Leicester City will win the Premier League if they beat Manchester United at Old Trafford on Sunday.<\/p>\n
Victory at the home of the 20-time English champions would secure the title after Tottenham could only draw 1-1 at home to West Brom on Monday.<\/p>\n
It leaves Spurs seven points adrift of Leicester with each team only having three games left.<\/p>\n
Claudio Ranieri’s unfancied side started the season as 5,000-1 outsiders for the title.<\/p>\n
Usual championship contenders Arsenal, Manchester City, Manchester United and defending champions Chelsea have struggled for consistency.<\/p>\n
Speaking after Monday’s game, West Brom boss Tony Pulis told BBC Radio 5 live: “I just want Leicester to win it. Leicester is such a wonderful story and I don’t think it can happen anywhere else but in this country.<\/p>\n
“What Leicester can do is dig results out and that’s what they’ve done. I just think it’s a wonderful, wonderful story. But they still have a lot of work to do.”<\/p>\n
Former Leicester and England striker Gary Lineker has previously suggested his hometown club were on the “edge of sporting immortality”.<\/p>\n
The Match of the Day presenter – also an ex-Spurs and Everton player – said it would be the “most unlikely triumph in the history of team sport”.<\/p>\n
MOTD pundit and former England striker Alan Shearer, who won the title with Blackburn Rovers in 1995, has also described a potential Leicester title victory as “the best story of all time”.
\nLeicester, owned by Thai billionaire Vichai Srivaddhanaprabha, have never won the English top-flight title. They have already qualified for the Champions League for the first time in their history.<\/p>\n
The Foxes started the season among the favourites for relegation, with only the three promoted sides – Watford, Norwich and Bournemouth – longer odds for the title.<\/p>\n
Italian Ranieri, who took charge when Nigel Pearson was sacked in the summer, was seen as an uninspired choice by some fans and pundits after Pearson masterminded a run of seven wins in nine games as the Foxes escaped relegation in 2014-15.<\/p>\n
Reaction<\/strong><\/p>\n Former Tottenham midfielder and Match of the Day pundit Jermaine Jenas said: “Everyone’s pinching themselves because it’s an unbelievable achievement. In terms of a sporting story it’s one of the biggest ever.<\/p>\n “These players will be legends at Leicester. They will have done it with class and quality and it’s good for football. It’s a beautiful story.<\/p>\n “If I were a Leicester player, the incentive for that game at Old Trafford is immense. Spurs knew they would need to win every game and it will take a major shift and massive luck to win the league.”<\/p>\n Ex Leicester defender Matt Elliott told BBC Radio 5 live: “Leicester can win the title at Old Trafford – it sounds incredible. I’m covering it on the radio and there are three of us going up in the car. If they win, it won’t be me driving home.<\/p>\n “I’m not used to this sort of media attention. It’s a big result tonight. There’s still work to do but in most people’s eyes it is done and dusted – I’m sure Claudio Ranieri will say something different to the players.” Source: BBC<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Leicester City will win the Premier League if they beat Manchester United at Old Trafford on Sunday. Victory at the home of the 20-time English champions would secure the title after Tottenham could only draw 1-1 at home to West Brom on Monday. It leaves Spurs seven points adrift of Leicester with each team only […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":209660,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"jnews_override_counter":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[142],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-209659","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-football"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209659","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=209659"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209659\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/209660"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=209659"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=209659"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=209659"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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