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Is there a more remarkable story in sport? 5000/1 ffs, in a proper big event, I mean the premiership(for all I can't abide it until this year) is the most popular league in the most popular sport in the world. Even if you think the quality isnt the best it can only be third to Spain and Germany and that is just because of a slight drop in quality recently, not many years ago we were the dominant league in the champions league.
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Not over yet.
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A slight drop? Standards are appalling despite the billions poured into English football from tv rights.
Leicester winning would be a remarkable story though. |
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I am really torn over who I want to win
 I am a lifelong spurs supporter, but I have backed both spurs and leicester to win the league. It does not matter about the money as I will get about the same whoever wins, I backed leicester at over 50/1 for small stakes, although it seems remote now that spurs will win. But leicester really have won, probably, through sheer grit and determination and that has touched and impressed me. |
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Huh . Leicester would have to turn up for their remaining games drunk .
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My money is on Saracens
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giggity - i said the same thing on the football forum
 good old Sarecens. Yes ,Premier league it is . And who came up with the name Championship for the second tier ? - what does it mean exactly ? It's division effin TWO  |
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L lose v MU.
L draw v Ev L lose to Ch Tottenham win all their games Tottenham win |
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their team has improved massively I hope their caterers have followed suit
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I'm a Spurs fan and am delighted at the way this season has gone and am optimistic for the future as much as any fan can be in this mercenary age.
Now it looks like we're not winning it (which was only an outside chance anyway) then I'm really pleased Leicester will do it. What a story and fair play to them for showing the so-called bigger clubs a thing or two about heart and desire, organisation and no little flair either. Enjoy your celebrations when the (inevitable, now) moment arrives |
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50/1 Leicester !
Nice one annie  |
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How poignant that they could officially win it by beating man Utd at old Trafford.
That would be the icing on the cake for them to go there become champions infront of that lot who are the epitome of the corporate face of modern football. It will embarrass many for their under achieving and inflated wages, a modern day fable. The manure fans will be seething through their greedy fooling teeth with the fake smiles and lost dreams. |
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Chelsea and Man City are the epitome of everything that is wrong with football in this country. No class, no history.
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They have not won it yet...they have three difficult fixtures
But I hope they do |
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Rob, they are wrong on a different level.
City and Chelsea effectively c heat by throwing money into a club that was extracted from outside of football with very little attempt to run a business. Man Utd brought in debt from outside football and leveraged it against the fans, which is a different thing. They run a brand to sell merchandise and run it as a profit making business, overpaying underachievers with the money they take off of fans invested in their club, effectibpvly holding fickle fans to ransom. It's capitalism in a nutshell where the few prosper on inflated payments for failure while the masses get overcharged for their loyalty. |
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Effectibpvly
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Yes money rules Football now....put the footballers back on £20 a week...that's the answer
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Football is capitalism in action now....for our teams to compete in Europe they must invest in the best players and managers....
Our Fans want to see the best players and players here...for that teams must invest |
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So therefore the PFA player of the year must be the highest paid right?
Also how come everything is about Vardy this season then? Money doesn't equate to ability |
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It is a fabulous achievement ......but they do have very rich foreign owners .
I would not put it on a par with Forest getting from the old division 2 , to twice being Kings of Europe. They have kept their best players fit. They appear to have no issues with egos , and give their all every week...... I don't think this can be said of their rivals. |
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Vardy is a late developer dusty...well spotted by Leicester, came from non league
Once a player is established, they are not cheap are they? I think money does rule in football now, very difficult for a non rich club to win the Premiership Like everybody I would love to see Leicester do it, Its all opinion sixtwo, when Forest were champions and King of Europe money not quite so important then, all down to Brian Clough I remember. |
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Leicester have rich owners as well you say sixtwo, you have spoilt my illusion
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money does rule football
but its the spend of the receipts from those buying into success that can afford to be squandered, much like banker bonuses spending on 'talent' |
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Leicester play in the "King Power" stadium and for that reason alone I am OUT
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sixtwosix- Forest winning in 1978 was until this season maybe the greatest achievement ever in the game .
However ,Leicester have had to fight off teams who as mentioned, have spend millions upon millions on players in an attempt to buy the league . Leicesters side is a Division 2 side (i hate the Championship name - which 3 year old though that one up?  ) in all but name - the bulk of their players played in that league with Leicester . Vardy was in League one . Marhez,was at a Division 2 equivalent team . And all driven by a manager that was written off on paper and had failed at even smaller club Leicester 5,000/1 offered by Bookies who don't give anything away. Forest would have been 200/1 i reckon back then , there wasn't such a gap then between top of tier 2 and the top of tier 1 . Probably similar to West Ham winnig it today . |
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Fred Rescue - sponsor stadiums are another awful part of the game.
Then remember ,Football is a working class sport ,and the working classes love a bit of vulgarity where money is concerned  |
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Which bookmakers offered 5000/1 ? Is this a fact , or an urban myth.?
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I am surprised the bookie that did offer 5,000/1 didn't cry palp since others were only going 500/1
Must have been worth the publicity |
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probably only around 25 people in the country did that bet .
i'd have laughed at anyone who had put the bet on and told them not to waste their money |
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5000/1 ? - which bookmaker ?
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Ladbrokes, for one
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Sky Bet's Dale Tempest revealed a total of £212.10 was placed from 75 Sky Bet customers on Leicester at the start of the season at 5,000/1, ranging from 10p to £40.
So at least one punter was allowed £40 at 5000/1, a payout of £200,000 ? What a load of crap. |
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Lads
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Fantastic job by Leicester, greatest ever sporting upset surely.
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Nowhere near the greatest upset, just that some bookies gave a crazy price.
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I usually do a premier league winner bet every year and I don't know whether betfair have changed it but I think it is usually that they do not go above 1000/1 for anyone at the beginning. I bet late this year as the results were all over the place, so I do not know whether leicester was only that price. I have often thought how stupid it is that betfair are offering the lowest price for the outsiders in the premier league. But I might be wrong, memory is a bet crap.
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Sky Bet are the industry's biggest losers from the Foxes' most unlikely of victories, with a total of 128 customers backing Claudio Ranieri's men at their monstrous pre-season price.
The overall picture is blurred slightly by the fact that not all stakes are from before a ball was kicked, with plenty of punters eager to jump on the Leicester bandwagon over the course of the season. The biggest winner of the lot was paid out two weeks prior to Leicester being crowned top-flight champions, the punter in question opting to cash out their £35 for just over £130,000 following the team's 2-0 win at Sunderland, while three other customers have received six-figure payouts. Sky Bet's Sandro Di Michele said: "The unthinkable has become reality and we're facing a paying out the sort of liability that you joke about at the start of the season. "We're now bracing ourselves for more punters looking to get on long-price outright odds, but Leicester certainly won't be 5,000/1 next season." |
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Sky Bet handed out over £1million to customers who cashed out their bets before Spurs' draw at Chelsea on Monday sealed the title for Leicester, and the Leeds-based firm's Dale Tempest explained: "As Football League sponsor we've probably got the largest base of Leicester fans, which make up the vast majority of their early-season backers.
"It's incredible to think we were presenting them the Sky Bet Championship trophy less than two years ago. "It's certainly understandable that some fans decided to cash out, take their money and enjoy the remainder of the season, but most did it at short odds so have still got the majority of their potential pay out." |