249. The Longest Long Shot

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🗓️ 26 May 2016

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Summary

When the uncelebrated Leicester City Football Club won the English Premier League, it wasn't just the biggest underdog story in recent history. It was a sign of changing economics — and that other impossible, wonderful events might be lurking just around the corner.

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0:00.0	It's a town most people hadn't heard of and which many couldn't even pronounce.
0:07.8	It's really the middle of nowhere, to nondescript, middle English town, population, about that
0:13.6	Wichita Kansas.
0:15.2	It claims to fame.
0:17.3	King Richard III was buried there, otherwise fairly sparse.
0:21.6	It was once England's post-industrial levasenter, now the epicenter of the English potato chip
0:28.0	industry.
0:29.0	But, in the last few months, it has become.
0:33.6	It has become how to the greatest undidog story of all time.
0:38.0	We are talking, of course, about LESDA.
0:42.1	This town has become the center of the sporting world.
0:46.3	That's LESDA, L-E-I-C-E-S-T-E-R, center of the sporting world, yes, but more specifically,
0:53.7	the world of English football, or what we Americans call soccer.
0:57.6	About this team of done, this innocuous little team, a team that were almost like an extra
1:04.2	in a movie, or a third cousin of Bar mitzvah, surprised to be invited and just happy to
1:09.2	be in the background of the photographs, they've gone from the very bottom of the Premier
1:13.9	League to the very top in the course of 12 months.
1:18.1	Today, on Freakin' Amics Radio, how did this happen?
1:21.3	Watching them, I can only describe it as like watching the miracle on ice.
1:25.1	You can't leave it now in course, yeah.
1:27.8	Happened over 36 games again and again.
1:31.1	I think it's the biggest betting upset we've ever seen in the UK and around the world.
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