Bookmaker Sky Bet said it paid out £4.6 million (S$9 million) to punters who picked Leicester to win the title, with 128 putting money on the team at the 5,000-1 odds.
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The 64-year-old has managed illustrious clubs such as Juventus, Inter, Atletico Madrid and Valencia during a respected career but his maiden top-flight title at Leicester came somewhat ahead of schedule in the plans the midlands club fleshed out upon his arrival last year. Next season will be the same, for the next 10 or 20 years will be the same.
Ranieri suggested a surprise title victor only comes along roughly once every 20 years, pointing to the examples of Nottingham Forest in 1978 and Blackburn Rovers in 1995.
“It’s the greatest achievement, obviously, of the century, although that’s just 16 years old”, the former Northern Ireland worldwide said. “The richest, or the team who can pick up the best players to make a team, will win”.
Leicester City’s Italian football manager Claudio Ranieri (centre) is mobbed by fans as he leaves an Italian restaurant after having lunch with his team.
So we’re going to go wild and say that Claudio’s side are well able to reach the Champions League final, which is being staged at the Principality Stadium in Cardiff, on June 3rd next season.
He said: “I thought they would do well but not in my wildest dreams did I think they would be two games from the end of the season and be Premier League champions”.
“Never did I think too much about where it would take us”, he said on the club’s website. In Thailand, the first team is Leicester.
Leicester’s victory in clinching the Premier League trophy has come as a surprise to most people in football – including Leicester themselves; and the victory brought television crews from all over the world to the city to record interviews for news and sport programmes. We wanted to do something special, but no one could have believed we would do this.
Eriksen said their displays were enough for critics to finally give Spurs the credit they deserve.
“But if one of my players says to me, “I want to go there”, I try to keep him”.
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Jagdeep Tumber, 19, said: “It won’t feel real until I see Wes Morgan or Andy King, who has been at the club through our lowest point, lifting the trophy”. It was a long night celebrating and I am feeling a bit drained at the moment.
