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These Press Conference Highlights Will Make You Fall In Love With Leicester Manager Claudio Ranieri

Leicester City manager Claudio Ranieri is one of the most endearing figures in all of soccer. His players—current and former—love him, the fans of his teams—current and former—love him, and even the often catty and suspicious British media loves him. Ranieri is relaxed, charming, funny, open, honest...

Fan Wins £20,600 On £5 Bet That Leicester Would Win The Premier League

While absolutely no one can reasonably claim they saw Leicester’s impossible yet now real Premier League title season coming, that didn’t prevent some exceedingly optimistic fans from putting down a few bucks in the off-off-off-off chance (their preseason title odds were 5,000-1) that Leicester woul...

Here's How The Leicester City Players Reacted To Winning The Premier League Title [Updated]

Okay, imagine what it must feel like to be a Leicester City player—against all odds one result away from shocking the world by winning the Premier League title—and watching the game that does in fact seal the trophy with all of your teammates. You’d probably freak out, right? So did they:...

Here's The Eden Hazard Golazo That Won Leicester The Premier League Title

Eden Hazard was the best player on the Premier League title-winning team last season, and he just scored a goal that clinched the Premier League title ... for Leicester City....

Louis van Gaal: Hair-Pulling Is Only Cool When You're Fucking

During yesterday’s Manchester United-Leicester City match, professional agitators Marouane Fellaini and Robert Huth got into the little tiff you see above. Huth grabbed a handful of Fellaini’s ‘fro and gave it a yank, which Fellaini responded to by throwing an elbow and a slap toward Huth’s head....

Here's What Needs To Happen For Leicester To Win The Premier League

No, it hasn’t happened yet. In their first crack at wrapping up their miracle season as Premier League champions, Leicester City couldn’t nab the win they needed and drew against Manchester United, 1-1. Which was no surprise. And now the nervy times begin....

This Is Marvelous

One Way Or Another, Leicester’s Finish Is Going To Be Spectacular

The very thing that everyone at Leicester City has studiously avoided looking at is now inches away and is staring them right in the face....

Dele Alli's Season Over After Getting Three-Game Suspension For Punching Claudio Yacob

The English Football Association has handed Tottenham’s Dele Alli a three-match suspension for the punch (seen above) Alli threw into Claudio Yacob’s gut in the first half of Spurs’ 1-1 draw against West Brom on Monday....

Leicester's Manager Is Deeply Moved By Messages From Fans

Claudio Ranieri is impossible to hate. Not only has he masterminded Leicester City’s miracle year, one of the most improbable underdog seasons in the history of sports, but he’s done so with such easy-going charm, shrugging off pressure and always deflecting credit to his players. It’s won him as ma...

The Time Hunter S. Thompson Passed Out In A Pool And Missed The Rumble In The Jungle

The classic 1974 Ali-Foreman fight in Zaire attracted, among other things, famous writers like Norman Mailer and George Plimpton and even ol’ Hunter Thompson. But while Mailer and Plimpton and the rest of the world marveled at Ali’s command performance, Thompson, well, he experienced the fight as on...

The Best Team In England Will Not Win The Premier League

It’s a difficult thing to pin down, which English team is better than the rest. That’s because the defining characteristic of this remarkable season has been complete chaos. ...

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The Best Party In England Is A Leicester City Game

Nobody who showed up to the stadium or tuned in to watch Leicester play Swansea this weekend would’ve come away overly impressed by the quality of the game itself. Leicester did play well, dominating from the first whistle until the last, and sent four goals past the Swans’ keeper. But what made thi...

White Sox Execute 9-3-2-6-2-5 Triple Play

Triple plays are generally credited to the defense, but as we’ve seen more often than not they’re created by piss-poor base running. So here’s an example of the Texas Rangers shitting up the basepaths as they manage to get themselves into a 9-3-2-6-2-5 triple play at the hands of the White Sox tonig...

Aston Villa Owner Randy Lerner Takes Blame For Relegation

“I write to Villa supporters,” Aston Villa’s widely detested owner (and the Cleveland Browns’ widely detested former owner) Randy Lerner says in an open letter to fans today, “to make clear that this relegation lies at my feet and no one else’s.” Well, you don’t say!...

Liverpool Hulk-Smashed Everton

Check this out. In today’s Merseyside Derby, Liverpool beat Everton 4-0. Now, that scoreline by itself is bad. But to really get a semblance of how resounding the Pool Boys’ win was, look at these astoundingly one-sided stats:...

Dele Alli's Horrific Miss Breaks Mauricio Pochettino's Brain

In case you’re wondering whether Tottenham manager Mauricio Pochettino’s reaction here, where you can see him going through two of the Five Stages of Grief in about as many seconds, was justified by the play he had just witnessed, the answer is yeah, pretty much:...

The Higher Powers Do Not Want Leicester To Lose The Premier League

It only took two minutes into Leicester City’s touchy clash against West Ham for God himself to remove all doubt about who He intends to crown Premier League champions next month....

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