5000-1 Leicester City ruin bookies' year

04 May 2016 - 10:10
By ©The Daily Telegraph

Nine months ago the odds being offered on Leicester City winning football's Premier League title were identical to the odds on Elvis Presley being found alive this year: 5000-1.Elvis is yet to turn up, but Leicester, who defined the term "rank outsider", have achieved the impossible after an adverse result for their only remaining rivals, Tottenham Hotspur, drawing 2-2 with Chelsea, handed them the league title with two games to spare.

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