Portman Road (Ipswich Town FC)

Welcome to my second home :) Portman Road these days is an impressive Championship football stadium with a capacity of over 30,000 which makes it the largest capacity ground in East Anglia. It has two big new stands behind the goals, The North and the Greene King, and a big three tiered but older stand called the Brittania and an old slightly tired stand on the other side called the Cobold stand. How ever impressive this ground is i feel it has lost its feel of how i used to love Portman Road. I loved the days when i was about 13 of a capacity of 22,000 all the fans together as one. The North Stand where the noise all starts all huddled up together all signing and ...

Sorrow weeps within my heart when I see the plight of our arch rivals down the A140. At the turn of the century they were going strong but then they spent some money, didn’t do too well and have ended up in a bit of a financial pickle. The cream of the playing squad has been sold off but Portman Road stands strong as testament to the multi-million pound loan they’re struggling to pay off. Anyway the one plus point of being relegated from the Premiership was that fact that we were going to meet up with our rivals once more in the local derby. The computer threw up an away trip to Ipswich in September, which meant getting up before 8am on a Sunday in time to ...

Junging from Ipswichs recent performances, they look fully capable of staying up in the premiership. The outclassed Manchester United at Portman Road, and good recent results at Everton and Leeds. They have proved very hard to beat at home and shown they dont give an easy 3 points on their away trips. With George Burnley, the squads spirit and strength they have the chances to get mid-table this year, and progress on it like Derby and Lecister have in earlier years. My tip to go down, looking at the form of teams so far, Bradford, Derby, Southampton and Everton could all struggle, but it is still early days yet. ...