Ipswich Town's resurgence has seen them creep to the fringe of the top six, but Rotherham United's playoff hopes are evaporating.

Injury to Kevin Keegan had meant Greenwood needed to call upon an experienced club captain to lead the team out in Spain, so Ipswich Town's skipper Mick Mills, normally a left-back, was put in the right-back slot ( with regular incumbent Kenny Sansom remaining on the left ) and both Neal and Anderson missed out.

It also has a stand named after it at Ipswich Town's football ground, Portman Road.

, he is Ipswich Town's third-highest all-time scorer, with 179 goals scored for the club, despite rarely appearing as a striker.

Originally at the Ipswich Town Centre of Excellence, he joined Luton Town as a trainee in 1994. after Ipswich Town's youth coach Terry Westley moved to Luton Town.

In 1999, he was voted Ipswich Town's " Player of the Year ".

Portman Road hosted Ipswich Town's first appearance in European football competition when they defeated Floriana of Malta 10 – 0, still a club record, in the European Cup in 1962.

Michael Dennis " Mick " Mills ( born 4 January 1949 in Godalming, Surrey ) is an English former football full-back who, by the end of his career, had achieved Ipswich Town's record number of appearances and captained England at the 1982 World Cup.

He joined Cambridge United's youth scheme at the age of 16, after leaving Ipswich Town's youth academy.

After making 11 appearance and scoring 4 goals, Kuqi joined Ipswich Town permanently in November despite late interest from Town's rival Norwich City.

Bent progressed through Ipswich Town's youth system, having joined the club at the age of 14 in 1998, after considering a possible career in athletics.

Supple was loaned out to League One side Oldham Athletic on 18 March 2009, following Ipswich Town's signing of Polish goalkeeper, Bartosz Białkowski until the end of the season.

Born in Preston, Lancashire, Barron came up through Ipswich Town's academy system to make 17 senior appearances while at Portman Road, his debut coming against Brentford in the League Cup in August 2004.

Sunderland dropped to 17th in the final table, only avoiding relegation after to a 1 – 1 draw with Derby, while Ipswich were beaten 5 – 0 at Liverpool.

Indifferent league performances that season meant that Ipswich finished just three points above the relegation zone, but the season ended in success in the FA Cup.

Ipswich went fourth in February and there was talk of finally winning that title that had eluded them more than once during Wark's first spell there, but 13 consecutive games without a win resulted a 16th place finish in the table, just three points above the relegation zone, and only a win on the final day of the season made sure of their survival.

Ipswich were saved from relegation in the last round of matches ( for the second season running, another good start had given way to a late season slump ), courtesy of an injury time winning goal scored by Mark Stein of Chelsea at Stamford Bridge, which ensured that Ipswich's fellow strugglers Sheffield United went down.

But a dip in form during the final weeks of the season saw Ipswich finish 16th and 1993 – 94 brought a similar pattern, a good start following by a slump – Ipswich finished 19th in the final table and were only saved from relegation by Sheffield United's last gasp 3 – 2 defeat at Chelsea.

He finished the 2001 – 02 season with seven appearances and two goals in all competitions, and also saw his team Ipswich face relegation to the First Division.

In his first season at Ipswich Town, Miller only made 8 appearance and his side was 18th place which resulted relegation to the Football League First Division.

After Betis ' 2000 top flight relegation, Finidi stayed one more year in Spain with RCD Mallorca, after which he joined Premier League side Ipswich Town, managed by George Burley, for £ 3. 1 million.

Robson was created a Knight Bachelor in 2002, was inducted as a member of the English Football Hall of Fame in 2003, and was the honorary president of Ipswich Town.

In the 2002-03 season John Welsh played only one game for the first team – his début match against Ipswich Town on 4 December 2002 in a League Cup fourth round tie at home – when he replaced Vladimír Šmicer in the 83rd minute.

Ipswich Museum Moralities in the 1840s and 1850s, in C. Harper-Bill ( ed ) East Anglia's History: studies in honour of Norman Scarfe Boydell, Woodbridge 2002, 309-332.

For the 2012-13 season, Ipswich Town will have held the longest tenure in the Championship, having not been promoted or relegated from the division since the 2002 – 03 season.

Ruel Adrian Fox ( born 14 January 1968 in Ipswich ) is an English former professional football player of Montserratian and Antiguan descent who played for Norwich City, Newcastle United, Tottenham Hotspur, and West Bromwich Albion from 1986 to 2002.

His debut came on 24 April 2002 in a FA Premier League game away at Ipswich Town.

He signed a professional contract with Ipswich on 12 August 2002.

* Ipswich Bancshares – 8 branches north of Boston, 2002

He was not offered a professional contract by Ipswich, so in the summer of 2002 he joined Darlington on a free transfer and stayed there for two seasons, playing 76 matches and scoring seven goals.

Naylor started his career at Ipswich Town, where he played as a striker up until he was moved to centre back by Joe Royle in 2002 ; he has continued to play as a centre back ever since.

He was loaned out to Barnsley and Millwall in 2002 in what seemed to many as the end of his Ipswich career.

However Ipswich were relegated in 2001 – 02 by a point and as the promotion push in 2002 – 03 started to fizzle out, Burley was replaced by Joe Royle as Ipswich manager and with the departure of many players from the Club due to administration, Naylor was back in the picture.

Forster regards Reading's 2002 – 03 campaign as his best period of form during his career, when he notched 17 goals, including hattricks against Ipswich Town and Preston North End as Reading finished in fourth place.

He made his debut on 6 November 2002, in a League Cup defeat against Ipswich Town.

But in 1687, Ipswich residents, led by the Reverend John Wise, protested a tax imposed by the governor, Sir Edmund Andros.

Ramsey's Ipswich achieved unprecedented success the following season as he led his side to the Championship in their debut season at the top level.

During his time at Ipswich, Ramsey began experimenting with a new style of play that would eventually lead to success in the World Cup and led to his England team being styled, " The Wingless Wonders ".

In 1688, Wise led Ipswich citizens in a protest against royal governor, Edmund Andros and colonialtaxation.

Thompson led a proposal to construct a bypass east of the city of Ipswich, known as the Goodna Bypass and connecting Dinmore to the Logan Motorway, in preference to a six-lane upgrade of the Ipswich Motorway.

In 991 AD there was a major battle between the pillaging Danes led by Olaf Trygvassen who had already attacked Ipswich, and Earl Bryhtnoth's men who were defending Maldon on the instruction of the Saxon King Ethelred the Unready.

The court of appeal found that the prosecution had led no evidence to disprove Carroll's claim that he was not in Ipswich at the time of the death, that the evidence relating to Carroll's propensity to bite children's legs was prejudicial and inadmissible and that a jury must have entertained a reasonable doubt as to the odontological evidence presented by the prosecution.

Ipswich lost the match 3 – 2 after extra time, having led 2 – 1 in the first period.

Bobby Robson led Ipswich Town to victory in the FA Cup, winning the final 1 – 0 against Arsenal.

His first job was with an estate agent but in his spare time he wrote articles about trains for the East Anglian Times and it was train travel that soon led him to Ipswich docks where he discovered boating.

He moved into management at Ipswich, where he led the club for three years before managing Queens Park Rangers for a brief spell.

In Magilton's first season in charge ( 2006 – 07 ), he led Ipswich to a satisfactory 14th position.