“As this whole thing grows, so will Leicester’s supporter base”.
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City will be presented with the Premier League trophy at the King Power Stadium on Saturday after the match against Everton and Selby, who will finish the season as the world No.1, intends to be there.
In one of the most remark-able, unlikely and heartwarming sports stories in decades, a team of cast-offs and bargain buys – including star striker Jamie Vardy who once wore a tracking device during non-league games after an assault conviction – won one of the richest titles in world sport.
Next season, Leicester will also compete in UEFA’s lucrative Champions League.
The result leaves Spurs with no chance of catching Leicester as they are now seven points adrift and can only garner six points if they win their last two matches.
“We have won the title and we can do something good in the future”, he said. Mahrez has achieved a breakthrough season, with the Algeria winger scoring 17 goals – four of them winners – and being named Player of the Year by his peers.
Spurs, meanwhile, could face disciplinary action from the Football Association after midfielder Mousa Dembele appeared to eye-gouge Diego Costa in one of several fractious incidents.
Claudio Ranieri is sticking with Leicester’s title-winning blueprint and said the club won’t be in the market for established, expensive talent to strengthen the Premier League champions.
Everybody concurred with this sentiment, be it in Madrid, where even combatants in Wednesday’s Champions League semi-final paid tribute to the Foxes, or Rome, where the Italian Prime Minister wanted to salute the city’s popular son Ranieri.
Chelsea fan Jordan said: “I’d never been into betting in my life, but I thought 2,000/1 for them to beat Sunderland must’ve been a mistake”.
“They didn’t implode, there was no tension when they started smelling the title”.
British television audiences have risen 29% from 785,000 to more than one million a game.
The team gelled wonderfully and for that, all the credit must go to Ranieri. In front of the home fans and lifting up the club, it’s a special moment. It said Leicester’s social media growth highlighted how much the club could increase earnings.
At odds of 2000-1, Keith backed the shirt he once wore having played for the Leicester youth team in 1963.
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Ranieri, back at the Leicester training ground and meeting up with his players for the first time since they were crowned champions, described their success as “unbelievable”. The 221,000 followers in Thailand – home country of Leicester owner Vichai has grown 117% over the season.
