Chapter 1: What was the significance of Leicester City's Premier League title win?
Leicester City have won the Premier League title. What a night it's been for these fans. Chelsea got them back into it at 2-1. This was 2-2. An almighty celebration, drinks everywhere. And this was the moment their team won the title.
The final whistle at Stamford Bridge and the party in Leicester has started and it will go on and on through to Leicester on Saturday when they will lift the trophy. Here is confirmation. Leicester are in gold. The first new champions for 38 years.
Chapter 2: How did Chelsea's performance impact Leicester's title celebration?
An unbelievable turnaround. 13 places and 36 points better than last season. It's an unbelievable story. Claudio Ranieri has done it. His old team doing him the ultimate favour today. They sung his name at Stamford Bridge. Claudio, Leicester City, champions. And those Chelsea fans loved it. Jamie Carragher, your reaction?
I think we've been waiting for this moment to come for so long. Never quite believing it would happen. But I think there's no doubt that is the greatest achievement, I think, in the history of our game for what Leicester have done. I think it's unprecedented. I think in the past there's been teams who've come up and won the league, but it was more of a level playing field then.
Now, what Leicester have done is give inspiration to... Every football club, every manager, player, supporter, all across the land, that one day that could be them. That's how football has become. It was a closed shop with the same teams winning year after year. You never believed a story like this could happen. It has happened. And you just think what that could do for the rest of football now.
And if it could change, and you see more of this more often, but... Fantastic achievement. You can't quite believe it's happened because no, you know, you're talking about five thousand to one but statue for Ranieri in the morning, it has to be, doesn't it?
It's amazing. Unbelievable is an overused word, Scott, but this truly is unbelievable.
I mean, I think inspiration was the word. You know, you go from James Vardy non-league, you go to players who have been rejected at previous clubs, to lifting the Premier League trophy, it is quite incredible. And like Jamie said, I think it gives everyone out there, everyone, a real opportunity and a real vision that anything can happen, really.
What about the manager who you work with? You talked about those players. This is a guy who at the start of the season was being written off. He was the favourite to be the first manager to lose his job.
Look what he's now done. Well, he's done, you know, he's obviously done remarkably well. You know, from the outset, I think what Claudio Arreola has done in the media in terms of raising the pressure from his squad. You know, I think at the beginning of the season it was, let's get to 40 points. They get to 40 points, okay, let's get Champions League.
It's only been over the last, probably the few weeks that now we're going for the title. And I think he's probably just took the pressure off the squad at times and he's just setting realistic targets. And then realistic targets have been achieved and achieved and achieved. He's never set out an unrealistic target. And, yeah, he's been fantastic and fully deserved.
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Chapter 3: What were Jamie Carragher's thoughts on Leicester's achievement?
In the management game, there's very few who people really respect and think of absolute winners. You think of Sir Alex Ferguson, Pep Guardiola, Jose Mourinho, and everyone else really gets seen as slaughtered, not good enough.
But Ranieri's one of them managers who's been around for, well, 20 years, managed top clubs, big players, won cups, managed at the top level and just missed out on the big trophies. And we still don't accept that as being a top manager. Finally, now... He may get the credit as maybe his career's deserved and you think what he's done.
And there's plenty of managers out there who've had great careers but never get the recognition. He's getting recognition now because he's achieved something that Possibly no other manager can ever match in a one-off season. I know Notts Forest fans may be watching and get upset. What they did over a three-year period, European Cups, of course, I don't think will ever be beaten.
But in a one-off season, what that man's done now, he's put himself up there that he will never, ever be forgotten. This story will be told in... fifty-sixty, maybe a hundred years' time, people will still be talking about this story, because it's just so rare, you know, that these type of things happen now, and those plays are legends now for a lifetime.
And his character, something you talked about earlier, we see the bravado, and you know what he's like in press conferences, the humour, and you talked about the steel inside him. How do you think you'll be feeling right now? Because I imagine he's an emotional man as well.
He's a very emotional man, all Italians are, and I've no doubt... He'll be getting off the plane and he'll probably be in floods of tears. And, yeah, a very emotional man. Like I said, steely man, honourable man. And like I said, yeah, fully deserved. I'm absolutely over the moon.
And, you know, like Jamie said, history has just been made and it's going to be something which is going to be set in history for a long while.
I think the, you know, we've mentioned Claudio Ranieri, and a lot of the players, I think Jamie Vardy won the Football of the Year today, and he's been outstanding, but I think Scott mentioned it before, and I think Arsene Wenger made a great point, I think he did an interview a couple of weeks ago, and he said not one of these players was born on the red carpet, in terms of none of them started in Champions League.
They've all got a story to tell how they've got here. You know, none of them were sort of at huge clubs or went for huge transfer fees. Vardy, the example, you know, coming from non-league, Mahrez, how cheap he was, Kante in midfield. They're the three sort of ones who've been going for the Player of the Year awards. And that's what it is for players as well.
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Chapter 4: How did Claudio Ranieri influence Leicester's success?
You know, Rugby World Cup, I think, of Japan beating South Africa. This is a season. This is over... 40-odd games. Nine months worth. Exactly that. To sum it up in words, all the words you can use, inspirational, incredible, it's pretty remarkable.
Do you genuinely think this is the biggest sporting upset ever? There's ever been?
For sure, yeah. Certainly since I've been on this earth, it is. Greece win the Euros. But still for me, the way it's been done, the team, from where some of these players... Some of these players were... Danny Simpson, Queen's Park Rangers, rejected from Queen's Park Rangers. He's coming to a team now and he's lifting the trophy. It's just remarkable. It is, it's just remarkable.
A word on Spurs, Jamie, who've run them close. Tonight it wasn't their night, a night where they lost their heads.
Completely. Completely lost it. And I should have mentioned at half-time, I think I said off air, Pochettino's team talk had to not be about tactics, it had to be about emotions. They looked like they were just losing it before half-time and you're thinking, OK, 2-0 lead, relax, Chelsea have got to come at you, they've got it all to go for.
And the worst thing about it was, obviously there were some shocking challenges at times in the games and the heads are completely gone. But at 2-2, I think it was the 82nd, 83rd minute. That's right. You said that's seven minutes plus five or six. Six minutes at a time. So you're talking 12 or 13 minutes. They never got near the Chelsea goal because they completely lost it.
They didn't have one shot in the 13 minutes, but they had four yellow cards. That sums it up perfectly. I think Graeme Souness mentioned it last week that they needed a bit of experience.
Jamie, just hold fire just one second. Have a watch of this because the celebration underway. And this is at the party with the players.
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Chapter 5: What role did Jamie Vardy play in Leicester's historic season?
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That is what it feels like to be a Premier League winner. That's going to be some celebration for those boys.
I'd like to be there now. You'd like to be part of that, to be honest with you. I'm sure that will go long into the night and fully deserve the night of Sade's win. Richly deserved, Jeremy.
Of course, they've been the best team. And their memories, those players... as a group of players now and maybe play together for the next four or five years. They could walk down a street in 20, 30 years' time and all it is is a look at each other and you know. It's that moment together when you won that title and that's what they'll always remember together.
Yeah, they'll carry on playing for the next whatever, but they'll always be remembered for this. And as I said, when they see each other 20, 30 years' time, they'll have reunion parties for this and likely so, it'll just be a look and they know.
And this says it all about them as well. You see Wes Morgan right in the middle of it there. He will be lifting the trophy on Saturday evening, which we will see. That will be some moment. But look at this. This says everything about Leicester, doesn't it? The unit, the closeness of this team.
No, it does, and that's what it's being built on. The same team week in, week out. We've said before, no-one was born on the red carpet, so they've had to play as a team. They've had some outstanding individuals within that. But very few players get the...
chance but no I mean these moments for players some players never get them one of the top players obviously get them year in year out but for these players they'd never dreamed of a moment in their careers and listen I don't think they'll ever have a moment to match this it's unprecedented Jamie Vardy on the left there yeah Vardy party
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Chapter 6: How did Tottenham's performance affect their title hopes?
There's so many highlights in the season, Scott, but this surely now has to be the moment of the season. The iconic commentary from Martin Tyler as well. It's 11 and heaven for Jamie Vardy.
Yeah, I mean, this is... This is part of the season, what we'll all remember as one of the great parts for not only Jamie Vardy, for Leicester. And like you said, obviously, famous for Martin Tyler's commentary on that. And this was probably the start of it. I think this is when people maybe just started to stand up and think, you know what, these could be a force.
And do you remember a big moment came then, Monday night football against Chelsea?
Yeah. I mean, I think this was a huge night for Chelsea. I remember Jose's interview, Jose's last game. But the realisation to completely take apart the champions, we knew we hadn't started the season well, Leicester at the top of the league and you think it's a flash in the pan, Chelsea will go there, do a job on them, and it could have been five or six, they absolutely battered them.
And that was, I think, one of those big signs that, I think a lot of the time when you win games, or you're on a run, or as we've said, you come from behind, it gives you self-belief.
I think games like that, when everyone's watching, it's live on TV, and you beat a really big team, I think it sends a message out to the rest of the people watching, the rest of the league, this is not a flash in the pan, this is not a freak result, this is a proper team.
Now, no-one believed they were going on to win the league at that stage, but you thought, there's more to this than just a great start to the season.
They put them on top of the table. Mourinho, as you say, was sacked three days later. They then went three without a win to White Hart Lane. And was this the result, picking up what Jamie just said, where they really did start to believe?
Yeah, certainly, and especially coming out of three games where you've not won. You know, if ever there was a time when maybe the wheels could have started to come off, it would have been at this point. And to then go to White Hart Lane against a very good Sotnum side and go and get a result was key. And I think, like, again, they then...
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