Midfielder Jimmy Bullard has confirmed that he was forced to abandon his car and run the final stretch of his journey to Portman Road ahead of Saturday’s game against Crystal Palace. Surprised listeners to Radio Suffolk’s Life’s a Pitch spotted the 32-year-old making a dash through the crowds having left his car behind him due to the more than usually heavy traffic around the ground.

Bullard, who celebrated his 33rd birthday on Sunday, was a victim of roadworks, which also held up the Crystal Palace coach, and found himself at a dead end: “It was getting close to quarter to two, the time we’re meant to be there, and they’d blocked the road off.

“For some reason they wouldn’t let me down there so, being only around the corner, I decided to just jump out my car and run for it.”

But Bullard, who later apologised to team-mates for his under par performance during the game, didn’t get in too much strife for his late dash with manager Paul Jewell saying the ex-Wigan man made his deadline: “He was there by the time expected so that’s fine by me.

“If it was just 50 yards around the corner it’s no big deal. In fact, that probably means he ran more yards getting to the game than actually in it!”

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