Ipswich bid to end 22 years of Premier League exile on Saturday and if they do, the top-flight return will have arrived in a way few could have imagined.
Saturday May 11, 2002. Ipswich Town are relegated from the Premier League after a crushing 5-0 defeat by Liverpool at Anfield. It's a level they have rarely come close to returning to since following administration, fleeting play-off disappointments, false dawns under new ownership, a raft of managerial changes and even relegation to the third tier.
By the end of the following summer, Paul Hurst had been appointed manager after taking Shrewsbury Town to the verge of promotion from League One and many welcomed the arrival of a relative fresh face in the game. But Hurst's attempts to make radical changes rapidly backfired and he would last just 14 Championship games, guiding Ipswich to just one league win.
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