DOING THE FOXTROT?
Anyone who predicted that Leicester City would win the Premier League at the start of the 2015-16 campaign would almost certainly have been laughed out of town on the grounds that they had entirely lost their grip on reality. In their pre-season predictions, the famously prescient Guardian football writer brains trust had them finishing 19th before a ball was kicked. Their struggles in the previous season had them rightly among the relegation favourites before they promptly romped home first past the post by an astonishing 10 points. Indeed, so surprising was their title win that even the handful of eccentrics who were prepared to admit to wagering actual money on them being crowned champions ended up bottling it and hedging their bets early doors, while the BBC’s woke snowflake-in-chief Gary Lineker was forced to renege on his promise to present Match of the Day in the buff if his beloved hometown team lifted the trophy and mercifully did it wearing only his strides instead.
