Ipswich Town and Roy Keane's relegation fight.

IN this miserable Ipswich Town football season of 2009/10, I see woeful performances, promises of better times ahead - and little worry that something dreadful might happen come May next year.

Cast your mind back a year and journey to Carrow Road, Norwich, where initial hopes were high that the Budgies might fly the Championship cage and end up soaring back to the Premiership.

All through the torrid Yellow and Green season (the only solace for me in a miserable Ipswich Town campaign) there was talk of better times ahead while Norwich fortunes plummeted.

Get any echoes of last season this time around, as far as Ipswich Town are concerned? I certainly do and believe the ITFC hierarchy should, frankly, wake up to the threat.

Well, you've only to look at Norwich to realise that nightmares can come true.

What staggers me right now is that there appears to be a laid-back attitude at Portman Road - a feeling that relegation is an impossibility.

Get real Mr Keane and Co - rather than talk nonsense about the Irish international team (what an own goal there, Mr Keane) let's face the real and frightening threat of relegation.

posted on Tuesday, November 24, 2009 8:24 AM by Nigel Pickover

Comments

Wednesday, November 25, 2009 10:27 AM by Dom

# re: Ipswich Town and Roy Keane's relegation fight.

Oh cheer up Nigel for goodness sake. There is life outside the top two leagues you know.
As I think us Norwich fans have recently discovered, it doesn't so much matter what league you are in, but what is more important is the feelgood factor of winning - just look at our home and away support (even in the Paint Tin Trophy!).
Of course it's a must that clubs like Town and City have ambition to get to the top, we all want to see it happen, but live for today a little - it's not a matter of life or death (or even close to being more important than that!).