Published on May 5, 2024 at 5:07 p.m. / Modified on May 5, 2024 at 5:07 p.m.
When there was no internet, only around ten football matches a year on television and Jean-Jacques Tillmann and Max Marquis to comment on the most beautiful of all, the wonderfully British name of Ipswich Town exerted a fascination that is difficult to transcribe today. We can account for it like this: more than forty years later, two thirds of these fantastic players in blue jerseys instantly return to the top. Paul Mariner, John Wark, Alan Brazil, the Dutch Mühren and Thijssen, Mick Mills, Terry Butcher…
On Saturday, these names came to the surface at the same time as Ipswich Town returned to the Premier League, for the first time in twenty-two years. In their equally legendary Portman Road stadium, the “Tractor Boys” beat Huddersfield 2-0. A few hours later, in France, AJ Auxerre secured their promotion to Ligue 1 (unless they lost by conceding 20 goals in the last two matches) and another farandole of old names and happy memories began. to dance. Guy Roux, Abbé-Deschamps, Eric Cantona, Basile Boli, Stéphane Grichting. And since it was madeleine for dessert all week, the lovely month of May opened with the return to the elite of Italian football of the Parma team, which lined up another month of May, 1999, five authentic world stars during a UEFA Cup final: Gigi Buffon, Fabio Cannavaro, Lilian Thuram, Juan Sebastian Veron, Hernan Crespo.
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