Ipswich Town legend Terry Butcher with the maquette of the Kevin Beattie statue - Credit: Charlotte Bond The statue of Ipswich Town legend Kevin Beattie is set to be unveiled at the end of this season - but a number of extremely limited edition smaller replicas are now on sale. Today would've been the 67th birthday of The Beat, widely acknowledged to have been Town's greatest ever player. Left to right, Terry Butcher, Sean Hedges-Quinn, Karen Finch and Emma Beattie at the maquette presentation - Credit: Charlotte Bond He died suddenly at the age of 64 in September 2018. Tributes flooded in from across the football world, and it led to the launch of the £110,000 Beat Goes On statue appeal - a joint initiative between the EADT/Ipswich Star, BBC Radio Suffolk and the TWTD website.