Much to everyone’s disbelief, the Leicester City soccer team has been crowned the winner of the English Premier League Monday.
The team’s opportunities last summer were modest, to say the very least. Back then, William Hill, a British gambling group, put the likelihood of the Foxes of Leicester City, a fledgling team based two hours north west of London, of winning at 5,000-to-1. Basically, the group had a .0002 percent chance of becoming the best team in the league of 20. Except for the 25 individuals who bet a combined total of only $243 on the group through William Hill, nobody expected this from Leicester City.
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Here’s some perspective: William Hill after put the chances of Elvis being found alive and well at 2,000-to-1 and an acknowledgment from the U.S. authorities that the first moon landing was faked at 500-to-1.
And some more perspective, from ESPN:
Not only did the Foxes have a 13-game winless run last year, but they had been just six points from being relegated to a lesser level of competition. Leicester City was not even in the Premier League two decades back. The club earned marketing to England’s top soccer league beginning in the 2014-15 year for the first time in ten years.
In the world of overused sports tropes, announcing a victory”one of the biggest upsets in history” is a frequent sin. But in this circumstance, this really is the biggest upset in modern sports history.
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