Pete Oxlade

Love my wife, my dog, ITFC, cycling, movies & rock music - the order of some depends on how I am feeling today; i.e. did ITFC win their last match? #itfc

[Pete Oxlade @petetheox]

It’s not everyday you get this close to a kingfisher! Poor thing had flown into a window and stunned itself so was being looked after before being able to fly off again #kingfisher #birdphotography @Natures_Voice #rspb

[Pete Oxlade @petetheox]

@mark__heath @FabioWardley When did Ray Winstone become Miller’s manager?!

[Pete Oxlade @petetheox]

Testing my new camera #moon #canon

[Pete Oxlade @petetheox]

What a way to end 2024 with a fantastic & well deserved 2-0 win over Chelsea … Liam Delap was my man of the match but a great performance from Walton in goal & a brilliant fist pump! COYB 💙🤍⚽️⚽️ #itfc #coyb

[Pete Oxlade @petetheox]

A great & well deserved point for The Blues today against Man Utd - Onana saved Amorim from a defeat for his first game in charge - we were the much better team #itfc @ipswichtown

[Pete Oxlade @petetheox]

Great way to start the week with a night dancing along to the always brilliant Bellowhead #bellowhead

[Pete Oxlade @petetheox]

Son, Solanke, Johnson, Porro, Maddison… your boys took one hell of a beating! UPPA TOWEN! 💙🤍⚽️⚽️ #itfc #COYB

[Pete Oxlade @petetheox]

So according to BBC Look Norwich Kieran McKenna took Luton from League One to the Premier League - I suppose the last 2 seasons were just a dream for us Ipswich fans as #bbclookeast can’t be wrong … can they? #itfc

[Pete Oxlade @petetheox]

@Mayureshk910 @GoogleAds Looks that way - just got a 500 error. Obviously the one person they employ to switch it on in the morning has missed their bus into the office!

[Pete Oxlade @petetheox]

We played some fantastic football today & well deserved our point to go 4 games unbeaten in a row against a team in the Champions League. #itfc #COYB #PremiereLeague

[Pete Oxlade @petetheox]

@Vitality_UK working on their groundbreaking app - working seamlessly as normal! 😤

[Pete Oxlade @petetheox]

@Vitality_UK your app is yet again not working. Missing half my points this week due to your system failing to update the points despite hitting my steps totals. When are you going to invest in a system that actually works?

[Pete Oxlade @petetheox]

@BetamaxBabylon Hammer House Of Horror TV Series
Halloween H20

[Hank Azaria @HankAzaria]

Chief Wiggum, Springfield PD, here… they’re doing WHAT?

[Pete Oxlade @petetheox]

Great to see the Tour of Britain this afternoon & lovely to be such a great advert for Suffolk! #TourOfBritain #lovesuffolk #lovecycling

[Pete Oxlade @petetheox]

What a fantastic performance by Jack Draper in a straight sets win over the number 10 seed, De Minaur, to reach his first Grand Slam semi! 🎾 #jackdraper #USOpen

[Omid Djalili @omid9]

Quick story about Sven-Goran Ericksson (RIP). Such a good man, open and easy to talk to. You needed humility being the first “foreign” England 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 manager, but one night we realised just how humble (and witty) he was.

At a charity dinner after the World Cup in 2006, when he was no longer England manager, I was lucky enough to be on his table. Finding my moment, I asked “why did you include a 17 year old Theo Walcott in the World Cup squad when he hadn’t played a single game in the Premier league?”

I didn’t want to upset him because it was a controversial decision at the time - he took an injured Wayne Rooney and a struggling Michael Owen but left out a fit and well Jermaine Defoe. But he replied “no, it’s a good question. Many would like to know. I could not say then, but I can now…” and explained his thinking with a measured response:

“You know, the countries that do well at World Cups always have a ‘secret weapon’. A player unknown to the other teams, to bring on as a substitute to help win a game in the latter stages. This was Theo. And we agreed to use him only in a semi-final or the final.” He and his assistant Tord Grip had seen Walcott in a reserve game at Arsenal and said Theo had “lightening pace” and was “extremely skilful.” Theo was “the perfect unknown quantity to surprise teams and steal a goal and win a championship. That’s why we took him, not Jermaine” he concluded.

I then offered “but Sven, in the quarter final v Portugal we lost on penalties. After Rooney got sent off, surely that was the time to bring on Walcott - not Peter Crouch as you did - to use Theo’s pace and score an extra time winner when we were down to 10 men?”

He looked at me as if it was the first time anyone had ever suggested the idea. He looked ruefully at all of us on the table and said “well now that you say it, yes maybe I should have. In retrospect, this was a mistake.”

The table went silent. We all seemed to be contemplating what could have been, for England and for Theo Walcott. Sven broke the silence with “Omid. Tell us a joke.” I laughed coz it was a delightfully off beat way to deflect, and without thinking, I did. A really inappropriate joke that got absolutely nothing. With a wink and a smile Sven then said “you see, it’s not always easy to think of the right thing to do in the moment, as Mr. Djalili just showed us, and so well.” Cue big laugh.

We understood at that moment, sometimes even the best laid plans can go to cock. And that’s life. It was new information and no one judged him.

Personally I was just thrilled he knew my name.

#SvenGoranEriksson

[Pete Oxlade @petetheox]

@BBCSport @BBCMOTD - why didn’t you show Ipswich Town’s penalty shout in last night’s Match Of The Day - is it the usual big club bias? Let’s all suck up to Money City! #ITFC

[Pete Oxlade @petetheox]

Beautiful morning for a pre-work bike ride #lovecycling #trekbikes #earlymorningride #sunrise

[Josh Self @Josh_Self_]

Newly elected Labour MP @jackabbott90: “We’ve got much to be proud of in Ipswich … unlike our friends over the border in Norfolk we now have a Premier League football team again.”

@Keir_Starmer: “Can I congratulate Ipswich on their promotion?”

Hear, hear! #ITFC #COYB

[MeidasTouch @MeidasTouch]

On the left: Donald Trump Jr’s post after Nancy Pelosi’s husband, Paul, was the victim of an assassination attempt.

On the right: Nancy Pelosi’s post after Donald Trump was the victim of an assassination attempt.

Character and decency matter.