Nottingham Forest vs Ipswich Town Timeline： Head to Head History and Stats

Digging Into Forest vs Ipswich Rivalry Stats

Last weekend got me thinking after watching Forest struggle. Thought, “Heck, how bad is our history against Ipswich anyway?” Grabbed my laptop real quick, spilled coffee on the damn keyboard – typical Monday morning stuff. Wiped it down, opened up the browser first thing. Typed “Forest Ipswich head to head” like a madman.

First few sites were garbage, mate. Full of betting ads popping up every two seconds, couldn’t even see the actual numbers. Felt like throwing the laptop out the window. Remembered that old football stats forum I used years back – logged in, password failed three times. Almost gave up right there. Finally got in after resetting it (again).

Scrolled through dusty old threads. Found this one bloke who posted snippets from some 1990s Championship yearbook – goldmine! Jotted down the basics fast:

• Total Matches: Absolute chaos trying to pin this down. One source said 78, another said 83? Went with what looked legit.






• Forest Wins: Kept seeing different numbers everywhere. Landed on 30 after cross-checking three places.




• Ipswich Wins: Less messy here, 25 seemed solid.




• Draws: Easy one – 23 popped up consistently.

Kinda shocked seeing how close it actually is overall. Thought we’d have smashed them more back in the day. Biggest headache? Finding the damn timeline. Those early 2000s games were buried deep. Spent an hour just scrolling through some ancient fan blog archive, eyes burning from the tiny font.

Nearly quit when I hit 1978 – records got fuzzy. Who even keeps proper stats from then? Dug up a PDF scan of some local newspaper clipping via a random Google search (page 37, took forever to load). Found the results – scribbled ‘em into my notes app fast before the page crashed.

Put it all into a simple spreadsheet later. Tried making charts first, but Excel froze twice. Said screw it, just listed everything raw like:

1980s Stuff: Forest dominated 5-1 in ’87 – wild result. Completely forgot about that.
1990s Nonsense: Draws every other game felt like.
2014 Championship Disaster: Lost both games that season. Still hurts.

Total waste of an afternoon? Probably. But hey, now I know we’ve only beaten them once at Portman Road since 2012. Depressing stuff. Next time someone argues at the pub about Forest-Ipswich stats, I’m ready. Might bring printed copies just to shut ‘em up faster.