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TFA blurb review
Please check back at the end of the month for the May blurbs. - Dank (push to talk) 17:40, 8 May 2020 (UTC)

In the 1980–81 Ipswich Town F.C. season, the English football club finished as runners-up in the championship of the Football League First Division, were semi-finalists in the FA Cup and won the UEFA Cup. Ipswich played a total of 66 competitive games during the season, winning 37, drawing 13 and losing 16. The season began with an unbeaten run in the club's opening 15 league matches. By the middle of March they were strong title contenders with only two defeats in thirty-two, but a 2–1 defeat at Manchester United triggered a slump which handed the initiative to eventual league champions Aston Villa. This result was the second-best finish Ipswich had achieved in their history, bettered only by the 1961–62 championship-winning season. The club reached the semi-final of the FA Cup, losing in extra time to Manchester City. They won the final of the UEFA Cup, where a 5–4 aggregate victory over Dutch team AZ Alkmaar clinched the club's first and only European trophy.

Just a suggested blurb ... thoughts and edits are welcome. - Dank (push to talk) 20:07, 29 May 2020 (UTC)