Roy Keane’s Ipswich
Roy Keane may or may not have a hard job to do as manager at Ipswich Town. They played bright football against Real Valladolid on Friday night, with Lee Martin, Pim Balkestein, Jon Stead and Connor Wickham looking particularly bright. I do sometimes wonder that Jim Magilton had two problems; it was a difficult transition from player to manager, as possibly he was too close to them and he didn’t have the contacts amongst other managers when it came to transfers.
Keane has none of those problems.
Certainly it seems his start has been easy.
But his biggest advantage is that just like Sir Alf Ramsey and Sir Bobby Robson before him, he will succeed or fail on what happens on the pitch. The people of Suffolk will probably keep quiet about any off field problems, just as they have done in the past. The London media also always finds Ipswich far to far to come for a story.
Zopa’s 300,000th Member
In their July Newsletter, Zopa has said this.
In the last week, we also recruited our 300,000th member – meaning that we’re now officially bigger than Belfast!
That’s a lot of members. It would be interesting to know how many have actually lent or borrowed.
But that figure does illustrate how many people now know about the concept.
The Anonymous Widower 