If Leicester City did win the Premier League, would it be the biggest upset in the history of sport?

Today's result is one point gained and one point closer to the title for Leicester, rather than 2 points dropped.

I don't think that Tottenham will win at Stamford Bridge (where they have a pretty miserable record and haven't won for a long time) tomorrow, so the champagne shouldn't be on ice for too much longer.
 
If I was a Newcastle fan, I'd also want Spurs to fail to win tomorrow, or the title race to at least be officially over after next week's fixtures. That would make their home game against them on the last day of the season a lot less difficult, in their incredibly nervy bid to avoid relegation.
 
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Weak era; Man City just cba, Man Utd and Liverpool are spent forces, Chelsea are damaged goods, Arsenal are just doing what they normally do.


weak era weak era weak era weak era weak era weak era!!!
 
A lot of people in Leicester will be phoning their bosses to pull sickies tomorrow.

This is by far the biggest upset and sporting miracle in European football for 35 years since Forest's heroics under Clough at least. It has been a privilege to watch and follow. What an underdog story, which such a likeable manager in Ranieri, who has often being derided as a bridesmaid in the past, at the helm.

I never thought I'd see the day again where a club as small as Leicester even qualified for the Champions League, let alone won the title. They've done this in a league in which only 6 different teams have occupied the top 4 places over the top 10 years. This is just what English football needed, a small club completely tearing apart and upsetting the established order.

They deserve all the hype and publicity that has come there way and will continue to do so. In this case, the fairytale has come true in style.
 
Firstservingman said:
Spurs fan?
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Out of the premier league teams, Utd are my favourite, but Barcelona play the best football ever. Their style gets knocked, but seriously, their play is laughable at times.



The weak era thing was a joke. I rooted for Leicester the other day against Utd, and am glad they won. I actually thought five years ago that if any team outside of Utd/City/Chelsea or Arsenal were to win the league, Spurs would be the team to do it. It's good that another team won. However, some of the bigger teams have been playing like crap for the most part, this can't be denied anyway. But to see parity, that really had to be the case for a team outside of the usual suspects to win; Teams like Leicester and Spurs can't compete financially.



I think Leicester have opened up a lot of doors for players in the lower division. Teams will now scout at the lower level. Vardy is a frikkin legend and I hope he and Kane can do us proud in the Euro's.


I never thought anyone would outdo Mourinho's Champions league win with Porto or whoever the Greece manager was at the time at the Euro's, I thought these were the most impressive feats set by managers; Greece literally played with one striker and 9 defenders and Porto lucked out against Utd (Scholes' goal was ruled offside but wasn't). Ranieri and Leicester straight up bossed this league from start to finish, with less money to spend on players than the top clubs, developed and discovered some serious homegrown potential. I actually thought they would lose their spot to City. Imagine a Barc v Leicester CL clash????






But, and this could be a big deal. I don't want to knock Leicester, but I read an article the other day about a Doctor who 'claimed' he worked with many premier league athletes who were on PED's. Leicester were mentioned as one of the teams he had dealings with, so we will have to see what happens. Probably nothing as football generates a lot of money and things obviously get covered up in all sports.
 
Even with such a staggering result, football remains incredibly boring.
 
Has Claudio landed from his trip to Rome to have lunch with his 96-year-old Mum? So happy for him and the club and their loyal fans.

Can tennis ever have such a feel-good story???
 
Burnley are 5000/1 to win the 2017 PL. If anyone fancies a flutter.


Shout out to Romania, Finland, Northern Ireland and especially the Faroe Islands who all contributed to Claudio getting sacked 4 games into his stint as Greece boss. Without such a turn of events would he have been available to replace Pearson?

The less said about the racist sex orgy with Thai prostitutes and Pearson's son the better, but without would all this have happened?

Nathaniel_Near said:
Even with such a staggering result, football remains incredibly boring.
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Ludicrously exciting sport.

stringertom said:
Has Claudio landed from his trip to Rome to have lunch with his 96-year-old Mum? So happy for him and the club and their loyal fans.

Can tennis ever have such a feel-good story???
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Yes, he phoned Hiddink at the final whistle. His voice was trembling and he said thank you 5 times. https://twitter.com/premierleague/status/727267290740224001

I''l admit I am one of those who said 'Ranieri lol' when he got the job.

I would love it he took the Italy job in the summer.

Once again. Never forget

 
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I have no personal connection to Leicester story except over 10 years ago attending my 2nd ever football match Robert Huth got sent off for a diving handball on the line. Great times.


This really puts it into perspective. From rejects to Premier League Champions

also as the late great Johan Cruyff said: "Why couldn’t you beat a richer club? I’ve never seen a bag of money score a goal"
 
5000-1 are also the odds of:
Elvis Presley being found alive and Obama playing cricket for the English national team. In perspective, the Browns have 200-1 odds of winning the next super bowl and 76ers were 400-1 of winning the NBA finals

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Chicharito said:
Burnley are 5000/1 to win the 2017 PL. If anyone fancies a flutter.


Shout out to Romania, Finland, Northern Ireland and especially the Faroe Islands who all contributed to Claudio getting sacked 4 games into his stint as Greece boss. Without such a turn of events would he have been available to replace Pearson?

The less said about the racist sex orgy with Thai prostitutes and Pearson's son the better, but without would all this have happened?




Ludicrously exciting sport.



Yes, he phoned Hiddink at the final whistle. His voice was trembling and he said thank you 5 times. https://twitter.com/premierleague/status/727267290740224001

I''l admit I am one of those who said 'Ranieri lol' when he got the job.

I would love it he took the Italy job in the summer.

Once again. Never forget

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Perfectly fitting the clincher was a match ending in a Thai.:eek:
 
Darn, a bit of an anti-climax then. I was rooting for ]Spurs to spoil it.

They will make more money than Leicester. Levy should be happy about not having to pay out bonuses.
 
People are talking already about how Leicester will do in the Champions League next season, and I've heard some comments about how it will be bad for the Premier League's coefficient. Well they can't do much worse than how Man City with their unlimited spending power did in their first 2 years in the competition in 2011/2012 and 2012/2013, or how Man Utd did this season after spending over £250 million, or how Liverpool did under Rodgers last year.

At this minute in time who cares about next season anyway. They should savour this moment and enjoy their their miraculous achievement right now, and they can plan for next season over the summer.

And Ranieri is no longer the bridesmaid, after finishing 2nd or 3rd with several clubs, much bigger ones than Leicester for that matter, he finally has league title, and a first major trophy for 17 years since his Copa Del Rey triumph with Valencia.

I wonder if this will shake up the ambitions of smaller clubs going forward. You have managers like Pulis who are happy with 40 points and survival every year, even after spending a lot of money. And Sunderland with their billionaire US owner, big stadium and huge television revenue from the past few years still battle and scrape to avoid survival every year. Will the chairmen at these clubs now place higher expectations on their managers (of course not necessarily challenging for the title), especially with television money sky-rocketing further still from next season.
 
Gizo said:
People are talking already about how Leicester will do in the Champions League next season, and I've heard some comments about how it will be bad for the Premier League's coefficient. Well they can't do much worse than how Man City with their unlimited spending power did in their first 2 years in the competition in 2011/2012 and 2012/2013, or how Man Utd did this season after spending over £250 million, or how Liverpool did under Rodgers last year.

At this minute in time who cares about next season anyway. They should savour this moment and enjoy their their miraculous achievement right now, and they can plan for next season over the summer.

And Ranieri is no longer the bridesmaid, after finishing 2nd or 3rd with several clubs, much bigger ones than Leicester for that matter, he finally has league title, and a first major trophy for 17 years since his Copa Del Rey triumph with Valencia.

I wonder if this will shake up the ambitions of smaller clubs going forward. You have managers like Pulis who are happy with 40 points and survival every year, even after spending a lot of money. And Sunderland with their billionaire US owner, big stadium and huge television revenue from the past few years still battle and scrape to avoid survival every year. Will the chairmen at these clubs now place higher expectations on their managers (of course not necessarily challenging for the title), especially with television money sky-rocketing further still from next season.
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I said a while back that I could see a smaller club with less money challenging for the title in the next 5 years. Not in my wildest dreams would I imagine it would happen so soon, much less them actually winning it.

There's so much money in English football that very good players want to come and play here, whilst the truly world class players want to play in Spain or with Bayern. That means the likes of Stoke can spend £20 million on a holding midfielder, West Ham can attract a great player like Payet etc.. Whilst the traditionally strong teams can't get Lewandowski, Pogba etc.. As things stand. The gap is definitely closing.
 
What a time to be alive. I love what this will do for English football. Hopefully Leicester can build further on the team they have and challenge again next year.
 
What a story. What a team. I hope our fans give Claudio a rousing reception on the final day. All our fans sang on monday night "Theirs only one Ranieri" and rightly so. A great man and manager and deserving of this moment. Twelve years ago he was pushed out of the door after coming second to be replaced by mourinho. This season he inflicted the defeat that doomed the special one. Karmas a B***h. Well done Claudio and well done to all of Leicester. a story to inspire a nation. Mind you wre coming for you next year with Conte at the helm.
 
stringertom said:
Has Claudio landed from his trip to Rome to have lunch with his 96-year-old Mum? So happy for him and the club and their loyal fans.

Can tennis ever have such a feel-good story???
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Guus said Claudio rang him 15 mins after the whistle to thank him. And if Thiem wins the French yes that would constitue a VERY nice fairytale. Then again a miracle right now is if ******** drops a set.
 
PerverseIy I think a small squad has helped Ranieri because he didn't have a big enough squad to constantly tinker around with the team selection so players didn't have to constantly adapt and learn to play with an ever changing team line-up.
 
Can't wait to hear Andrea Bocelli perform at the King Power Stadium tomorrow.

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No hangover from the big party Monday night...3-1 with Vardy back and scoring twice. The shutout was spoiled in the 88th minute in this runaway.
 
Gizo said:
People are talking already about how Leicester will do in the Champions League next season, and I've heard some comments about how it will be bad for the Premier League's coefficient. Well they can't do much worse than how Man City with their unlimited spending power did in their first 2 years in the competition in 2011/2012 and 2012/2013, or how Man Utd did this season after spending over £250 million, or how Liverpool did under Rodgers last year.

At this minute in time who cares about next season anyway. They should savour this moment and enjoy their their miraculous achievement right now, and they can plan for next season over the summer.

And Ranieri is no longer the bridesmaid, after finishing 2nd or 3rd with several clubs, much bigger ones than Leicester for that matter, he finally has league title, and a first major trophy for 17 years since his Copa Del Rey triumph with Valencia.

I wonder if this will shake up the ambitions of smaller clubs going forward. You have managers like Pulis who are happy with 40 points and survival every year, even after spending a lot of money. And Sunderland with their billionaire US owner, big stadium and huge television revenue from the past few years still battle and scrape to avoid survival every year. Will the chairmen at these clubs now place higher expectations on their managers (of course not necessarily challenging for the title), especially with television money sky-rocketing further still from next season.
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Mostly agree but they do need to start thinking about how they will spend this summer.
 
Russeljones said:
Mostly agree but they do need to start thinking about how they will spend this summer.
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I think keeping what they have will be the hardest part. They have money and the world loves them, so they should be able to attract decent quality. It's if they can keep Kante if PSG come in, Schmeichel if the Barcelona rumours are true. Mahrez, Vardy etc..

Keep the nucleus and add competition to the squad? I doubt they'd win it again, but they'll certainly be in a nice position.
 
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