The View From Churchmans

At the moment, with both promotion and relegation extremely unlikely, most supporters would take exciting, promising football over a ground-out three points. And that's lucky, because it's exactly what they're getting. Although Town's second-half performance was unremarkable, the score was still daylight robbery: it should have been three - and could have been six - by half-time. But there's a theme developing here: that's three games running where ... More...

Sure, everyone was disappointed that Town didn't take three points from this one, but with promotion and relegation both highly unlikely now, it was just the performance which mattered. And despite not being able to keep it up for 90 minutes, Town's first-half display was in some ways as exciting as anything seen at Portman Road for the past couple of years - or more. It was a ... More...

We begin with an apology. Regular readers may have been under the impression that I believed Roy Keane to a half-decent manager who admittedly had lumbered himself with a talentless squad, but who didn't get the breaks and probably shouldn't have been sacked so soon. What I should have said is that Roy Keane is a talentless man-manager whose joyless attitude sapped the enthusiasm and creativity out of ... More...