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Boss Kieran McKenna was pleased to send the Blues support home happy after what he felt was a good performance against a difficult opponent, Town having beaten Oxford 3-0 in their Boxing Day fixture at Portman Road.

The statue of Blues legend Kevin Beattie was finally unveiled by his daughter Emma at a ceremony at Portman Road this morning.

Blues boss Paul Lambert has praised Freddie Sears, who said earlier in the week that he is in the best form of his Town career, and the quartet of teenagers who were in action at Stoke City last week.

The weekend has given us the usual transfer rumours, despite David Sheepshanks saying last weekend that Towns spending is over for the season.

Conor Chaplin has dismissed the idea that he is a similar player to Blackburn Rovers’ Sammie Szmodics, currently the Championship’s leading marksman with 14 goals this season – twice as many as the Town man.

John Wark will be signing copies of his autobiography

Jim Magilton has been confirmed as Towns new penalty taker. He replaces Mark Venus who recently missed two in successive games. Magilton has previously taken penalties for Oxford and Southampton and will hopefully fill the position which has never really been claimed by anyone since the days of John Wark and Neil Thompson, penalty kings both. In the last couple of years Venus has missed three, Johnson two, whilst Taricco, Scowcroft, Tanner, Dyer and Mathie have also missed one each.

John Wark and Terry Butcher are among those to have paid tribute to Blues legend David Johnson, who has died aged 71.

TWTD reader and lifelong Town fan Dan Botten has published a new book

Christophe Berra will become the Blues’ first Scotland international in 30 years if he features in tonight’s friendly against the USA at Hampden Park (Sky Sports 2/HD 2, 7.30pm).