The incredible story of Leicester City’s 2015-16 Premier League title triumph is perhaps the most well-known of the past decade. Claudio Ranieri guided a team of 5000-1 outsiders, which had been assembled on a shoestring budget, to glory in his first season at the King Power Stadium. No one could argue that Leicester were not the best side in the country either; they finished 10 points clear of second-placed Arsenal, losing only three of their 38 games.
It was a sporting miracle that arguably even topped Nottingham Forest’s back-to-back European Cup wins in 1979 and 1980, Wimbledon’s FA Cup success in 1988, and Greece’s run to the 2004 European Championship. Leicester got the better of all of English football’s super clubs in an era in which money had always delivered the biggest rewards over the course of an entire season.
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