Barmitzvah Boy
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This Saturdays game is only 13 weeks from Christmas (plus a couple of days for the pedantic amongst you); I wonder where both teams will be in the League on Christmas Day?
Our record against Ipswich is pretty even, indeed our very first match against the ‘Tractor People’ (PC only on roversfans.com) was only back in 1954; no doubt Drog can recall the game (we won 4-1) and the price of the pies. No butter chick chick
curry or beef rib burgers in those days…..just a nice Mrs Miggins pork pie and a suck on a wet tea bag.
Those results over the years (it is an odd number due to including cup games) are 17 Rovers wins, 18 drawn games, and 20 wins to the Ipswich wallahs.
Ipswich is a rather nice town and it is steeped in history. There are no other clubs for miles around with Peterborough and Norwich being the closest; go South and you have to go to London to reach another league football club. I wish Rovers had a similar catchment area.
I had a look at some of their fan banners and would love it if we could do something similar at Ewood. We may have to pull a few vagrants and beggars of the streets of BwD to ensure enough people to hold up the banners.
What Do You Think Of These?
If little ole Ipswich can the above why can’t we in the BBE Lower?
Cleary I am famed around the globe for my in-depth and knowledgable research. I found 5 famous facts about the town of Ipswich and it’s environs.
1. Cardinal Thomas Wolsey was born in Ipswich in 1475. He started his education at Ipswich School, before moving to Oxford’s Magdalen College School, and then to Magdalen College, Oxford.
Famed as King Henry VIII’s right-hand man, Wolsey rose through the Church’s ranks to become Archbishop of York in 1514, and then a cardinal a year later.
2. The humble sausage was invented in Ipswich by the famous Mrs Miggins the pork pie maker. According to her diaries she was engaging in some advanced foreplay with the local undertaker Donald D’eath when she came up with the idea of encapsulating meat in a little bag to keep it fresh and provide a nice mouthful for whenever she fancied a nibble. The idea tickled her creative juices and the people of Ipswich loved it when she shared her meaty sausage around at the Townswoman’s Guild.
3. The first powered lawnmower was invented in Ipswich in 1875. It travels at 21mph and only last week one was booked for speeding in South Wales.
4. Ipswich is the UK’s first gender neutral town. All public toilets, and those at Portperson Road Stadium (PC check
) are designed to be inviting for anyone of the 97 listed genders.
Can we have these at Ewood please?
4. Ipswich is famed for its inclusive attitudes. It is renowned as being the most welcoming town in the UK and visiting Rovers fans will be lauded with garlands of hops and buttercups whilst the locals ply us with ginger beer and dandelion and burdock cordial.
5. It was an old Roman settlement and since those times it has become a melting pot of cultures where the locals have come to tolerate and even welcome the food, language, attitudes from new settlers from across the World. I will be inviting the locals to try a bit of my tasty black pudding this coming Saturday.
6. Ipswich is renowned for the skill of its tattooists. They will apply ink to any part of your body. I disapprove
The second example is being adopted as the new town crest for Burnley.
Back to the game. Ipswich have made a reasonable start to the season, a bit like ‘Plastic Preston’ they have exceeded expectations and are due to have a fall from grace. I reckon on a comfortable 2-0 to t’Wovers.
Our record against Ipswich is pretty even, indeed our very first match against the ‘Tractor People’ (PC only on roversfans.com) was only back in 1954; no doubt Drog can recall the game (we won 4-1) and the price of the pies. No butter chick chick
curry or beef rib burgers in those days…..just a nice Mrs Miggins pork pie and a suck on a wet tea bag.Those results over the years (it is an odd number due to including cup games) are 17 Rovers wins, 18 drawn games, and 20 wins to the Ipswich wallahs.
Ipswich is a rather nice town and it is steeped in history. There are no other clubs for miles around with Peterborough and Norwich being the closest; go South and you have to go to London to reach another league football club. I wish Rovers had a similar catchment area.
I had a look at some of their fan banners and would love it if we could do something similar at Ewood. We may have to pull a few vagrants and beggars of the streets of BwD to ensure enough people to hold up the banners.
What Do You Think Of These?
If little ole Ipswich can the above why can’t we in the BBE Lower?
Cleary I am famed around the globe for my in-depth and knowledgable research. I found 5 famous facts about the town of Ipswich and it’s environs.
1. Cardinal Thomas Wolsey was born in Ipswich in 1475. He started his education at Ipswich School, before moving to Oxford’s Magdalen College School, and then to Magdalen College, Oxford.
Famed as King Henry VIII’s right-hand man, Wolsey rose through the Church’s ranks to become Archbishop of York in 1514, and then a cardinal a year later.
2. The humble sausage was invented in Ipswich by the famous Mrs Miggins the pork pie maker. According to her diaries she was engaging in some advanced foreplay with the local undertaker Donald D’eath when she came up with the idea of encapsulating meat in a little bag to keep it fresh and provide a nice mouthful for whenever she fancied a nibble. The idea tickled her creative juices and the people of Ipswich loved it when she shared her meaty sausage around at the Townswoman’s Guild.
3. The first powered lawnmower was invented in Ipswich in 1875. It travels at 21mph and only last week one was booked for speeding in South Wales.
4. Ipswich is the UK’s first gender neutral town. All public toilets, and those at Portperson Road Stadium (PC check
) are designed to be inviting for anyone of the 97 listed genders.Can we have these at Ewood please?
4. Ipswich is famed for its inclusive attitudes. It is renowned as being the most welcoming town in the UK and visiting Rovers fans will be lauded with garlands of hops and buttercups whilst the locals ply us with ginger beer and dandelion and burdock cordial.
5. It was an old Roman settlement and since those times it has become a melting pot of cultures where the locals have come to tolerate and even welcome the food, language, attitudes from new settlers from across the World. I will be inviting the locals to try a bit of my tasty black pudding this coming Saturday.
6. Ipswich is renowned for the skill of its tattooists. They will apply ink to any part of your body. I disapprove
The second example is being adopted as the new town crest for Burnley.
Back to the game. Ipswich have made a reasonable start to the season, a bit like ‘Plastic Preston’ they have exceeded expectations and are due to have a fall from grace. I reckon on a comfortable 2-0 to t’Wovers.
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