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Matchday Memories: On This Day 2003 – Michael & Marcus Make A Sky Blue Draw At Tractor Boys

On this day (23rd August) in 2003 the Sky Blues made the trip east to take on Ipswich Town at Portman Road. The home side, like City were then languishing in the lower reaches of Division One. This was a Sky Blue season of three ‘gaffers’.

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Current Sky Blue boss, former player Gary McAllister would see assistant Eric Black take over the role at the end of the year when he had to step down to look after his seriously ill wife. Now CCFPA member Peter Reid controversially took over from the sacked Eric to see out the last match of the season in May despite a revival in the team’s prformances under Black.

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The Tractor Boys’ Marcus Bent gave the hosts the lead on seventeen minutes with a twenty yarder capitalising on a mistake from Sky Blue defender (and now CCFPA member) Steve Staunton. The Sky Blues‘ Michael Doyle got right up the nose of the home team’s ‘gaffer’ Joe Royle who wanted to see our combative midfielder sent off for a flailing elbow before ‘Doyler’ doubled down to fire in an excellent Sky Blues’ equaliser for the visitors level fourteen minutes later to end CCFC’s 615 minute goal drought (this and last season)!

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The goal made both the half-time and full-time scores a 1-1 stalemate meaning CCFC had produced a brace of draws from their opening two matches (they had previously got a goalless draw against Walsall at Highfield Road)! City might have won the game as City’s ‘Man of the Match’ (now an Association member)Pat Suffo apparently did everything but net!

The graphic below (courtesy of the 11v11 website) gives you all the match details you are ever likely to want to know:-