Mark Murphy

I’m presently feeling like a child waking up on Christmas Day and it’s all down to Ipswich Town. I know I wrote about the Super Blues last week but today is the day we could return to the promised land of the Premier League and it’s making me feel like a kid again. All week I’ve been counting down the sleeps to the big day, just like I used to in the run up to Christmas Day. This excitement is something Town fans haven’t felt for over twenty years. Will manager Kieran McKenna be like Santa Claus and deliver the present we all want, promotion to the topflight of English football. If he does, just like Father Christmas, he’ll be spreading joy to so many households in Suffolk and around the world. If I’m feeling like this as a supposedly grown adult, goodness knows how the young fans are feeling. I bet plenty didn’t sleep much last night, I know I didn’t! Fans are waking up this morning keeping everything crossed and wearing lucky items of clothing, hoping these superstitions will work their magic. Those pre match rituals we all do will be done with real vigour today, hoping that we’ll all be playing our little bit.

After a break from matches Ipswich Town tonight begin the final push for promotion to the bright lights of the Premier League. The journey the club has been on over the last couple of seasons has been the stuff of dreams. From languishing mid table in League One to within touching distance of topflight football is incredible.

EADT columnist Mark Murphy says it's time to stop making a fuss when bosses, like BBC Director General Tim Davie, come out without wearing a tie

The news this week that the sweet seller on Saxmundham market has been given notice has prompted national debate. After being a market trader there for around twenty years, Sixty-eight-year-old Kevin Hilliard has been given a termination notice by the council.

With International Women’s Day yesterday and Mothering Sunday tomorrow, Mark Murphy wants to tell you about his female role model, his mum, Grace, whose birthday would also have been tomorrow.

EADT columnist Mark Murphy loves a heated debate but he feels that everyone in Britain seems to be so angry these days and he's had enough of it

Columnist Mark Murphy says with all the problems facing Britain right now, our politicians need to grow up. Do you agree?

Mark Murphy says shop lifting and the abuse of retail staff on Suffolk high streets has got out of hand and must be stopped.