History is made As Leicester City lifts its first ever Premier League trophy

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Claudio Ranieri Manager of Leicester City lifts the Premier League Trophy as players celebrate the season champions after the Barclays Premier League match between Leicester City and Everton at The King Power Stadium. 



Now they were champions and they, too, could be serenaded with the music recorded by Pavarotti for the 1990 World Cup.
It had been a week of firsts - when else had Leicester led American news bulletins? - but this performance was more unlikely still.


Andrea Bocelli performs in a Leicester shirt before the game.
Andrea Bocelli performs in a Leicester shirt before the game. Credit: Reuters / Darren Staples
Bocelli, who has sung for popes and presidents, was now performing in a mid-sized football stadium in the East Midlands, tucked between a car dealership and a Holiday Inn.
He was accompanied by Claudio Ranieri, the club manager and a fellow Italian, who held out his hand to ask for silence as his friend sang. For the only time, the fans fell quiet. 

Ranieri had persuaded Bocelli to break off his world tour to perform as the sold-out crowd of 32,000 took their seats to watch Leicester play Everton in their final game of the season. 

Andrea Bocelli performs in a Leicester shirt before the game.
Andrea Bocelli performs in a Leicester shirt before the game. Credit: Reuters / Andrew Boyers
As with the best operas, that everyone knew what would happen (Leicester had secured the league, regardless of the result) hardly dulled the emotion.
After 132 years as not so much also-rans as no-hopers, here they were: champions.

Wow!
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