Through Gritted Teeth #1: Matt Holland, and Ipswich Town 2000-02
April 26, 2011 § Leave a Comment
by Juliet Jacques
Portman Road, 19 March 2000. George Burley’s Ipswich Town side, desperate to avoid the First Division play-offs having lost three successive semi-finals, faced Norwich City in a must-win local derby. Expecting that my club would lose, I was ambivalent about the appointment of our new manager: former Ipswich midfielder Bryan Hamilton was appointed from within, leaving his post as Director of Football to succeed Bruce Rioch, who had resigned in frustration at the lack of transfer funds and the sale of fans’ favourite Darren Eadie to Leicester for £3m. « Read the rest of this entry »
