It’s probably fair to say we’re all rather excited at Ipswich Town’s return to the Premier League next season, and it seems that excitement has spread to Spain.
That’s at least if Mundo Deportivo’s latest is anything to go by, as they rave about Kieran McKenna’s side in something of a love letter to the Tractor Boys.
They cover ‘the historic rise’ of Ipswich Town today, their return to the Premier League after a 22-year absence and how the ‘sun shone brightly again in the stadium of this historic city’ which had been ‘punished’ without elite football for too long.
They explain how the 2-0 win over Huddersfield Town at the weekend cause an ‘apotheosis and unstoppable invasion’ of the pitch that saw Ipswich players raised high on shoulders and blue flares let off to give ‘epic overtones’ to the celebrations.
That was followed by a parade in which ‘beer watered the route of a crowd gathered in the streets, on their way to The Cornhill, the heart of the city, in an atmosphere of unusual joy.’
Only 21 months ago Ipswich were in League One but have enjoyed an ‘unprecedented leap’ under McKenna’s leadership, with him providing ‘meticulous attention to detail’ that has seen them best teams with much superior budgets.
He arrived in the last days of 2021, bringing ‘new ideas and energy’ to a club in desperate need of them that developed into an attractive brand of football that turned Portman Road, and many other pitches, ‘into an insurmountable wall for rivals.’
Even ‘happy drunken’ fans get praise, with Mundo stating that it ‘beat the 22 years of waiting, boredom and frustration in modest football’.
As far as they’re concerned the ‘sun rose again’ on Ipswich, a club that has been waiting for it to happen for a long time and more than deserve the celebrations as a result.
