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How little Leicester pulled off the seemingly impossible

Leicester City's Wes Morgan celebrates scoring his side's first goal of the game, during the English Premier League soccer match between Manchester United and Leicester City, at Old Trafford, in Manchester, England, Sunday May 1, 2016. (Martin Rickett/PA via AP) UNITED KINGDOM OUT
Leicester City's Wes Morgan celebrates scoring his side's first goal of the game, during the English Premier League soccer match between Manchester United and Leicester City, at Old Trafford, in Manchester, England, Sunday May 1, 2016. (Martin Rickett/PA via AP) UNITED KINGDOM OUT Leicester City's Wes Morgan celebrates scoring his side's first goal of the game, during the English Premier League soccer match between Manchester United and Leicester City, at Old Trafford, in Manchester, England, Sunday May 1, 2016. (Martin Rickett/PA via AP) UNITED KINGDOM OUT

MANCHESTER, England (AP) – Leicester has pulled off the seemingly impossible and won the English Premier League.

It’s a sentence few can ever have imagined saying.

So, how has a humdrum team from central England that was nearly relegated last season managed, and was in administration seven years ago, overcome the mega-rich giants of the Premier League?

Here are a few reasons:

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