and so you acquired the team and now it wasn't in the premier league when you acquired it correct

No.

So when we met the chairman, Mark Ashton, and his management team and the pension fund representative, Edward Schwartz, we were the team.

Ipswich Town Football Club was on the verge of being promoted from League One to the Championship League.

And for those listeners of yours that aren't familiar, intimately familiar with the english football pyramid you know it starts at the top obviously the pinnacle yeah which is the english premier league biggest league in the world and then you have the championship league right underneath it and then league one and league two and this team um had languished um over several years um at the lower levels of the pyramid and it was an old like i said very historic very successful club that had seen beautiful days um in the Premier League and, you know, been out of it for quite some time since 2002, frankly, when we got involved in 2023.

And we went to England and we started to meet with management and learn about the history and the potential of this incredible team and infrastructure.

It's a big club, by the way, 30,000 seats.

What's the feeling there? How are you approaching this season?