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Ipswich Town v Preston North End
Portman Roan 7/10/2023

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MANAGER

Kieran McKenna (born 14 May 1986) is a Northern Irish professional football manager and former player, who is currently the manager of EFL Championship side Ipswich Town.

McKenna began his footballing career as a youth team player at Northern Irish sides Enniskillen Town United and Ballinamallard United. He joined Tottenham Hotspur as a youth player in 2002, after signing a scholarship contract with Spurs. McKenna also represented the Northern Ireland national team at under-19 and under-21 level.

In 2009, at the age of 22, McKenna retired from playing due to an ongoing hip injury which prevented McKenna from making a senior first-team appearance for Tottenham. Following retirement, McKenna began coaching within the Tottenham Hotspur academy, progressing to become the club's under-18s manager in 2015. In 2016, he departed Tottenham for the under-18s manager position at Manchester United.

Prior to the 2018–19 season, McKenna was promoted to the first-team coaching staff at Manchester United to become assistant manager under José Mourinho. He worked with the first-team coaching staff at Manchester United until December 2021, when he left to become manager of Ipswich Town. In his first full season at Ipswich Town, McKenna achieved promotion to the EFL Championship.

GROUND

Portman Road is a football stadium in Ipswich, Suffolk, England, which has been the home ground of Ipswich Town F.C. since 1884. The stadium has also hosted many England youth international matches, and one senior England friendly international match, against Croatia in 2003. It staged several other sporting events, including athletics meetings and international hockey matches, musical concerts and Christian events.

The stadium underwent significant redevelopments in the early 2000s, which increased the capacity from 22,600 to a current figure of 29,673, making it the largest-capacity football ground in East Anglia. Its four stands have since been converted to all-seater, following the recommendations of the Taylor Report.

The away section interesting to say the least



FORM GUIDE

IPSWICH 18 PNE 8

LAST TIME OUT





POTTED A FEW



INS AND OUTS



WE'VE MET BEFORE



Lat time at Portman keeper Chris Maxwell was sent off Paul Gallagher ended up between the sticks

CULTURE

Could easily put Ed Sheeran

Ralph Nathaniel Twisleton-Wykeham-Fiennes[a] (/reɪf ˈfaɪnz/ rayf FYNZE;[2] born 22 December 1962) is an English actor, film producer, and director. A Shakespeare interpreter, he excelled onstage at the Royal National Theatre before having further success at the Royal Shakespeare Company. He has received various accolades including a BAFTA Award and a Tony Award, as well as nominations for two Academy Awards and an Emmy Award.

He made his film debut playing Heathcliff in Emily Brontë's Wuthering Heights (1992). His portrayal of xxxx war criminal Amon Göth in the Steven Spielberg drama Schindler's List (1993) earned him nominations for the Academy Award and Golden Globe for Best Supporting Actor, and he won the BAFTA Award for Best Actor in a Supporting Role. His performance as Count Almásy in The English Patient (1996) garnered him a second Academy Award nomination, this time for Best Actor, as well as BAFTA and Golden Globe nominations.

Fiennes has appeared in a number of other notable films, including Quiz Show (1994), The End of the Affair (1999), Maid in Manhattan (2002), The Constant Gardener (2005), In Bruges (2008), The Duchess (2008), The Reader (2008), The Hurt Locker (2009), Clash of the Titans (2010), Great Expectations (2012), The Grand Budapest Hotel (2014), A Bigger Splash (2015), Hail, Caesar! (2016), The King's Man (2021), and The Menu (2022). He lent his voice to the films The Prince of Egypt (1998), Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit (2005) and The Lego Batman Movie (2017). Fiennes starred in the Harry Potter film series (2005–2011) as the main antagonist Lord Voldemort. In the James Bond series he has played Gareth Mallory / M, the head of MI6, in Skyfall (2012), Spectre (2015) and No Time to Die (2021).

In 2011, Fiennes made his directorial debut with his film adaptation of Shakespeare's tragedy Coriolanus, in which he also played the titular character.[3] He followed this with The Invisible Woman (2013) where he portrayed Charles Dickens. In 1995, he won a Tony Award for Best Actor in a Play for playing Prince Hamlet in the Broadway revival of Hamlet. Since 1999, Fiennes has served as an ambassador for UNICEF UK. Fiennes is also an Honorary Associate of London Film School.[4] For his work behind the camera, in 2019 he received the Stanislavsky Award.[5]

Early life and family
Further information: Twisleton-Wykeham-Fiennes family and Baron Saye and Sele
Fiennes was born in Ipswich, England, on 22 December 1962.[6] Fiennes is the eldest child of Mark Fiennes (1933–2004), a farmer and photographer, and Jennifer Lash (1938–1993), a writer.[7] He is the grandson of Maurice Fiennes, great-grandson of Alberic Arthur Twisleton-Wykeham-Fiennes, and great-great-grandson of Frederick Benjamin Twisleton-Wykeham-Fiennes, 16th Baron Saye and Sele.[8] His surname is of Norman origin.[9]

He is the eldest of six children. His siblings are actor Joseph Fiennes; Martha Fiennes, a director (in her film Onegin, he played the title role); Magnus Fiennes, a composer; Sophie Fiennes, a filmmaker; and Jacob Fiennes, a conservationist. His foster brother, Michael Emery, is an archaeologist. His nephew, Hero Fiennes Tiffin, played Tom Riddle, young Lord Voldemort, in Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince.[10]

The Fiennes family moved to Ireland in 1973, living in County Cork and County Kilkenny for some years. Fiennes was educated at St Kieran's College for one year, followed by Newtown School, a Quaker independent school in County Waterford. They moved to Salisbury in England, where Fiennes finished his schooling at Bishop Wordsworth's School. He went on to pursue painting at Chelsea College of Arts before deciding that acting was his true passion.[11]



INTERESTING BIT

Ipswich (/ˈɪpswɪtʃ/ ⓘ) is a town and borough in the county of Suffolk, England. Ipswich is the county town of Suffolk and is the largest settlement in the county, followed by Lowestoft and Bury St Edmunds.[3][4] It is situated in East Anglia. Ipswich is the second-largest population centre in East Anglia, Norwich being the largest. It is 67 miles (108 km) northeast of London. The Ipswich built-up area is the fourth-largest in the East of England region and the 42nd-largest in England and Wales.[5] It includes the towns and villages of Kesgrave, Woodbridge, Bramford and Martlesham Heath.[6]

Ipswich was first recorded during the medieval period as Gippeswic, the town has also been recorded as Gyppewicus and Yppswyche.[7] It has been continuously inhabited since the Saxon period,[7] and is believed to be one of the oldest towns in the United Kingdom.[8] The settlement was of great economic importance to the Kingdom of England throughout its history, particularly in trade,[9] with the town's historical dock, Ipswich Waterfront, known as the largest and most important dock in the Kingdom.[9][10]

Ipswich is divided into various quarters, with the town centre and the waterfront drawing the most footfall. The town centre features the retail shopping district and the historic town square, known as the Cornhill. The waterfront, south of the town centre on a meander of the River Orwell, offers a picturesque setting with a marina, luxury yachts, high-rise apartment buildings, and a variety of restaurants and cafes. The waterfront is also home to the University of Suffolk campus.

Ipswich is surrounded by two Areas of Outstanding Natural Beauty (AONB): the Suffolk Coast and Heaths and Dedham Vale. The town has a tourist sector, with 3.5 million people reported to have visited the town in 2016.[11] In 2020, Ipswich was ranked as an emerging global tourist destination by TripAdvisor.[12]

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Who’s Available?

Both Alan Browne and Jordan Storey missed Wednesday night’s defeat to Leicester City through illness, so their health will need to be assessed ahead of Saturday.

Andrew Hughes also didn’t make the matchday squad at the King Power Stadium due to a tight calf, and manager Ryan Lowe was expecting to hear the results of a scan on Thursday.

Everybody else who featured against Leicester is expected to be available for the weekend.

Opposition Focus

You wouldn’t know it’s Ipswich Town’s first season back in the Championship since the 2018/19 campaign, given the start they’ve made which has seen them take 25 points from their opening ten matches.

Kieran McKenna and his side earned plenty of plaudits for their exploits in League One last season, with the Tractor Boys playing an attractive style of football and accumulating 98 points, which remarkably wasn’t enough to win the title.

Having strengthened significantly in the summer, the Portman Road side have made a stunning start to the campaign, and sit in the automatic promotion places at this early stage of the season.

A Recent Clash


Two goals each for Callum Robinson and Lukas Nmecha earned PNE a 4-0 victory over an already-relegated Ipswich Town side in April 2019.

Match Officials

Referee: David Webb
Assistant Referees: Rob Smith and Andrew Dallison
Fourth Official: Will Finnie

David Webb – the man in the middle for North End’s season opener at Bristol City – will take charge of Saturday’s fixture.

So far this season, he’s shown 33 yellow cards and one red in eight Sky Bet Championship matches.


M55/M6/M6TOLL/M6/A14 Junction 53 can't wait another half a day on the coach, park up near the station and wander up the hill to the ground arrive home in another time zone probably with sod all
Another difficult game they will have had a day's extra rest and won't have travelled many miles this week, done well since they returned to this level, depends if anyone wants the manager could go close the Tractors this season but we'll see. International break will have to find somewhere to go next Saturday

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Ipswich Towwn 4 Chaplin, Wiliams, Broadhurst, Jackson Preston North End 2 Frokjaer-Jensan, Whiteman

Ipswich Town line-up: Hladky; Williams, Woolfenden, Burgess, Davis; Morsy, Luongo (Ladapo, 76); Burns (Jackson, 59), Chaplin (Hutchinson, 59), Broadhead (Harness, 59); Hirst (Hirst, 76). Subs not used: Walton, Clarke, Ball, Scarlett.

PNE line-up: Woodman; Whatmough (Bauer, 26), Lindsay, Cunningham; Potts, Browne (Whiteman, 45), Ledson, Brady (Holmes, 45); Keane, Frøkjær (Woodburn, 70); Osmajić (Millar, 45). Subs not used: Cornell, Stewart, Best, Mawene.

Attendance: 29,018 (826 PNE fans).

Referee: Mr D Webb.

4.45am alarm call, which means it's a marathon away day out, M55/M6/M6 Toll/M6/A14 destination Ipswich, to be honest both journeys were relatively trouble free, one hold up either way at the same place due to roadworkd, cultural meeting with the odd folk from Blackpool at Norton Canes services both going and returning, on the way back parked next to the Wycombe team bus, some big lads who all appear to be about 10 stone lighter than me.
Wander around Ipswich given we arrived over two hours before the game, made enjoyable by the fact it was a warm early Autumn day.
After Wednesday's defeat changes were made Mads, and Keano both in.
Ipswich immediately on the attack they don't give you any time on the ball, they took an early lead, apparently we had been given plans to deal with an Ipswich cornerwere the bal was played to Chaplin at the edge of the box, the plan was so unsuccesful he scored.
Could be a long afternoon as the home side were relentless, but out of the blue level, long clearence, not dealt with by the defence ball is Osmajic and drops nicelt for Frokjaer-Jensen level, well most welcome but totally unexpected
They should have been back in front a minute later, Broadhurst waded past several weak tackle should have scored, Woodman made a great save, not to worry for home fans Robbie Brady would help them.
The apparent wing back clattered into Wes Burns who had already passed the ball to Williams with his paless marker miles behind him, the wing back kept on going and going, genuinely feared the lad would crash through the stand and carry on running towards BurySt Edmunds but to all home fans delight he shot across Woodman and Town were back in front.
Just about hanging on until half time as the five minutes went up, a cross was aimed to the backpost three home players against one, ball headed back across 6 yard box Broadhurst simple task of making it 3-1.
We were in danger of imploding Town had three other chances to increase the led, luckily they didn't take any of them.
The hapless Brady along with two others was hooked at half time, Miller made a difference when he came on and suddenly back in this game, when Whiteman fired home from the edge of the box through a mass of players.
Game on or it should have been but in truth never really puttheir goal under pressure and a second tough game in three days began to take it's toll, Town sealed the game late on break down the left ball to Jackson in acres of space, didn't miss game over, they nearly had another but Woodman saved a ball that appeared to be creeping in.
Tough week two away games against two decent sides take it on the chin move on stiil third after 11 games, nothing wrong with that.
Finally the entire management staff and players came over to the clap the fans, in other ays they would hve got grief, not today though, think we appreciate that slowly but surely we are onto something although not today

https://www.pnefc.net/news/2023/october/...ch-town-a/

on 5 of these

Ipswich head coach Kieran McKenna told BBC Radio Suffolk:

"It was an exciting game, some great goals, plenty of chances created against a difficult opponent.

"The performance wasn't perfect, there's things we can improve but it was the last game of a really busy spell, the seventh in 21 days, something like that, so it's probably not going to be perfect at that stage.

"We've spoken a lot about making this an exciting place to play football - I spoke to the players about that when we were mid-table (in) League One, that I wanted this to be one of the best places in England to watch football.

"We're showing signs of that, we've had some great games here, and we're going to have to work really hard to keep that going."

Preston manager Ryan Lowe:

"Obviously (I'm) disappointed with the first half, you can't give a good team like Ipswich three goals and we have done.

"We gave ourselves a lifeline at half-time and came out a lot better and when we were really pushing, second half they do us on the counter...so overall, (it's) a tough afternoon.

"They all admit it's not good enough. It's probably been one of the toughest weeks since I've been here in terms of the goals we have conceded.

"If you want to do anything in the division you have to be better all round."