Ipswich Town’s visitors fared much better last night at the CBS Arena in front of SKY TV live cameras and almost 26,000 spectators, including 2,500 from East Anglia. Clinton Morrison, a member of the CCFPA, conducted interviews and set the scene for the SKY crew while they were on the pitch.
Stuart Giddings,download the former “Cov.Kid” midfielder for CCFC, observed that the home team gave a somewhat weary performance in the match. They were obviously still getting over their Wembley F.A.Cup semi-final setback, and they had already lost four of their previous five Championship games. The Tractor Boys exuded professionalism and were intent on securing a top-two finish and Premier League football for the upcoming season. With their 2-1 victory, they now just need to secure a point on Saturday, the final day of the season, to secure the promised land behind Champions Leicester City. Meanwhile, CCFC will aim for a victory to close out the season on Legends Day, securing at most an eighth-place finish.
Stuart conducted many Q&A sessions with club host and former CCFC defender Brian “Harry” Roberts prior to kickoff while moving among the main stand supporters lounges
. An additional layer was added to the interviews by current CCFC defender Liam Kitching, who was red carded at Blackburn the previous game and is not playing tonight. You can watch a video of one of these fascinating Q&As on our Facebook page by clicking the Facebook button to the right of this page, courtesy of Richard Morris of CCFPA. Then everyone took a seat to watch the game.download
Hadji Wright’s 19th goal, which came about as a result of a defensive blunder in the 8th minute, tied the score, but it was not enough to spur the Sky Blues on to capitalize on their superior possession. Stuart conducted a pitchside interview with the Sky Blues trailing by a goal in front of a warm-up CBS audience. Both teams came close to scoring in the second half, and the visitors’ close-range winner at the 69-minute mark set up a nerve-wracking final 30 minutes for the visiting supporters. The fourth official had to replace the referee after he sustained an injury in the second half, which resulted in an 11-minute delay!
Following the outcome, the Town team and their supporters rejoiced on the field for a while, while Stuart and Billy Bell of the CCFPA went to the Lady Gs Supporters Lounge at the G-Casino, which is located beneath the CBS Arena. Stuart was admitted into the Sky Blue Mad Hatters band there! Below, our former player and vice chairman of the Association made an effective attempt to cheer up the naturally dejected Sky Blues fans from the stage with some more sportsmanship and banter before sending them home with thoughts of Saturday’s Legends Day 2024 (whose participants we announced earlier today). When Stuart returns, he will undoubtedly assist with another performance of the Sky Blue Song in Lady Gs to
