Greatest Premier League Stories - Leicester's Miracle 5000/1 Title Triumph

[Beechey]

 

Edited 18 August 2022 by Beechey

[bovril]

History's greatest ever football team. 

[GeorgeTheFox]

Commenting to save watching this video for a time where its not so depressing being a Leicester fan! 

[Mark_w]

1 minute ago, GeorgeTheFox said:

Commenting to save watching this video for a time where its not so depressing being a Leicester fan! 

Trust me it’s a lot less depressing after you watch the video.

[bovril]

5 minutes ago, Mark_w said:

Trust me it’s a lot less depressing after you watch the video.

Being a Leicester fan is never depressing. 

[Sampson]

Sometimes I forget about how great that team and manager were and then I watch something about it and it all comes flooding back.

 

Like, it’s easy to almost forget about Ranieri until I see his cheeky laugh and “dilly ding dilly dong” again and it puts a smile on my face again again and reminds me of the great man.

 

And it’s easy to be downbeat if Vardy, Albrighton or until this season Schmeichel have had a bad game. Then I watch Vardy’s ridiculous goal vs Liverpool or Albrighton’s inch-perfect drilled cross to Ulloa in the last minute vs Norwich or that Schmeichel save vs Spurs in the crucial 1-0 smash-and-grab where it bounces off him to the bar and cannot help but love them again.

[TiffToff88]

4 minutes ago, bovril said:

Being a Leicester fan is never depressing. 

Correct. Sometimes it's just a little bit more challenging 

[FoxesWalk]

Still the greatest team achievement in sports history, doubt it will be surpassed in my lifetime 

[tsintskaro]

Mentioning that 5000/1 is so dumb and unprofessional

it means that this win only makes sense because odds in skybet or whatever, was so high

that football meaning is lost and that is so ****ing disgusting

 

[trabuch]

Started welling up after about 20s. We are so privileged to have had that time.

[bovril]

4 minutes ago, TiffToff88 said:

Correct. Sometimes it's just a little bit more challenging 

It's frustrating at the moment because we are under-performing. 

 

Depressing for me would be either supporting someone like Ipswich, stuck in the lower leagues seemingly forever, or someone like Man City where it's essentially a totally different club that has bought their way to a level of dominance we haven't seen in English football before.

[Gamble92]

Forgot how much I lost my shit when Simpson gave it to Aguero for a chance to make it 3-2

[bovril]

Summer 2015 seems like yesterday. We were all basking in the glow of the fantastic great escape. And we'd never won anything other than the League Cup. 

[Sampson]

5 minutes ago, bovril said:

It's frustrating at the moment because we are under-performing. 

 

Depressing for me would be either supporting someone like Ipswich, stuck in the lower leagues seemingly forever, or someone like Man City where it's essentially a totally different club that has bought their way to a level of dominance we haven't seen in English football before.

To me depressing is more like Everton where you just exist every season never challenging for anything or winning trophies.

 

Winning League One for me was a lot more exciting than a mediocre mid-table season in the PL or the Championship. I don’t think it matters so much if you’re in the lower leagues as long as it feels like there’s something to strive for, be in a playoff chase or relegation battle.

[bovril]

1 minute ago, Sampson said:

To me depressing is more like Everton where you just exist every season never challenging for anything or winning trophies.

 

Winning League One for me was a lot more exciting than a mediocre mid-table season in the PL or the Championship. I don’t think it matters so much if you’re in the lower leagues as long as it feels like there’s something to strive for, be in a playoff chase or relegation battle.

Definitely. 

[AmyLGK]

Ah thanks - just watched this on my lunch break and feel better about life (probably until Saturday...) 

 

 

[Free Falling Foxes]

Can someone who does Twitter  message Big Wes and tell him I have an old 32in widescreen TV he can have if he fancies an upgrade.

 

[KFS]

It’s turning into sadness watching this. **** me what a year. What a team. 

[taupe]

Thanks for posting, even though I'm a mess now. I will never ever forget that season, for as long as I live. 

[Vacamion]

 

People in the year or so after May 2016 said to me that I was probably sick of talking about it.

 

I said at the time that I will NEVER tire of talking about that season, re-living it or wallowing in it.

 

I was right.

 

[Simoken]

1 hour ago, bovril said:

Being a Leicester fan is never depressing. 

Not been on this forum long enough then.

[bovril]

I swear I knew as Hazard was drawing his foot back, that was it. 

[Yes]

2 hours ago, tsintskaro said:

Mentioning that 5000/1 is so dumb and unprofessional

it means that this win only makes sense because odds in skybet or whatever, was so high

that football meaning is lost and that is so ****ing disgusting

 

It just represents how unbelievably unlikely it was, if you’re making comparisons it genuinely does set it apart from the rest.

[Spudulike]

Did it really happen? I still haven't come to terms with it. Not sure I ever will. 

[Old Fox]

3 hours ago, GeorgeTheFox said:

Commenting to save watching this video for a time where its not so depressing being a Leicester fan! 

You don’t know what depressing means - this is almost positively living the dream compared to 128 years of our history - the last 10 years have by far been the best in the whole clubs history!