Can 'shining beacon' Ipswich avoid the drop?
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The Telegraph's Luke Edwards believes Ipswich and Leicester "have a real fighting chance of staying up this season" and it would cause "fear" in the Premier League as two longer-serving teams could be relegated.
All three of the promoted sides went back down last season, but Ipswich and Leicester sit outside of the drop zone as league football resumes on Saturday.
"Ipswich are just a great story," said Edwards on the BBC Radio 5 Live Football Daily podcast. "We are all football romantics and their story is one.
"The football they play under Kieran McKenna and their unbelievable journey make them a shining beacon to so many football clubs.
"Wimbledon did it in the 1980s, Portsmouth have done it and it is a magical carpet ride where anything seems possible. If they can stay up, then it sends a message to the rest of the English football pyramid that you can dream and have aspirations.
"Ipswich fans were really miserable in League One and almost at their darkest hour, but now they are in the Premier League and competing.
"If they can stay up, alongside Leicester, then it does create fear in the Premier League because two so-called established teams will go down."
