Leicester City are Premier League champions! WOOOOOOO! The plucky 5,000-1 underdogs have done it! It's the greatest sports story of all time! We are all Leicester City! How can you not love this team?
Well, I can think of a few reasons.
Their summer began with this video (NSFW, not even a little bit), which includes as a subject then-manager Nigel Pearson's son James. All three players involved in the video (some kind of racist orgy in Thailand, for those interested who didn't want to click the link to the actual video) were let go, as well as Nigel Pearson, whose sacking led the way for Claudio Ranieri's resurgence.
And then there's Jamie Vardy, the gritty former lower-league player/factory worker and also occasional racist. For the uninitiated, in August video surfaced of Vardy verbally abusing an Asian man on account of race while at a casino. Plus, he said this to a referee a few weeks ago.
Oh, and they may have used what we'll call "creative financing" to bing about their meteoric rise from the Championship to the, uh, championship.
Yes, Leicester City are an amazing story, sports-wise, but humanity-wise there's good reason to believe the organization is seedier than a $10 motel room.
Plus there's this:
I hate Christmas.
— robert huth (@robert_huth) December 25, 2014
That tweet comes from the account of Leicester's hulking German center back, Robert Huth, which leads us to believe that Huth is actually Krampus. You can't prove he's not.
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