McKenna admits Ipswich promotion was their hardest one yet

McKenna admits Ipswich promotion was their hardest one yet

Kieran McKenna admitted that this years promotion to the Premier League was the hardest of his three promotions as Ipswich boss.

After a 3-0 home win against Queens Park Rangers Mckenna’s men secured a second place in the Championship and promotion to the Premier League at the first time of asking after being relegated last year.

The Ipswich manager explained that his side deserve the promotion this year.

“It means a lot, I have to say,” he said. “It’s probably been the hardest one (of our three promotions in four years) if I’m honest. It’s brilliant.

“I know how hard we’ve had to work to turn it around. As a club we had such a climb and a steep fall. We’ve had to rebuild this team under difficult circumstances and we deserve to be where we are today.”

Ipswich came out of the blocks quickly in their final Championship match of the year, scoring twice in the first ten minutes through George Hirst and Jaden Philogene.

“I thought we were incredible,” McKenna added. “It was an incredible start, we didn’t manage to maintain that. To have a third promotion at home in four years, and see so many happy faces.”

Unlike the match today, Ipswich took a long time to get going this season, but they managed to get the job done in the end.

“We started slow, which can happen, but we have steadily improved over the course of the year. We showed it on Tuesday at Southampton and today, it’s about how you finish.

“I am going to enjoy this one – I’m not going to start thinking about the Premier League today.”