Leicester, on 80, are 10 points clear of Tottenham, who lost 1-2 to Southampton at White Hart Lane yesterday. “It’s been a long and hard process to get where I am”.
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However, Fuchs says any of them would be insane to leave, particularly with European football next season now on offer.
Jamie Vardy, with a double, and Andy King scored the goals that left the home supporters in raptures even before they could savour the nearly unthinkable sight of captain Wes Morgan and manager Claudio Ranieri lifting the trophy after the final whistle. “It was there to relax with family and that’s all we did until we got back to training”, said Vardy, speaking at the launch of his V9 Academy to help non-league players earn professional contracts.
“I hope we can find good players and make replacements because next season there will be three cups and the Premier League and it will be important to be able to make good changes and give players rest”. So why not stay? “Of course, I am very, very happy”.
“I want to enjoy, but I feel it is possible maybe to keep all the players”, said the Italian.
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They have been captivated by how compatriot Claudio Ranieri turned the team into Englands first-time champions since promoted Nottingham Forests 1978 success an era before the financial disparities were so vast.
“I can’t put it into words”, Vardy told Sky Sports in an on-pitch television interview at a raucous King Power Stadium.
Boisterous fans at Leicester Citys final home game of the season caused “the biggest” tremors recorded at the ground, literally making the earth move.
Vardy scored his second and Leicester’s third from the penalty spot in the 65th minute to register his 24th league goal of the season – one behind fellow England striker Harry Kane of Tottenham Hotspur.
But it was the blue ribbons on the trophy which sat pitchside before the game that signalled Ranieri, for all the criticism and mockers when he was appointed as Nigel Pearson’s replacement last summer, is a Premier League champion – 12 years after finishing second, and being sacked, at Chelsea.
A spokeswoman for Leicester Royal Infirmary said its A&E unit was “incredibly busy” treating patients with mostly alcohol-related minor injuries.
After a 149-day run atop the league table, Leicester City officially clinched the title last Monday.
He added: “We’ve just won the league and will be playing in the Champions League next year”.
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“I think we’ve always believed, it has been the people around us that weren’t really convinced that we could do it. But we knew our capabilities, we played all the other teams and knew that on our day we were as good, if not better, than all the other teams”.
