CONGRATULATIONS, TOWN!
The family that was with you at the beginning is still with you today.
We can do no better than quote from David Walsh in the Sunday Times, 3rd May 2026 following Ipswich Town’s victory over QPR which ensured their return to the Premier League.
There is also a lingering affection for Sir Bobby Robson’s side of the 1970s and early 1980s. The football was great and the club, under their Old Etonian owners John and Patrick Cobbold, stood for values that even in the 1970s were a throwback.
They appointed Robson at a time when he was on unemployment benefit. For a time results didn’t go the new manager’s way and some supporters wanted him out. “Our manager’s name is not written on a chalkboard with a wet sponge nailed next to it,” John Cobbold told the disgruntled. And this was a chairman who made a virtue out of not knowing very much about football.
Anthony Cobbold
