Ugh!

July 9, 2009 in General
Tags: barstoolers, boys in green, finn harps, football, ipswich, Keane, media

Roy Keane is a ‘national treasure’ in the Emerald Isle, and Ipswich’s friendlies tour is a blatant PR effort to turn Paddy into a tractor boy.

Driving shame

July 8, 2009 in General
Tags: barstoolers, drivetime, football, ipswich, Keane, media, rte

Drivetime Sport is one of the country’s biggest sports broadcast slots, but it doesn’t do the League too many favours.

Ipswitching allegiances?

April 27, 2009 in General
Tags: bandwagon, football, Indo, ipswich, Keane, media, Sunderland

Are you making the big switch from Black Cat to Tractor Boy? The Indo’s Aidan O’Hara today offers, tailor-made for fickle Irish football fans, a 10-step guide to getting on the Ipswich bandwagon.

Ipswich? Where the hell is Ipswich?

April 26, 2009 in General
Tags: barstoolers, celebrity, football, identity, ipswich, media, Roy Keane, Sunday Times, Sunderland

Move over Sunderland. You’re not Irish any more, because now it’s the turn of Ipswich.
The cult of Roy Keane is being harnessed to bring Irish fans to a place that will be familiar to few of them, assuming they can find it on the map, the Sunday Times tells us.