Jackson Irvine
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We speak a little bit in German sometimes, but he does most of his coaching in English now just because we have some players that don't speak English as well, so it can get really complicated.
Yeah, it's the most obscene day in sport I've ever experienced.
It was just, yeah, from every aspect of it, like...
You have the culmination of that season, of a year's work to come down to this moment, to have the chance to get promoted.
You have the big picture stuff of the club and being a part of a historic, the club had never won.
any trophy ever, like it never, even it'd been promoted to the second, to the Bundesliga before, but via second place or via the playoffs.
And you're talking about like the chance to win championships and do something historic.
And then you look, and then you have your own lens and the individual one of, you know, being 31 and
Working your whole career, like I said, those moments in Burton to try and the dreams of playing at a top five league, playing at the highest level against the very best and then you're on the precipice of it and it's this emotional just...
wild experience and then you know we ended up we comfortably won the game i think we were three no up and around the 80th minute the fans started climbing the barrier to like line the pitch to do the thing and you're trying to play this game and there's like ball going out for a throw and there's just like there's like 10 000 people just like on the side standing on the side of the pitch
You knew, everyone knew what was coming and then the final whistle went and anyone who's seen the scenes afterwards, I describe it as like a zombie, like it was like World War Z. Like, you know, like the final whistle went, I had like this half second of like...
you know, threw my head back like, yes, we've done it.
And then I look back down and it's just thousands and thousands of people just like sprinting onto the pitch at full speed.
Magnificent scenes here at the Mill and Top.
And it just like crashed into us into the middle and then it got like claustrophobic and it was a hot day and we were just swarmed by people and actually my neighbour like fought his way to me in the middle of the thing and like put me up on his shoulders and it was like bloody Jon Snow in Game of Thrones like coming out of the pack.