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Leicester City EPL Champions Season Review 2015-2016
Posted: Mar 16, 2023
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Before the 2015-2016 season, the Leicester City Foxes were not known for winning much. Their best league finish beforehand was second back in 1929. The Premier League started in 1992, and Leicester City's best finish since was eighth in 2000. The Foxes almost got relegated the previous season but managed to finish 14th. They also signed a new manager Claudio Ranieri. So it wasn't surprising that Leicester City was a significant underdog, with odds as long as 5000-1 of winning the league.

Leicester City started the season well, losing for the first time in their seventh game. After that, they wouldn't lose again until the end of December, when they lost first place to Arsenal. Then, in January, the Foxes would retake first place and never relinquish it. Finally, after a 2-2 draw on May 2nd between Chelsea and Tottenham Hotspur, Leicester City became champions of the Premier League.

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If this was a once in every 5000-year event, then we've effectively got another 5000 years of hope ahead of us

Richard Scudamore

I got emotional. It was hard to breathe. I was a season ticket holder from the age of seven. This is actually impossible.

Gary Lineker
References

  • What do the Foxes say?

    IN FOOTBALLING terms, Claudio Ranieri, an affable Italian, has found a way to turn water into wine. Mr Ranieri manages a club in England, Leicester City, which historically has not been very good. On May 2nd his team were crowned champions of the English Premier League, a competition more watched than any other on the planet, and reliably won—including in every one of the preceding 20 years—by one of four much bigger clubs. The Foxes had been 5,000-to-1 to win the title on the season’s opening day.

  • Leicester City’s title triumph: the inside story of an extraordinary season

    In July last year Claudio Ranieri was enjoying a break in Italy when he received a phone call from Steve Kutner, his agent, that would end up changing the face of English football in a way no one could have imagined. Kutner had been attempting to convince Jon Rudkin, Leicester City’s director of football, that Ranieri was worth considering as the Premier League club’s new manager and finally there was news of a breakthrough.

  • Leicester City: The champions who were never meant to be

    It’s still difficult to believe that Leicester City are the English Premier League champions. Read that again, Leicester City are the champions of England. They are supposed to be a “yo-yo” club that swings between relegation and promotion every two years. The league title was meant for clubs who are “brands” or are backed by sheikhs and oligarchs. Perhaps the magnitude of this achievement will take a long time to sink in. This is one of the most absurd, brilliant and greatest team sporting achievement of all-time.

  • Bookies set to hand over £15m if Leicester win title

    Bookies across the country are set to handover £15m if Leicester City win the Premier League title, betting company William Hill said.

  • Leicester City win Premier League: The greatest sporting story?

    Relegation favourites, led by a new yet simultaneously tarnished manager, driven on by a former non-league striker, prevailing over teams with incomparable resources and title-winning pedigree. But is it the most remarkable of all time? More romantic, more impossible, more captivating than any that other years, sports and nations have thrown up?

  • Leicester City win Premier League title after Tottenham draw at Chelsea

    Leicester City have won the Premier League title in one of the greatest sporting stories of all time. Tottenham's 2-2 draw at Chelsea on Monday confirmed a stunning achievement for Claudio Ranieri's side.

  • 10 things bookies thought more likely than Leicester winning the Premier League

    Many people believed this picture proved that the Loch Ness monster existed and last year Paddy Power had odds on its discovery at 500/1. Experts did find something this year in the famous loch but it turned out to be a model of the Loch Ness Monster built in 1969 for a Sherlock Holmes film.

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