Leicester City Takes The Premier League For The 1st Time After Huge Season

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May 2, 2016

Leicester City have pulled off one of the biggest season-long upsets in football history, taking the Premier League title after a 2-2 between Chelsea and Tottenham Hotspur, which the Spurs needed to win to keep the ball rolling. It’s the first time Leicester have taken it, which is, uh, fairly enormous – the last first-time winners were Nottingham Forest in bloody 1978.

What’s more, Leicester were considered total write-offs at the beginning of the season. They were nearly out of the Premier League altogether last year, and bookies placed their odds of winning at 5,000 to 1. I wouldn’t take that bet. Would you take that bet?

This is just potentially one of the biggest, if not the biggest story in EPL history. The Spurs were up 2-0 at half-time, but a huge showing from Chelsea in the second half – including an incredible equalising goal from Eden Hazard – cut short the former’s ambition. There’s a very good Vine of the players realisation that they had it.

That Premier League feeling:

Twitter, and indeed the world, is basically in a state of paralysed disbelief at what they’ve just seen go down.

We could have lost the Premier League title to Arsenal, Man City, Spurs, Man United or Liverpool. Instead it’s Leicester. Buzzing.

— Chelsea HQ (@Chelsea_HQ) May 2, 2016

nothing on my timeline is loading properly i think Leicester have actually broke twitter lmao

— Kyle (@KyIeJW) May 2, 2016

Leicester actually did it. Biggest upset in football history? If not, it’s up there. Incredible achievement. Congratulations @LCFC !

— Viktor Fagerström (@ViktorFagerLFC) May 2, 2016

Leicester is going off after the Foxes clinched the EPL title. @TheTodayShow @mmmhotbreakfast @9NewsMelb pic.twitter.com/1uaKfPJtuV

— Seb Costello (@SebCostello9) May 2, 2016

Also, for the comedy option, this old tweet is being surfaced hard.