Wouters), Colombian (Valencia) and Brazilian (Jorginho) captains playing for them - as well as plus Scholl, Helmer, Ziege
I can see what they're getting at though; compared to what we had (to directly combat those players - Culverhouse, Crook, Sutton, Fox, Goss, Butterworth, and Bowen) their team was pretty average.
the reason it is so fondly remembered by neutrals is because it was so unexpected. bayern being a great side was one of the reasons for that!
Good to see you Budgies still banging on about history... ITFC The only English team to be unbeaten at home in all European competition 48 games! Knocks your 'exploits' aganist Bayern over 2 legs into a cocked hat doesn't it!
The fact that the article was published in the Ipswich Star suggests the history lesson (this time ) started to the south of the river Waveney.
