Roy Keane confident of Ipswich Town's results improving
Ipswich Town manager Roy Keane says he has every confidence that he can spark a turnaround in the Football League Championship club's results and help them push back up the table.
The club has lost their last four games in the division, following their 4-1 defeat to Norwich City in the East Anglian derby on Sunday 28 November, and are currently sitting in 16th place in the Championship with 24 points from 19 games.
However, they are only six points behind sixth-placed Coventry in the last of the play-off places, and Keane is convinced that his side still has a chance of gaining promotion to the English Premier League this term ― if he and his players receive the support
they need from the board and the club's fans.
He told the BBC: "I do feel I can turn things around. But you need that time and support and sometimes you don't get that ― I live in the real world. If I don't think I can turn things around, I'm not one for hanging around. The supporters will go away questioning
myself. And I don't have a problem with that. The buck stops with the manager.”
Keane ― who took over at Ipswich in April 2009 ― added that he had to stamp out the defensive errors which have seen his side lose nine of their league games this term.
"I suppose people are fed up of me saying it ― we keep making the same basic errors. I've probably said it since I walked in the door at Ipswich. It was the same last year. Last minute goals, people not doing the basics right. The supporters know that we're
all fed up of listening to my excuses and I'm fed up myself. We're in this industry and if you don't get results you're going to suffer for it. A lot of teams are going to lose football matches, but the way we lose them is hard to take.”
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