The top of League One is heavy with history and Ipswich cherish their past better than most, with Sir Alf Ramsey, Sir Bobby Robson and Kevin Beattie, three club legends cast in bronze to greet visitors to Portman Road.
It makes for an inviting stroll, along the back of the Cobbold Stand, decorated with images of glorious times, to an end of the ground named in honour of Sir Bobby, and where some of his wisest words can be found writ large: ‘What is a club? It’s the noise, the passion, the feeling of belonging.’
The quote was pitched perfectly as 29,072, Ipswich’s biggest crowd of the season, pulsated to the rhythm of another thrilling game in the third tier of English football against Sheffield Wednesday, who arrived as league leaders.