Joey Barton has done his level best to play down, or at least divert, any pressure being on him and his Bristol Rovers team, rather cleverly pushing that agenda onto an Ipswich Town side in danger of losing touch with Sheffield Wednesday and Plymouth Argyle in the automatic promotion berths.
But while Ipswich’s budget and resources may be the mightiest in the division, the Gas are still expected to compete and deliver a markedly better performance than what was last produced when they took to the field at the Mem, against MK Dons.
Fans are getting tetchy and irritable by this run of results, while the manager’s social media activity has only added to the sense of frustration that is simmering and will continue to rise in terms of temperature until Rovers get back to winning ways.
