Haha! The man in the stands rips into the scum...

IN PROBABLY the most stark admission of a prolonged lack of success by any club ever, Ipswich Town this week held an open top bus ride to celebrate their 1978 FA Cup triumph.

Never mind that the current holders are Chelsea, the little old **** were just going to overlook that bit and have themselves a party…pathetic.

Highlights of the match were also shown on a big screen in the town centre on Monday as residents were introduced to the concept of TV for the first time, while Bobby Robson was handed the prestigious Freedom of Ipswich.

Being handed the Freedom of Ipswich is supposedly an honour, although I'm pretty sure it's also a new Government initiative to try and combat prison over-crowding.

The award allows Robson the constitutional right to graze sheep in the Toys R Us car park and shoot a foreigner with a crossbow - although as far as I know such practices have never died out in the Suffolk town.

The glorious parade allowed the **** to ignore the fact they had missed out on the play offs, in a season when they had £12m to spend in January, and there was barely a decent side in the division.

Most **** fans have resolved that going up and missing out on a £60m pay day is a good thing, because they'll go up automatically next year.

No doubt they'll be up there, but with a host of big teams in the division next season, it might not be as easy as Ipswich - one of the longest-serving Championship sides - are expecting it to be.

The relative difficulty of the division next year - simply because so many well-supported teams will be in it, let alone little ones like QPR with cash - raises its own problems for us.

Posted By: Tony Martin, May 8, 13:04:32