Champions to Championship: how slow-thinking Leicester sealed their own fate
Over the past few months the pre-match montages on the big screens at Leicester’s King Power Stadium have felt particularly bittersweet. One culminates in Ricardo Pereira striking late at PSV Eindhoven to tee up a first European semi-final and a date with Roma at the Stadio Olimpico last May, the other with Wes Morgan lifting the Premier League trophy with Claudio Ranieri. Confetti rains down and then there are a few seconds of Vichai Srivaddhanaprabha, Leicester’s late owner, applauding fans on all four sides of the ground before the pictures fade to black. At which point supporters instinctively respond with a rousing cheer.
