Ipswich Town fans recreate Portman Road in Scotland

An Ipswich Town fan who relocated to a remote Scottish island has rebuilt his team’s Portman Road stadium in his home.

Conrad Peck, 53, of Beccles, Suffolk, decided to relocate to Harris in the Outer Hebrides after concluding that “life’s too short”.

He moved just under 700 miles away from the stadium and dedicated an entire room in his home to his beloved Championship club.

Mr. Peck stated that the shrine “takes me back to my childhood”.

As they approached retirement, Mr. Peck and his wife, Debbie, decided to “pack up and go” to the settlement of Leverburgh on the Isle of Harris.

Their extra bedroom has turned into a shrine to his “beloved” team.

“I have wallpapered the ground on two walls. I have a lot of mementos and artifacts. I have flags on the ceiling – pretty much everything.

“Anything I can get hands on and it’s still a work in progress.”

Mr Peck said the accommodation provided him with comfort and, despite the distance back to Suffolk, a sense of a “special” Portman Road.

“When you go home to somewhere special, you get that really strange, nice feeling,” he told me.

“That is how I feel when I go down to Portman Road. “It brings me back to my childhood.”

Mr Peck stated that he was able to design the room because his wife was “particularly understanding”.

“She just lets me get on with it and she probably thinks I’m crazy, but there you go.”

However, he has admitted that the mood at Portman Road was difficult to replicate in the room, despite having Faithless’ Insomnia playing – the music the players go out to before the start of their home games at the 29,673-seat stadium.

“The atmosphere, it’s unexplainable.”It makes your hair rise up on your arms and everything; it’s a beautiful location,” he continued.