Posted ‘4:00pm 🛎️ bells’ Sunday 22nd Decembaa 2024
“ALEXANDER THE GREAT!”
A very orly start for this one, az aa had to drag mee lifeless body oot of mee ‘scatcher’ 🛌 at ‘5:00am bells’ for to 2 legged 🚂 train jorney to Ipswich via London!
We arrived at wor destination at ‘11:40am bells’ and heeded to the nearest boozer, az yoo would expect!
And then onwards to anothaa boozer nearer the groond before heedin for the tornstiles! (See boozer pix below)
It didn’t tek lang for the openin’ goal!—-25 seconds in fact!
The Tractor Boys kicked off but inexplicably put the baall straight oot of play!?
From the throw in Schar foond Murphy who sent a cross in and it boonced of a Ipswich defenders heel, straight into the path of Alexander the Great (Alexander Isak) who hit a sweet shot into the roof of the net!
1-0 to us after less than 30 seconds! BUT! it took VAR 5 minutes to decide if Murphy woz offside or not!
He wasn’t!
Anthony Gordon then had a great chance to double wor lead but heeded the baall into the groond in the penalty area and the baall boonced ower the bar with the goal gapin’!
It woz soon 2-0 however, when a Gordon pass foond Murphy who hit a sweet shot into the net off the bar in the 35th minute!
And then disaster for Ipswich in added 1st half time!
Their goalie passed to Cajuste inside the box and woz tackled by Bruno, the baall fell to Isak’s feet and he said “thank you for my orly Xmas present!” az he had the simple task of placing the baall to the right of their keeper! 3-0 HT
It shud be noted that we had many chances to score more by various players and shud have been at least 6 up by the break!
The 2nd period woz just the same but we could anly add one more goal in this half, when Murphy made a great back heel to Isak and the great man (Alexander the Great!) toe poked the baall into the corner of the goal in the 53th minute to complete his hat-trick!
Again, we had many chances against a team who now hadn’t won a solitary game at home in 9 attempts!
NUFC didn’t play particularly well, and it shud have been at least 8-0!
The Tractor Boys look doomed on this performance!
It haz to be said that their fans stuck behind them until the 85th minute when the exodus began!
The one good thing aboot Ipswich IZ the train station iz just up the road from the groond!
Attendance: 29,744 (3,000 festive Toon fans singin’ the Jingle bells song!) (Oh wot fun it iz to see Newcasil win away!)
We move up the table to 7th place, just 1 point behind Man City and 2 behind Villa in 5th place, who we just happen to play on Boxin’ Day at SJP!
(Correction! we are 8th az Bournemoooth had a shock 3-0 win at Moan U today, who we play after Villa!—but will their manager still be there?)
IPSWICH PUB CRAWL! (2 boozers plus one more at St. Pancras back in London!— The Betjamen’s Arms where we have been many times before! (see previous London match reports for a pic of that boozer)
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