The Ipswich Town Herald
Match19 Aug 2028
The run at home goes on for Ipswich Town
17 matches unbeaten here. Every visiting manager is asked about it in the week before, which is precisely why it keeps going.
Player ratings21 Aug 2028
Azor Matusiwa runs at them all day
Successful dribbles: 31. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Market21 Aug 2028
Walterson is on his way
The clubs have agreed terms, and what remains is formality: a medical, a photograph, a signature. Nobody at Ipswich Town is pretending he will be back in the shirt.
Squad21 Aug 2028
Real improvement from Ernie Weaver at Ipswich Town
Form comes and goes; this has not gone. Ernie Weaver is 21, and the version of him training now would not have got into the side he was in a year ago.
Squad21 Aug 2028
Harry Maguire in a row with a teammate
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Ipswich Town this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Market21 Aug 2028
Sindre Walle Egeli wants European nights
The general version of this complaint is that a player wants more. The specific version names the thing: he wants to walk out under floodlights against clubs from other countries, and he has stopped pretending otherwise.
Squad21 Aug 2028
A late step up for Marcelino Núñez
At 28 the improving is meant to be over. It is not: 4 points better than the mark taken at the start of the year, which is the sort of thing that happens to players who take the boring parts of the job seriously.
Boardroom21 Aug 2028
Graduation day at Ipswich Town
5 boys move up, and somewhere in the building the people who coached them at twelve are quietly having the best morning of their working year. Nothing about this shows up in a result and it is why the academy exists.
Squad21 Aug 2028
Žan Celar falls out with a teammate over standards
The oldest argument in any dressing room and the only one that is genuinely about football: one man thinks another is not putting enough in. It is also the row a manager privately does not mind having happened.
In brief
- The terraces The crowd has taken to Sindre Walle Egeli
- Market Benjamin Miller steps up from the Ipswich Town academy
- Market Ipswich Town promote Simon Evans from within