The View From Churchmans

There are three-nil defeats which depress you, and three-nil defeats which manage to leave you still feeling proud of the losing team. This was definitely the latter. Town couldn't have done much better, and the fans couldn't have asked for more. In the end, to have beaten a Champions League side over two legs was going to require the opponents to be below par throughout, and Arsenal didn't ... More...

Well, I doubt if anyone at half time saw that second half coming. The first 45 minutes were pretty dismal, and Doncaster could easily have had three, with only the post and a goal-line clearance saving Town from an embarrassment. But the second 45 was comfortably the most exciting and encouraging half we've seen in a league match at Portman Road in the last year or so. It ... More...

Football, eh? I can't ever remember a match where, queueing up to get in, I was so certain we'd lose. So of course we were going to win. It just stands to reason. After all, there was nothing in Town's favour: a temporary manager with the taxi running outside, half a team unavailable, a terrible last few weeks, a record defeat just three days before, and one of ... More...

Town were always going to lose this one, but to go down by seven goals for only the third time since the mid-sixties was a bitter pill to swallow for an impressive travelling support. The relief with which many supporters (although not this one) greeted Roy Keane's dismissal two days earlier will have conveniently masked any awareness that going into successive matches against two of the best teams ... More...

Despite the last couple of matches having offered a respite from the nightmare run of defeats, after this toothless display it does rather look like those two matches were a blip, rather than a change of fortunes. With the Leicester win having been in bizarre conditions and the Coventry draw having been largely against ten men, it would be understandable if that turns out to be the case. ... More...