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Nearly a full year into his reign as Ipswich manager, Kieran McKenna has guided the Suffolk side to within a whisker of top spot in the League One standings, and his team have lost just twice in the third tier this season.

Their push for automatic promotion was stalled last weekend, though, as the Tractor Boys let two precious points slip through their fingers when held to a 1-1 draw by Fleetwood Town.

Despite taking an early lead through Luke Woolfenden, conceding a 96th-minute equaliser denied them victory just as they seemed set to leap above league leaders Plymouth, who lost at home to Port Vale.

While Ipswich have generally impressed this term, a tendency to let leads slip will surely worry McKenna, as they also failed to fully capitalise against both Cheltenham and Charlton.

Nonetheless, another chance to surpass Plymouth awaits, with Town occupying second place in the table on 42 points – only one behind. Their encounter with fellow promotion hopefuls Peterborough kicks off early to avoid clashing with the World Cup quarter-finals, so victory would take them to the summit for a couple of hours at least.

Instead of watching the match against France in person, Jonny Halstein will be at Portman Road to see Ipswich Town v Peterborough United in League One.

Mr Halstein, from Lowestoft, Suffolk, works in the oil and gas industry.

He said: “I’m going to watch Ipswich versus Peterborough on Saturday so that’s the next best thing, hey?”

The 50-year-old has split his time between and home and Qatar over the past seven years, with five weeks on and five weeks off.

During that time, he has seen the World Cup stadiums built and all the infrastructure put in place.

The Ipswich Town fan looked into extending his stay but found he would not be able to get home in time for Christmas if he did not fly home as planned.

“I couldn’t find any [flight] tickets so I had to go back,” he said.

Mr Halstein has been taking an England flag to matches, featuring Ipswich Town’s badge and Lowestoft Blues.

It also references two former Ipswich and England managers – Sir Bobby Robson and Sir Alf Ramsey.

Sir Bobby, who won the Uefa Cup and FA Cup with Town, took England to the World Cup quarter-finals in 1986 and semi-finals in 1990, while Sir Alf won the league title with the Suffolk club in 1962 before leading his country to World Cup glory in 1966.

Mr Halstein said he had seen two of Sir Bobby’s former players working as World Cup pundits during his travels in Qatar – Gary Lineker and Alan Shearer.

“I showed them the flag and they gave me the thumbs up, so that was good,” he said.

He has brought his flag back to the UK and plans to take it with him to the Wycombe Wanderers v Ipswich Town match on 17 December.

He said attending a World Cup was always on his bucket list and he has seen nine games in Qatar, including two with his partner, Lucy King

Acknowledging worldwide concerns over the number of construction worker deaths in Qatar, he said the tournament itself had been well-organised, adding: “A lack of alcohol has probably helped.”

“It’s been good because there’s been 32 nations all in one city, and you probably get 32 nations at each match,” he said.

“I’ve been to every stadium, there’s eight stadiums and I’ve been to all eight.

“You won’t be able to do that at any other World Cup – not without a lot of travelling and a lot of money.”

Mr Halstein arrives back home in Lowestoft later and is looking forward to a big day of football on Saturday.

In the week that the Bulls lost their most famous ex-player, FA Cup legend Ronnie Radford – 50 years on from his iconic match-winning goal against Newcastle – it briefly looked like there might be some left-over magic in the air.

For seven minutes, the sixth-tier outfit led after Miles Storey’s goal against the team 81 places above them in the English football pyramid in League One.

But Pompey hit back, with Reeco Hackett quickly levelling before second-half goals from Colby Bishop and substitute Joe Pigott earned the twice FA Cup winners a safe passage to Monday’s second-round draw

Making their first trip to Edgar Street in 38 years, Pompey were given a good first-half workout by the fired-up hosts.

Although home keeper Dale Eve had to keep out Hackett’s left-foot curler bound for the top corner, Pompey had a first real scare when Bishop’s challenge on Hereford’s former million-pound marksman Tyrone Barnett in the visitors’ penalty box went unpunished.

And there was worse to follow for Pompey when Hereford took the lead on 26 minutes.

Sean Raggett played a loose pass inside to Hackett, who was immediately closed down and robbed by Storey – and the former Pompey player raced away down the inside-left channel before keeping his cool to nutmeg on-loan West Bromwich Albion keeper Josh Griffiths.

Fittingly, just two days on from the announcement of the sad passing of Hereford’s legendary number 11, their modern-day number 11 emulated his predecessor.

There had already been a minute’s silence, which cascaded into applause from the whole ground, followed by chants of ‘there’s only one Ronnie Radford’ when the clock showed 11 minutes.

But this goal was destined not to prove so famous.

Ronan Curtis headed down Connor Ogilvie’s far-post cross for Hackett to bring down and fire home coolly from six yards.

On 63 minutes, Portsmouth took the lead when, from Clark Robertson’s in-swinging right-foot corner from the left, Bishop timed his run to get there first and head his 10th goal of the season.

And Pigott wrapped up victory 10 minutes from time when, again from a corner by skipper Robertson, Bishop won the initial header before Pigott reacted sharpest to sidefoot home

Hereford FC boss Josh Gowling told BBC Sport:

“I’m really disappointed because we should have got something out of it, but goals change games – and the quality of the delivery they have changes games.

“In the first half we were excellent. We were in the ascendancy and they looked nervous.

“We were on top and looked like we could go on and win, but we’ve made one mistake, it has cost us a goal and that’s the difference in levels.

“We’ve given them a leg up and a little lift and you could see their performance raise after that.”

Portsmouth boss Danny Cowley told BBC Sport:

“I was so sad to hear the news about Ronnie Radford. He was such an iconic figure and he had that iconic moment. For a lot of people my age, his famous goal was their first memories of the FA Cup. But what a brilliant night to celebrate his life

After watching Ipswich Town, he plans to head to his local pub, the Ole Frank, in Lowestoft, to watch the England v France game. His prediction?

“I think the winner of this game will get to the final,” he said