Chris Rand's Guide to Everything Ipswich Town FC on the web
Last updated about 2014, I'm afraid, so best of luck.
Official sites
Ipswich Town Football Club
History dates back to 1990 (a world first). Run by Phil Clarke (1990-93), then Paul Felton (1993-95), Martyn Amos (1995-96), Paul Felton again (1996-2001), a local web design outfit called AWS (2002) and now boring old "PremiumTV" like everyone else • Rating 4/5
Planet Blue: the official Club Shop
Always been well-run and friendly, stuff seems to get delivered reliably. No complaints here • Rating 3/5
Books
On The Map - Sir Bobby Robson - The Ipswich Town Years
A 2009 book written by Nick Fuller, with foreword by Kevin Beattie, charting the 13 years of Sir Bobby's reign at Portman Road, also available to download with no charge (but you are invited to make a donation to the Sir Bobby Robson Foundation). • 5/5
Ipswich 'til I Die
Super little book of fans' memories, very nicely produced and available for £10 - loads of things to make you smile • 4/5
Ipswich Town: The Inside Story
Phil Ham wrote a must-have book about Town gettng back into the Premiership; if it's still available it'll be here • 3/5
Discussion groups
Ipswich Town Mailing List
The intelligent, grown-up ITFC supporters discussion list. Email only • 5/5
TWTD Message Board
Busiest ITFC discussion forum by far, almost impossible to keep up with, although not the first place for eloquent discourse • 3/5
SuffolknSpecial
Rivals discussion site which formerly was the TWTD site, but now does its own thing and is somewhat quieter as a result • 2/5
Tractor-Boys.com
Busy forum which organises meet-ups on matchdays and even supplied the supporters for Soccer AM in 2004 • 4/5
Discussion groups at Yahoo! Groups
There are currently several supporters discussion groups at Yahoo! Groups which anyone can join, or just browse through the discussion archives. Few, if any, seem particularly lively though • 2/5
Dedicated news sites
TWTD (Those Were The Days)
One of the best fan sites in football, from one of the original Ipswich fanzines. Very professional and highly recommended. Blame a lot of it on Phil Ham and Gavin Wilding • 5/5
My Football Writer - Ipswich Town
Excellent site packed with well-written Ipswich articles by decent journalists: almost too good to be true • 5/5
The Blues Journal
Rivals site with some good articles from decent contributors, well worth a read • 4/5
Fan sites
Pride of Anglia
Exhaustive fan site, a real labour of love and hard to fault: concentrates - as fan sites should do - on the stuff you won't find anywhere else • 5/5
Ipswich Town match reports aka View from Churchmans
My own collection of match reports as posted to the ITFC supporters discussion list. Highly recommended of course. • 5/5
Scandinavian Branch
More up to date news and views from Scandinavia, the most ITFC-addicted part of the world outside of Suffolk, this time in Danish • 4/5
Svenska Ipswich Town FC Fans
More great stuff from those ITFC-addicted Scandinavians, with loads of up to date news and views in Swedish • 4/5
Ipswich Town FC Supporters Club of Norway (Norwegian Blue)
Dette er hjemmesidene til ITSCON (Ipswich Town FC Supporters Club of Norway) • 4/5
Tractor Boys
Good fan site, with up-to-date news and links to press reports, and even a goodies shop! • 4/5
Blues-Online
News, forum, stats, Norwich jokes, terrace chant lyrics and more • 3/5
ITFC London
Beautifully designed supporters club branch site which tries to do no more than be the information site for London supporters, and all credit to them for that • 3/5
Singing the Blues (STB-Online)
Slightly more opinionated news than most sites, although the spelling and grammar leave a little to be desired • 3/5
Singing the Blues CD
The CD of all your favourite stuff is still available online! • 3/5
The Sick Parrot
Perennially fun site from Brian Durrant, with funnies, games, news and of course the prediction league • 3/5
Long Melford 90 branch of the Ipswich Town Supporters Club
The branch serves Ipswich Town FC Supporters in the area of Long Melford, Sudbury, Boxford and the surrounding villages, but has members as far away as Croydon • 3/5
Views of the hallowed Portman Road stadium
Fun 360-degree panoramic images of the stadium with all the new stands, courtesy of the BBC. Changing rooms too. Couldn't really find a category to put this link in • 3/5
Ipswich Town Supporters Club
News and information from the official supporters club, including details of all the various branches • 3/5
Torben's Ipswich trips
Exhaustive travelogues of one Danish fan's trips to Portman Road. Fantastic. • 3/5
Official South African Supporters' Branch
Profiles, photos, news and opinions from the lads in SA • 3/5
Simply Blue
Nice new (2009) site by Jake and William with news, ratings and discussion • 3/5
Felixstowe Blues
Irregularly-updated official website for the Ipswich Town Supporters Club Felixstowe & District Branch • 2/5
Ipswich Town Mad
Up-to-date but unadventurous fan site built to a template • 2/5
Mike Lumley's panoramas
Some fun panoramic photos of the ground from one of the regular email list contributors • 2/5
Punch Drunk
News and stuff about the supporters' footy team • 2/5
Scandinavian Blue
I don't speak the language, but it looks very out of date to me • 2/5
Stowmarket Tractor Boys
Looks like it's trying to be humorous and original, but I couldn't get past all the broken links (August 2003) • 2/5
The Upright Citizens
Home of Darmstadt supporters in Cologne ...who also follow the Town amongst others. Good work chaps • 2/5
ITFC Heaven
Hopelessly out-of-date fan site • 1/5
News sites with Ipswich Town sections
Football 365
Simply stats heaven, not only up-to-date but with original and interesting statistics too. The club "matchday magazine" should take note • 5/5
Planet Football
Good up-to-date news, but more importantly some excellent and exhaustive player and match statistics from the Opta people • 5/5
Ananova
Latest news headlines about us from a widely-respected service • 4/5
E-Soccer
Good newsfeed from NewsNow, with up-to-date headlines from fanzines as well as the normal major news sources • 4/5
East Anglian Daily Times
The EADT is Suffolk's major daily paper, and its extensive print coverage on Ipswich is promptly put on the web site • 4/5
BBC Sport
Latest news and stuff about us from the Beeb, not as quick as some other sites, but the gateway to a lot of great footy info • 3/5
Football Ground Guide
Nice introduction to the club, although aimed more at visitors • 3/5
Nationwide Football Matters
Official Nationwide league site, with basic but fairly definitive stats and reasonably up-to-date news • 3/5
Evening Star
Ipswich's evening newspaper features a lot of Town news, but no dedicated page, so it's mixed in with the speedway etc • 3/5
Sporting Life
Up-to-date news, stats and of course betting • 3/5
Teamtalk
Up-to-date news and stats • 3/5
Check4news
Nice concept, polling other sites for news, but only shows how out of date many "news" sites are. Not very attractive though • 2/5
Guardian Unlimited
Disappointingly thin page from otherwise fine news site • 2/5
Sky Sports
Basic stats and that's about all • 2/5
Soccer Age
ITFC-related news and a few other stats • 2/5
Soccerbase
Basic stats only • 2/5
Sportpress
Basic Ipswich-related stats, although broad general coverage • 2/5
CNN - Sports Illustrated
News site not updated for two years at the last time of looking. Oh dear • 1/5
Final Whistle
Why do people leave sites up if they have no intention of ever updating them? Nice to see Mogga's still playing for us though • 1/5
Football is
Yet another "news" site not updated for literally years. Remember the Premiership? • 1/5
Searches and link sites
Ipswich Town FC on Google
Ipswich Town FC on Yahoo
Ipswich Town FC on Bing
Google Groups
Quite amusing if you want to look back at newsgroup discussions between fans in seasons long gone by • 3/5
Tony Oliver's links
Good links page although not updated for a while (but then this page isn't exactly updated frequently, so I should probably shut up) • 3/5
General football sites
Transfer Rumours
Decent news site, with more than just transfer rumours • 4/5
Footie51
Intelligent and appealing footy discussion site, even saying "there has always been an air of the cerebral around the team (Ipswich) and its supporters" in a glowing review of TWTD • 4/5
Football Poets
Poems about football. Simply wonderful stuff • 4/5
Journey to the 92
A look at every ground in the country from someone who's been to the lot. • 4/5
Rec.Sport Soccer Statistics Foundation
Comprehensive coverage of results worldwide: if it ain't here, I don't know where you'll find it • 4/5
All the Pies
Footy humour site "hurriedly assembled on a semi-regular basis with one eye on Match of the Day and another on a half-eaten large doner with chilli sauce" • 2/5
Groundtastic
Home page for fine footy ground fanzine • 2/5
Megasoccer
One or two reasonable features and a load of links, but that's about all • 2/5
When Saturday Comes
The website's mainly an ad for the magazine, but the magazine is my favourite footy magazine and has been for years • 2/5
FansFC
Shallow news site in more ways than one • 1/5