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That's not Chris Wilder, that's Ham SaladEyes.

The game was 90 minutes plus. You seem to be judging it on two instances within that 90. Generally you dominate a game like that then you win. Unless you're hopelessly unlucky. Did you watch the game? Ignoring the possession dominance and shots on target comparison, the fact that we were denied two penalties, one absolutely blatant and the other pretty clearcut, is enough to suggest a chunk of misfortune. I know you could argue with a fence panel, but surely you're not going to deny that?

Agent Lambert your work is now complete, do not return to HQ.

I believe he can get a tablet to help him with that.

Found a conclusion for your essay FTW...

Actually I’m a little disappointed that Sheff Utd have had such bad luck today, purely for the very reason I really can’t stand Leeds and would like nothing more than to to see them **** it in the Play Offs. I’m not concerned about us because we will be promoted, but I’d rather Sheff Utd came up with us than that vile cheating club.

Hey LDC, were Sheff Utd busy celebrating the missed penalty thereby allowing Millwall to equalise or were they queuing up to serve for the match using your tennis analogy!

Portman Road being renamed for next season

Ah but, i* i* no* o*er y*t. Waiting for you to fill in the blanks LDC Here's one for you. F*** *ff! In the nicest possible way.

I am speaking as someone with 30 years experience in company taxation. Evans and his companies do not gain a financial advantage as a result of Ipswich Town making losses. At best his companies get relief at 20% for the losses which means that a loss of £5m becomes a loss of £4m after tax relief. Evans bought a debt of £30m owed by Ipswich to Aviva. He bought the debt for £7m which meant Aviva lost £23m. The Ipswich shareholders and supporters thought this meant they now only owed £7m when in fact they still owed £30m but to Evans rather than Aviva. It seems that Evans plan was to get promoted and take the £30m out of the Sky money thus making a quick profit of £23m. Unfortunately he chose Roy Keane to put this plan into practice and we all know what happened next. The debt is now £100m, mainly because Evans has been rolling up unpaid interest on the debt but also because wages have exceeded income. He stopped charging interest a couple of years ago which may be the result of FFP or perhaps because HMRC disallowed the losses. Only Evans and HMRC will know the reason. The rules for cross company interest relief and losses are incredibly complex. The moral of the tale is not to allow a gun running ticket tout to buy your football club.

Yes, but as I've posted before they seem to have managed to turn promotion to the PL into a negative thing (losing games, being relegated etc.) and relegation to the third tier into a positive thing (winning games, promotion etc.) Total false logic, but entirely to be expected from the supporters of that hopeless, hapless, debt-ridden apology for a football club, and they are welcome to it all. OTBC

Play emi as it will be a six pointer for top spot, we'll have enough quality to see off the likes of palace and Newcastle without him 😁

Here is my 2,000-word essay on this afternoon's entertainment.

According to one TWTD poster, 4000 of them staying and singing in some kind of bizarre celebration of their horse **** season is the reason that we'll "forever be in their shadow". He seems to think that display of solidarity from a minority in a half empty ground is somehow better than our 21000 season ticket holders in L1 in terms of club togetherness. They're utterly bizarre.

Sheff Utd is done after today. No way to keep the tempo with 3 key players out and conceded in 95 min...

No, but the fans were complacent and this filtered through to the players. Obviously.

A picture says a thousand words however this one just says 'gluttony'.

Who pays who the chips and chocolate?

Guilty as charged.

MILWALL!!! You BEAUTIES!!!!

I've got a speech ready which I will deliver to the ipswich forum 1-2 days following.

If nothing else this proves we don't have anything to worry about https://totalfootballanalysis.com/match-analysis/norwich-city-reading-efl-championship-tactical-analysis I only saw the last 20 mins. or so but it did seem we were throwing speculative crosses in at an alarming rate (result of Jordan coming on?) Also leaving huge gaps in MF during extra time. And Marco's leg waving 'tackle' just before the goal ... grrr. That's showbiz folks. We go again.

Agreed, non story, he's the Manager of a Team, any Team, he gets paid to get results. He doesn't care about Norwich, Sheffield Utd or Leeds. He'll be going for it in every game.

What a result! Thanks every one on here who contributed. I had an amazing day too.

I cannot see any Manager asking his team to lose so that the team from the same City doesn't go up. And at the same time deny his supporters a win.

Think all this speculation regarding who is going up with us should perhaps be put to bed till after the Wigan game and if all goes well then is the time to speculate. Its not over till its over

You missed a bit. 🤭

Can't even use cup matches to get out of jail, as they shat themselves in public against Exeter and Accrington.

Sheff utd could get to 91 points, so we need 6 points as long as we keep a better goal difference.

Leeds are far superior over Sheff Utd.

Wednesday absolutely dire

According to the Championship Manager of the Year................"that was an unbelievably poor decision"........but incredibly he wasn't talking about his richly-deserved award 🙄

Lambert on the reception the fans gave the squad after the game and confirmation of relegation: "I’ve been involved in some unbelievable moments in my career, that’s as good as it gets for me, that’s how emotional it was." Really? 😂

Quote from the Beeb... I cannot believe that the incredibly successful manager that is Paul Lambert could not save Ipswich. 🤣

Really unlucky with the Juve match, tough break there. @nutty nigel, I've just sent you a tenner on Paypal - could you maybe put it on the following sixfold for tomorrow, please? Will keep us entertained for the long coach journey, at least! Wigan v Norwich - away win Palace v Man City - away win Aberdeen v Celtic - Celtic win (neutral venue) Liverpool v Chelsea - home win Chievo v Napoli - away win Braga v Tondela - home win If all goes to plan, the sixth win should come in just as the coaches pull in at FCR. On Bill Hill that works out at 9.39/1 for me.

Of course KIO, how silly of me to forget it was the fans fault for being nervous

Millwalls bus was late to the ground apparently!

Gary Hooper is going to do a goal tonight. Anyone remember 'Jaemae' and his weird hatred of Hooper? He was an odd one.

"Mind the cr4p" "Stand clear of the Championship please"

What a goalkeeper Henderson is. Keep Millwall out single handed in the last 15 minutes. if we make it, he should be on our wish list

Agreed. However, the issues is not just Evans and his ownership. He has largely been anonymous throughout his time there, yet the 'board' who act for him appears to have got off scot free, whilst overseeing one poor decision after another. It beggars belief no one group down there appears to be worried enough to challenge this! Yet when MM style of hoofball drags on too long a few of them are then outraged at the manager. Someone who continually kept them in the chumps (yes they where boring as hell to watch) They as a club have simply slept walked into League 1...….without so much as a whimper...……..apathetically pathetic display. And I strongly suspect, it will continue for some time yet.

Ever tried to get into politics without money Herman? It's not possible. Even the Greens have millionaire backing.

Hank this is the second time in quick succession you have replied to a post of mine and managed to completely miss the point! What I said was that anybody who understands stats knows that, whatever the ex post facto stats tell you about the performance of the two teams in a game, the result of that game cannot be deduced from the stats. It's nothing to do with being positive or negative; it's a simple point of logic about what conclusions do or don't follow from a given set of premises.The stats for the game are what they are: could the game have finished as a Reading win? Yes, obviously. Could the game have finished as a Norwich win? Yes, obviously. Could the game have finished as a draw? Yes, obviously. Ergo, obviously, all three ways the game could have finished are consistent with the stats being what they were. Re. your second paragraph, at no time have I said that our league position is false. My points have consistently been about how we have performed to get to that position. What I -- and many others including Bethnal -- kept pointing to, was the discrepancy between our GF and our cumulative xG. What that meant was that, game after game, we were relying on clinical finishing of not very good chances to harvest our points. If you've followed my posts recently, I have several times pointed out that this has now been reversed: we are now consistently engineering better quality chances, and the discrepancy between our GF and xG has significantly narrowed. In other words, we have recently become less reliant on exceptional finishing, which is a good job because most of that early exceptional finishing was provided by Teemu, who is currently not finding it as easy to get the ball in the net. Less fortunately, the player who has contributed most to keeping our GF ticking along is Emi. The Reading game provided a textbook example of these various points. The Pukki of the first half of the season would very likely have scored at least one goal on Wednesday. Even without Buendia, we created a succession of good quality chances but on this occasion our finishing was not just not exceptional, it was below average for the chances created. As a result we relied on our CBs converting low grade chances for our goals.

I trust all founder members were issued with these....

Their manager is ex-Norwich too. Will probably give us a regulation 2-0 victory lol

On a vaguely related note, did you know that the current manager of Hamburg is called Christian Titz? True story. They should get Wenger in as DOF for a Titz-'n'-Arsene dream team.

The tattoo needle is unquestionably the sharpest item in this piece ....

Really, it is telling that as soon as vrancic was on the pitch we looked a whole lot better. Farke surely saw that and if he had put vrancic on instead of Rhodes I reckon we would have won. Vrancic really must start.