‘We need a beating heart’: Ipswich Town takeover set to be game changer | Nick Ames
06-Aug-2021 12:46:00 | The Guardian
The sense is that things have got serious at Portman Road, but a shift in mentality was needed and club are expected to compete for automatic promotion from League One
An extraordinary general meeting of the Ipswich Town plc was drawing to a close on Monday evening when a familiar face stood up and said his piece. For the previous hour the club’s new chief executive, Mark Ashton, had joined his chairman, Michael O’Leary, and manager, Paul Cook, in taking questions from the assembled shareholders, who had not convened since an American-led consortium shifted the narrowing horizons in Suffolk beyond recognition. Taking the mic in the front row David Sheepshanks, whose departure in 2009 ended 130 years of control by landed Suffolk gentry, handed down his verdict on the new ownership.
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