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Fearless: The Amazing Underdog Story of Leicester City, the Greatest Miracle in Sports History Audiobook, by Jonathan Northcroft Play Audiobook Sample

Fearless: The Amazing Underdog Story of Leicester City, the Greatest Miracle in Sports History Audiobook

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Read By: Nathan Turner Publisher: Bold Type Books Listen Time: at 1.0x Speed 7.17 hours at 1.5x Speed 5.38 hours at 2.0x Speed Release Date: November 2016 Format: Unabridged Audiobook ISBN: 9781478971856

Quick Stats About this Audiobook

Total Audiobook Chapters:

17

Longest Chapter Length:

49:31 minutes

Shortest Chapter Length:

08:06 minutes

Average Chapter Length:

37:37 minutes

Audiobooks by this Author:

1

Publisher Description

"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.

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About Jonathan Northcroft

Jonathan Northcroft is the soccer correspondent for the Sunday Times. He is the frequent contributor for BBC Radio 5 Live's football programs, and a regular guest on Sky Sports' Sunday Supplement show. Inaugural winner of the Jim Rodger Memorial Award for young sports writers in Scotland, he was shortlisted for Feature Writer of the Year at the Sports Journalists Association awards in 2006 and Football Writer of the Year in 2016.