{"id":165989,"date":"2025-07-31T06:44:05","date_gmt":"2025-07-31T06:44:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?p=165989"},"modified":"2025-07-31T06:44:05","modified_gmt":"2025-07-31T06:44:05","slug":"why-are-ipswich-town-called-the-tractor-boys-origin-and-story-and-behind-the-nickname","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?p=165989","title":{"rendered":"Why are Ipswich Town called the Tractor Boys: Origin and story and behind the nickname"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ipswich Town and Kieran McKenna have done the impossible. They have become the first team after Southampton 12 years ago to gain successive promotions from League One to the Premier League. The \u201cTractor Boys\u201d are the toast of the English football league and a feel-good story in the increasingly capitalistic game&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.foottheball.com\/explainer\/tractor-boys-in-the-pl\/\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ipswich Town and Kieran McKenna have done the impossible. They have become the first team<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":165990,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-165989","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports"],"featured_image_urls":{"full":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/165989-why-are-ipswich-town-called-the-tractor-boys-origin-and-story-and-behind-the-nickname.jpg",845,445,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/165989-why-are-ipswich-town-called-the-tractor-boys-origin-and-story-and-behind-the-nickname-150x150.jpg",150,150,true],"medium":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/165989-why-are-ipswich-town-called-the-tractor-boys-origin-and-story-and-behind-the-nickname-300x158.jpg",300,158,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/165989-why-are-ipswich-town-called-the-tractor-boys-origin-and-story-and-behind-the-nickname-768x404.jpg",640,337,true],"large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/165989-why-are-ipswich-town-called-the-tractor-boys-origin-and-story-and-behind-the-nickname.jpg",640,337,false],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/165989-why-are-ipswich-town-called-the-tractor-boys-origin-and-story-and-behind-the-nickname.jpg",845,445,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/165989-why-are-ipswich-town-called-the-tractor-boys-origin-and-story-and-behind-the-nickname.jpg",845,445,false],"chromenews-featured":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/165989-why-are-ipswich-town-called-the-tractor-boys-origin-and-story-and-behind-the-nickname.jpg",845,445,false],"chromenews-large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/165989-why-are-ipswich-town-called-the-tractor-boys-origin-and-story-and-behind-the-nickname-825x445.jpg",825,445,true],"chromenews-medium":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/165989-why-are-ipswich-town-called-the-tractor-boys-origin-and-story-and-behind-the-nickname-590x410.jpg",590,410,true]},"author_info":{"display_name":"Jonathan Jeriah","author_link":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?author=1"},"category_info":"<a href=\"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?cat=34\" rel=\"category\">Sports<\/a>","tag_info":"Sports","comment_count":"0","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/165989","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=165989"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/165989\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/165990"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=165989"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=165989"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=165989"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}