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    Leicester City: Premier League triumph to be sport's greatest triumph?

    Author: CNN
    April 29, 2016 at 17:33

    Is this set to be sport's most unlikely triumph? A 5,000-1 shot is just one victory away f-rom winning soccer's richest league.

    (CNN) Is this set to be sport's most unlikely triumph? A 5,000-1 shot is just one victory away f-rom winning soccer's richest league.

    Leicester City, a team which has never won England's top division, can claim the crown Sunday if it defeats 20-time champion Manchester United.If you want to know just how big a shock Leicester's triumph would prove then ponder this.
    At the start of last August, just weeks after Leicester had escaped demotion f-rom the Premier League whe-re it had spent most of the year 20th out of 20, you would have got better odds on Kim Kardashian becoming president of the U.S by 2020 and Hugh Hefner confessing to being a virgin, than Leicester City winning the title.
    Bookmakers were offering odds of 2000-1 on Kardashian becoming leader of the U.S. in four years time, while Hefner's rather unlikely admission was set at odds of 200-1.

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