Leicester City supporters erupted into cheers of jubilation when their team’s Premier League title dream became reality on Mondays their only remaining challengers Tottenham Hotspur drew 2-2 at Chelsea, handing the underdogs the trophy in one of the greatest sporting achievements of modern times.The result provoked an outpouring of celebration in the provincial English city, as the city’s biggest party began in earnest.
Unfashionable Leicester, 5000-1 outsiders at the start of the season, are English champions for the first time and become the first team to win a maiden English title since Nottingham
Forest in 1977-78, having left the likes of Manchester City and United, Chelsea and Arsenal in their wake.
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