Predictions: Who will be 2010/11’s main winners and losers?

If everything I predicted 12 months ago came true I would be a very rich and happy man right now. Unfortunately Arsenal let me down in the league, West Ham failed me in the FA Cup and letting my heart rule my head in the SPL by putting £10 on my beloved Aberdeen to win the SPL really was a waste of ...

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Predictions: Who will be 2010/11’s main winners and losers Part 2

Well you’ve heard what our Panel members have had to say for themselves, now it’s time for the “experts” to have their say. We’ll start off with writer Hugh Larkin. He loves the underdog but he thinks Chelsea are just far too strong for anyone to cope with and thinks Arsenal and Spurs are going to...

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Fantasy football 2010/11 reminder

Do you think you can spend £100 million better than Manchester City’s Roberto Mancini? Do you think you could assemble a better squad than Spurs boss Harry Redknapp? Do you think you can guide your side to glory like Chelsea’s Carlo Ancelotti? If so then we want to hear from you. We at Squarefootba...

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Squarefootball fantasy football invitation 2010/11

I saw more action and excitement this summer down at the mortuary than I did at the World Cup in South Africa. There was also a better atmosphere between me and my ex-girlfriend than there was inside the grounds, thanks to the constant drone of those awful vuvuzelas. And as for entertainment, I th...

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Get on side and sport your colours for Shelter this World Cup

In celebration of this years FIFA World Cup, housing and homelessness charity Shelter are teaming up with Nationwide Building Society, Official England Team sponsor, to launch their fantastic footy fundraiser, Strip4Shelter. Shelter is asking people across the country to replace their regular work ...

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England: Who should Fabio choose as his No 1 for South Africa?

In less than 100 days the greatest show on earth kicks off in South Africa but England manager Fabio Capello still has major issues to resolve before he finalises on his squad who will be given the task of bringing the World Cup home. Who will fill the left-back role if Ashley Cole fails to recover ...

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Is Wayne Bridge right to turn his back on England?

Representing your country in the World Cup is supposed to be every footballer’s dream. Every one bar Wayne Bridge that is. The Manchester City left-back has kicked his international career into row Z due to the fall-out of John Terry’s alleged affair with his ex-girlfriend and mother of his children...

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The Old Firm: Premier League? You’re having a laugh!

Martin Luther King famously had a dream of racial equality and an end to discrimination. I too have a dream but sadly it isn’t as prophetic as that. I just want to live to see Aberdeen crowned as SPL champions. Now that may sound ridiculous to many of you given the Dons’ recent lack of silverware bu...

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Championship 2009-10 Previews - Ipswich Town

Poor away form was costly for Ipswich Town in 2007-08, but last season it was Portman Road where the Tractor Boys regularly failed to deliver. The departure of Jim Magilton once the play-offs were out of sight came as no great surprise, with the subsequent appointment of Roy Keane being a sign of th...

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Who will win the Championship, League One and League Two?

Forget those Saturday afternoons traipsing around the shops with the other half. Forget about cutting the grass and mending the fence and you can definitely forget about visiting the in-laws because, yes, the Football League is back! Middlesbrough and Sheffield United got the new season under way ...

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Squarefootball's fantasy football challenge

Do you see yourself as the next Sir Alex Ferguson or Arsene Wenger? Do you think you can pick a better team than Harry Redknapp or Rafa Benitez? Brilliant, then why don’t you join us in competing for the coveted Squarefootball fantasy league crown? For the past few years we at Squarefootball towers...

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Sir Bobby Robson - A tribute to a true gentleman

The world of football lost one of its most famous sons yesterday. Sir Bobby Robson, the former Ipswich Town, Newcastle United, Barcelona and England manager, passed away aged 76 following a long battle with lung cancer. Fans, players, pundits and managers have been paying their respect to Robson wit...

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Championship: Is QPR's loss going to be Swansea's gain?

The managerial merry-go-round in the Championship this summer has seen two interesting appointments made, one at Queens Park Rangers and one at Swansea City. Just weeks after being relieved from his duties at Ipswich Town, Jim Magilton became the latest man to take on the challenge of making QPR a ...

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Plunging Pound Could See Transfer Focus Switch To Football League

With the opening of the January transfer window looming large, speculation is rife as to which big name stars from Europe’s major leagues will be winging their way to the Premiership over the next few weeks. However, with sterling’s collapse against the Euro meaning that transfer fees for players b...

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Players we love to hate: Robbie Savage

Before Cristiano Ronaldo arrived on the scene, Robbie Savage was undoubtedly the most universally hated player in the Premiership. He made Roy Keane and Wayne Rooney look like choirboys with his constant moaning to referees, he wound up everyone with his gamesmanship and in-your-face style of play, ...

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Championship 2008-09 Preview - Ipswich Town

Expectations are high going into the new season at Portman Road, with the financial backing of Marcus Evans enabling Jim Magilton to put together a squad that should be capable of mounting a sustained promotion challenge. Fantastic home form last term was undermined by a shocking away record that M...

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A big season for...Richard Wright

Richard Wright is back at Ipswich Town after a £500,000 deal to take him from West Ham United was completed on Monday. “I'm joining at an exciting time, said the goalkeeper, quoted in the Ipswich Evening Star. The club is moving in the right direction and everything is ready for the Premier Leagu...

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Championship transfers: Cardiff and Ipswich search all over for a striker

As always in the transfer market it is the pursuit of those players who can notch 20+ goals a season that excite fans and often dominate the headlines. This summer in the Championship, the likes of Nottingham Forest, Barnsley and Burnley have spent seven-figure sums on frontmen. Cardiff struggled ...

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5412 Championship Promotion Contend

by : Cody Strunk The Jekyll and Hyde team of the Championship, Ipswich Town’s campaign has been blighted by their woeful record away from home. Other than a recent defeat at the hands of Watford, their results at Portman Road have been excellent though and with a couple of successes on their trave...

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4919: Ipswich Town: Contradictions a

by : Dave Gooderham Ipswich Town boast a suberb home record against the odds, but why? Football often conjures up great mysteries. Liverpool fans in past years must wonder why they have usually had Chelsea in their pockets but then lose at home to the likes of Fulham. Frank Lampard scores goals f...

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4023: Championship: 2006 as it happe

by : Alex Wolstenholme January: Gavin Williams' loan move from West Ham is made permanent while boss Joe Royle also snaps up Alan Lee from Cardiff City. February: Derby joy at Carrow Road as Danny Haynes' late winner gives Ipswich a 2-1 win against their old rivals. March: Just three points from ...

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3068: Championship season review: Ip

by : Alex Wolstenholme Having made the play-offs for the past two seasons, Ipswich Town fans have had to settle for a mid-table finish this time around after a campaign that has been frustrating and encouraging in turn. A slow start to the season was always likely, given the talent that had left P...

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2519: Ipswich/Norwich: Bleak times i

by : Hugh Larkin Before the start of the season few would have predicted that between them Ipswich Town and Norwich City would have already lost 18 League games between them and that both sides would be sitting in the lower half of the Championship table. Already both of East Anglia’s premier clubs...

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2318: Ipswich Town V Norwich City -

by : Colin Illingworth While the rest of the country is focusing on Manchester United’s grudge match against Liverpool this weekend, for Norwich City and Ipswich Town fans there is only one game that concerns them. The East Anglian derby may not be as high profile as others but as those who have ...

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1761: Championship: Ipswich are stil

by : Chris Sherrard The three-pronged fight for promotion to the Premiership appears to have been reduced to two thanks to a run of three consecutive defeats incurred by Joe Royle’s Ipswich Town – culminating in the nervy 1-0 loss at title rivals Wigan Athletic on Saturday. But I don’t see it as a...

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1300: Championship Form Guide: Exper

by : Alex Wolstenholme Ipswich have got off to their best start in a season since they finished fifth in the Premiership under George Burley and look one of the strongest contenders for promotion back to the top flight at this stage of the season. At the heart of the Blues good form is the experie...

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1082: CHAMPIONSHIP: Tractor boys hop

by : David Hulott His recent summer signings of Dado Prso and Nacho Novo have failed to hit it off and they have made a spluttering start to the season. The knives are out for undoubtedly one of Scotland’s greatest players ever. They currently find themselves out of the lucrative Champions League, ...

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