No superstars.
No money.
No fancy stadium.
No excuses.
No fear.
Just passion,
hunger,
desire
& determination.

Way to GÓ, Leicester FC.

rough justice has got it spot on with his comments.Who would of thought
That a team like Leicester City would renew my interests in football.
I'm so pleased they have won the premiership,and so refreshing to see a team
Like Leicester at the top, than the usual big teams. And what a wonderful
Humble manager Leicester have.

Team of the season, and manager of the season.

No doubt about it.

Good luck in The Champions League next season.

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RoughJusticeOnYa
No superstars.
No money.
No fancy stadium.
No excuses.
Way to GÓ, Leicester FC.

It's all relative, but no money? - come on !! Their owners are worth squillions!! The stadium is I really good new build, albeit just around 30,000 capacity.
In terms of what they have currently spent versus the big boys, yes, it's pretty meagre, but in real terms they have spent tens of millions and have a huge wage bill. It really does shown what a huge cash cow the Premier League is.

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Stoneage
Can anyone British born explain to me why Leicester is pronounced "lester"? Why jump a syllable?

Same reason why Worchester is pronounced "wooster". But then why is Rochester not pronounced "rooster"

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RoughJusticeOnYa
No superstars.
No money.
No fancy stadium.
No excuses.
Way to GÓ, Leicester FC.

It's all relative, but no money? - come on !! Their owners are worth squillions!! The stadium is I really good new build, albeit just around 30,000 capacity.
In terms of what they have currently spent versus the big boys, yes, it's pretty meagre, but in real terms they have spent tens of millions and have a huge wage bill. It really does shown what a huge cash cow the Premier League is.

Yes, it's all relative; there's is no such thing as a "huge wage bill" in absolute terms. In order to judge & classify, we need look at the wage bills of their opponents as well, and compare - and here you find that overview.
Leicester FC is 17th out of 20; Tottenham Hotspur, 7 points behind now (with 2 games to go) is 6th, with a more than double bill. Chelsea, last year's champions, will have spent 216 million pounds on wages(!!) this season, and will end the season mid table. Their wage bill is almost 5 times Leicester's bill.

Same patern as far as spendings (see: incoming player transfers) go. Leicester FC has spent not even 68 million GBP between 2010 and now. the PL Player of the Year, Mahrez, came in 2013 for a mere 750,000. Tottenham Hotspur, again, has spent 274 million since 2010. Manchester City (...everybody sitting down firmly in your chairs?) has spent 627 million since 2010. That's almost 10 times as much as what Leicester has spent in that same period.

I didn't imply they have no money; I just pointed out that, to my knowledge at least, they've juist won the Premier league title (almost) without spending some.

And to be fair: the personal bank accounts of the club owners add nothing to the debate, as long as they don't invest what they have in the club, don't you agree...

Same for that stadium (must admit I have not been there yet): I never said nor meant it's a shabby place - just that it isn't fancy. Like that Etihad Stadium, and that Emirates one, all these hyper stadiums for all them billionaire clubs nowadays...



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The question for pundits still remains..


... " How the f~@: did that happen ? !!!!! "

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Stoneage
Can anyone British born explain to me why Leicester is pronounced "lester"? Why jump a syllable?

Same reason why Worchester is pronounced "wooster". But then why is Rochester not pronounced "rooster"

And don't get me started on the «mouths» (Bournemouth, Plymouth etc.).

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Koen

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Stoneage
Can anyone British born explain to me why Leicester is pronounced "lester"? Why jump a syllable?

Same reason why Worchester is pronounced "wooster". But then why is Rochester not pronounced "rooster"

And don't get me started on the «mouths» (Bournemouth, Plymouth etc.).

Try Kirkcudbright!


"As we say in England, it can get a bit trainspottery"

I won’t

Kircudbright is in the South West of Scotland and is pounced 'Kirkoobree'.

When I started Uni in Edinburgh I met some people from there and luckily for me, they spared my blushes by pronouncing it themselves before I had a chance to make an embarrassing attempt at it. And I'm a Scot myself from elsewhere in the country! Another classic up there is the Glasgow district Milngavie, pronounced 'Mal-guy'. There are many many more....

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Deltics
Are the Schmeichels the first father and son to win the Premier league?

I believe Ian Wright and Shaun Wright-Phillips hold that honour.

The latter is the former's step-son.

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RoughJusticeOnYa
No superstars.
No money.
No fancy stadium.
No excuses.
No fear.
Just passion,
hunger,
desire
& determination.

Way to GÓ, Leicester FC.

This, in spades. Very well and succinctly put. My own club, Heart of Midlothian (commonly known as Hearts, from Edinburgh) came within 7 minutes of doing a Leicester, 30 years ago on this very day and at a time when Scottish Football had a much higher profile than today. The previous year's champions were Alex Ferguson's Aberdeen. After a poor start to the season, little money and nothing expected of them, they embarked on a 7 month unbeaten run and were on target for a fairy tail league win and blew it right at the last gasp... We reached the Cup Final too and lost that the following week to Alex Ferguson's Aberdeen. I was there. Ferguson moved to Man Utd 6 months later.

Well done Leicester. You've given the rest of us hope that the spoiled brat Megabucks elite can occasionally be overhauled.

..and there's Kirkcaldy .... pronounced K'coddy


[Maybe somebody should write a book listing all these odd spelling & pronunciation anomolies.


Maybe Mr St John Chalmondley [ Sinjun Chummly] should write it ?

and Kidderminster then...???

2 1 2 0

GREAT MAN!
Sici

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The question for pundits still remains..


... " How the f~@: did that happen ? !!!!! "

Make sure to watch them discuss that on MotD, when Gary Lineker has to put his words into deeds and present the programe in his undies (a promise he made on Twitter in December; if Leicester City would become Premier League Champions... >< )

He's probably in the gym toning his belly for the event as we speak ;^)

A clever poem about English pronounciations..........

I take it you already know
Of tough and bough and cough and dough?
Others may stumble, but not you
On hiccough, thorough, slough, and through.
Well don't! And now you wish, perhaps,
To learn of less familiar traps.
Beware of heard, a dreadful word
That looks like beard but sounds like bird.
And dead: it's said like bed, not bead,
For goodness sake don't call it deed!
Watch out for meat and great and threat
(They rhyme with suite and straight and debt).
A moth is not a moth as in mother
Nor both as in bother, nor broth as in brother,
And here is not a match for there,
Nor dear and fear, for bear and pear.
And then there's dose and rose and lose--
Just look them up--and goose and choose
And cork and work and card and ward
And font and front and word and sword
And do and go, then thwart and cart,
Come, come! I've hardly made a start.
A dreadful Language? Why man alive!
I learned to talk it when I was five.
And yet to write it, the more I tried,
I hadn't learned it at fifty-five.

I'm so glad I didn't have to learn English as a foreign language!

Great achievement Congrats to the team and Selby won the world title Monday night also. Great night for the city.

The biggest shock, and greatest achievement in sporting history! They were 5000/1!!!!!!!! 5000/1; Think about that.....

Well done Leicester! Also, it's great to see a real gentleman like Ranieri come out on top.

As a QPR supporter cheering on Chelsea doesn't come easy but I did it

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Braincapers
As a QPR supporter cheering on Chelsea doesn't come easy but I did it

Same here as a Man. Utd. fan, it definitely went against the grain!
Tremendous goal by Hazard.


"As we say in England, it can get a bit trainspottery"

You have to have some sympathy for Spurs.

If it weren't for Leicester's amazing achievement, most neutrals would be lauding them as the breath of fresh air.

They too have had a great season and played some really good football.



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Chelsea No
Arsenal NO
Man UtD No
Man City NO
Liverpool No (but next Season)

LEICESTER Yes YES Yes

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Spud
You have to have some sympathy for Spurs.

If it weren't for Leicester's amazing achievement, most neutrals would be lauding them as the breath of fresh air.

They too have had a great season and played some really good football.

agreed. 100%!

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geoffc
A clever poem about English pronounciations..........

I take it you already know
Of tough and bough and cough and dough?
Others may stumble, but not you
On hiccough, thorough, slough, and through.
Well don't! And now you wish, perhaps,
To learn of less familiar traps.
Beware of heard, a dreadful word
That looks like beard but sounds like bird.
And dead: it's said like bed, not bead,
For goodness sake don't call it deed!
Watch out for meat and great and threat
(They rhyme with suite and straight and debt).
A moth is not a moth as in mother
Nor both as in bother, nor broth as in brother,
And here is not a match for there,
Nor dear and fear, for bear and pear.
And then there's dose and rose and lose--
Just look them up--and goose and choose
And cork and work and card and ward
And font and front and word and sword
And do and go, then thwart and cart,
Come, come! I've hardly made a start.
A dreadful Language? Why man alive!
I learned to talk it when I was five.
And yet to write it, the more I tried,
I hadn't learned it at fifty-five.

I'm so glad I didn't have to learn English as a foreign language!

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Yes Congratulations to Leicester City, a modern day miracle and also a huge well done to Leicester fan Mark Selby who for the second time became World Snooker champion just 15 minutes after Leicester secured the title via Chelsea. Selby must of been buzzing. If it had been me and Newcastle were winning the league at exactly the same time as i was potting my way to glory i'd of likely keeled over with joy and would still be there now!!!

A breath of fresh air in every way.

A big congrulations to Leicester and also to Spurs for a good showing as well.

i always thought the 2 greatest achievements in the english game were derby county and nottingham forrests in the 70,s but leicester citys win is much bigger, to do it in an era where big money talks is just astonishing.

feel sorry for tottenham,it could have been them instead.