Leicester City has just won the English Premier League title, completing what is surely the most improbable season in sporting history - certainly in the history of English football. Tottenham Hotspur could only draw 2-2 with their London arch rivals Chelsea, blowing a 2-0 halftime lead in one of the most thrilling, emotional, and vicious matches seen in a long time - the number of yellow cards given was somewhere in the mid-teens and the bad blood continued into the tunnel after the match. That draw meant that Leicester City clinched the EPL title.
Leicester was actually at the bottom of the league in mid-April of last year and were lucky to avoid relegation in order to remain in the Premier League this year. The London bookies put their preseason odds to win the title at 5000-1 - what a bet that would have been!! And yet, the team has been outstanding and consistent the entire season, losing only three games, even as the pundits kept on waiting for their certain collapse as the season went on.
Just an amazing victory!
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