Leicester City - Premier League Champions. Well I never. What more can I say that hasn’t already been said - amazing and unbelievable story, and hooray to the underdog. I can claim at least some affinity with Leicester having lived there for a year whilst doing my Masters - though I can’t remember whether I ever went to see a game (I think I only saw rugby matches rather than any football matches when I was there). It has even made all the front pages of the American sports news - though I don’t think Americans really appreciate just what a fantastic story it is since there is no promotion or relegation in any professional American sports. The greatest sporting upset/underdog story ever? I don’t know. The statistician in me says that whoever made the decision to give Leicester 5000-1 odds to win the league should be fired - those odds were just ridiculous. I don't know whether the following fact is really true, but this is great if it is:
Bookies say if Leicester win PL title then 5000-1 will be longest odds on any successful single event (not accumulator), any genre, ever.
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