Ipswich Town Independant Supporters Trust
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The Committee
Carl Day, Chairman
Currently running a Logistics supply Chain Management Company specialising in wines & spirits (hic!), Carl has been a Town supporter since he could carry his milk crate to Churchmans. Even though the Mecca of Football is Portman Road, he enjoys the camaraderie of the away games. Regardless of where and when, through the highs and lows, Carl will always be proud to wear his Ipswich colours and will always continue to support Town and his other favourite team - that whoever is playing against Norwich at the time!
He feels that being part of the Trust will empower supporters in a way they have never had before and enable them to make the difference.


Colin Kreidewolf, Secretary
Colin has been a Town supporter for 38 years and is a season ticket holder in the Cobbold Stand, and is committed to giving supporters a say in the way their club is run. Between 1978 and 1993 he went fifteen years without missing a game home or away in this country. He continues to attend all home and away games again following a return from a five-year business assignment to San Francisco. Originally from Ipswich he now lives in London and is a member of the Institute of Chartered Secretaries and Administrators. His favourite player of all time is Allan Hunter, although the best without a shadow of doubt was Kevin Beattie. His most abiding memory is the FA Cup win in 1978.


Jane Summerfield, Treasurer
Born in North Suffolk where some turned 'to the dark side' and supported you know who, Jane was set on the path to a lifetime of pain and glory by her Father who threatened to put her up for adoption if she did not support the Town and took her to her first game long before she could see over the wall round the pitch. A financial adviser by profession, Jane has been a North Stand season ticket holder for many years and votes Wembley 2000 as the happiest day of her life. However she believes that her attendance at the Tuesday night fixtures in February when it is sleeting, you can no longer feel your feet, and Town are being beaten at home by a bottom of the division side, is perhaps more a measure of the extent of her devotion to all things ITFC!


Phil Ham, Public Relations
Phil has been editor of the Those Were The Days fanzine since 1995. The website www.twtd.co.uk was a natural progression from this and followed soon after. In the years since then it has grown to become the major independent ITFC site on the web.
A left-sided player of extremely limited ability, Phil has also written the Fanzone column and other pieces in the Evening Star for the last six years. In 2001 his first book, Ipswich Town - The Inside Story - How The Blues Got Back To The Big Time, was published by Milo Books. A sequel, Ipswich Town - How The Blues Bought Loads of Useless Players And Ended Up Back In The Nationwide And In Administration Without Two Ha'pennies To Rub Together, is likely to appear in future years.


Graham Steel, Funding/Social Officer
Born in North Suffolk where some turned 'to the dark side' and supported you know who, Jane was set on Exiled to East Anglia in 1993, Graham thought that the only live football he would see would be the occasional Hartlepool away game (born in the North East he saw his first Pools game “before The Beatles had a hit”). Infrequent visits to Portman Road soon became common and within two seasons Graham, his partner and son were season ticket holders in the family area of the Britannia Stand. Committed to Trust principles, he believes those with a seat in the stand should have a seat on the board; an objective he says he will pursue with all the tenacity of his favourite Town player – Micky Stockwell.


Alasdair Ross, Community Liaison Officer
From a family of well known town fans. The great Laurie Sivell used to lodge with his parents in the early 70,s. Ran the Ipswich fanzine "Dribble!" and currently runs the "Ipswich Town Programme and Memorabilia Club". Now teaches sport at a local school after 25 years in the Army where he had to spend Saturdays away from Portman Rd watching, Glentoran, Dortmund and the Kosova Albanian XI. Involved in local politics and a member of the Football Supporters Federation.


Justin Taylor, Committee Member
Justin runs Taylormade Design Ltd, a Design and Advertising company in Lowestoft. He has been a life long Ipswich fan and vividly remembers watching the UEFA Cup run of 81 from the Cobbold Stand with his Grandad. A footballer who frequently graced the deepest depths of Sunday League football, was forced to hang up his boots, after a knee injury in an Ulrich Le Pen style substitute appearance where he was on the pitch for a maximum of 3 minutes during which time he had given away a penalty and been stretchered off!! Favourite player ever is Paul Mariner and best ITFC moment was Wembley 2000.





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