The Ipswich Town Herald
Market28 Sep 2026
Ipswich Town may not be able to give Jack Clarke what he wants
It is the most legitimate ambition in the sport and the hardest for most clubs to satisfy. Jack Clarke wants continental football; whether Ipswich Town can provide it is a question about the next two seasons, not about him.
Squad28 Sep 2026
Words exchanged at Ipswich Town
Exequiel Palacios and a teammate said things this week that will take longer than a week to unsay. It was not about football, and both of them play on Saturday.
Player ratings28 Sep 2026
Kasey McAteer was unplayable
Successful dribbles: 22. He went past people as if he had been told there was a prize for it, and by the end the full-back had stopped pretending to try.
Squad28 Sep 2026
Words at Ipswich Town training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Jack Clarke is at the centre of it, and the squad will now find out whether the standard rises or the pair of them simply stop speaking.
Player ratings28 Sep 2026
Nothing got past Exequiel Palacios
Headers, blocks, tackles, interceptions — 18 of them, and not one goal behind him. The sort of performance that never makes a highlight reel and wins football matches.
The dugout28 Sep 2026
The manager makes an example of Issa Diop
“If you cannot run for the shirt, somebody else will wear it.” No name was used and none was needed; every player in that room knew who it was for.
The dugout28 Sep 2026
Steven Harris: “We have to be better”
“It is not the end of the world and it is not good enough. Both of those are true.” The manager, after a 0‑0 draw, said the honest thing and then went to say it again inside.
Squad28 Sep 2026
The formation has left Walterson behind
Every shape has positions in it and this one does not have his. Ipswich Town will either change the shape, change his job, or change his club, and he is waiting to hear which.
The dugout28 Sep 2026
Ipswich Town pick somebody else ahead of Matěj Jurásek
There is no complaint available here and everybody involved knows it, which does not make the walk to the bench any shorter. Form is the only currency in football that cannot be borrowed against.
In brief
- Market The Exequiel Palacios question follows Ipswich Town around
- Match Ipswich Town and Coventry City cancel each other out
- Looking ahead Anis Mehmeti goes back to face Bristol City