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00:23For those of us born and raised here, Leicester will forever hold a special place in our hearts.
00:28It's the city that nurtured me, shaped me, and provided me with both purpose and a platform to launch myself
00:35into a wider world.
00:40But it's never been seen as a fashionable place, a provincial front restricted to the shadows of the national agenda,
00:48a place that inspires footnotes rather than headlines.
00:51The same could be said of its football team, which has spent much of its 132-year history outside of
00:58the top tier, as it has tackling England's elite.
01:04Even the city's motto seems tailored to Leicester's unremarkable nature, Semper Edom, always the same.
01:12But every now and again in life, the unremarkable gives rise to the highly improbable.
01:18One of the biggest archaeological discoveries of recent times, the bones of Richard III are discovered in Leicester.
01:26The confirmation that remains discovered in a council car park in September 2012 were those of a late 15th century
01:34king of England drew Leicester out of those shadows and into the spotlight.
01:38The fate of Richard III captured the imagination of the entire city and made waves across the world.
01:45Two and a half years later, when the last of the Plantagenet dynasty was finally laid to rest at Leicester
01:51Cathedral, the city's football team were rock bottom of the Premier League, doomed to relegation after less than a year
01:59back in the top flight.
02:00But then, as if inspired by its people's mass show of respect for a long-dead king, another remarkable thing
02:07happened to this unremarkable city.
02:10It's on target! It's in! Terrific from Leicester City!
02:14This has to be the greatest escape from relegation that the Premier League has ever known.
02:18An incredible sequence of seven wins from their last nine matches saw Leicester retain their Premier League status.
02:25And what had looked like the end proved to be just the beginning.
02:29For barely 12 months later, England would boast its newest and most unlikely ruler.
02:35Oh, what a screamer!
02:38The achievement of the century, which lifted everybody, even people that weren't heavily into football.
02:44This is the greatest sporting story of all.
02:47He has done it!
02:49It's unbelievable, G. It's unbelievable.
02:51This is the story of not only the most incredible Premier League season ever,
02:55but perhaps the biggest shock in the history of team sport and how Leicester's winter of discontent became glorious summer.
03:07The architect of Leicester's survival had been manager Nigel Pearson.
03:12But one too many off-field dramas would see him depart, as the Foxes sought a fresh blueprint for the
03:18new season.
03:19Enter stage right, Claudio Ranieri.
03:22The appointment of the 63-year-old former Chelsea boss was unexpected, and on the face of it, underwhelming.
03:29His most recent assignment, managing the Greek national side, ended badly with a defeat to the Faroe Islands.
03:36It was hardly inspiring.
03:46Look, I wanted to come back in Premier League.
03:50So, for me, it's not important the name of the...
03:54Leicester is a very old club, good club.
03:58It's not so big like Manchester, Liverpool, but it's a very, very good history, and that is important.
04:09It's here, 24th season of the Premier League, the start of another huge and hopefully exciting and interesting season in
04:17English League football.
04:23It's important to entertain our fans, you know?
04:27The fans pay the ticket, and they want to see some good football.
04:32We try to do this.
04:34A new season and a new era in the technical area at the KP.
04:39The enigmatic Claudio Ranieri replacing the prickly, but let's face it, successful Nigel Pearson.
04:51Flicked on, and Morgan, we're nearly there, and the ball is there, and Jamie Vardy celebrates the first goal of
04:57the KP Stadium this season.
05:00Brighton's cross.
05:02And it's 2-0 Manez!
05:05What a start to the new season for Leicester.
05:09Little drop for Schlupp.
05:11Early cross will reach Old Brighton, and the deflection takes it home.
05:15And with a new man at the helm, they've made a fantastic start.
05:20I tell to my players, hey, you go in the stadium, the first match, with the Cazmium song, you are
05:28the Warriors, you are the best for them.
05:31Are you a fan of Kasabian yourself?
05:32No, no, fine, but I know them, no? It's a good rock, and I love rock.
05:37You know, we've paid our dues.
05:40Yeah, we've been, you know, you know, we've been there for some good times.
05:45David Pleat, we started going down, it's the same as you.
05:47That's right, Pleat out.
05:48And then Pleat out, and then Gordon Lee, then Brian Little, Xera, and then Mark McGee come in, and Martin
05:52O'Neill, and then we chopped and changed, went up, went down.
05:55So, got relegated at Stoat over there, crying, with my long hair down here.
06:01I know when we scored a goal, the Cazmium started the song, and that's as good, because I want the
06:08Warriors, and the Cazmium can recharge.
06:35We've seen that when we interviewed him, he's something special inside, and he got all his money.
06:41He's playing his plan in his head.
06:43The new boss has come in, he's tweaked a few things, what he wanted to, he said he didn't want
06:47to change too much, and it's working wonders for us.
06:50Those changes that he has made, the small changes, have proved to sort of be a little bit of magic.
06:56Very communicative, he talks to all the players, we're having fun with each other, you know, but at the same
07:01time, you can switch around, you know, and be very focused, be very concentrated on what we need to do.
07:07Hey, you are sleeping, come on.
07:09He has taken everything in his stride, and biggest thing of all, he's dealt with the players, magnificently.
07:17I think he brings the talent tactics, so a lot of work defensively, and a lot of me, for example,
07:23if I don't work, I don't play.
07:26I think Mr. Ranieri thinks about it tactically a bit differently, I mean, he'll probably look all the way down
07:31to the opposition's laundry lady to see if he can find a weakness that we can exploit.
07:35He's like a granddad to football, you want to give him a hug.
07:39It's the calmness as well he brings with it, doesn't it?
07:42He has to stay calm, you know, stay focused and calm.
07:45Hey, dilly-dilly-dilly-dong, wake up!
07:47His press conferences, you know what I mean, he's got them eaten out of his hands.
07:50He has actually developed an image, which I've never known in any manager in my time covering the Premier, or
07:57even the old First Division.
07:58There are some men who are in trouble when they must change something.
08:04No, no, no, no.
08:05I'm like Christopher Colombo.
08:06I want to go, I want to go, I want to know.
08:10It was a distinctly less relaxed mood in the Chelsea dugout, with Jose Mourinho at the centre of a medical
08:17emergency.
08:21The doctor was out, and the champions and their manager would struggle to overcome the effects of this self-inflicted
08:28wound.
08:29By contrast, Manchester City were in fine fettle, their attacking prowess boosted by a summer spending spree.
08:35The best, great ball, to Brunner! It is four!
08:41Neighbours United had also splashed the cash, and manager Louis van Gaal was winning over the fans, according to him
08:49anyway.
08:49The fans are shouting every week, Louis van Gaal's army! Louis van Gaal's army!
08:59In North London, Arsenal recovered from a chastening opening day defeat,
09:04and by the start of October, were living up to the pre-season height.
09:083-0!
09:10Devastating finish from Alexis Sanchez!
09:13Harry Kane endured a frustrating start to his sophomore season,
09:17but he and Spurs soon started to turn things around.
09:21Off the marker last!
09:23At Liverpool, manager Brendan Rodgers paid the price for a string of tepid performances,
09:28the Reds turning to Germany to find his successor.
09:31I'm the normal one, maybe, if you want this.
09:35Whilst Liverpool made their continental selection,
09:38winless Sunderland opted for the full English,
09:41Sam Allardyce returning to the North East,
09:43following Dick Advocat's decision to quit.
09:46Six straight defeats meant that Tim Sherwood wasn't afforded the same luxury by Aston Villa.
09:51It might have been all change elsewhere,
09:54but the wins kept coming for free-scoring Leicester.
09:57Now all they needed to do was tighten up at the back.
10:00My players don't want pizza, maybe they don't love pizza.
10:03Because I said, when we make clean sheet, I pay to everybody a pizza.
10:09Sacco needed to be punched away by Schmeichel.
10:13Played through to Vardy.
10:15Vardy's chance.
10:16Hennessy can't stop him.
10:18Nobody can stop Jamie Vardy right now.
10:22They've beaten Crystal Palace.
10:24And it is their first clean sheet of the season for the Foxes, too.
10:28Now Claudio Ranieri will have to keep good on his promise.
10:32This is going to be expensive for you.
10:33No, I think a very, very cheap pizza.
10:39Striker Jamie Vardy's impressive displays had seen him earn a first international start for England.
10:45Not bad for a man who just four years earlier had been playing non-league football.
10:49I've had to literally start from the very bottom of the football league pyramid.
10:54Just playing Sunday league and then managed to get signed up for Stocksbridge,
10:58who I think was in the seventh or eighth tier of the pyramid at the time.
11:03And from then on I've just took it as it come.
11:06I managed to move to Halifax, where I lasted for a year and three games, I think it was.
11:11And then moved on to Fleetwood, where I was there for eight months.
11:14And then here I am today, I signed for Leicester, and that's where I've been ever since.
11:18When I met him, he's quite a special character.
11:24He wants to success.
11:26He's hungered to be the best striker in the team.
11:30And he's going to pray for England.
11:32He said to me the first day, and I said,
11:36I'll help you. Everything you want, I'll do it.
11:38He seems to me like somebody's in a hurry to be, he's catching up.
11:43He's catching up. Everybody's talking about, you know, he's 29 now.
11:46And, you know, I mean, it's come a bit later for him.
11:49The hunger and the desire that he shows.
11:52When you watch him run, he's like a stone that skims across the water.
11:56You know, honestly, his movement, and he's deadly.
12:00If I was playing against him, you just, you know where he wants to run.
12:04He wants to run into that little channel, onto his right foot most of the time.
12:08And he buries it.
12:09What would it be like to play against him?
12:10I wouldn't want to play against him.
12:11I'd have been able to deal with him, don't worry about that.
12:14But he'd have come off the pitch knowing hard graft.
12:18He makes you earn your corn for that 90 minutes.
12:22He makes some old school runs that players aren't interested in now.
12:24The young players today want to come short, be number 10s,
12:27put their studs on the ball, turn, face the game.
12:29He does the hard yards.
12:30Jamie Vardy has scored for the eighth consecutive Premier League game.
12:35And he now belongs to a very exclusive club.
12:43Vardy now.
12:44Is it going to be nine Premier League games in a row in which he's scored?
12:50And it is!
12:51He's only one behind the record!
12:54I've not even thought about the record at all, to be honest with you.
12:56Obviously, it's been mentioned a lot, but the main thing is, obviously,
13:00is the team and picking up the points.
13:02And if someone else scores the goal that gets us the three points,
13:04then everyone in the dressing room will be happy.
13:07Jamie Vardy, away from his man, and he's scored!
13:10It's the Premier League record-equalling goal!
13:14Ten games in a row!
13:16What do you put your sort of late improvement down to, Jamie?
13:19Just hard work or getting a lot of help from the coaches?
13:22I think it's a bit of both, and obviously, the players that I've got round me,
13:26they're the ones getting me into the positions as well.
13:28And to keep a clean sheet today as well for the boys,
13:31maybe another pizza off the gaffer, who knows?
13:33It's been a brilliant day.
13:34Jamie Vardy equals the Premier League record set by Ruud van Nistelrooy,
13:39also in this stadium at St James' Park.
13:41We're getting it sent time and time again,
13:45people screenshotting it and sending it to me.
13:47And there was something in the papers the other day
13:50that he's wished me luck in breaking it as long as my new win,
13:53but it's just been fortunate that I've been in amongst the goals myself as well.
13:57And it's took me on this run that I probably never would have thought
14:01would have happened, but here I am with a chance of breaking it on Saturday.
14:08Vardy's full Premier League debut came in this fixture 14 months ago,
14:12and he scored, of course.
14:13He scores again today.
14:15It's history.
14:18Oh, it's a great ball.
14:19Vardy is in behind.
14:21Vardy's done it!
14:23He has done it!
14:26Jamie Vardy, 11 consecutive games,
14:30scored in every single one of them.
14:37The record wasn't in my mind,
14:39and that's how I've had to be,
14:40because I think if I'd have been concentrating on that,
14:42I think it would have affected my performances,
14:43and that's the last thing I wanted to do.
14:45He was just playing, you know, in the first season,
14:49in non-league,
14:49and now look what he's done, you know, 11...
14:52I mean, that is an unbelievable...
14:54That is incredible.
14:56He could wear clogs and he'd still score goals.
14:59And he's made an old lady very happy.
15:01Jamie Vardy's having a party!
15:03The mood wasn't quite so jubilant in Manchester.
15:07Having raced out of the blocks,
15:09City had begun to show signs of slowing up.
15:12Oh, Skirtle's fired in an absolute beauty!
15:15Whilst Arsenal made some unexpected slips,
15:18their rivals Tottenham were unbeaten since the opening day,
15:22and adding to a burgeoning reputation.
15:25However, the principal authors of these tales of the unexpected
15:29were unquestionably Leicester.
15:31And if Jamie Vardy was having a party,
15:33then Riyad Mahrez was definitely on the guest list.
15:36The Foxes' VIP taking them top of the table,
15:40with a victory that also signalled
15:41the end for Swansea boss Gary Monk.
15:44The pressure was also mounting on Jose Mourinho.
15:48A home defeat to Premier League newcomers Bournemouth
15:51left the struggling champions in 16th,
15:53as they prepared to face the unlikely pretenders to their throne.
16:03Fantastic noise, as ever, at the King Power Stadium.
16:06Manchester City has been one of the places to come
16:08to hear raw football passion.
16:11Three in the box for Mahrez, it curls in now!
16:14Vardy's in!
16:15Jamie Vardy scores again!
16:20The cross now comes in, and it's deep to Mahrez.
16:23Right edge of the six-yard box, lovely control.
16:25Mahrez turns, he's trying to beat Azpilicueta.
16:28He doesn't beat him, and he beats Coltwell, blue!
16:33Pedro gets a good ball in, and Chelsea are back in it.
16:36Remy heads into the net.
16:38Chelsea fans have something to cheer up to Costa.
16:42Remy into Ivanovic.
16:43Ivanovic midway inside the Chelsea half.
16:46The Foxes' story goes on and on,
16:49because tonight, by defeating last season's Premier League champions,
16:54they are going back to the top of the pile in the Premier League.
16:58Above Arsenal, above Manchester City, above every other team in the land.
17:04They are brilliant as a team.
17:05I think for us, clearly, we have no chance to go to top four.
17:09I feel that my work was betrayed.
17:13And I feel sorry that I'm not a player, because I promise you,
17:15if I was a player, I would face matches in a different way that some of them are doing.
17:22Betrayed, perhaps, and three days later, finally deposed.
17:26But Christmas had come early for Leicester and their fans.
17:29The top of the league!
17:30We've been coming down 45 years plus.
17:34Never had times like this.
17:35Oh, it's magical.
17:36It's absolutely magical.
17:38It's been a dream.
17:39Yeah, exciting.
17:41Absolutely brilliant.
17:43Of course, it's important not to get too carried away.
17:48The Foxes clinched the Christmas number one spot with a win at Everton,
17:52whilst their main title rivals met at the Emirates.
18:10And there was precious little festive cheer on the other side of Manchester.
18:16Stoke City inflicted a fourth straight league defeat on United,
18:19with some fans ready to ring in the new as 2015 ended.
18:29A Boxing Day trip to Anfield ended with Leicester's second defeat of the season,
18:33the first of three successive blanks for the Foxes
18:36that allowed Arsenal to see in the new year on top.
18:40Giroud, back to Ozil, would be brilliant, is brilliant, is magnificent!
18:46Whilst Vardy and Mahrez had earned top billing in the first half of the season,
18:50it was the ensemble cast which was proving to be Leicester's underlying strength.
18:55Devoid of star names, this was a genuine team.
18:59Everyone pulling in the same direction, each man giving his all for the greater cause.
19:09They're united as a team.
19:11A lot of teams, they come together and they are not more than the sum of their parts.
19:15Leicester were clearly exceeded the sum of their parts.
19:18I wouldn't say a team of rejects, but Vardy sort of epitomises it most,
19:21that his journey's been a slow one.
19:23Even the goalkeeper, you know, Schmeichel, you'll never be as good as your dad.
19:26If you look at the back four, it's in many ways, without being insulting,
19:30it's kind of journeyman pros.
19:32As a central defender yourself, how do you work out how good they've been?
19:37You look at Morgan and Hoof, they're sort of night-time bouncers, aren't they?
19:40Nobody's coming in here without a ticket.
19:43They've got a little bit of nastiness in their team.
19:46You know, you can still see Jamie Vardy's got that nastiness,
19:49Robert Hoof's got that nastiness in them.
19:50The substitutes, when they come onto the pitch,
19:52they come up with a smile on their face, they do a job.
19:55You know, Schlopp has had an impact when he comes on,
19:57it was Johan, Andy King has had an impact.
20:00You know, Okazaki gets taken off every game,
20:02he sprints off the pitch with a smile on his face.
20:06I'm sure off the pitch, they'll be like, best mates,
20:08that camaraderie comes on the pitch and off the pitch,
20:10and you become a real tight unit, and it seems like they've got that.
20:12There are 22 players, 23 players,
20:14that are simply giving everything on the training ground.
20:17Without those guys, I don't think we would reach whatever we did until now.
20:22We don't have, like, one star or two star or three star,
20:26we're just together, we play for each other,
20:29we work out for each other.
20:31We've always been close as a group anyway,
20:33whether that's when we're here or even outside of training,
20:36it's always a good spirit to have in the dressing room.
20:39We have a lot of fun together.
20:41Every guy in this team is simply a cool guy.
20:44Some are crazy, some are more crazy, some are less crazy.
20:47There's a brotherhood on the field, you can see every tackle,
20:51every run, every goal is celebrated by everyone,
20:54and that football needs that.
20:57Each one could point towards a tale of disappointment or rejection.
21:01Time spent travelling along the game's byways,
21:05yet suddenly, here they were in football's fast lane,
21:08hurtling towards a seemingly impossible destination.
21:12For some, it was a case of having something to prove.
21:15For others, inspiration was born of personal tragedy.
21:21Fifteen Britons are now known to have died
21:23in the attack on a tourist resort in Tunisia.
21:26The mother of winger Mark Albrighton's fiancée
21:29was amongst the final toll of 38 victims.
21:32It's in my head every sort of minute of the day, of every day,
21:36and it's never going to go away.
21:39But if I'm doing well on the pitch
21:41and I can keep my concentration
21:43when I'm sort of playing football and when I'm at work,
21:46then that's one less thing for my family to worry about.
21:50It does make you think whether she's looking over us as a family
21:53and just putting a few things right up there.
21:59On the pitch, a January trip to White Hart Lane
22:02as Leicester sought to get back to winning ways.
22:05Oh, and Huth is holding back, and he's scored!
22:08And Leicester City are back on track.
22:11But if Leicester were the surprise package,
22:13then Tottenham were another unlikely force awakened.
22:17Back to Ali.
22:19Ali, what a goal!
22:21Brilliant, brilliant goal from the New England player.
22:26Maurizio Pochettino's exciting young side
22:28were full of emerging English talent
22:30that combined flair with resilience,
22:32reacting to that Leicester defeat in the best possible way.
22:35Oh, it's got it, right, and it's in!
22:38It's Kieran Troupier, and Spurs go second!
22:42Tottenham are on the march.
22:43A late Joe Allen goal cost Arsenal two points
22:46in a six-goal thriller at Anfield,
22:48and things got even worse against a Chelsea side
22:51who'd taken interim measures.
22:54Diego Costa, one-nil!
22:56Same old problem as Rassenwenger
22:57against the neighbours from across town.
22:59A comfortable win over Stoke reinforced Leicester's lead,
23:02but February would bring a run of games
23:05that would really test their title credentials.
23:10So is the unbelievable, believable for the table-toppers.
23:17And all of a sudden, over the top,
23:20that's Favadi, isolated with Lovren, goes for it!
23:23Oh, what a screamer!
23:26What a goal that is!
23:30Unbelievable!
23:32Here's Okazaki to pick up the loose pieces,
23:34Mourad's on the outside of it.
23:35He's gone for goal himself.
23:37It'll get to Vardy!
23:38It's two!
23:41And they are playing football
23:43worthy of a tackle-winning shot.
23:46Vardy's goal, oh my goodness.
23:48I was paring over the pass from Maris,
23:50and I just thought, that's world-class,
23:52and then you get a finish like that from Vardy,
23:54it was amazing.
23:55We were all just speechless.
23:57I was looking all game,
23:57and he was quite far off his line,
23:59so as soon as we had to play it through,
24:00and it's pass quite high,
24:01and I've got no support,
24:02I've just took my chance,
24:03and luckily it's gone over the top of him.
24:04Goal of the season, no doubt about it.
24:09Four days later,
24:10a summit meeting with second-place Manchester City,
24:13for whom a week-long pep talk
24:15had apparently done no favour.
24:17In for Maris in the end,
24:18oh, and it's in!
24:20It's Robert Huth,
24:21and Leicester City are in front.
24:24It's Riyad Mahrez,
24:26oh, wonderful skill,
24:27oh, what a goal!
24:28Riyad Mahrez,
24:30with a fantastic strike
24:32to double Leicester's advantage.
24:37It's in towards Morgan.
24:39Huth got there first!
24:40Oh, and he's scored again!
24:42Robert Huth with his second,
24:44and Leicester's third!
24:46It's a 15th Premier League win
24:49for Claudio Ranieri's team of this season,
24:51and surely this is the most significant.
24:54Hey, Ranieri!
24:55Take us to Europe!
24:57Europe!
24:58Europe!
24:58That's the way we like it!
25:00We like it!
25:01We like it!
25:01If Ranieri was off to Europe,
25:03then he had one of the continent's standout players,
25:06in Mahrez.
25:07Not bad for a man consigned to the reserves
25:09of French second division side Le Havre
25:11just a few years earlier.
25:17I used to play in the second team
25:20because people were more strong than me,
25:22more big, more fast.
25:24People used to like big, big, strong players,
25:29but since like maybe six years, five years,
25:31since Spanish,
25:33they started,
25:34they were all small, skinny,
25:37but they won the Euro,
25:39they won the World Cup.
25:40They started thinking like you just don't have
25:43to be like strong or fast to be a big footballer.
25:46What has Mahrez given Leicester this season?
25:49He's given them that X-factor,
25:50he's given them that touch of class.
25:53Unbelievable feet,
25:54great, great skills,
25:56nutmegs everybody,
25:57does all that stuff,
25:58and you think to yourself,
25:59oh, he's going to run out,
26:00there's nothing of him.
26:01You know, his legs are like two toothpicks.
26:04You need someone to be able to just give the ball to him
26:07and almost turn him away and think,
26:08he's going to do it,
26:08and he's that guy.
26:10I used to love football more than school,
26:14everything.
26:15So,
26:16even after school,
26:18everything straight away after school,
26:20I would play football with my friends.
26:23Then I go in the training,
26:25train,
26:26I used to play every day in football.
26:29If you walk,
26:30you progress.
26:33Valentine's Day,
26:34and a double date for the Premier League's top four,
26:37second place Spurs would travel to Manchester City,
26:41but not before a high noon showdown for the leaders at the Emirates.
26:46Now it's Vardy.
26:47Oh, Vardy goes down.
26:49Penalty!
26:50Penalty to Leicester City just before half-time.
26:54Monreal on Vardy.
26:56Arsenal fans,
26:57not happy.
26:59And even less happy now as Leicester City take the lead in the last minute of the first half.
27:09Gerrude,
27:10trying to get away from Simpson.
27:13Free kick off.
27:14Oh, is Simpson going to be,
27:15is he going to be given a red here?
27:18It's two yellows for Danny Simpson.
27:20A red card shown
27:21by Martin Atkinson,
27:23and Ranieri's team are down to ten men.
27:28Bellerin making the extra man on the right-hand side.
27:31Gerrude.
27:32Here's Walcott!
27:35It's Theo Walcott for Arsenal.
27:42Oh, he's gone in!
27:44Danny Welbeck!
27:48The fairytale finish!
27:51Arsenal have won it!
27:53Heartbreak for the Foxes,
27:55and the breath of the chasing pack
27:57could be felt on the back of their necks.
28:00Welcome to Manchester.
28:02It's often been a chilling message for Spurs in recent history,
28:05but if their current winning run continues here,
28:08there'll be a real feeling that this Spurs team can make history.
28:14Rose, four, waiting for it.
28:17And it's a free kick right on the corner of the penalty area.
28:21Or is it a penalty?
28:22Has Mark Klanberg pointed to the spot?
28:24Yes, he has.
28:25Handball Sterling.
28:26Penalty Tottenham.
28:28Harry Kane against Joe Hart.
28:30This is his moment.
28:33And Kane slots it past Joe Hart
28:36to give Tottenham Hotspur the lead.
28:43Silver, Cleish is on to it.
28:46Cleish is pulled back.
28:48Ayanacho lashes it in!
28:52Lamella now.
28:53Fresh legs for Spurs.
28:55Through to Eriksen.
28:57Eriksen in!
28:58And Christian Eriksen has scored!
28:59And the Spurs go marching on.
29:03Five Premier League wins in a row.
29:05And there's a real chance of a first Tottenham title since 1961.
29:17One man making a difference to Manchester United's indifference season
29:21was 18-year-old striker Marcus Rashford.
29:24Back in!
29:26Oh, would you believe it?
29:27Rashford again!
29:29It's all going the young man's way!
29:32His emergence in February stopped his manager from taking the fall.
29:36Arsenal's form had taken a dive
29:38and defeat to Swansea all but ended their title hopes.
29:41Sigurdsson takes all and Petr Cech didn't make it!
29:44Now, the inquest will start all over again
29:47regarding Arsene Wenger and Arsenal.
29:50Manchester City's challenge had also faded by the start of March.
29:54League Cup success quickly forgotten
29:56as Liverpool avenged Wembley woe.
29:59And it's in from Firmino!
30:02Liverpool running away with it!
30:06The race for the title was effectively down to two horses,
30:10both lacking championship pedigree, Leicester and Tottenham.
30:14The home comforts afforded by the King Power
30:17had proved vital throughout the campaign.
30:20The atmosphere on match days was electric,
30:23the fans truly playing their part.
30:25As soon as this season got going,
30:27Leicester established themselves as probably the noisiest crowd
30:31in terms of the size of it anyway.
31:02The fans and everyone are brilliant.
31:03are on the inspiration of a wider community.
31:06Sometimes you never know when you need it.
31:07There can always be the 12-man.
31:17The stadium here is really outstanding.
31:47I mean, this fans here, it's really, really loud.
31:50You know, in the club, I've got a club down there,
31:53everyone, you know, in the school.
31:55You can't go anywhere, cab drive, it's insane what it's done.
32:00I think there's also a sense in which a multicultural city united behind them.
32:04I think they drew energy and inspiration from that.
32:08All we have to do from now to the end of the season
32:10is think of ourselves as champions and play like champions.
32:14We've got the players, we've got the attitude, we've got the fans.
32:17The fans are doing it for us.
32:18We are the 12-man.
32:19If only we'd bet at the start of the season, we'd be rich.
32:23Two London derbies in a week took their toll on Tottenham.
32:26Defeat at West Ham and despite Harry Kane's heroics,
32:29a draw with 10-man Arsenal meant five drop points.
32:33Bellerit into Sanchez.
32:36Sanchez levels it.
32:38Capital punishment made worse by Leicester's win at Watford.
32:43Mahrez scores!
32:46Fantastic, Mr Fox!
32:48It's beginning to look like it might be possible.
32:50You have to start working on your pecs now
32:52because you are going to be sitting in that chair,
32:55in your pants, doing match of the day next season.
32:57Thanks very much.
33:00At the bottom, a succession of fan protests
33:03marked the final days of Aston Villa's 29-year top flight tenure.
33:07Their French manager, Remy Gard,
33:09would beat them out the Premier League door.
33:13Also heading towards the exit
33:15were both Norwich and Newcastle,
33:17who'd turned to Rafa Benitez
33:19following the sacking of Steve McLaren.
33:21His first task had been to stop the leaders.
33:24Albright will pick it up on the edge of the penalty area.
33:26Back into the mix.
33:27Stephen Taylor's header is unsure.
33:28Okazaki, bicycle kick!
33:30What a goal!
33:32Shinji Okazaki!
33:34Five days later, a trip to Palace and a familiar scoreline.
33:38Four of the last five games, you've won 1-0.
33:41That must really satisfy you as a defender.
33:43I think teams approach us a bit differently now.
33:46They see our threats on the counter-attack
33:48and they want to nullify that and maybe sit a bit deep.
33:51So we're not scoring as freely as we did,
33:54but at the same time, we're keeping the clean sheets,
33:56which is fantastic.
33:56The manager's pizza was in danger of running out.
34:00Sausages, anyone?
34:01Thank you, thank you.
34:02Also to my sharks, huh?
34:04Take it to my sharks.
34:05OK, thank you.
34:08The Easter break saw the Vardy party shift to Germany.
34:12There was also first international recognition
34:14for Leicester's twin engines of N'Golo Kante
34:17and Danny Drinkwater.
34:19The footballing transients were suddenly household names.
34:22Kante, he is the gold.
34:24He is the real find.
34:25Great signing for the big clubs.
34:28Didn't see it.
34:29And Leicester City stepped in.
34:31He's had a season two to remember for the rest of his life.
34:34I love him.
34:35I mean, he covers so much ground.
34:36I think I remember one of your tweets about him.
34:37It was quite funny.
34:38But he's...
34:40He's the first.
34:40Yeah.
34:42But he's...
34:43He's just come out of nowhere almost.
34:45You know what?
34:45I've never heard of him.
34:46As soon as he hit the ground in the Leicester shirt,
34:48you could see and you thought,
34:49oh, he wins the ball back quite a lot, doesn't he?
34:52It's not something that the kids of today
34:53are really interested in, that winning the ball back,
34:55but it's such an important part for a team.
34:56This season, he was an integral member of that team.
35:03April began for Tottenham with a Saturday tea time trip to Anfield
35:07and a setback in need of a swift response.
35:11Ericsson, it's done well.
35:13Harry Kane, great time by Kane, brilliant goal!
35:16Another memorable entry in the Harry Kane scrapbook,
35:19but not enough for victory.
35:21Spurs' frustration evident.
35:23When it came to Leicester's title hopes,
35:26those 5,000 to 1 odds in August might as well have read
35:29never in a month of Sundays.
35:31Now, over the course of five consecutive Sunday afternoons,
35:34Ranieri's side could write their names in folklore.
35:38The traditional roast would have to be put on hold.
35:43Christian Fuchs.
35:46Morgan's still up there.
35:47And Morgan hits in!
35:52His first goal of the season!
35:58It's another Leicester City win,
36:01and it's becoming a very familiar scoreline.
36:041-0 Leicester.
36:06Six games to go.
36:08They are closing in
36:10on the most unlikely Premier League title win of all time.
36:15It looked even likelier
36:17as a seven-point lead briefly became ten,
36:20with Jamie Vardy becoming the first Leicester player
36:23to notch 20 top-flight goals in a season
36:26for over 30 years.
36:28And Vardy has got through the challenge.
36:30Manone's come out,
36:31and Vardy's going to make it 2-0!
36:33Job done today!
36:35And almost done for the season!
36:38Within a couple of hours or so,
36:40Tottenham had responded in kind
36:42with a clinical dissection of Manchester United.
36:45Behind Kane to LaMilla!
36:47Oh, Spurs are running, Ryan!
36:50But they were playing catch-up.
36:51They needed Leicester to slip.
36:54When you've won 21 games in a season,
36:57how hard can it be to win three more?
36:59One thing is for sure,
37:01West Ham aren't here to form a guard of honour.
37:06Mahrez.
37:07Good ball.
37:08N'Golo Kante being chased by Winston Reid here.
37:10And Jamie Vardy for Leicester!
37:121-0!
37:15It's that man again.
37:18Vardy away from Ogbonna,
37:20who's playing him onside,
37:20goes down.
37:21I think he's given it the other way.
37:24And the card is coming out here for Jamie Vardy.
37:27Second yellow card,
37:28and Jamie Vardy is sent off.
37:36Payet curls it in.
37:39Oh, he's given a penalty!
37:41Jonathan Moss has given West Ham a penalty here!
37:45Wes Morgan can't believe it.
37:47That's what he's given it for.
37:49It's a penalty to West Ham United,
37:52which Andy Carroll is going to take.
37:56Seven minutes to go.
37:571-1!
37:58Andy Carroll with a goal,
38:00which is celebrated by West Ham and Tottenham fans alike.
38:06Skipping around the challenger Fuchs,
38:08Mikel Antonio.
38:11It's dangerous.
38:12It's Cresswell.
38:13It's 2-1 to West Ham!
38:15It's a brilliant goal from Cresswell,
38:17and that might change everything!
38:21N'Golo Kante.
38:22That's dangerous.
38:23This is promising.
38:24It's Schlupp for Leicester.
38:25Goes down.
38:26He's given a penalty!
38:28Jonathan Moss!
38:28Now into the fifth minute of added time
38:32at the end of the game.
38:34And on the shoulders here of Leonardo Ujard.
38:382-2!
38:41Magnificently done by Ujard.
38:45It feels almost like a title celebration.
38:50They've snatched something from the game, Leicester City.
38:55Those celebrations were swiftly curtailed,
38:58as Spurs swept aside Stoke.
39:01Leicester's lead reduced to five points.
39:07Now, four matches to go.
39:10We are trying to win the title
39:12with all our strength, heart, soul, everything.
39:19Today really is a must-win game,
39:20just to settle the nerves more than anything.
39:23Vardy's out, we're going to miss him,
39:24but I think we'll still come through.
39:26The key is to keep the pace up front,
39:29so he can allow the ball to be played over the top.
39:31The tinker man, Ranieri, he's got to tinker this week.
39:35Now is the right moment.
39:37This year, or never more.
39:43Oh, Williams, that's a terrible mistake here.
39:45And Mahrez could pull Leicester ahead, and has done.
39:48And that is just the sort of start they needed to calm nerves.
39:5429 minutes played at the King Power Stadium.
39:57Curled in, Ojoa, 2-0 Leicester.
40:01Jamie Mardy.
40:02Fuzi.
40:05Schlupp with the pace to get beyond Fernandes.
40:08And in, can he wrap it up?
40:09Ojoa arriving on the far side.
40:11He went to feed him.
40:12Will do now.
40:13Ojoa pumps it in.
40:15Leicester have a third.
40:18Skip beyond this man, has a look.
40:20Cross to the far post.
40:22King, back across, goal.
40:23Great, brilliant save.
40:25And in by Albrighton.
40:27Leicester City could be champions within days.
40:34Absolutely remarkable.
40:36There was more to celebrate that night.
40:38Mahrez voted Player of the Year by his peers.
40:41Dele Alli forewent collecting his Young Player Award.
40:44Spurs is focused solely on beating West Brom.
40:48Free kick for Spurs.
40:4915 yards outside the penalty area.
40:50Played in by Eriksen.
40:51Good delivery.
40:52Attempt to the...
40:53Dig it to the back of the net.
40:55It might be the goal that keeps Tottenham in this title race.
41:01Corner floated in by Gardner.
41:03Hit it in!
41:04It's an equaliser!
41:06And it's that man, Dawson.
41:08He scored at both ends.
41:10Leicester will have the chance to win the Premier League on Sunday against Manchester United.
41:20Never before in Leicester's 132-year history had there been a day like this.
41:26A win and the title was theirs.
41:29Would the theatre of dreams play host to the most impossible one of them all?
41:34Is this the day when the most unlikely title triumph of all time is confirmed?
41:42Valencia.
41:43He's really motoring to the right.
41:47Still Valencia.
41:48Just too high for Rashford.
41:50Here's Martial!
41:52Under Schmeichel into the net.
41:54Barely a flicker from Claudio Ranieri.
41:57Just a come on to his team.
42:00Early days.
42:04Well host clip.
42:06Fellaini's waiting.
42:07Fellaini to tee up Lingard.
42:09That's a super save by Schmeichel.
42:12He got down really smartly there.
42:16Morgan and Huth are forward for this.
42:18Drink water.
42:20Huth a chip in.
42:21He's looking for Morgan.
42:22Morgan's head up.
42:23Leicester level.
42:24Yeah!
42:26Come on!
42:27There's a beaming smile on the face of the Foxes, captain.
42:38Okazaki and Schlupp are ready.
42:40Okazaki couldn't slide and make contact.
42:42Oh!
42:48It's not quite enough to get the party started for Leicester.
42:52But it will be if their Blues brothers Chelsea don't lose to Tottenham tomorrow.
42:57The dream would have to wait for at least one more day.
43:00Will you watch it?
43:01I think I am on the fly back from Italy and then it's difficult for me to watch the match.
43:06Maybe when I landed I know the result.
43:14A 55-year wait to be champions can only end if Tottenham win here for the first time in 26
43:21years.
43:22Come on Chelsea!
43:24Come on Chelsea!
43:25Come on Chelsea!
43:31That'll do, innit?
43:32Blow the whistle, ref.
43:36Ericsson neatly round the corner to Lamella.
43:38Poked through to Kane.
43:39He's onside.
43:40Harry Kane here for Tottenham Hotspur.
43:42Who have a precious lead.
43:44Good finish.
43:47Here's Ericsson.
43:48Ericsson through to Son.
43:50Son is in here.
43:51It's 2-0 to Tottenham.
43:55Oops.
43:58Diego Costa, Willian's in acres of space.
44:01It's Willian for Chelsea.
44:03Grr!
44:04I know, he's in Willian.
44:05Only if he sees him.
44:08Food's arrived to cheer us up.
44:10In comes the corner.
44:11Cahill's there!
44:12It's 2-1!
44:14Oh!
44:15Oh!
44:15Oh!
44:16Oh!
44:17Oh!
44:18Oh!
44:19And now Tottenham Hotspur have a real test of their nerve.
44:23Lucky pizzas.
44:24Come on.
44:24Lucky pizzas.
44:26Ranieri's pizzas.
44:27He's had them out all season.
44:28Here's Aiden Hazard.
44:30Oh!
44:33Aiden Hazard wriggling away between two.
44:35Shrugging off Kyle Walker.
44:38Good ball that.
44:39Diego Costa.
44:39Lovely turn away from Aldo IRL.
44:42It's Hazard!
44:46A goal good enough to win a title.
44:50And it might have done just that for Leicester City.
44:55I can't breathe.
44:56I can't breathe.
44:58Five, four, three, two, one.
45:03Yeah!
45:11The wait is over.
45:13The story is complete.
45:15Leicester City are the champions of England.
45:31I hope this never, ever, ever, ever in my lifetime did I believe that it was even remotely possible that
45:39Leicester would win any kind of league let alone the Premier League.
45:48I know the whole house will wish to join me in congratulating Leicester City on winning the Premier League title.
46:00I don't often say this here on our Jazeera, but we are off to Leicester.
46:07Premier League title after Tottenham Hotspur.
46:09Party time for Leicester City.
46:11That was the moment they realized the Premier League title was theirs.
46:15Simply can't believe that this has actually happened.
46:33I suspect that this will become a metaphor for underdogs all around the world.
46:38It's shown that if you commit yourself and you work hard, you can achieve greater things than perhaps people thought
46:44were possible.
46:44It gives players who are just still trying to find where they're going to go, they're ending out their careers,
46:49it gives everybody hope.
46:51I think it's the greatest achievement in sport, never mind just football.
46:55We've broke the mould, Man City, United, the same old Arsenal's Chelsea's, and we've come out of nowhere.
47:01Not only is it a brilliant story, but it gives everyone that little bit of hope again.
47:05That romance has not left football.
47:07I mean, what else can you say?
47:09The people came out in their thousands, landlocked Leicester, awash in a sea of blue.
47:16Fourteen months earlier, they'd been united for a burial.
47:20Today, it was a coronation.
47:25I want to introduce the great Andrea Bocelli.
47:30He's here for you.
47:53He's here for you.
48:07He's here for you.
48:34It's been a long and hard process to get where I am today, but I want to be able to
48:38do it with our friends, family, and the team.
48:46When you look at Leicester, we're like brother, you know, like, that's why we want this league.
48:53And it's something that will live with me for forever and a day.
48:55The fans are dreaming.
48:59The fans are dreaming. Keep dreaming. Why wake up?
49:01Leicester. Steadfast, reliable, unchanging.
49:05But in the space of 12 remarkable months, thanks to the most unlikely band of heroes the Premier League has
49:11ever seen, suddenly everything had changed.
49:15A football club, a city, perhaps even English football itself, had all been transformed.
49:21And for those who had lived it, had dreamt it, had made it reality, life will never be the same
49:28again.
49:29A football club.
49:31A football club.
49:32A football club.