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How Ipswich Town made big-money gamble pay off with back-to-back promotions

Ipswich Town were the surprise package of the Championship this season, earning automatic promotion to the Premier League straight after coming up from League One

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There’s always a team or two who start the Championship season like a rocket before inevitably dropping away, and you can usually pick them out by looking at the statistics behind their performances. Simply put, sometimes you just get a bit lucky, putting away chances at an unsustainable rate while the opposition waste all of theirs.

Plenty of people thought that’s what Ipswich would be after they started the season so well, but the numbers told a different story.

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