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THRIFTY EVANS STALLS TRACTOR

Chris Dunlavy

IT WAS just after 2.15 on a Saturday afternoon in August when the realisation dawned that Ipswich Town were doomed. The Tractor Boys were at Hillsborough to face Sheffield Wednesday, their fifth match of an already cheerless campaign. Early form is rarely a reliable barometer, of course. In August 2006, Sunderland sat bottom of the Championship without a point to their name. By April 2007, they were back in the Premier League and waving two fingers at everyone who’d written them off. Maybe this was just a teething issue; the stolid conserv...

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