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jamma10
5/2/2016 2:19pm
5/2/2016 2:19pm
Edited Date/Time
5/3/2016 5:49pm
I know few of you guys care much about football (...soccer) but Leicester City have just pulled off one of the greatest ever sporting achievements and won the Premier League.
Their entire team cost less to put together than just one of Manchester City's midfield players, Kevin De Bruyne.
Last season they were almost relegated and only survived by the skin of their teeth, thanks to scraping enough points together from their last few games.
At the beginning of this season they were again favourites to be relegated and were 5000/1 to win the league.
Their entire team cost less to put together than just one of Manchester City's midfield players, Kevin De Bruyne.
Last season they were almost relegated and only survived by the skin of their teeth, thanks to scraping enough points together from their last few games.
At the beginning of this season they were again favourites to be relegated and were 5000/1 to win the league.
It really is one of most unlikely sporting victories of all time.
Time magazine wrote;
'Leicester City’s run over outlandishly wealthy super clubs like Man U, Manchester City, Chelsea, and Arsenal is not unlike, say, the Philadelphia 76ers finishing the 2014-2015 season 18-64, and then winning the NBA title this year (Philly was 10-72) Or a top minor league team winning a World Series. Would never happen. Could never happen.'
To top it off, Leicesters manager Claudio Ranieri used to manage Chelsea but was sacked in 2004 when the club was bought by a Russian billionaire who didn't think he was a title winner. Leicesters last game of the season is away to Chelsea, afterwhich Ranieri will be presented with the Premiership trophy!
It ended in a 2-2 tie, then they showed the championship celebrations.
I couldn't figure out how a tied game ended a championship...
Well, congrats to Leicester City, anyhow.
The Shop
Thanks.
To be honest, the only football I find worth watching is Aussie Rules.
Best sport without wheels, by far!
It's "Smear the Queer" with goal posts!
Only forum that turns a positive post into an argument mostly by assumption
Ball -a - foot Mofo's!
But it did seem pretty cool that a virtual nobody could win the whole thing though.
Pit Row
But I did see a clip of this on the news where the Leicester team was watching another game on TV and then they started to celebrate once the game they watched ended in a tie.
How the heck can you be the champion if you did not win it on the field in a head to head game? What is the system they use to declare the champion?
It just seems bizarre to me that they had to sit back and watch the outcome of another game before they "won".
jamma10 explained it above.
It's all in the math.
Or, "Maths" if you're a limey.
The season is 38 games long. 20 teams play each other twice one home, one away. A win is 3 points, a draw (tie) is 1 point. The team with the most points after 38 games is the champion the bottom three teams 20th 19th 18th place get relegated to the lower league and the top three lower league teams get promoted to the premiership. Leicester City barely got out of being relegated last season. This year they outperformed their competition the only top 4 team they didn't beat was Arsenal. They clinched last night because Twatenham had to win to stay mathematically alive. Its not like they backed in they have been top of the table (standings) for most of the year. The reason why its such a big story is this........
Doesn't the olympics use a playoff?
the final is played in a couple of weeks with Manchester United, Vs Crystal Palace, it runs the same time as the premier league and takes teams for all leagues (Premier, Championship, and League one and League two which are the main ones, but it goes down to regional leagues after this,
and just to confuse you more, the top 4 teams from the Premier League plus the FA cup winner go into the European Champions League, played against the other top European Champions,
here are the list of leagues,
http://www.bbc.com/sport/football/tables
The Loch Ness monster being proven or Elvis rocking up alive and well, it's pretty funny.
Imagine if you had just dropped a fiver?
£25,000!
To add to that Jamie Vardy , a guy who came to Leicester from a non leauge team playing in the 7th tier of English football, scored in 11 consecutive games at the start of the campaign , which is what set them up for the run they had.
Last year , a win of 7 games from the last 9 took them from bottom , to finish out of the relegation zone, led by Nigel Pearson , who was then manager... on a pre season tour of Thailand Pearson's son was filmed using derogatory terms to describe a Thai hooker , (the team owners are Thai businessmen,) .. and he was forced to resign , which then saw them appoint Claudio Ranieri , who had previously been sacked by Chelsea , and more recently the Greek nation team . They were favourites for relegation, and Ranieri odds on to be the first managerial casualty of the season,
They have been superb all year , lost 3 games out of 38 , and deserve it thoroughly.
There will be a parade around the city, and i will be there , just to say i saw it.. its still hard to believe, the shame is , two good friends of mine who followed them from birth , passed this last year and never got to see this great day.
And i also know people who have been paid out already on good wagers..
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