“The new champion of the Premier League is an adoptive son of this city”. Next, Leicester’s Algerian midfielder Riyad Mahrez, who told The Guardian in September previous year about how his father’s death changed him as a person, got him focused and here he is, a league victor.
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Leicester and second-place Tottenham are already guaranteed to be playing in the Champions League next season.
Wright said: “It was when they won 3-1 against Manchester City – that’s when I started thinking we had a real chance of winning”.
Ian also makes mention of the family aspect of a club like Leicester City, how so many people have supported the club without any possible thought that they might one day win the Premier League “All those generations, all those away trips Tranmere”.
Every single year the Championship is getting increasingly competitive with more and more top teams dropping down into it every season.
“The manager [Caleb Porter] said before, even just in drills in training, just watch Leicester and learn: its a team that will work for each other”, said Barmby.
There will be a sixth too when Wes Morgan holds the Premier League trophy aloft this Saturday.
Leicester, who won promotion to the Premier League only two years ago and flirted with immediate relegation last season, embarked on a remarkable run to clinch their first league title for 132 years. It is important you understand only me. “I’m the same man who was sent away by Greece”.
Unlike one-off sporting upsets, Leicester’s success was sustained over a long period and when many felt they would not maintain their charge towards the title, as the big four – Manchester City, Manchester United, Chelsea and Arsenal – continued to snap at the heels of a team that cost just £55 million – less than a fourth of the value of these challengers.
The importance of a unified club was highlighted previous year when Chelsea blamed “palpable discord with the players” when Jose Mourinho was sacked.
William Hill spokesperson Joe Crill said: “There will have been wild celebrations up and down the country from Foxes fans and punters alike and despite losing a fair wedge of cash on Leicester their story this season has been fantastic and we can’t begrudge them this win”.
Ranieri lauds the “humility” in the Leicester dressing room that saw hard-working, previously unheralded players lead the title charge. “Now we can say only 99 percent of the time“, the 64-year-old Italian was quoted as saying by the BBC.
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“I will say: ‘Do you have enough money to buy my players?'” he added.
