How Ipswich Town have got Premier League ready after 22 years away: New tunnel, dressing rooms, £60m spent on players, inviting back old heroes... and even Ed Sheeran's box has had a refurb!

Down Sir Alf Ramsey Way and past statues of Sir Bobby Robson and Kevin Beattie, avid Ipswich fan Ed Sheeran will head to recently decorated Box 78 and watch his beloved club back in the Premier League after a 22-year absence, with hopes that England midfielder Kalvin Phillips can be this season’s loan sensation as Omari Hutchinson was during promotion. The slogan ‘Running Towards Adversity’ that dominates the back wall of the new home dressing room is inspired by ORG’s work running investment portfolios in Arizona for the state’s firefighters. The slogan ‘Running Towards Adversity’ in the new home dressing room is inspired by ORG’s work running investment portfolios in Arizona for the state’s firefighters Hawk-Eye is being tested by men with footballs and gadgets while TV cameras are set up Extra seats increase the capacity beyond 30,000 with safe standing rails in the away end More corporate seats will be added by the end of the year and a new TV studio is being constructed in the corner It’s striking that they and other famous players from that era, Alan Brazil, Roger Osborne, Allan Hunter and George Burley, settled in the area, such as in nearby Suffolk villages with delightful names like Bawdsey, Woolpit, Layham and Melton. On Thursday night it was announced Ed Sheeran had bought a 1.4 per cent stake in his club The pop icon has decorated his box like a traditional Suffolk pub for this season Less than three years later, Britain’s biggest pop star Sheeran is modelling the club’s new pink change strip for the Premier League.