Leicester City’s Impossible, Anomalous Championship
Posted May 6, 2016
Given Leicester’s comparatively modest resources—they had the league’s fourth-lowest payroll—as well as the distractions of the summer, many expected the club, known to their fans as the Foxes, to finish near the bottom of the standings and return to England’s second tier of professional soccer. For the past few months, however, their squad of overlooked and largely unknown players has put together one of the most remarkable seasons in the history of professional sports.
(The New Yorker)
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