"Foxes" our faith returned, idealism and romance
"Foxes" our faith returned, idealism and romance
Know that this is not the usual story to match. Not review from the end of the season is not routinely summary of the facts. This is a memory; Historical note; this is a record of an event you'll want to tell your grandchildren. Year: 2016. Date: Tuesday, May 3. And Leicester City win the Premier League.
The sport over time even the greatest achievements wither. What remains is truly exceptional. 1966 (World Cup England). Trebalat (three titles at Man Utd in 1999). Istanbul (victory of Liverpool in the Champions League). Invincibles of Arsenal ... And now Leicester. Little Leicester.
Its motto is Semper Eadem - "Always the same." But not now. Not Tuesday morning. From this moment nothing is no longer the same. It's hard to be compared triumph of Leicester, because there is so little to compare. Mark Steele, comedian, said he tried to explain it to friends who do not follow football, and had to resort to extremely strange analogies. "It's like winning (horse race) Grand National riding alley cat" invented finally he completely exhausted.
We are accustomed to hyperbole in sport. Good exaggerated to great; Great - in fantastic; remarkable - unbelievable, and yet so up until the stratosphere. This is a world of exaggeration. Yet Lester worth every superlative. Once at least there will be no need bombastic releases. You would never see anything like this in my life. Therefore do not be unwise, cut your material and save newspaper clippings for season 2015/2016 of the Premier League.
On April 24 Leicester played their penultimate home game of the season against Swansea City. The stadium was full. In that there is nothing unusual, one might say. Lester was on top with 5 points advantage. For a club that had never won a title (the last team became champions for the first time was Nottingham Forest in 1977/1978), every game until the finish line rule became the largest in the history of Leicester. But not only the home supporters crowded around. Swansea sector was also filled to the brim. A Swansea had nothing to play. Couldnt fall, were far from fighting for ranking in Europe. The result of this match did not matter to them. Why then such interest? They had come to watch Leicester. More precisely - Swansea came to witness history, to become part of something that no one thought possible in modern football. They had come to tell future generations "I was there" in the same way as those who watched Fine or Metyus, still describe those days, indicating its exact location on the platform and the number of the bus to the stadium.
And despite everything Leicester players are neither the Giants nor the legends of football. Mark Olbraytan not Sir Stanley Metyus nor Wes Morgan Bobby Moore or Jamie Vardi - Jimmy Greaves. These players will enter the folklore, but as a team, as a team, the ultimate band of brothers. And those fans of Swansea will not say how they watched Leonardo Ulloa or Robert Huth and Lester, how they watched a group of players who do not just challenge the what is expected of them as individuals, but jump over the bar, we set their club and all such clubs in the Champions league era.
After what happened, the elite can no longer be so confident. And before there were other contenders from the lowlands that inspired - Norwich City, Southampton, even Charlton Athletic but at the end of the season established order was recovering again. It took really big money to be broken this monopoly - money from oil, petrodollars. Therefore the form of Leicester at the beginning of the season was considered a pleasant entertainment, a spectacular supporting role before the big names to take to the stage. We felt comfortable in its cynicism. "Champions of England - you will never sing it" has become the usual mockery of the stadiums of the Premier League. It hurt the security of this "never" because we thought it was true. Football entered an era in which the title - the top national league was reserved for a handful of clubs in some foreign leagues even for less than a handful. Any statutory change made in the last two decades, was directed to preserve the rights of the privileged minority and stop Leicester and similar to challenge and provoke their superiority.
About 2 miles from the stadium "King Power" is Feyrharst Road, where he was born playwright Joe Orton. Wild and anarchic in their works, but with an authentic education of the man from the working class. "Some of nowhere," described him John Lahr in a wonderful biography. Which seems quite appropriate for Leicester. Success of nowhere, from nonentity to become someone. Vardi can have film history, but not only with its Hollywood ending. Morgan, captain expelled from Notts County because it is too thick; Riyadh Mahrez - of failed samples for St Mirren to footballer of the year in the poll of the players. Claudio Ranieri, coach, unrealized man fired from Greece because of the loss of the Faroe Islands. And then this: unattainable art to lead men somehow escaped the inevitable collapse, somehow persuaded a group of second-class players that are first class that not only deserve this success, but he can be kept weeks later months. In fact, throughout the calendar year, if we add the end of last season, when he began the revival of Leicester to avoid relegation from another impossible position when Nigel Pearson.
When should start Hollywood history Lester? In 2002, when the club before closing; 6 years later, while struggling to crawl out of the third tier of English football; or April 13 last year when Lester was still in last place in the Premier League? Only in nearby Nottingham can detect slight dissatisfaction with this most incredible victory because there players and fans of Forrest believe that fairy tales how Lester has achieved the most incredible title in football downplay their own heroism in Clough. Yes, so far achievement Forrest - to go from third place in the second division to win the title next season was tip. But football changed. Ipswich Town also entered in the first division and then immediately win the championship next season 1961/1962, and not sweep anyone, and won the double last season Tottenham. At that time football was more varied. Derby County were champions in 1972 and in 1975, Aston Villa - in 1981 were more options. Football clubs stood up against other clubs and not the sheikhs and oligarchs and against the rules of UEFA.
Today it is unthinkable team to repeat the feat of Forrest simply because the gap between the divisions so great. So Forest were delightful - and that they won and then held the European Cup will never be surpassed. But it was a club of that time. Lester overcame obstacles that would have been unthinkable in the era of Clough. In purely sporting terms, this was a victory and the noble sporting qualities. While some seasons are remembered because of individual goals or performances lasting memory of this season is how Vardi is approaching panicked defender, how somehow move positions at different speeds than others, then the next - faster and faster until he lost the ball, which carries out key game for Leicester transition.
They said Greaves played as if in slow motion, while others around him navigate the busy pace. Vardi is the opposite. And not just him. "70% of the planet is covered with water, the rest is covered by N'Golo Cante" like to say in Leicester in honor of the performance of their central midfielder. So this is a victory of perseverance, team spirit and togetherness lack of selfishness and good old-fashioned hard hustle - all qualities we admire even easier in a world where fame and success are too often reserved for banal and surface. Yet there is something more. Lester regained our emotions that we thought of missing the game. Faith, idealism, optimism, romance. They are "those of nowhere," which somehow managed to achieve the greatest victory for the title in the history of British sport. And you'll want to remember them, because future generations will want to know about them.
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