Low-Budget Leicester's Title Run Nets Fortune for Thai Owner
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The story of Leicester City’s improbable rise to the top of global soccer’s wealthiest league starts with the restless ghost of an English monarch. The bones of King Richard III had been missing for centuries, only to be discovered in 2012 not far from the Foxes’ stadium.
The day the remains were properly interred at Leicester Cathedral last March, the team was in last place in the English Premier League and in danger of relegation. In its next game, the club began a stunning comeback, sparked by a late goal from by a player named, appropriately, King.