Leicester City champions: A tale of the unexpected that touches us all - and gives hope to the little guy

Paul Hayward
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Manchester 15, London seven, Blackburn one. And now, Leicester - one. For the first time since Jack Walker's Lancastrians held the Premier League title 21 years ago, the championship sits outside the great metropolises and the huge corporations who have come to dominate the English game.

It sits in an East Midlands city that feels more like a town, where people appear actually to know each other, instead of just rushing past one another; where a civic sense is visible and where no sense of entitlement is detectable around a club who had never before found themselves top of the whole round-ball heap.