Is lost. Sometimes I’m such a knob. The first game that I looked for when the fixtures were released last June was the visit to Brighton’s new AMEX Stadium, I went down to the ticket office last Wednesday to buy two tickets for the game only to be told that they had sold out the day before. Two thousand, four hundred tickets all gone, why did I leave it so late to get them? A lesson learnt.
I was so angry with myself, looking for excuses but at the end of the day and for whatever reason I had left it too late and it was down to me. I rang the ticket office every day in the hope that they might have some returned tickets, no luck there. Before Saturdays game I called into the ticket office on the off chance that they may have some returns. I struck lucky, the nice young there lady told me that they had one in the Planet Blue shop so I paid her for it and went straight round to collect it. While I was paying for it somebody else came in asking for tickets, they were unlucky I had got in by the skin of my teeth!
All of a sudden my gloom lifted I even managed a wry smile when I told Sharon the news. Things just got better and better as the afternoon progressed, my pre match thoughts were that we would draw 2-2 with the Bluebirds. There was talk that next weeks Carling Cup final v Liverpool would be on the minds of the Cardiff players but with them being third in the league and chasing promotion I didn’t really believe this, besides Malky’s far too competitive to allow that to happen.
This was the best football that I have seen Ipswich play this season, they all worked really hard especially Andy Drury and Luke Hyam in the midfield and you could sense the confidence running through the team, its a pity that only 17,032 turned up to see it.
Ipswich certainly had the rub of the green early doors, especially keeper Aaron Lee Barrett who was lucky not to get a red card when he came rushing out of his area and brought down Joe Mason who was through on goal, Barrett also recovered his own fumbled save from Peter Whittington’s long range shot, clawing the loose spinning ball away just before it crossed the line.
Cardiff edged the first twenty minutes until Lee Martin, with his immaculate “Downton Abbey” haircut gave us the lead. Michael Chopra, now looking like the player we had heard about scored against his former club soon after the restart and it was Martin with his second goal of the match who completed a miserable afternoon for the Welshmen in the 73rd minute.
There were the enviable chants aimed at ex Norwich players, David Marshall in goal, Robert Earnshaw, who didn’t even get on the pitch but still received the customary “Earnshaw’s an alien” song whilst stretching near the North Stand. Perhaps the Town fans knew It was manager Malky Mackay’s 40th birthday on Sunday (sharing a birthday with my mum, mmm) instead of the cruel “F**k off and die Malky Mackay the Town fans took it easy on him singing "Malky Mackay is going to cry” after we went 3-0 up!
On the subject of birthdays it would have been Sir Bobby’s 79th on Saturday, I’m sure that he would have approved of ITFC’s display.
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