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> Leicester City This is the exception that proves the rule. The fact that winning the EPL was such a monumental upset and that you have to go back 5 years to
by long_time_gone 5y ago
> Leicester City
This is the exception that proves the rule. The fact that winning the EPL was such a monumental upset and that you have to go back 5 years to find it, kind of proves the entire point. Them falling back to 12th place is further evidence of the difficulty of maintaining success as a small-market in European soccer. Compare to the sustained small-market successes in US sports like Oakland A's or Tampa bay Rays in the MLB, Green Bay and Pittsburgh in the NFL, the Memphis Grizzlies or San Antonio Spurs in the NBA.
> And they won the EPL trophy straight out of League One the year they were promoted.
This is false, they finished 14th in EPL for the 2014-15 season. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2014%E2%80%9315_in_English_football https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2014%E2%80%9315_in_English_foo...