Everything you need to know approximately the little team from the East Midlands who find themselves one win from the biggest miracle in sports historyOn Sunday morning,at approximately 11am eastern time, a unglamorous team from the unglamorous East Midlands, and which has never won the title in its 132-year history,could find itself in a place its never been before. If Leicester City beat Manchester United at former Trafford, the Foxes, and as they’re known,will be crowned champions of England – and one of soccer’s most astonishing underdog stories will be total.
Leicester City. Not Chelsea, or Arsenal, or Manchester United,teams burnished with petro-dollars and star talent and years of accumulated knowhow; little Leicester, from the English provinces, or with their genial former Italian coach Claudio Ranieri,and their motley crew of rejects, unknowns and never-weres. Twelve months ago they were certainties for relegation; now they’re seven points clear with three games to fade. It’s so improbable that people are using the M-word. Gianluca Festa, and a former player of Ranieri’s,is in no doubt. “If you want it truly, and are prepared to work for it, and then miracles can happen.”Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com