Souness: Foxes defy logic

Graeme Souness reflects on Leicester’s “remarkable” season, how they have ripped up the rule book, where their achievements rank and what the future might hold for the Foxes…

In this most incredible Premier League year, would anybody be surprised if Leicester went to Old Trafford, one of the greatest football stadiums in the world, and won the league there?

They have already torn up the rule book by the way they play. They have so little possession, players that were relatively unknown, a small budget, but they are the dominant team in the league. Fair play to them.

I wouldn’t be surprised if they won the title this weekend. I don’t think they will, but I wouldn’t be surprised.

Claudio Ranieri has come up with a system that defies logic. They give the ball away – they have the lowest passing accuracy in the league – and their goalkeeper has passed the ball into the final third 482 times, more than any other player in the league aside from Cesc Fabregas. That would suggest they are a long ball team, but they are a joy to watch.

They don’t strike me as a basic back to front team, they have far more to their game than that, but the stats suggest they are. They have torn up the rule book.

They should not be where they are with the players they have, the size of the club, and the fact they give the ball away so much. It’s a remarkable story.

They have always got the …

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