5000-1: The Leicester City Story
5000-1: The Leicester City Story

Author: Rob Tanner

Publisher: Icon Books

Published: 2016-05-26

Total Pages: 306

ISBN-13: 1785781529

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THE INCREDIBLE AS-IT-HAPPENED STORY OF LEICESTER CITY’S MARCH TO PREMIER LEAGUE VICTORY In August 2015 bookmakers priced Leicester at 5000-1 to win the Premier League – the same odds as Elvis being found alive. On 2 May 2016, the impossible happened – Leicester won, to ecstatic celebrations in the city and around the world. Relive this remarkable season with Rob Tanner, the Leicester Mercury ’s chief football writer, from the great escape of 2015 to the curtain-closer at Stamford Bridge, via Ulloa’s last-gasp winner at Norwich and Vardy’s stunning volley against Liverpool. Detailing the key matches and turning points, Tanner’s book tells the inside story of Leicester City’s heroic year of triumph – and the players who under Claudio Ranieri’s inspired leadership became the most unlikely champions in football history.

The Historical Background of Chemistry
The Historical Background of Chemistry

Author: Henry Marshall Leicester

Publisher: Courier Corporation

Published: 1971-01-01

Total Pages: 292

ISBN-13: 9780486610535

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Professor Leicester traces the development of chemistry through the thoughts and ideas of practitioners and theorists, from Aristotle and Plato to Curie and 20th-century nuclear scientists. Throughout, the relationship of chemical advances to a broader world history is recognized and stressed. 15 figures. Name and subject indexes. 1956 edition.

Elizabeth and Leicester
Elizabeth and Leicester

Author: Sarah Gristwood

Publisher: Penguin

Published: 2008-10-28

Total Pages: 436

ISBN-13: 9780143114499

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View our feature on Sarah Gristwood’s Elizabeth & Leicester.Though the story has been told on film—and whispered in historic gossip—this is the first book in almost fifty years to solely explore the great queen’s attachment to her beloved Robert Dudley, the Earl of Leicester. Fueled by scandal and intrigue, their relationship set the explosive connection between public and private life in sixteenth-century England in bold relief. Why did they never marry? How much of what seemed a passionate obsession was actually political convenience? Elizabeth and Leicester reignites this 400- year-old love story in a book for anyone interested in Elizabethan literature.

A People's History of Leicester
A People's History of Leicester

Author: Ned Newitt

Publisher: Breedon Books Publishing

Published: 2008

Total Pages: 168

ISBN-13:

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Presents a history of Leicester through the eyes of the Co-operative, Labour and Trade Union movements. This book illustrates the long fight for democratic rights, social welfare and better hours and conditions. It features images of Leicester working people and their social and political organisations.

Fearless
Fearless

Author: Jonathan Northcroft

Publisher: Bold Type Books

Published: 2016-11-22

Total Pages: 353

ISBN-13: 1568589832

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"The odds of the Foxes winning the Premier League at the start of the season were the same as the Yeti or the Loch Ness Monster being proven to exist, Christmas being the warmest day of the year in England or Barack Obama playing cricket for England after he left the Oval Office." -- ESPN On March 21, 2015, Leicester City lost their sixth game in eight matches. Without a victory for two months, they were rock bottom of the English Premier League, heading for certain relegation to the lower division, and about to miss out on a once-in-a-lifetime financial bonanza of TV money and opportunity. As usual, London and Manchester would clean up, the rich would get richer, and the hopes of the small, overlooked, multicultural city would sink. But Leicester started to win. They stayed up; and in the new season they kept on winning. Favorites for relegation, rank outsiders as potential champions (their 5000 -- 1 odds were the longest in the world for any major sporting event), their entire squad had been assembled for less than the cost of a single player for Manchester City. Still, they beat Manchester City and Liverpool, Tottenham and Chelsea: the most incredible cast of written-offs, grafters, misfits, and journeymen came together for the season of their lives. This is the story every underdog dreams of, every small town with a much larger, more affluent neighbor hopes for, and a triumph that defies logic and expectation.