How does a team like Leicester win the league?

How does a team like Leicester win the league?

Pizza and hot dogs.

By having more points than the competition at the end of the season, at least that's what I've heard

Doping.

Because they were the best team last season. Other teams were plagued by injuries and manager issues, Leicester just had a solid starting XI where everyone on the team knew exactly what they had to do on the pitch. They also didn't have any major injuries either.

Thai money

By having a sporting Black Swan Event occur.

At many stages over the last season, another club was poised to take over the #1 spot but choked in some inexplicable way and Lester was able to hang on. Over and over they would cling to a 1-0 lead and watch balls bang off the post, bounce on the line or be disallowed. It was almost like they had help from an unknown power.

it's called eplel quality

Was he a /lifelong/?

By exposing a league without a tyrant that believes in its own hype a bit too much. Money buy plastic, not so much competence.

BLESSED

Ranieri doesn't get a lot of credit but he is a mastermind at putting teams together, I mean, he set Chelsea up for 10 years of success with the core he put together.

Yes.

The heart.

There was only really Tottenham that ever posed a threat.

Meme magic

Chelsea players went on a strike to sack Mourinho.
Man Utd were only allowed to pass sideways under van Gaal.
Arsenal choked by randomly losing to shit teams (as usual).
Liverpool were never good enough in the first place.
Man City had a great start, then Aguero and Kompany died (as usual).
Tottenham turned out good but in the end, they drew too many games.

through the fault of others

All of those things combined still don't explain it. Suppose all six of those teams had good seasons and Leicester finished seventh, that still would've been a huge anomaly.

The truth is we'll probably never know exactly how or why it happened, but they were categorically the best team last season, they cruised to the title in the end.

They had the right conditions for it to happen, and the right attitude to take the opportunity.

EPO / Transfusions / Other dopage

A well drilled team, passionate players and referees falling for the idea of this "team of destiny"

Because the Premier League sucks but should be better this year

A very well organised and motivated team that was underestimated for 2/3 of the season and took advantage of an unusually weak United/City/Chelsea/Liverpool. They would have finished 5th or 6th in any other season.

shitton of luck and penalties while everyone else choked. That's why we won't see anything similar in the next decade or so.

>decade
We'll never see anything remotely close to this happen ever again. It was a complete aberration.

could've been rigged by sky plc in order to increase viewership of sky sports and get mad shekels off lester bandwagoners.

This

If Sky rigged it Man U would win every year, they have the biggest fanbase.

>unknown power

I agree. Experimental PEDs. Watch all the Leicester players turn into zombies over the next 6 months

Sky would never do anything like this. Sky, the FA, the Premier League, FIFA, etc etc, they all care zero about small clubs. The entire game exists for the top 20 clubs or so and the top 20 countries or so, everyone else can get fucked as far as they're concerned. Just look at how they treat lower league clubs, they couldn't care in the slightest. If it were up to Sky it'd be a two or three way race between the likes of Manchester United, Liverpool, Chelsea, and Arsenal every single year.

At least the TV money distribution is quite balanced, expecially when you compare it to La Liga or Serie A

It's a tactical decision. The smaller clubs can still spend huge money relative to even large clubs in just about every other country. The only clubs in other countries that can spend more than small Premier League clubs are ones who are being bankrolled by foreign investors. This tactic ensures that even though there may be big clubs in other countries that are better than any Premier League clubs, the Premier League as a whole is a more competitive product.

That and our clubs don't bend over backwards for the bigger clubs because they have rich histories and huge fanbases of their own

as a view of a Japanese

2014-15
No okazaki and finished 14
2015-16
Okazaki and finished 1

you know I mean

'Win and I buy you pizza'

Not really.

If Sky rigged it, then it would be United every season. Sky have already started brown nosing United this season with Pogba and Ibra

So it was like always except for Chelsea

Luigi here is right. Who doesn't love pizza?

You just explained it, it was simply a case of a huge anomaly and all pieces falling in the right place. Leicester did have a team decent enough to win games, the players were very motivated and tactically very conscient (kudos to Ranieri) and all the other teams in the league had a bad season (yes, coincidences do happen). Spurs and Arsenal being mentally weak (especially Tottenham), City and United having managerial problems and even the other good smaller teams (like Southampton) had their own problems this season.

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