Leicester City Announce King Power Sponsor Deal | Sponsorship | Football shirt blog Leicester City Announce King Power Sponsor Deal Pro Direct King Power, The King of Duty Free, has been unveiled as the new shirt sponsor of Leicester City Football Club for an initial three-year term. The new partnership has been hailed by Leicester City Chairman, Milan Mandaric, as 'a strong vote of confidence in an ambitious club' and as a 'great level of commitment towards our goal of success in the Championship and our drive towards the top table of English Football'. The long-term and multi-faceted relationship between King Power and Leicester City Football Club will be developed over the coming months and years with extended engagement across the Club's many ongoing initiatives. These include the very successful Academy that has developed such international stars as Gary Lineker and Emile Heskey. King Power will also support the abundance of community projects that bring the diverse Leicestershire community together. The partnership will also continue into new joint projects that will be announced in due course. As part of the sponsorship, the King Power logo will be seen all over the world, in 167 territories, via the extensive television coverage that English football enjoys.

The popularity of English football has never been higher and the King Power logo will feature on the home, away and third shirts in addition to both perimeter boards and interview backdrop. King Power will in essence become a part of the fabric of the Club and the excitement about the partnership is palpable. King Power Chairman Vichai Raksriaksorn added; 'We see this three year deal as strategic and vital for our powerful global brand.King Power is based in Thailand and our name is synonymous with quality, providing brand name products to millions of tourists at 76 outlets throughout Thailand's main airports. 'Our interest in football is well established as sponsor to the Thai national football league and this sponsorship of Leicester City illustrates our ambitions and those of the club. 'This is an exciting and dynamic opportunity for us and I hope a relationship which can deliver much more for all sides including the fans'. The new shirts will be available online and from the City Megastore at the Walkers Stadium from Friday 27th August.

Fans who have already purchased new shirts for the 2010-11 season will not miss out as the City Megastore is making special arrangements to add the brand of King Power on to all those new shirts, also from Friday 27th August. The new branding will be worn by the team for the first time at the club's opening npower Championship game against Crystal Palace on Saturday 7th August. Thanks to Steve Leicester City and the strange finances behind their rise to the Premier League pinnacle | Football | The Guardian Leicester City and the strange finances behind their rise to the Premier League pinnacle • Leicester sold sponsorship rights to company which sold them back to owners • Football League investigating amid concerns club appear to have broken rules The Shepcote Office Village in Sheffield is the registered address of Trestellar, which Leicester City made a marketing deal with in 2014, but there is nothing to indicate the company’s presence.

Photograph: Christopher Thomond for the Guardian Monday 11 April 2016 07.56 EDT Last modified on Sunday 1 May 2016 11.01 EDT Close This article is 10 months old Leicester City’s dash to an unlikely Premier League title is billed as football’s most romantic story in a generation but the Football League is still investigating the club’s 2013-14 promotion season amid strong concerns from other clubs they may have cheated financial fair play rules. Jamie Vardy and Leicester City climb every hurdle when doubts are raised | Jonathan Wilson Read more The club’s owner, the billionaire Thai businessman Vichai Srivaddhanaprabha, who owns his country’s duty-free company King Power, bankrolled Leicester’s rise from the Championship with more than £100m after he took over the club in 2010 . The investigation centres on a deal Leicester say they did in January 2014 with a company called Trestellar Ltd, to market the club in the UK and south-east Asia.

That deal immediately produced an apparent £11m increase in Leicester’s sponsorship and commercial income, reducing the club’s loss from £34m the previous year. In the club’s most recent accounts, for 2014-15, Leicester say Trestellar sold the club’s main sponsorships – the name on the players’ shirts and the stadium – to King Power, the club’s owners. The Thai owners were already sponsoring the shirt and stadium before the Trestellar deal; in 2012-13 Leicester’s sponsorship and other commercial income was £5.2m. After the Trestellar deal, with King Power still holding the same main sponsorships, the income immediately jumped to £16m. That substantially reduced Leicester’s loss, which was otherwise likely to have resulted in a large fine under the Football League’s then new financial fair play rules by which all clubs agreed to cap losses at £8m to try to reduce excessive spending on players’ wages. Losses under FFP rules are not reduced by a club owner paying money to the club, or by doing so via sponsorship, if the amount paid is clearly inflated beyond market value.

Leicester still say Trestellar paid the club for the rights to market their brand, then sold the sponsorships to the owners. The resulting smaller loss – £21m in 2013-14, including expenses clubs are allowed to offset – meant Leicester argue they complied with FFP rules and no sanction should be applied. Some other clubs are furious, arguing they reduced spending on players to comply with the rules while Leicester overspent on players’ wages, achieved promotion and have since resisted any sanctions. Leicester’s 2013-14 accounts state they spent £36m on players’ wages, £5m more than the club’s entire income – the goalkeeper Kasper Schmeichel, the captain Wes Morgan, the prolific striker Jamie Vardy and other core players were already on the payroll then – although Leicester said £9.4m comprised bonuses paid on promotion. During the season, in January 2014, Leicester signed Riyad Mahrez from Le Havre for a reported £560,000 , and the Algeria midfielder has since been instrumental in Leicester’s promotion and remarkable Premier League turnaround.

Trestellar, the company which produced this immediate increase in sponsorship and commercial income – vast for a Championship club – was a newly formed company. It was set up on a Sheffield trading estate by the son and daughter of Sir Dave Richards, a former Premier League chairman. Richards had close links to Leicester’s Thai owners (his Thai football contacts also include having become acquainted with the country’s ousted prime minister, Thaksin Shinawatra, who became Manchester City’s owner in 2007 ). Pinterest Riyad Mahrez, right, was among the players Leicester signed during the 2013-14 season. Here he celebrates after scoring at Nottingham Forest in February 2014. Photograph: Nick Potts/PA In June 2013, Richards was reported to be advising Leicester about how to comply with FFP , although his son, David Jr, rejected as “paper talk” reports his father would become Leicester’s chairman. Trestellar, then and still, has no website nor telephone number. At the registered address – 6 Shepcote Office Village, on a main road in Sheffield – there is no Trestellar presence or sign.

Asked by the Guardian why the company has no telephone number or website, Richards Jr, who runs a print, design and marketing company, Glue, from the same address, replied: “Why would we need one? We are very busy, we are relatively well known and in the networks in which we move, we are known to the people we wish to be known to.” Leicester said last year they agreed their “exciting international marketing and licensing partnership with Trestellar Limited … following an extensive tender process to identify a party best-suited to extending its commercial reach worldwide”. The club declined to answer any questions about the Trestellar deal or this tender process, and what considerations resulted in the new company in Sheffield set up by Sir Dave Richards’ family members winning the rights to market the club in south-east Asia. Richards Jr told the Guardian he could not discuss the deal, how and why King Power remain the club’s sponsor, or what other income Trestellar has brought in, saying he was bound by client confidentiality. However, he said Leicester’s accounts and those of Trestellar – which showed £808,000 profit and £4m cash in the bank last year – demonstrated the “positive impact” Trestellar has had.

Asked if his father had been influential in securing the deal from Leicester, Richards Jr said: “It is fair to say my dad is and continues to be on the world sporting stage.” Richards Jr confirmed the name Trestellar echoes his father’s former engineering company, Three Star Engineering, which went into administrative receivership in 2001. Shortly before that, Richards resigned as the chairman of Sheffield Wednesday, who were facing relegation from the Premier League, and was appointed the Premier League chairman on an initial salary of £176,667. He stepped down in 2013 and now does consultancy for contacts, his son said. The Football League has stated for more than a year that it has not cleared Leicester’s 2013-14 finances and told the Guardian that Leicester remains an “ongoing matter”. Senior figures at Championship clubs say shirt sponsorships in the division earn between £250,000and £500,000, and it is difficult to sell stadium naming rights at all.

Leicester’s nearby rival Derby County, who have a bigger stadium capacity, recently sold their naming rights to iPro, a sports-drink company, for £700,000 a year. Sir Dave Richards to be chairman of Leicester City Read more One owner of a club in the Championship in the 2013-14 season, who did not want to be named because he said the league investigation has to run its course, said: “What Leicester did looks like financial doping by the owners, while other clubs were complying with the rules we all agreed.” A senior director of another 2013-14 Championship club, who also did not want to be named for the same reason, said he believes the Trestellar deal looks like a means of cheating the FFP rules. Damian Collins, the Conservative MP on the House of Commons culture, media and sport committee, said: “Leicester should answer the questions publicly, to explain this arrangement, which looks unusual to say the least, to reassure people it was not an attempt to evade the FFP rules.” Leicester did not answer any of the Guardian’s specific questions about the deal.

A spokesman said: “The club submitted a compliant FFP return to the Football League in relation to the 2013-14 season. The Football League has subsequently requested certain clarifications, which have been provided. The club is confident that it has complied with the Football League FFP regulations during that season and no material liability will arise from this process.” Pinterest King Power sponsors Leicester City’s stadium and shirts. Here the club owner Vichai Srivaddhanaprabha’s helicopter arrives at the ground. Photograph: Darren Staples/Reuters The Guardian’s questions that Leicester City declined to answer about their 2013-14 accounts and deal with Trestellar Limited • The arrangement looks as if King Power’s sponsorship of the stadium and club shirt is being routed through Trestellar. Why would this be the case? • What service is Trestellar providing to the club, if it has a licence to sell marketing properties, which it then sells to the club’s own owners? How much worldwide marketing expertise has that involved? • How much is King Power paying for the sponsorship and naming rights? Has this been a significant uplift from 2012-13?

• Has Trestellar brought in any other income from its marketing deal, besides these sponsorships by King Power? If so, what are the deals, and what are their values? • What was the nature of the “extensive” tender process, which resulted in Trestellar becoming the licensee? • Referring to the club’s “due diligence” done on Trestellar: who carried out this due diligence, and what elements was the club “entirely satisfied” with? • Is this the basis of the ongoing discussions with the Football League: whether the Trestellar deal and income from sponsorships is a genuine arms-length transaction, or in reality investment by the owner, King Power? Thai Fans Cheer as Leicester Clinches Unlikely Soccer Title An unlikely English soccer team is captivating an Asian nation + READ ARTICLE On the other side of the world from Old Trafford soccer stadium, more than 600 fans had gathered on a humid Sunday evening in Bangkok to watch Leicester City and Manchester United projected onto a big screen.

Leicester City’s chairman, Thai billionaire Vichai Srivaddhanaprabha, was throwing a party in the plaza outside the headquarters of his duty-free retail company, King Power, in anticipation that the Foxes might take the three points needed to clinch an unlikely Premier League Title . Amid a jovial family atmosphere of King Power employees and blue-shirted fans, 35-year-old Clive Nagington, from the Leicestershire town of Loughborough, was perhaps the most loud and animated. Although he has worked as an English teacher in Thailand for 12 years, he has followed the Foxes with a passion all his life. “This is beyond my wildest dreams!” he said. “To qualify for the Champions League is an achievement in itself. But to win the Premier League is absolute heaven!” Leicester and Manchester United played to a 1-1 draw , delaying an official celebration. Still, after the game, a group of middle-aged Thai men — fueled by an evening of free beer and buffet — danced for the local TV cameras, waving flags, and singing “Leicester!

Leicester!” The Foxes later clinched the Premier League title when Tottenham Hotspur, the second-place team, played to a draw against Chelsea on Monday. The Spurs haven’t won at Chelsea since 1990. Nicknamed the “Siamese Foxes” due to their Thai sponsorship, coach Claudio Ranieri’s underdogs have captured this soccer-mad nation’s hearts. Vichai, the reclusive King Power chairman, bought the Leicester City club in 2010 when it was contending in the second-tier with the likes of Scunthorpe United and Doncaster Rovers. The duty-free magnate was following in the footsteps of fellow Thai billionaire and former Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra, who in 2007 purchased Manchester City after his advances toward Fulham and Liverpool FC had been rejected. Thaksin was deposed as Premier of Thailand by a military coup in 2006, and now lives as a fugitive in Dubai. Like many Bangkok elite, Vichai is of Chinese descent.

His surname, Srivaddhanaprabha, with its bouncy alliteration of ancient Pali syllables, was bestowed on him by King Bhumibol in February 2013, a sure sign of admittance into the noble class. A month later, the Thai tycoon bought Leicester’s stadium, reportedly for $60 million, and changed its name to King Power Stadium. The cash injection helped alleviate club’s spiraling debt. Leicester had fallen into receivership back in 2002, shortly after its new stadium had been built. The facility’s massive construction cost, plus the team’s relegation from the Premier League that season — depriving the Foxes of millions in TV and advertising revenues — nearly drove the club into the ground. Besides opening his checkbook, last season the King Power chief also flew in some Buddhist monks to offer blessings to the players and purify the pitch. The Foxes were languishing at the bottom of the standings. The move may have done the trick. But even with such high-profile backing from a Thai company, not many soccer fans in this country had even heard of Leicester City until now. Most devote their loyalty almost exclusively to either Liverpool or Manchester United.

Domestic matches in Thailand garner little interest. The play is shoddy, and match-fixing allegations are never far away. Although German and Spanish games are regularly televised, Thai fans prefer the rough and tumble of the English league. Jirat Prasertsup, a longtime football fan from the northern city of Chiang Mai, considers himself typical of Thai soccer supporters. “I used to support Man United because I liked their attacking style of play, back in the days of Giggs, Scholes and Eric Cantona,” he explained. “But now I am no longer interested in Man U. I don’t like their formation. Many Thais switched to Man City when [former Premier] Thaksin bought them. Now, I think everyone will start following Leicester.” Wanchai Rujawongsanti, sports editor of the Bangkok Post, concedes that many Thai fans are jumping on the bandwagon. “A lot of Thais now support Leicester because of the club’s Thai connections,” he said. “But if Leicester had not been in contention for the title, very few people would follow them. When Leicester was struggling to survive in the Premier League last season, few people here cared about them.

In fact, Leicester is still the ‘second team’ of most Thai football fans. If Manchester United or Liverpool are challenging for the title, fans will surely support them instead.” As the 2015-16 progressed, and the Foxes continued to defy expectations, the fan base started growing. The club’s official Thai Facebook page now has nearly 600,000 followers, not a far cry from Chelsea — the other “Blue Army” — who have a million. Street stalls in Bangkok are rife with counterfeit football shirts, which sell for just a few dollars. You can still purchase an official replica goalkeeper’s away shirt (XXL only), but it’ll cost you nearly $100, which is close to the average weekly wage in Thailand. Soccer offers Thais temporary respite from their country’s real-world struggles. (Thailand is currently enduring its worst drought in 65 years with steaming temperatures in excess of 40°C, or 104°F, every day.) The country is more invested than ever in the game.

Tottenham Hotspur also has a Thai shirt sponsor — AIA Thailand, an insurance company, while Everton’s jerseys are emblazoned with the logo of sponsors Chang Beer. Thais also own Reading FC and Sheffield Wednesday. For the first time, the Thai national team has reached the final stage of qualifiers for the World Cup. Now that Leicester has won the Premier League, Vichai, the team’s chairman, will surely fly his squad out to Thailand this summer to show off the Premier League trophy. A sea of royal blue shirts will greet them. Leicester is united in celebration after Premier League glory and this party will last all summer Leicester is united in celebration after Premier League glory and this party will last all summer 3 May 2016 • 6:45pm Guess who: Jamie Vardy and lookalike Lee Chapman Credit: LCFC It was quite a day for Lee Chapman, the 29-year-old Leicester postman who looks a lot like Jamie Vardy. This time two years ago, all he got was people telling him he resembled Albert Steptoe.

Now, after the most gloriously unexpected title win of all time , there he was, standing outside the King Power Stadium, in full Leicester City kit, a blue plaster cast on his wrist, giving his views on his team’s title win to a reporter from Norwegian television . And then, just as he was talking about teamwork and brilliant Italian man-management, a bus carrying the City team, heading off for a celebratory lunch at the nearby San Carlo restaurant, drove past the front of the stadium. Lee Chapman talks to the unsuspecting media Credit: REUTERS Sitting watching the scenes their endeavours had unleashed, the players wore the biggest of grins. Mark Albrighton was filming the hordes gathered there the morning after the night before. It took a moment for the fans to clock who was on the coach. Then they all ran alongside it, waving their thanks, chanting their celebrations. Watch | Moment Leicester players find out they've won at Jamie Vardy's house party 00:32 On board, someone – possibly the reserve goalkeeper Mark Schwarzer – spotted Lee the lookalike in among the jumping crowd. First, all the players merely pointed, hooting with laughter.

Then someone insisted the bus pull over and he was invited aboard to join them in the unfettered toasting of victory. It was that kind of day in Leicester. The party is so good, we're seeing double! #havingaparty pic.twitter.com/5HzqZri9RU — Leicester City (@LCFC) May 3, 2016 This was an entire city united in celebration. The players and their canny manager, Claudio Ranieri, had delivered something no one had experienced before. And the party that had begun at Vardy’s house the moment mathematical certainty was confirmed with Tottenham’s failure to win at Stamford Bridge on Monday night, had spread across the metropolitan area. “When the final whistle went it was like four hours of madness,” midfielder Danny Drinkwater explained. “It was brilliant, all the lads were together and it sums us up as a group of lads.” Watch | Gary Lineker celebrates Leicester City's Premier League title win with champagne 00:29 The next morning, that sense of unity was unbound. Young and old, white, black and Asian, male and female, people were everywhere decked out in blue, walking through town smiling.

Shop windows were decorated in posters carrying the rather quaint insistence that “We’re backing the blues”. One hairdresser had changed its name overnight to mark the moment. It was now called “Vardy and Mahrez”. Walking down the high street, one man had a Leicester shirt printed with the name Hazard across the shoulders. Which was either a very speedy joke on his part to mark the Chelsea player’s contribution to City’s victory with his equalising goal on Monday. Or it suggested he knew rather more than the rest of us about Ranieri’s transfer targets for next season. Watch | What Leicester city centre looked like after Leicester City FC won the Premier League 00:25 There was a flag bearing the City crest flying from the town hall, another from the cathedral. A small boy in a blue and white scarf was being photographed by his burka-wearing mum climbing over the statue on Gallowtree Gate which glorifies the town’s sporting success. The plaque on the side reveals it was unveiled in 1998, in part to celebrate City’s success in winning the Littlewoods Cup. It will now need to be updated. And there is no doubt who the locals believe should be immortalised in bronze.

Watch | Leicester fan wins over £20,000 on £5 bet 01:25 “Under the magnificent leadership of Claudio Ranieri, the fearless Foxes have fought battle after battle , defying all odds and refusing to give in. They are an inspiration to us all,” said Leicester’s mayor, Sir Peter Soulsby, in what sounded suspiciously like a prepared statement. “History has been made, and we could not be more proud of what they have done for football, and for our city.” Watch | Gospel choir celebrates Leicester's Premier League win 00:29 What they had done for the city was marked everywhere in satellite trucks and television crews. At the central market, a Nigerian reporter was eliciting the views of a stall holder selling fruit and veg, who was wearing a blue and white jester’s hat. Leicester’s win is news that has circled the globe, putting the city on the map. “I’m off to France next week on holiday,” said Phil Morris, who, like almost everyone else walking through the market, was dressed in blue. “I’ll be wearing this shirt.

They may not have known who we were six months ago, but they’ve heard of us now.” Leicester 20 moments champions gallery Twelve hours on from the moment victory was confirmed, all round town heads were sore and throats raw. “My voice has taken a right kicking,” croaked Chris Whiting, a student at De Montfort University and a lifelong City fan. “It was just one huge party in town. I had to keep checking my phone that it was real. I honestly couldn’t believe we’d just won the title.” He has a ticket for Saturday’s game with Everton at the King Power, when the Premier League trophy will be presented. And he said he would not sell it whatever the price. “Someone said I could pay off my student debt. But I’d rather have debt for the rest of my life than not be there.” Watch | How Thailand has fallen in love with Leicester City 01:14 Outside the King Power Stadium, the feeling was much the same: everyone wanted to be there, albeit four days early. As cars drove by honking their horns in a delirious cacophony of celebration, hoping to drown out the news bulletins being filed round the globe, a sizeable crowd had gathered.

This was not just the handful of exhibitionists who turn up to gurn for the Sky cameras on transfer deadline day. This was a pop-up party that looked as though it might stretch into the summer. “We are going on a European tour,” a sizeable choral gathering chanted. And, just to remind us all that whatever the global reach of this victory, football remains nothing if not parochial, they then added the vital query: “Are you watching Nottingham?” Fantastic Foxes! World pays tribute to Leicester City's fairytale finish Fantastic Foxes! World pays tribute to Leicester City's fairytale finish Leicester fans celebrating outside the King Power Stadium today Credit: AFP Alan Tyers 3 May 2016 • 6:12pm The world of football lined up to pay tribute to Claudio Ranieri on Tuesday afternoon as his players trained, had lunch in Leicester - and were mobbed by delirious fans. Ranieri himself said: "It was an amazing achievement. We wanted to do something special, but no one could have believed we would do this." They are calling it one of the greatest triumphs in the history of English football . At least, surely?

And nobody will be celebrating more than fan Steve Worthy. His grandmother Gladys won a competition to present the trophy - she is Leicester's oldest season ticket holder at 97. She's not too well, sadly, so Steve will do the honours against Everton. Watch | Moment Leicester players find out they've won at Jamie Vardy's house party 00:32 as we celebrate this fantastic achievement. Claudio Ranieri sums up his season in three words... Now you try: — Premier League (@premierleague) May 2, 2016 Cheers! 6:07PM Ranieri quotes from before if you missed them Ranieri, who watched the match at home with his wife, told Sky Sports: "I believed last night. Of course you feel something, but I am a pragmatic man and I know football well. Something strange could happen. "It was an amazing achievement. We wanted to do something special, but no one could have believed we would do this. I was at home with my wife. Nothing more.

I celebrate with my wife and family." 6:03PM Lastly, Kasabian Kasabian guitarist and Foxes fan Serge Pizzorno has no such worries and says he will not care if City are playing non-league football 10 years from now. The Leicester band are celebrating City's triumph with a Bank Holiday double-header gig at the King Power Stadium at the end of May. Pizzorno wrote in the Guardian: "Winning the Premier League? After that, even if we get relegated and we're in the Conference in 10 years, I won't care. We'll always have that. "I first started thinking we could qualify for the Champions League when we were still top at Christmas, then carried on picking up points in January. I thought that if we kept everyone fit until the end of the season, I didn't see why we couldn't finish in the top four.

"As for next season: we all live in Leicester so all my pals are coming in and we're having a Champions League draw party - it's already on the calendar." 6:02PM Harry Redknapp "They've got very wealthy owners there, I'm sure they'll strengthen and they'll make sure that people there are looked after and they'll keep the players. It'll be interesting to see next year again." 6:02PM Jose Mourinho Jose Mourinho, who led Chelsea to the title last season, sent his congratulations to Ranieri and his all-conquering team. In a CAA Sports UK statement, he said: "I want to congratulate everyone connected to @LCFC; players, staff, owners and fans. I lost my title to Claudio Ranieri and it is with incredible emotion that I live this magic moment in his career." 6:01PM Alan Shearer Alan Shearer, who won the Premier League title as a player with Blackburn in 1995, claimed the Leicester story is "the biggest and best ever".

"When you consider who they had to take on in Manchester City, Manchester United, Arsenal, Chelsea, Liverpool and Tottenham and the vast sums of money these clubs have spent on players and managers, it's just one hell of a story," said Shearer in his Coral blog. "It's certainly the biggest and best story I have ever seen in all my time in sport." Quotes from the great and the good Former Leicester manager Martin O'Neill. "It is absolutely extraordinary," he told ITV News. "The team has lost three games. That in itself is a fantastic achievement. But to go and win the Premier League in this day and age when money seems to count, it is absolutely fabulous. "Romanticism is still alive in football and that is great news for everyone. "Leicester City have shown the way, shown how it can be done and great credit to all of them. To the players, the manager who has been terrific, the back room staff who have assembled the team. It's been a team effort from start to finish." Let the cash-ins begin Jamie Vardy Cardy, anyone?

"In the latest tribute to the goal scoring exploits of Leicester City and England striker Jamie Vardy, Leicestershire-based George at Asda has created the unique ‘Vardy Cardy’ – a blue V-necked cardigan.... etc" Credit: Asda One of the lads said: “We’re in the Champions League next year, so you never know we might end up wearing these abroad and impressing the locals in the likes of Paris and Milan!” I would say that's a 5,000-1 shot but... you know. 4:25PM Bit of fan reaction from the wires Andrew Bradley, who is from Sydney in Australia but originally from Leicester, said he fancied the Foxes' chances to add European silverware to the Premier League title next season - if the club go into the transfer market. The 28-year-old said: "Most people say we'll get relegated next year. "Honestly, if we sign four or five half-decent players for the right money... they need to fit in with the team we've got, they're such a brotherhood at the minute, those guys need to fit in.

We don't want to spend silly money and buy players on high wages, it just won't work. "We need a few addtions in the squad, we've some young lads coming through. But if we sign the right players, who knows, potentially we could win the Premier League again. "Maybe have a little bet on us to win the Champions League." He added: "Who knows where this story ends." Trophy presenter Leicester City supporter Steve Worthy will present the Barclays Premier League trophy to the Champions against Everton. Muzzy Izzet turned up on his doorstep in Leicester on Monday evening unannounced - along with the Barclays Premier League trophy - to tell Steve of the honour. Steve Worthy and Muzzy Izzet Credit: PA The Leicester supporter is dedicating the experience to his 97-year-old grandmother, Gladys Kenny, who was the oldest season ticket holder at the King Power Stadium before she had to retire her ticket this year due to ill health. “When I hand the Barclays Premier League trophy to Wes Morgan I’ll be thinking of my grandmother," Steve said this morning.

"She’s been a Leicester City fan since 1949 but has had to miss out on our most incredible season yet because she’s not well enough to attend games. For Barclays to give our family this amazing opportunity means so much and I’m hoping my grandmother will be able to join us at the King Power Stadium to experience the big moment”. Steve, Muzzy and Gladys Credit: PA 3:28PM Odd The odds of Leicester's win are the same as getting Heads every time for 13 coin tosses in a row Plenty of books in the offing According to this story from (publishing industry mag) The Bookseller. Yellow Jersey Press are promising "the definitive" biog of Claudio Ranieri. Gabriele Marcotti is writing it, due to be published on 3rd November. Sure that will be really good. And this sounds quite interesting: "King Power is coming from Nicholas Pearson at Fourth Estate in June. The book will chronicle Leicester City’s title-challenge against the odds purportedly in the words of one of the club's biggest fans, Richard III himself.

The monarch died at the Battle of Bosworth Field in 1485 and was reinterred in Leicester Cathedral in 2015. His statue, outside Leicester Cathedral, had a blue club scarf tied around his neck during Leicester City's last game." Special prize to that tweet for having as its first two replies Nottingham Forest fans kvetching and saying "what about us?" Basically a betting advert but I will 'llow it Leicester City...Premier League champions. The biggest ever shock in footballing history. 3:10PM Hi pals, Tyers here What a day. What a story. Just fantastic. We will have loads more reaction and news throughout the afternoon. 3:05PM Savage for 007? To put what Leicester have done into context, here are a few things you could have got shorter odds on in August.

175/1 - Prince Harry to marry Cheryl Fernandez-Versini (aka Cheryl Cole) 200/1 - Theo Walcott to be Sports Personality of the Year 500/1 - Andy Murray's baby to win more majors than Serena Williams 1000/1 - Robbie Savage to be the next James Bond 1,000/1 - Dean Gaffney to win a best actor Oscar 1000/1 - Bono to be the next Pope 2000/1 - Kim Kardashian to be US President by 2020 And with that I'll hand over to live blog specialist Alan Tyers. Ranieri has really put Leicester on the map Elaine Cree writes in from Katonah New York (originally from Oadby Leicester) Hi , as a Leicester girl who now lives in New York I've grown accustomed to Americans lack of knowledge about my hometown. So my usual response to "where are you from"?

is "Leicester, it's about 90 miles north of London" At Christmas I was introduced to a new friend who asked the same question and before I could finish she replied "I know Leicester, they're top of the EPL" Yes yes yes, that was at Christmas! Going forward, my new response will be LEICESTER, League Champions. How sweet is that ! The greatest footballing upset This is quite cool, looking at how Leicester's odds on winning the title changed throughout the season. The September defeat by Arsenal really killed any small amount of confidence anyone had in Leicester! Leicester City...Premier League champions. The biggest ever shock in footballing history. 2:39PM 'Never again' Back in 2000 when Martin O'Neill led Leicester to their second League Cup win in three years, there were probably some Foxes fans who thought that was as good as it would get. How times have changed. In any case O'Neill, who also speaks from the position of having played in Brian Clough's 'miracle' Nottingham Forest team of the late 1970s, believes Leicester's title win will prove to be a 'one off'.

"My own viewpoint from a distance is I think it is very much a one-off and it may not be done again in my lifetime" the current Republic of Ireland manager said. “Maybe it’s a wakeup call. I think the big teams might feel it was one year they slipped up in and they might become very strong again. Money talks in this business. Even so, despite this, even if it is a one-off, it’s a wonderful achievement.” "I think the chances are it won't happen again. The money in the game now is greater than it's ever, ever been before. But I really probably can’t see it happening. "Having said this, what Leicester have done is given everyone hope and there is romanticism in football after all which is great. He added: “It is extraordinary. Absolutely extraordinary. From a way back in August time right through to now. It is just absolutely extraordinary. The team has lost three games. That in itself is a fantastic achievement. But to go and win the Premier League in this day and age when money seems to count, it is absolutely fabulous. “Romanticism is still alive in football and that is great news for everyone. Leicester City has shown the way.

Shown how it can be done and great credit to all of them. To the players, the manager who has been terrific, the back room staff who have assembled the team. It’s been a team effort from start to finish.” 2:24PM Dyke speaks I know what you're thinking. What does FA chairman Greg Dyke make of all this? Well wonder no more... “As the chairman of the FA, I’m supposed to be impartial… “I am delighted. I am delighted because I think it tells you lots of things. With Leicester first and Tottenham second, the old order has broken. That makes it exciting, doesn’t it? “It’s also good that both clubs have done it with a fair number of English players. “Everybody who was not a Spurs fan wanted Leicester to win, didn’t they? “It’s a great day for football, really. It proves that you can do it.” 2:08PM The scale of Leicester City's achievement really is enormous From a yo-yoing Midlands club to a team of international proportions.

They have made front and back page headlines around the world , their achievement has been met with delight from high-profile figures in the game such as Gianni Infantino and Zinedine Zidane , and readers from as far afield as Uganda, Russia and Zimbabwe have today messaged in to congratulate Claudio Ranieri's men. And now, perhaps, the biggest honour of all. A Leicester City scarf has been thrown around the real life Statue of Liberty in New York City. Marvelous stuff. The Statue of Liberty, I think It's time for me to hand this blog over. I just want it known for the record that I'm a Tottenham fan and this has been an utterly miserable way to spend eight hours. I hate Leicester, I hate Chelsea, and I hate you for reading this. Here's Charlie Eccleshare .

1:55PM Hungry Leicester lads bring road to a standstill Leicester comes to a standstill as new Premier League champions arrive for celebratory lunch at Italian restaurant pic.twitter.com/A69fjnCOqW Leicester leading the Premier League Lynda, from Wolverhampton, emails in to say the following: Dear Luke, Leicester City have shown the Big Spender's up, and have given great hope to humbler clubs. Let's hope this astonishing achievement leads to a better and healthier Premier League, that's the envy of Europe and (Scotland)! Ranieri is Great! Well done The Foxes! Right you are, Lynda, I honestly can't imagine there's a club in the country that isn't encouraged by the example Leicester have set. We've known for a long time that, on their day, any club in the league are capable of beating anybody else, but now Leicester have shown that it is possible for a club outside the cash-rice elite to also put in consistently brilliant performances, week in, week out. Although I don't think the Premier League can really hope to be envied by the Scottish Premiership any more than it already is.

To be honest, at this stage, I think the poor old SPL is casting relatively envious glances at everything from the Belarusian Premier League to the Latvian Higher League. Lol. 1:41PM Oh, this is glorious Jamie Vardy lookalike Lee Chapman, a postman who sprinted his round this morning so he could celebrate pic.twitter.com/aJCAyJ0wyx Let's spin the wheel of important people in football And see who it lands on... Zinedine Zidane! Credit: Jason Cairnduff And what does the Real Madrid manager think of Leicester's triumph? <Spoiler alert> He think it's jolly great. “I think Claudio Ranieri has done a phenomenal job. I’m happy for him. There are no miracles in football though, only just reward for hard work.” Another international email This one from Andrew Beznosov. Hail Leicester City! Hello from the Russian town of Votkinsk, where we (my wife Alyona and I) are celebrating this incredible victory! We are celebrating with a fishy pie with "lavrushka"; which is a kind of russian national pie. From Russia with love! Cracking stuff, Andrew.

If anyone else out there is celebrating Leicester's triumph with a fishy pie, do please let me know. The big cheeses are impressed This from Fifa president Gianni Infantino, via Sports News Correspondent Ben Rumsby: Infantino loves the footy! “It’s a fairytale. It’s one of these beautiful football stories that only football can write and that nobody would have believed possible at the beginning of the season, throughout the season. This is what makes not only the Leicester fans very happy and very proud but all football fans, because this is the magic of football. So, a big, big congratulations to the club, to Ranieri, to the players, to everyone.” 'Fairytale'? Check. A victory for 'all football fans'? Check. 'The magic of football'? Check. Sensational work from Infantino, there. 12:50PM Dust off the open top bus! Early reports are suggesting that Leicester's open top bus parade through the city will take place on Monday 16 May - a day after the end of the Premier League season. The last time the Foxes had cause to ride on the bus through the city was two years ago, when they won the Championship title.

Leicester's last bus parade, celebrating their Championship title and promotion to the Premier League in 2014 pic.twitter.com/ra6lcWg1zK 12:33PM A story... ... to make you feel good / jealous / immediately make you bet your life savings on Leicester winning the Champions League, as following the holy advice of Phra Prommangkalachan . As Leicester City players nurse their monumental hangovers, one football punter is quietly counting his cash after the Foxes' title triumph pocketed him a huge £200,000. The anonymous gambler placed a £100 bet on Leicester City winning the Premier League with Betfair back in October when Claudio Ranieri's side were priced at 2,000-1. You can read the full story HERE ! 12:27PM This is cool There were 5.5 million Tweets sent last night, with Leicester's league win triggering an 86% increase in normal Twitter activity in the UK. And Twitter have compiled some of the nicer messages into a special tribute visualisation. Meanwhile, this tweet... The 20 most important moments in Leicester's title win Which includes this evening...

Dec 7: Ranieri allows his players to party After the 3-0 win at Swansea, Ranieri - again showing an intuition for man-management - allows his Leicester's players jet out to Copenhagen for their Christmas party. Dressed up as various characters including the Teenage Mutant Hero Turtles, Power Rangers, Banana Man and Spiderman, it is another moment which typifies the spirit in the Leicester squad. Read the full list HERE ! 12:18PM Ranieri targeting 'a top ten finish' next season The Italian also told Sky, just a day after winning the Premier League title, that he doesn't think Leicester will win the league again. Ranieri has his eye on a top ten finish next season I want to say to all of the lads, and to all of the supporters and the chairman that it is an amazing achievement. It is unbelievable, because we wanted to do something special. It has been an amazing season for us and I am very pleased. I was at home with my wife last night, and nothing more. I celebrated by speaking to my family in Rome, and that is it. In my mind, I always believed I would win a title.

I didn’t know where, but I always wanted to win something. And for me, that’s my strength. I’m always positive, and I always believed I could achieve something. Of course you feel something watching the games evert week, but I am pragmatic and I know football vert well. Football is strange and Tottenham pushed so well behind us, so I want to say well done to them because they have always had a fantastic season. Do I think Leicester can do this again? No. I don’t think we can but we want to continue to build. When I came here, the project was to build a foundation and to fight for the Europa League in three to four years. This season is out of our project, but of course now our foundations is very strong. Next season we will fight to finish in the top ten, to continue the progression. We want a good campaign in Europe and in the cups, and we want to be sure next season that we are safe, and then to do something more. We don’t want to sell anybody. If a player doesn’t want to stay with us then we don’t want unhappy players. We want to reinforce our team, but with the same mentality. Whoever comes must know that we work hard.

I don’t know how receiving the trophy will feel. I feel good now, but it will be fantastic. 12:00PM What are the odds on another first-time winner next season? The PA have been on the blower to the bookies and found out that Spurs are the team most fancied to break their Premier League duck next campaign. This year's (probable) runners-up Tottenham can be backed at 7/1 Tottenham: Surely the most likely of those teams never to have won the Premier League to break their duck after pushing Leicester close - 7/1 Liverpool: Jurgen Klopp has made a real difference to the mood at Anfield and the Reds could well challenge - 10/1 West Ham: Still pushing for a Champions League place this season after an impressive campaign under Slaven Bilic - 80/1 Southampton: Another creditable season from the Saints under Ronald Koeman - 100/1 A dog that supports Leicester As for the odds on Leicester to defend their Premier League crown? A very credible 40/1.

11:47AM The fallout from the Battle of Stamford Bridge rumbles on Gary Cahill has joined John Terry in urging the Football Association to show leniency over a series of reckless challenges and altercations during Chelsea's 2-2 draw with Tottenham (never going to happen). It all got a bit tasty between Chelsea and Spurs yesterday Credit: REX Cahill wants the FA to scrap charges for both Spurs and Chelsea in relation to a number of incidents during the 2-2 draw that handed the Premier League title to Leicester City (never going to happen). "When there is so much at stake you cannot expect players to roll over," Cahill said. "We’re all competitive, that’s the way it is. People should enjoy the game for what it was" (never going to happen). Read the full report HERE ! Wondering what Jose Mourinho makes of it all? Nope, me neither. 11:38AM It has to be said That this Leicester City squad come across as a very pleasant, humble bunch, with none of the arrogance you may well associate with the modern footballer. Take the way they've all turned up for training this morning, for example.

Here's N'Golo Kante dressed like a gap year student waiting for a Megabus: Here's Wes Morgan kitted out in what looks like H&M's high-street answer to Kanye West's Yeezy collection: And here's everybody's favourite forward, Shinji Okazaki, looking as though he's just finished the late-night shift at Cineworld after a hard day spent studying for his GCSEs: It's all a far cry from this sort of thing... Barcelona, i.e. 'the Spanish Leicester' Everyone get yourself down to the King Power on Saturday They're handing out free crisps! Here's a limited edition pack of 'Salt & Victory' flavour Walkers, and it's probably a good job they're not on general sale. No doubt they would sell very well in Leicester, but fairly poorly just about everywhere else. Danny Drinkwater has just been interviewed on Sky And here's what the England international and Premier League champion had to say: "(At Vardy's house) at first it was a bit ‘oh no what’s going on’ but after the first two goals there was 10 minutes of madness. And then after that there was another four hours of madness!

It sums us up as a group of lads, it was just great. I’ve honestly never known a squad like it. And I think the rest of the lads would answer that question the same. It’s a special moment to be involved at the club. It just doesn’t sound right us being champions, but we’ve done it, and we’re here to stay. We want to push on now. We don’t want to fall away. The manager has done such a fantastic job for us. I’m happy for him because he’s never won it before either, and we’re happy to repay him. He’s a laidback guy and that’s reflected onto us. Although he does have a serious side, of course, but I’ve loved every minute of working with him. It’s been one hell of a season. After leaving Manchester United, I possibly thought that the opportunities to win trophies had gone. I came to a club that possibly doesn’t have that history. But look at the turnaround, we’ve won the Championship and now the Premier League. It’s bonkers! The Everton match will be great for the fans, and it’s a huge day for us and we want to enjoy it. I’ll never forget this season.

I’ll be looking back on it for years. It’ll be something to tell my kids about, and something I’m happy my family have been able to experience, as well." Well you've won something, Zac You've won our attempting-to-piggyback-off-of-Leicester's-success-by-tenuously-linking-yourself-to-their-success-in-a-shameless-attempt-to-get-in-the-news contest, comprehensively out-classing Amir Khan with this solid effort. Zac Goldsmith says “I’m hoping to do a bit of a Leicester City, zoom in from behind and win” pic.twitter.com/OuMlLVeSxm 11:07AM The wonders of football Leicester winning the title means Italian readers of La Gazzetta dello Sport are now being educated in the discovery of King Richard III's remains. Again, from Nick Squires: The chances of Leicester City winning the title were initially 5,000 to 1, La Gazzetta dello Sport, Italy's biggest sports paper, says. "This is a triumph by a manager appreciated more abroad than at home in Italy," the newspaper proclaims.

The paper devotes acres of newsprint to the win, even producing a sidebar story about the discovery of the remains of King Richard III beneath a Leicester car park to give its readers a bit of historical background on the city in the Midlands. Claudio Ranieri is from now on "immortal", it says. Ranieri reporting for training earlier this morning Watch | Ranieri tells fans: We want to improve a lot 01:41 11:03AM Okay, I give in All morning, you've been emailing in in your droves requesting that we get the opinions of a Buddhist monk on Leicester's title win, and I can relent no longer. So here's Phra Prommangkalachan with his thoughts on the whole story. "Well, I'm not going to lie, football is a game of two halves and the Leicester boys have left everything out on the pitch this season... Okay, seriously now... "I believe the power of Buddhism... given through the Buddhist monk and executives (of the club's Thai owners King Power) has created teamwork and unity in the team," he told Reuters at the Traimitr temple.

Prommangkalachan thinks Leicester will 'proper tear it up!' in the Champs League Credit: AP "With their clear minds, it has brought concentration, ability, and determination for them to go to the international arena. At the moment, they will be able to thrive anyway because of their strong minds and they will continue to win on the international stage." On a morning of nice stories This may just be the nicest. Steve Worthy and Muzzy Izzet Credit: Rui Vieira/PA Wire Leicester City supporter Steve Worthy has been selected to present the Barclays Premier League trophy to the Champions against Everton. Muzzy Izzet turned up on his doorstep in Leicester on Monday evening unannounced - along with the Barclays Premier League trophy - to tell Steve of his prize. The Leicester supporter is dedicating the experience to his 97 year old grandmother, Gladys Kenny, who was the oldest season ticket holder at the King Power Stadium before she had to retire her ticket this year due to ill health. Steve with his grandmother, Gladys Kenney Credit: Rui Vieira/PA Wire “When I hand the Barclays Premier League trophy to Wes Morgan I’ll be thinking of my grandmother," Steve said this morning.

"She’s been a Leicester City fan since 1949 but has had to miss out on our most incredible season yet because she’s not well enough to attend games. For Barclays to give our family this amazing opportunity means so much and I’m hoping my grandmother will be able to join us at the King Power Stadium to experience the big moment”. It's all making sense now Watch | Wes Morgan is dragged across Jamie Vardy's kitchen floor while celebrating title win 00:32 MOVE OVER AMIR KHAN! Wow Yes that is real, and yes, you are going to be able to win a bottle, if novelty liqueur is your thang. This via Captain Morgan himself/themselves: Leicester City fans will be able to toast their captain Wes Morgan with a limited edition Captain Morgan bottle, featuring the star player, following his side’s victory in the Barclay’s Premier League title on Monday. The spirit brand will release a limited edition bottle designed to celebrate the Premier League winner’s victory - replacing their famous buccaneer on the label with an image of the footballer. The special limited edition bottle features the Jamaican international star dressed as Captain Morgan in royal blue and white robes to match Leicester City’s home kit.

The bottles flowed into production following a Twitter exchange between Captain Morgan and the player after Leicester City were crowned champions following Tottenham Hotspur’s draw with Chelsea on Monday night. The limited edition run of bottles will be available to win via Captain Morgan social media channels. Follow @CaptainMorganEU and see for more details. What other Leicester City - alcohol team-ups would we like to see? Danny Drink-liqueur? Ben Hamer-red? Christian Fuc- actually let's not do that one. 10:40AM Well, folks... ... The attempt-to-piggyback-off-of-Leicester's-success-by-tenuously-linking-yourself-to-their-success-in-a-shameless-attempt-to-get-in-the-news contest has been fiercely competed all morning, but I think boxer Amir Khan may have nudged his way out front with lunch time fast approaching. Here's what the Bolton fan had to say on Leicester's league win: "I'm seen as the underdog in this fight against Canelo but I feel this is the year of the underdog. What Leicester City have achieved is absolutely amazing.

You would have been called crazy if you thought that Leicester would win the title at the start of the season - it's such an inspiring story. I'm definitely going to use that to help me because it shows that even though people say you have no chance what really matters is how you perform on the pitch, or in the boxing ring in my case." Quite. Claudio Ranieri preparing to give the Autumn statement Just a regular day at the office... NOT! Claudio Ranieri arrives for work this morning 🙌 #havingaparty pic.twitter.com/6wRDV5clRv 10:31AM Further international reaction Nick Squires has reaction from Italy, where the headlines have all predictably focused on former Roma, Juventus and Inter Milan manager, Claudio Ranieri: Leicester's historic victory is on the front page of every major Italian newspaper. "King Claudio!" is the front page headline in La Gazzetta dello Sport, Italy's main sports newspaper, with a picture of Claudio Ranieri altered to make him look like a Roman emperor.

"Historic title for Leicester." La Repubblica, another big paper, proclaims on its front page "Ranieri e re d'Inghilterra" - "Ranieri is king of England" Corriere della Sera says Leicester's win is "like a fairytale", also describing the Italian coach as the new "King of England". "From today in England, The Italian Job is no longer just the 1969 film with Michael Caine, where he tries to steal a load of gold in Turin using Mini Coopers. The Italian Job is a new story, an Italian success with a jackpot of 170 million euros in prizes and TV licenses for Leicester..." The Corriere dello Sport this morning 10:23AM A few more title-winners Are reporting for what must surely rank as one of the most pointless training sessions of all time. Here's Andy King and Danny Drinkwater... And here's Marcin Wasilewski, driving what looks like a souped-up white van. They'll all be hoping Claudio Ranieri goes easy on them after last night's antics, 20 seconds of which the Premier League have just shared on Twitter.

Jamie Vardy's house was a bit lively last night 🎉 #LCFC #BPL #Champions Leicester hit the headlines in Denmark Again, from Richard Orange: Denmark's Ekstra Bladet tabloid led on the hit to bookies. "Leicester Triumph is history's biggest betting shock", ran the headline. The Berlingske newspaper headlined its article with a quote from Leicester fan: "This year I've got married and had a child, but this beats everything." Denmark's Ritzau news agency translated a tweet from Peter Schmeichel, the Danish goalkeeping legend and father of Leicester player Kasper Schmeichel . "This year I've got married and had a child, but this beats everything." One Leicester City fan, coming to a Danish knock-off version of Jeremy Kyle very soon. A reader emails in... ...all the way from Zimbabwe. This from Shepherd Maoneke: Congratulations Leicester. And thank you Chelsea for ending Tottenham's dreams, the same you did to Liverpool when Brandon Rodgers and his team were on the verge of winning the title a few seasons ago. Regardless of form, Chelsea always seem to have a say in where the title goes.

Hazard staying classy Credit: AFP That they do, although I think they deserve their fair share of criticism after last night's tear-up. And what on earth do their support make of the manner in which players such as Hazard and Fabregas finally raised their game, for what was ultimately a meaningless fixture? 9:32AM Ranieri speaks for the first time since Leicester's title win He's just been driven into Leicester's training session, where his car was immediately mobbed by a scrum of reporters. And he says he thinks his team can get even better! Leicester City Champions League winners 2016/17, you heard it here first... "I feel good, as you can imagine. I was at home last night to watch the match. I had lunch with my mother and then I flew back and arrived at 7pm, to watch the match I haven’t spoken to the players yet, I am waiting to do so and we will enjoy it together. (The title) means the job is good. I am very happy because if I had won this title at the beginning of my career, I would have perhaps forgotten it by now. But now I am an old man and it feels much better.

The emotions last night were at the maximum level. I am very happy for the fans, and for the chairman and everybody in the Leicester community. I don’t know the secret to our success. It’s the players, their heart and their soul, and how they play. I would tell the fans to keep going, because we’re going to improve a lot." Wondered about the reaction to Leicester's win in Sweden? Wonder no longer! This from Richard Orange: Leicester’s victory made the top stories in all of the major Swedish newspapers except one (the sober conservative Svenska Dagbladet). Dagens Nyheter’s sports commentator Johan Esk called it “one of football history’s greatest ever coups”, an underdog victory like that of Denmark in 1992 or Greece in 2004, only “larger, even more sensational, magnificent and wonderfully thrilling”. “It should not be possible to win a title in this way in a sports industry where billions in investments and at least two top world players for every place in your team are seen as the minimum requirement,” he wrote. “But it happened.” Peter Wennman, who covers English football for Aftenposten, said the victory was “beyond belief”.

“It has not sunk in yet," he wrote. "Maybe tomorrow. Maybe in a few weeks. Perhaps when the next season starts and Leicester City stands there as the defending champion. It is beyond belief. I’m going to have to watch everything in replay.” Expressen newspaper celebrated the victory with typical Swedish humour, taking the 1 to 5,000 odds of a Leicester victory at the start of the season and using it for a list of “seven things more likely than Leicester’s Premier League victory” — including the discovery of the Loch Ness Monster, the discovery of life on other planets, Elvis being alive, and Jeremy Corbyn winning celebrity Big Brother. 9:11AM Meanwhile in London The fallout from Tottenham's 2-2 draw with Chelsea continues, with John Terry urging the FA not to hand out "silly bans" after a 22-man pile-up at the end of yesterday's bad-tempered match which ended with Guus Hiddink flat on his backside . I don't think the FA are going to listen. Have you all got your bingo cards ready?

8:59AM The morning after the night before Here's Jamie Vardy emerging from his house after what will surely go down as one of the most famous house parties in recent times. I can't imagine Leicester's training session is going to be all that competitive this morning.. 8:55AM Some early morning #bantz Here's a word from the Chelsea reserve goalkeeper, ensuring that he's in for a rollicking from the home crowd the next time he warms the away team's substitutes bench at White Hart Lane. Chelsea goalkeeper Asmir Begovic has told BBC Radio London that he's happy to have ruined Tottenham's chances of winning the Premier League. 8:42AM Leicester's mayor: Title win better than dead king Mayor Peter Soulsby clearly isn't all that much of a Time Team fan. He's been speaking to Radio 4's Today programme and has had this to say: Richard ... good, but not quite a title win Credit: Getty "Twelve months ago we were reburying King Richard... We thought it couldn’t get any better. Well, it has. The Premier League’s even bigger than that. It has been said that we are somehow being repaid for burying Richard with honour in our cathedral.

Many people see the team as a metaphor for the city, and the success is brilliant for Leicester." An email... ... from reader David Bevan: I've been to every game home and away this season, I never even dreamed that I would see this day. I've been writing a book all season about it which will be published on 30th June. I had no idea when I started about where it would end up. I've called it The Unbelievables because that's what this team are. I'm so happy for anyone who cares as much about this football club as I do. We'll have an undercurrent of happiness for the rest of our lives because we'll always have this. Well if that isn't a heart-warming email, I don't know what is. And if Arsenal were The Invincibles, I can totally get behind the idea of Leicester as the The Unbelievables. 8:16AM Aiyawatt Srivaddhanaprabha has some more to say Aiyawatt is the son of the owner of Leicester City, Vichai Srivaddhanaprabha, and appeared on Thai television this morning.

As well as promising that the club do not intend to sell any of their title-winners, he also revealed there are plans to take the club to Thailand 'very soon'. Aiyawatt Srivaddhanaprabha watches his team fro m the stands Credit: Getty "They are coming to Thailand very, very soon. This is unbelievable. Thai people should be given a lot of credit as all players acknowledge how much support they have been given. (My father) was already proud of being the owner of an English Premier League team. Now he has owned an English Premier League Champion team, he can't be prouder. I have to say on his behalf that he has managed the club with his heart and he just hopes to gain a reputation for the country." 8:11AM Leicester dominate the headlines Beginning with the Spanish newspaper Mundo Deportivo, who have opted to splash with Leicester's triumph rather than Atletico's forthcoming Champions League semi-final. Scenes! An intriguing advert in the bottom right corner there, too.

And here's Italian newspaper Tuttosport (yup, the guys who make up about five hundred transfer rumours per day during the summer): Leicester fans hanging out of cars, ranked and rated Standard title-winning celebration, this, let's see which fans pulled it off best. Very strong effort, this. Bonus points for the sturdy looking Leicester City flag, as well as the can of summer fruits Kopparberg, a brave choice in the early hours of a freezing cold morning. 8/10. The jubilation is clear for all to see, and the utter lack of attention the driver is paying to the road deserves credit. But where are the replica shirts? Where are the scarves? One feels this is an impromptu effort; could do better. 6/10. This is how the professionals do it. Sporty convertible? Check. Special limited-edition title winning flag? Check. One too many passengers crammed into the car? Check. The only thing slightly amiss is the colour of the car. A classy 9/10. Oh dear, show some enthusiasm lads, you've just won the league! A dismal 1/10, here. 7:53AM A reminder...

that Leicester's football club weren't the only ones to do the city proud last night. Lifelong fan Mark Selby won the World Snooker Championship for a second time to put the icing on the cake of a remarkable day for the city's many sports fans. Make sure you check out Jim White's report from the Crucible . Mark Selby celebrates after his win Credit: REX 7:34AM Reaction from Aiyawatt Srivaddhanaprabha Who is the son of club chairman, Vichai Srivaddhanaprabha. Aiyawatt has appeared on Thai television this morning, and has had these very encouraging words to say about Leicester's success: Aiyawatt, son of club chairman Vichai Credit: REX "All of our players want to stay and keep on fighting together to see how far they can go. So selling players is not on our agenda." 7:27AM How the British media has reacted A quick round-up of how the British press has responded to Leicester's triumph before we get stuck into the foreign titles. Starting with the best sports section, of course...

Tuesday's Telegraph Sport: 7:19AM These are some rather lovely quotes Leicester Supporters' Club chairman, Cliff Ginnetta, has been speaking to the PA and has called on the city of Leicester to get a accolade from the council. He's also spoken about supporting the club when they were relegated to League One, and how there were arguments in the stands between fans. Leicester's relegation to League One seems a very long time ago... Credit: Getty "He should be honoured in some way for what he's done. I know some people will say he's only doing his job and is getting well paid anyway but we should, in some way, even if we only name a street after him, or even a park. We should do something and I hope we do. I was quite pleased when Claudio was appointed, we needed someone with a bit of nous, more tactically aware. Nigel Pearson had Plan A but I don't think there was a Plan B. With Claudio there's a Plan B and Plan C. We needed a foreign manager, they bring so much more to the game than English managers do.

I was one of the few and it's great to look at these pundits and think 'what do you really know?'. Will we see Leicester carry on being successful? Yes, this is a stepping stone. This is our time and for the next few years Leicester will be one of the clubs up there. I'm not saying we'll win it every year but we'll be up there challenging. It all turned for us when we got relegated to League One. I remember that day at Stoke (after a 0-0 draw) in the car park, people in floods of tears and arguments going on between the fans. Being relegated united the club and it was one of the greatest seasons. We are now fans of the most famous clubs in the world. We're more famous than anyone at the moment and we're certainly getting talked about more than any other club. It's daunting, everyone feels a bit taken back by it and we still don't believe it. It's a truly amazing story." 7:14AM Some messages this morning @lukedbrown celebrations slightly tempered by the 420am alarm call, but still an incredible fee"long - like I have had 14 hours sleep not 4

Question: At 2016 Leicester City FC's stadium and shirt sponsor name, and owner is called '(What?) Power'?
Answer: King