{"id":565497,"date":"2026-05-04T11:02:11","date_gmt":"2026-05-04T11:02:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/565497\/"},"modified":"2026-05-04T11:02:11","modified_gmt":"2026-05-04T11:02:11","slug":"ipswich-town-bus-parade-livepage-on-bank-holiday-monday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/565497\/","title":{"rendered":"Ipswich Town bus parade livepage on Bank holiday Monday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Fans hope to grab players&#8217; attention againpublished at 11:29 BST<\/p>\n<p>11:29 BST<\/p>\n<p>      <img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Simon and his son Lochland, who is on his shoulders holding a 'Proud As Punch' sign.\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/56f87971-3abc-4832-b14e-c85da326af93.png.webp.webp\"  width=\"1920\" height=\"1080\" class=\"ssrcss-egie1y-Image edrdn950\"\/>Image source, Alice Cunningham\/BBC<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Simon, 42, and his son Lochland, 8, from Bury St Edmunds, are hoping to grab the players&#8217; attention again at this year&#8217;s parade. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Simon&#8217;s wife made the &#8216;We Ran Towards Adversity&#8217; sign two years ago when the club was promoted to the Premier League. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He said: &#8220;Harry Clarke and Mark Ashton saw the sign, pointed to it, beckoned her over and held it up on the bus as it went round the roundabout. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;It was amazing &#8211; your heart starts racing. Obviously, Harry Clarke is a cult hero at the club, and he was incredible for us during that season, and what Mark Ashton has done for the club is amazing as well.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">His son Lochland has been a season ticket holder for four years and has seen the club promoted to the Premier League twice in that time. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Will the sign be spotted by the club for a second time?<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"A cardboard sign which says, ITFC, WE RAN TOWARDS ADVERSITY AGAIN\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/a8bbf97f-983a-4b2e-bce2-2b128cf38469.png.webp.webp\"  width=\"1920\" height=\"1080\" class=\"ssrcss-egie1y-Image edrdn950\"\/>Image source, Alice Cunningham\/BBCImage caption, <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The sign which got spotted by Harry Clarke and Mark Ashton two years ago &#8211; could it get spotted again?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Fans hope to grab players&#8217; attention againpublished at 11:29 BST 11:29 BST Image source, Alice Cunningham\/BBC Simon, 42,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":278751,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[49,50,51,47,52,48],"class_list":["post-565497","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/565497","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=565497"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/565497\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/278751"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=565497"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=565497"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=565497"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}