{"id":645020,"date":"2026-05-02T13:57:11","date_gmt":"2026-05-02T13:57:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/645020\/"},"modified":"2026-05-02T13:57:11","modified_gmt":"2026-05-02T13:57:11","slug":"efl-championship-live-build-up-team-news-score-and-live-text-updates-from-12-games","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/645020\/","title":{"rendered":"EFL Championship LIVE: Build-up, team news, score and live text updates from 12 games"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8216;A sea of blue and white&#8217;published at 14:40 BST<\/p>\n<p>14:40 BST<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-fxb76l-Paragraph e14e9ror4\">FT: Ipswich 3-0 QPR &#8211; Ipswich promoted to the Premier League<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1l98ssq-Contributor etflsgg2\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/d4934f55-7bd1-41d3-90c1-7058a337dcd3.jpg.webp.webp\" width=\"64\" height=\"64\" class=\"ssrcss-egie1y-Image edrdn950\"\/>Brenner Woolley<br \/>BBC Radio Suffolk commentator<\/p>\n<p>      <img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Ipswich fans celebrate on the pitch\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/4b54acae-7854-4cca-b416-11454a6494a4.jpg.webp.webp\"  width=\"5985\" height=\"3366\" class=\"ssrcss-egie1y-Image edrdn950\"\/>Image source, PA Media<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Ipswich are promoted to the Premier League!<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The fans are running onto the pitch, and the green Portman Road grass is turned into a sea of blue and white.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The face of Kieran McKenna is a picture has he hugs his players, he is chuffed to bursting, what an achievement.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Three promotions in four seasons, he is the first Ipswich manager in history to get promotion a year after suffering a relegation.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">This is remarkable, fans are everywhere and there is blue and white smoke ascending over the pitch &#8211; and the players have disappeared.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&#8216;A sea of blue and white&#8217;published at 14:40 BST 14:40 BST FT: Ipswich 3-0 QPR &#8211; Ipswich promoted&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":645021,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[563],"tags":[64,63,596,85],"class_list":["post-645020","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-football","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-football","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/645020","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=645020"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/645020\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/645021"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=645020"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=645020"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=645020"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}