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Less than nine months ago, the odds on Leicester City winning football\u2019s Premier League title, were equal to finding Elvis Presley alive this year, a slim 5,000 \u2013 1.<\/p>\n
Leicester, who defined the term \u201crank outsider\u201d have achieved the unthinkable after beating off their only remaining rivals, Tottenham Hotspur, drawing 2-2 with Chelsea.<\/p>\n
In an era where only the richest clubs stand a chance of success, Leicester\u2019s fairy-tale win will go down as one of the greatest in any sport, ever.<\/p>\n
Receiving the trophy at Goodison Park: <\/em>Leicester\u2019s captain, Wes Morgan expressed: \u201cI\u2019m emotionally drained. I had to hold back the tears. I held them back, finally lifted the trophy and it was the best feeling in the world. There\u2019s no better feeling knowing you are champions of England. I want to enjoy the moment. It\u2019s the best time of my life. It\u2019s like a dream.\u201d<\/p>\n Boss, Claudio Ranieri, is in line for a lucrative new deal after guiding the Foxes to the Premiership League title, a year on from recovering from near relegation to the Championship.<\/p>\n Its fair to say former Chelseam Juventus and Greece manager Ranieri has been a revelation for the team, since his arrival last.<\/p>\n The proud Leicester City manager has been reported to saying: \u201cIt felt good, it was amazing. I tried to be strong, without emotion, so I lived the moment better.”<\/p>\n For the few lucky punters, who were brave enough to back the seasons \u2018joke bet,\u2019 the result means winning up to \u201c100,000 each, a prospect the nations broker wont be to pleased about. They will be expected to pay out round \u00a325 million, making it the biggest loss in British history on a single sporting market.<\/p>\n As Alex Donohue of Ladbrokes said: “The Leicester City story is truly phenomenal – we’ll never see another long shot go from rags to riches like this again. At the start of the season there was as much chance of them winning the league as there was of Elvis turning up at the ground alive and well.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Less than nine months ago, the odds on Leicester City winning football\u2019s Premier League title, were equal to finding Elvis Presley alive this year, a slim 5,000 \u2013 1. Leicester, who defined the term \u201crank outsider\u201d have achieved the unthinkable after beating off their only remaining rivals, Tottenham Hotspur, drawing 2-2 with Chelsea. In […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":14028,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27,112],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14027","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sport","category-top-stories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14027","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14027"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14027\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14028"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14027"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14027"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14027"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}