Leicester City: Three reasons to be thankful for

As Thanksgiving fever spreads itself like  Caglar Soyuncu spreads the ball, we look at three of the many reasons why we should be thankful to Leicester City:

For making us keep the faith in footballing fairytales

The Premier League, and the footballing world in general, had become so used to seeing the same-old European giants conquer their respective leagues that the thought of a flabbergasting fairytale ever reducing fundamental footballing facts to bare bones never quite dared to cross our minds. Even the mention of the word “fairytale” seemed to upset the footballing lexicon.

It was at such a time that Nigel Pearson’s Leicester City made a foray against this well-established order, achieving what had been deemed impossible before Claudio Ranieri’s Leicester achieved what had been deemed laughably impracticable. You normally speak of one tale but that’s two tales – one of perseverance and the other of sheer courage.

The most important message to come out of Leicester’s triumphs over those two seasons – and nearly everything they have done since – is that us humans might have abandoned fairytales but the great game hasn’t.