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Kenilworth Road
Live Virtual Match
Saturday 1st April 2006, 15:00 BST
Welcome to yet
another Live Virtual Match broadcast in conjunction with
North West
Supporters Club, ironically on April Fools day. Our latest broadcast comes from fellow East Anglian
club, Luton Town. This is the 2nd meeting between the sides this season. The
game at Portman Road was on 31st December 2005 and Ipswich won 1-0 with an
Ian Westlake goal after 69 minutes in front of a crowd of 23,957.
Ipswich go into
the game at Luton 1 point and 1 place ahead of the hosts. Ipswich are in
10th with 53 points, Luton are 11th with 52 points.
Historically,
the Tractorboys haven't performed too well at Kenilworth Road winning just 2
of the previous 8 league games played there. However, we did win our last
league visit back in 1995/96 with Simon Milton scoring twice in a 2-1 win
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Luton Town (0) 1 |
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0 Pride of East Anglia |
| Squads: |
Beresford, Foley, Davis, Coyne,
Perrett, Heikkinen (Showunmi 77), Edwards, Robinson, Morgan(Feeney 76), Howard, Vine
(Berkovic 76) |
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Supple, Sito
(Haynes 84),
Wilnis, De Vos, McEverly, Currie, Juan, Garvan, Richards (Bowditch 53), Lee,
Naylor |
| Subs: |
Bell, Brill |
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Brekke-Skard, Casement, Price |
| Scorers: |
Howard 80 |
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| Cards: |
Davis, Howard, Heikkinen, Berkovic |
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| Ref: |
Mr L.S. Mason |
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| Crowd: |
9,820 |
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Summary
If there were any doubts before today, our play-off hopes are well and truly
over. To make matters worse, the scum won but this was always going to be a
season to consolidate. Reading clinched the title with a 5-0 win against
Derby and Sheffield United dropped points against Stoke, next weeks visitors
to Portman Road. There are plenty of positive points to take forward to next
season. Thanks for watching

FULL TIME
90+mins: The ref obvious enjoys
inflicting pain on people as he adds on 4 mins but the game ends 1-0 to
Luton and our proud record of never losing a virtual broadcast has gone.
90+mins: Naylor heads a half chance a long way wide as the game stumbles
towards the final whistle
90 mins: Luton get a corner right at the death
87 mins: Time running out for the TractorBoys and were are facing our first
defeat from a TractorBoys.net broadcast
84 mins: The decision to book Berkovic does seem strange as Wilnis was seen
laying on the pitch. It'll be interesting to see what he did to warrant a
yellow card. Haynes prepares to come on for Sito
81 mins: Wilnis is down after an off the ball incident and the linesman
tells the ref Berkovic needs to be booked, presumably for trying to wake up
the crowd
80
mins: GOAL - Steve Howard scores his 15th goal of the season as he heads
home at the near post.

79 mins: Despite the recent burst of action, PZ from Middle
America sums up the game "Wake me up when it's over...zzzzzzz". A town
corner comes to nothing
78 mins: Corner to Luton which Ipswich struggle to clear but are saved by
the ref's whistle
77 mins: Actually, it's a treble substituion as Showunmi comes on for
Heikkinen
77 mins: Fuller has a second for Southampton as Luton make a double
substitution
75 mins: Garvan has a good chance after work by Sito. Tragic news from
Carrot Road as the scum take the lead after that idiot D'Urso gave them a
dodgy penalty.
71 mins: De Vos's clearance hits Sito and rebounds into Supple's arms. News
comes through that Ricardo Fuller has scored for Southampton. Steve Howard
and Markus Heikkinen have joined Davis in the ref's notebook
64 mins: Jimmy Juan goes down on the edge
of the area. He's scored a couple for this range already this season

63 mins: Davis picks up a yellow card for Luton. The ref was probably
getting bored
60 mins: Hurrah - Leicester equalise against the scum.
59 mins: Luton force another corner which Dean Morgan takes and guess what,
it comes to nothing
57 mins: Our cameraman has apologised for lack of pictures but the game is
shocking. At least he's on the scene in case of an Ipswich goal as they are
attacking the goal in front of the travelling support
55 mins: Vine gets away from Wilnis who clubs him down but thankfully the
ref has already given a foul by Vine on Wilnis
53 mins: Trickery from Vine sets up a change which Supple saves brilliantly
to give Luton their first corner. Bowditch prepares to come on for Richards
51 mins: A sloppy header from McEverly lets in Steve Vine but he can't add
to his 14 goals as he puts the ball into the side netting. Our latest
picture shows the stewards considering going back down the tunnel rather
than watch the rest of this game

50 mins: Morgan wastes the best chance of the game as he gets past Sito and
hammers the ball towards to moon
46 mins: Some nice play from Ipswich sees McEverly's cross end up in the
arms of Beresford.
45 mins: No changes for Ipswich as the teams come out for the 2nd half.
England spinner, Monte Panesar has made an appearance at half-time. He's a
life-long Luton supporter.
During the break, I'd just like to take the opportunity to congratulate our
cameraman at Luton, Jon Craig and his missus as they are expecting their
first child in October.
There are plenty of goals around today but for once, not in an Ipswich
game. This really has been a tame affair with only 3 shots on target in the
first half (Luton 2, Ipswich 1). Maybe Big Fat Joe will be considering
giving Brekke-Skard a run-out as the midfield haven't done much.
HALF TIME
The whistle goes for half time and no-one is disappointed
45+mins: Still the misery continues and this picture shows the view from the
away end. 3 minutes added so far.
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45 mins: We move in to added time. Go and make a cup of tea and hope the 2nd
half is better
44 mins: Half time approaching and hopefully the ref will do the right thing
and not add on any injury time.
42 mins: Action moments are few and far between although on the email, Lewis
in Lincoln has been complimenting our website. Thanks Lewis
40 mins: From the corner, Richards shot was blocked.
38 mins: Juan was nearly in but a challenge from the defender gives Ipswich
another corner although maybe it should have been a pen
37 mins: De Vos heads the ball
36 mins: Howard gets away from Wilnis and gets in a shot that Supple deals
with easily. Lets hope the 2nd half is more entertaining. Some subs will be
needed and I'm hoping the shorter names will be replacing the long ones. The
worst one would be Showunmi replacing Bell.
35 mins: Zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz. Here is another picture

31 mins: Pictures reach us showing Jimmy Juan getting treatment. His
midfield team-mates Richards and Garvan have been listed as Missing In
Action

30 mins: Some excellent goal-keeping from Supple although the linesman
already has his flag up.
28 mins: Bad news from Carrow Road where Norwich are 1-0 up
22 mins: Ipswich starting to come to life as we force another corner. It's
cleared then Sito's cross is overhit
20 mins: Some excitement at last as Currie hits a stunning shot to force a
corner
19 mins: Still duller than listening to John Major talking about his stamp
collection but the Bolton keeper has just made a stunning double save
against Man Utd
17 mins: Currie takes the first corner of the match for Ipswich but it comes
to nothing
15 mins: Nothing happening but I can report next weeks opponents, Stoke are
1-0 at home to Sheffield United. We have a picture of Shane Supple taking a
goal-kick

12 mins: Richards can't continue and Bowditch looks ready to come on. Some
more photos have come in and will be online shortly
10 mins: Richards goes down hurt after a tough challenge and is limping off
the field. The Luton man involved in the challenge was Luton captain Chris
Coyne. The game restarts with a drop ball
8 mins: Howard gets the first shot in on goal as Richards gives the ball
away. Defensive mistakes have been the only consistent thing about our
defence for a couple of seasons
6 mins: 14 goal striker Stephen Howard has wiped out Sito with an
outrageous challenge but the man in black does nothing. To his credit, Sito
gets up and doesn't make a meal of the challenge
5 mins: Still pretty tame stuff but with the season effectively over for
both sides, it's not much of a surprise. The Tractorboys are in good voice
with around 2,000 making the journey from Suffolk. Don't forget to use the
FEEDBACK button to give us your thoughts on this game, this season or our
chances for next season.
2 mins: Not much happening in our game but Portsmouth have scored the
first goal of the afternoon at Fulham and Newcastle are 1-0 at home to Spurs
0 mins: The teams are ready to come out and our first photo is in.
It's from the back of the away stand. The referee is Lee Mason and he sent
off Sito earlier on in the season. Lets home there is no repeat performance.
And we're away, with Ipswich defender the goal in front of the travelling
support

Pre-match Build Up
Good morning and welcome to our live broadcast. Everything is in place
and we have the teams. Alan Lee has recovered from injury and will partner
Richard Naylor up front.
Barring a mathematical anomaly more outrageous than a Zimbabwe election
result, the season is pretty much over with regards to us making the
play-offs. However, it is important that we do finish about the scum and as
we are currently neck and neck, there is everything to play for. The veteran
listeners amongst you will have noticed that our mascots from Dallas, Monica
and Kimberly are no longer with us. Instead we have 2 new stunners to help
pom-pom our way to success. For the older viewers, we have Catherine Bach
who played Daisy Duke in the Dukes of Hazard in the 1980s. For the younger
viewers, we have the modern day Daisy in the outstandingly curvy form of
Jessica Simpson. |