Foxes afloat6/24/2023 Of course, smaller clubs are selling prime assets all the time. (PHOTO: Rob Newell – CameraSport via Getty Images) The rare EPL win for the small clubs feels like the last Leicester City manager Dean Smith was unable to save the Foxes from relegation. James Maddison will be the next to leave in the summer. A star club became a sales club that lashed out at Harry Maguire, Fofana, Riyad Mahrez and Ben Chilwell – for more than £50million each. Of clubs in the Premier League since the 2018/19 season, only Brighton and Hove Albion have net spending below Leicester’s £92m. In the pre-season, Leicester bought just two players – defender Wout Faes for £17m to replace Chelsea mover Wesley Fofana and Alex Smithies – a third-choice goalkeeper. Normal, ordinary billionaires line up outside the poorhouse like Dickensian streetkids, hoping for remnants of a new ruling class. A self-made billionaire was enough to guide Leicester to the Premier League title. In 2016 his name was Vichai Srivaddhanaprabha. A self-made millionaire was enough to lead Blackburn Rovers to the Premier League title. In the mid-1990s, his name was Jack Walker. The Foxes are struggling to avoid relegation because their enjoyable story, about a regular rich man who takes over a mediocre club and uses money to fight his way to unlikely fame, is no longer being played. There is no trickle-down economy in the EPL either. No side has a divine right to their Premier League status, whatever their history, but Leicester’s drift into the bottom three isn’t even subtle, as if the gods of karma wished it on any naïve fool still faithful to the concept remains, making painfully clear equivalence. There must be no room for misinterpretation. Let the original poster child for the fairy tale of the foxes squander an opportunity to save every hope. Let Jamie Vardy miss a penalty in an absolutely winning game at Fulham. Hit the message straight to the point, and if the foggy-eyed idealists still don’t get it, hit it again. The 2016 champion faces relegation in 2023. Irony is often cruel, but this feels unnecessarily masochistic, as if a Hollywood hit had redpenned a simple script and written in block letters: “AUDICTIONS ARE STUPID. In 2016, they made every schoolyard’s Premier League dreams a reality. They encouraged us to go back to childhood, to a simpler time of misfits and achievers, a place where anyone could win. From 5000-1 underdogs to Cinderella men in a single season, they took the game back to an age of innocence. You didn’t write a story.Īnd yet they were. They didn’t give a ridiculous Hollywood ending to an absurd Hollywood story. They didn’t lift the English Premier League trophy. Leicester City, a smaller club from a smaller province, did not. (PHOTO: Jacques Feeney/Offside/Offside via Getty Images)ĪNDREA Boccelli hit the highest notes from Nessun Dorma, Claudio Ranieri fought back tears and the world watched in disbelief. Salon reached out to experts to identify some of the most iconic animals that will - or already have - become victims of man-made climate change.Leicester City’s Jamie Vardy kneels during the English Premier League game against Fulham. There are still many species we have not described many will go extinct undescribed." To put this in perspective a few weeks ago we were surveying Thai caves, and found an almost certainly new species of gecko. Hughes of the University of Hong Kong, "There are many species we have not even described yet. In a future world in which extreme weather conditions like floods, droughts, wildfires and hurricanes are normal - to say nothing of a constantly warming temperature - many of Earth's most charismatic creatures will simply have no where to go.Įven more tragic, many of the species lost will vanish without humans ever knowing they existed. Yet for many endangered animals, climate change is the major cause of their impending extinction. "There are still many species we have not described many will go extinct undescribed."
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