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  Leicester City's Soccer Underdog Story Rivals 'Miracle on Ice'

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  Leicester City's Soccer Underdog Story Rivals 'Miracle on Ice'

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  Leicester City's Soccer Underdog Story Rivals 'Miracle on Ice'

Britain would seem to witness the final chapter of the story of a loser, "Miracle on Ice"  can be said to be thriving, even  this weekend 1980.

Laiqiesite City - a professional football team based on a shoestring budget, and from the Midlands an anachronism Hailing - 13 win over champions Manchester United can clinch the English Premier League on Sunday.

Before the start of the season, they are 5000: 1 long shot to win the championship.

In this fairy tale, there are significant undercurrent: Stars goal scorer who was told he was not good enough after worked in a factory; who with big money after being unceremoniously dumped competitors returned to England coach; through its expenditures Arabia and Russia a small part of the challenger support built-championship-winning side team.

"The whole season has been incredible," 53-year-old Leicester fans Chris Seaton, who played his first game in 1974, said: "I do not know what I would compare it to, but a lot of people call it the greatest sports story. "

Leicester - pronounced "LESS-TER" - was never considered to be a competitor in the world's most prestigious football tournament one.

Premier League is the world's most watched domestic football competition, a total of one billion global Dianshiguanzhong 4.7 last season. A television deal is worth about $ 7.75 one billion will kick in next year, to be shared among the club where according to their ranking.

The high cost of failure; the last three league 20 teams get relegated to the far less affluent second tier of English football.

Such a fate seems almost certainly Leicester last season. Fox - the club's nickname - is the place from last November until April, and some looked promising performances each year, but the effect is poor after being demoted.

Somehow, in the last six weeks of non-stop running rallying team in the top league of fixed and floating season.

Another setback came in June, a few months later, however, when the head coach Nigel Pearson was fired has broken up with the club's Thai owner.

A few weeks ago, the son of Pearson after three Leicester players contract is terminated Sun on Sunday newspaper published appears, displaying participate carnival, and three in Thailand visit a tape. Some players can hear their companion guide racial slur.

Replace Pearson was Ranieri, courtesy of 64-year-old Italian, whose appointment is the most unpopular supporters. Although experience with Italian giants Juventus and Inter Milan stints after his famous British Russian billionaire, in 2004, was sacked by Chelsea Roman Abramovich bought the club.

He also endured the Greek national team in November 2014 to let go of the Faroe Islands after the Danish islands of less than 50,000 population fiasco shame.

Ranieri's team in the past in terms of the success of the above sports Leicester stands, but many fans felt his mild-mannered style disaster is not required to retain boxing method.

"Said he was hit miss is an understatement - he mostly missed," former player  Laiqiesite Ranieri told the following appointments Leicester Mercury.

"I was completely skeptical," Andy Ford, who runs an electronics shop in the Rolls, the town 70 miles to the northeast of a 41-year-old supporter of recognition. Like all fans of Leicester, who is now an assistant Ranieri.

"He has been just brilliant," Ford, who was born and raised in Leicester and supported the club since he was five, said. "You can see him on the pitch to create team spirit, they combine."

The club's strong start this season, initially posing as a freak, a Cinderella run doomed to collapse with the UK arrival of winter.

Sports broadcasts are full of praise calls, some condescension, this is how refreshing to see than Manchester United, Chelsea, Manchester City, Liverpool and Arsenal's other traditional aristocratic a successful team.

With no salary cap, no ventilation system, the Premier League is more like a free market economy, a Wild West where the club can afford to spend nearby.

Leicester's first team less than $ 24 million cost, according to Transfermarkt, a German site, track soccer transfer and other statistics.

In contrast, Manchester City - owned by billionaire Sheikh Mansour Zayed Elenaha Ermerati Young - spend just a player, almost three and a half times the amount of last summer: about $ 84 million Belgian midfielder Kay Bonaventure Bruyne.

Not only is the financial situation of the club's dwarfed by others, Leicester outside their city was called attention to some of the Midlands in a remote area.

During World War II was bombed, which is less than 90 miles northwest of London, but it feels a world away from the bustling global capital.

"It is a little after World War II was a drab town planners beaten," Sidon, who has moved to the southern seaside town of Bognor Regis said.

The city gained some international recognition, when Richard III, King of England, the 15th century's body was found at the city parking lot, in 2012, he was killed in the fighting, about 527 years later. Superstitious fans point out that the monarch reburial ceremony in March last year, came at exactly the same time the team has experienced dramatic results climax.

However, Leicester often by its larger neighbor Birmingham, has undergone significant regeneration in recent years, more well-known places such as Liverpool and Manchester, and began to attract overshadowed fascinating life commitment to high-income foreign football metropolis.

But on the court in these cities have been no match for Leicester.

The Vardy Effect

Although it is not always pretty, the club's playing style has been around the launch of its jet-heeled striker Jamie Vardy Riyadh Mahrez and lead a quick counterattack.

Mahrez, a 25-year-old Algerian, was bought in 2014 for just over $ 500,000 last week, he became the first African to win the Premier League player of the year award.

However, the 29-year-old Englishman Vardy who has attracted national attention.

Son crane operator, Vardy when rejected by the second-tier Sheffield Wednesday, he was 16, he resorted to the lowest division of the eighth hit in English football, in the carbon fiber plant to supplement his income.

In 2007, he was convicted of assault, had while wearing an electronic tag round his ankle, and was observed at 6 pm curfew for six months to play. He said he came to defend the charge of who is being ridiculed, because after his hearing aid bar deaf friends.

"I will not let him stand there beaten," he told the Sheffield Star newspaper, described the ensuing altercation.

Target a run to make Vardy 3 transmissions for three years, and finally they Leicester modest fee $ 1.4 million in 2012.

This season he has been persistent, scoring 22 goals in 35 games, and eviscerated, even the most experienced defenders. In November, he became the score, because the first person to Blackpool's Stan Mortensen 11 consecutive games in 1950-51 season.

"He is ridiculous," said Ford.

Striker at the club time is not without controversy. Last August, his team like a miracle before the beginning of the season, he was fined the club, and later forced to apologize on Sunday, The Sun published appears, showing the racial slur he made the video in the casino.

It is these highs and lows of the British provoked screenwriter Adrian Butchart, that personal interests behind the "Goal!" Movie. According to British media reports, the two have met to discuss life on the striker's rags-to-riches movie.

Opponents point out and disappointed, Leicester total of 76 points will not reach the previous activity. As Lester has risen this year, the typical collection of folders in unison league play mad.

If the team beat Manchester United on Sunday, none of the matter. If this occurs, the player will return to the King Power Stadium, their doorstep, May 7 beat Everton and lift the trophy.