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Re: Up the underdog! :)

• Lobsterboy 4,729 Posts

  Mon, May 2 2016 4:09 PM

  I don't know how many folk on here follow the English Premier League (football, or for the American's among us soccer) but Leicester City Football Club, who narrowly avoided relegation last season, have only gone and won it with 2 games left to play!

  The team cost a total of 21 million pounds to put together while other teams like Chelsea, Manchester United and Manchester City spent 300 - 400 million.

  At the beginning of the season bookies were offering odds of 5000/1 for LCFC to win the title. There were better odds of someone discovering the Loch Ness Monster at 500/1 and Kim Kardashian being the next US president at 2000/1!

  I'm not a Leicester City supporter (Everton FC for my sins lol) but even I'm thrilled to bits for them! Their nearest rivals for the title Tottenham Hotspur FC could only draw with Chelsea FC and the title was won :)

• ct690911 7,205 Posts

  Mon, May 2 2016 4:13 PM

  ...and, they are owned by this guy:  Vichai Srivaddhanaprabha

  Now there's a good "English" name for ya...lol

  ps: Most love to see the underdogs win (me included), so congrats to the little engine that could.

  ct

• WigerToods2010 8,447 Posts

  Mon, May 2 2016 4:34 PM

  Lobsterboy:

  even I'm thrilled to bits for them!

  Yup, me too. Brilliant achievement by the Foxes.

  Their manager, Claudio Ranieri, has been a joy to watch/listen to all season long.

  Totally deserved - next stop the Champions League!

  :)

• bubbsboy 6,879 Posts

  Wed, May 4 2016 2:06 AM

  Yip, well done Leicester City

  Ive gone off the premier league last few years with all the stupid money in it so to me its a great refreshing change.

  Good stuff

• ct690911 7,205 Posts

  Wed, May 4 2016 4:20 AM

  bubbsboy:

  Yip, well done Leicester City

  Ive gone off the premier league last few years with all the stupid money in it so to me its a great refreshing change.

  Good stuff

  The odds makers who gave them 5000-1 odds at season's start, and now have to pay out those bets, have probably gone off the premier league also...lol

  ct

• nanstar 4,914 Posts

  Wed, May 4 2016 4:35 AM

  "Quite possibly the most unlikely triumph in the history of team sport"

  - Gary Lineker, former England striker.

  Good stuff Skip,  "Up the Underdog!"

• bubbsboy 6,879 Posts

  Wed, May 4 2016 4:39 AM

  Yeah CT but they have creamed it in really

  All the bets on the top clubs, and there will have been a lot of them, has made up for that.

  Good time to be a bookie there. Its like when a 100-1 shot wins a horse race. You can see the bookies slaver forming in the corner of their mouth.......if you look hard enough 

• WigerToods2010 8,447 Posts

  Wed, May 4 2016 9:02 AM

  ^^^ Boobs has it sussed ^^^

  1/2 a dozen Pay In windows to a single Pay Out one still rings true.

   

• bladelad 147 Posts

  Thu, May 5 2016 2:54 AM

  Belated congratulations to Leicester City,great to see another club other than Chelsea, Man Utd Man City etc win the premiership for a change.

  From a Sheffield United supporter.