LONDON -- People often say that "anything can happen" in football, but anyone who's been watching the Premier League this season will know it's actually true.
For the benefit of any US readers/people who don't really follow football, the Premier League is the UK's top division. Leicester City Football Club (LCFC) were promoted to the Premier League for the 2014 season, which finished looking like this:
Leicester finished in a not-terrible-but-not-exactly-great 14th place, and many people assumed it'd be a similar story this year.
Those people were wrong, though.
30 matches down, eight to go...@LCFC are five points clear at the top of the #BPL pic.twitter.com/NlbI0Skivo— Premier League (@premierleague) March 14, 2016
Yep, with eight games to go Leicester are actually top of the whole damn league, comfortably beating the likes of Manchester City, Chelsea and Manchester United. They're basically having a dream season.
Before things kicked off last September, the odds of them winning were so low that one fan now stands to win £25,000 from a £5 bet if the team holds on to their lead.
Just read Leicester city were 5000-1 odds to win the EPL title at the start of the season. That's the same as Kim K being president in 2020.— Vishnu (@Rfno1) February 19, 2016
The point of this rambling prelude? To give some much-needed context to the following tweet...
I guess my husband's overriding memory of this historic #LCFC run will be me, back in April, persuading him not to renew his season ticket.— Kate Diamond (@katediamond) March 14, 2016
Oh dear.
Tune in on the final day of the season to see if our marriage survives that decision.— Kate Diamond (@katediamond) March 14, 2016
On the plus side, Diamond always has this option.
@katediamond Tell him "It's only a game". It will be of much comfort to him.— Joseph Viney (@jjviney) March 14, 2016