Welcome,

Welcome everybody to a big thing episode of The Total Soccer Show.

My name is Taylor Rockwell.

Each week we spend our Fridays delving deep into a topic that bears more coverage and greater discussion this week.

We're turning our attention to the championship.

If Switchtown aren't the champions, but we'll be playing in the Premier League next season after back-to-back promotion campaigns under manager Kieran McKinna,

Lester are your champions and therefore also secured a spot back in the Premier League after a season wandering in Blackburn, Plymouth, and Birmingham,

which means it's left to leads at West Brom, Southampton, and Norwich to battle it out for the final playoff spot or promotion spot, I should say. Joining me to dive into those topics and more is the champion of our championship hearts. It's Joe Lowry. Hello, Joe. Yes. Does that mean I get promoted to the Premier League Hearts associate? I don't know why I'm going with this. I tried to yes, and Taylor, it's good to see you. Yes, and you do.

And rounding out the crew, Mr. Tractor Boy himself. It's Graham Big Thunder Mountain, aka the big range, Ruthven. Hello, Graham. Just too many nicknames. Hello, Taylor. By the way, Tractor Boys is one of the best nicknames in English football. Are you excited to talk about the most famous team in world football named after a piece of agricultural machinery?

Because... best nicknames in English football. Are you excited to talk about the most famous team in world football named after a piece of agricultural machinery? Because I am. I'm trying to make

an Eric Dyer joke about him being agricultural machinery, but I can't really make it happen. So instead,

yes, Graham, I'm very excited to talk about if Twitch Town what they have done this season and last season and just how impressive those achievements are. Let's start there, Graham. How impressive do you find what Ipswich Town have done the last two campaigns?

Hugely impressive. For the first time since 2001, they will be back in the Premier League, as you say Taylor after winning back-to-back promotions.

They are the first team in over a decade to do that, to go from the third tier to the top tier in just two seasons.

How about this for a weird quirk? Last season, Ipswich were in the same division as Forrest Green Rovers.

Next season, Ipswich will be in the Premier League and Forrest Green Rovers will be in the same division as Forest Green Rovers. Next season, Ipswich will be in the Premier League

and Forest Green Rovers will be in the National League. That's how quickly things can change

in football. They will be at either ends of the pyramid. But yeah, it's a remarkable rise for a

club that was in the doldrums not so long ago. Ipswich had been in League One for four seasons.

They weren't going

anywhere quickly. They finished 11th. The season before they got promoted up to the championship.

There are so many facts and numbers you can look at to illustrate just how impressive Ipswich's

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