Leicester City’s Premier League triumph will forever be one of sport’s greatest underdog stories. After narrowly escaping relegation in 2014-15, the Foxes, led by Claudio Ranieri, did the unthinkable by winning the English top flight title next season. The Premier League is one of the most followed sports competitions across the globe and there are few events that can match the drama it brings. In the Premier League, nothing is unfathomable. Yet in the summer of 2016, what unfolded, left everyone in utter disbelief.
Leicester City’s Premier League triumph of 2015-16 was stuff well beyond imagination, prediction, and even the wildest dreams. Even the pre-season odds of 5000-1 on Leicester winning the league was a mere number. In the weeks before it happened, everyone could see it coming, but no one believed it until it actually transpired. In an era when financial might of the world’s richest football clubs had left no room for fairytales, Leicester City scripted one, rising from the ashes as nobody did.
This feat meant that Leicester would be playing in the UEFA Champions League the following season, a first for the club in their history. The season also saw history be made for individual players within the team, as striker Jamie Vardy broke the record for consecutive games with a goal in the Premier League (11) and winger Riyad Mahrez, became the first African and first Algerian player to be the recipient of the PFA Players’ Player of the Year.
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