Ex-Premier League monster who once chomped wine glass quit football for cage fighting

A player who was part of Leicester's remarkable Premier League title triumph in 2015-16 has announced that he is set to retire. The international star, who spent four years at Leicester, will bring his career to an end at the conclusion of the current campaign. The player in question made over 100 appearances for the Foxes but has decided to retire…

Leicester City produced one of the biggest upsets in the history of professional sport in the 2015/16 campaign when they won the Premier League title. They were+50000 outsiders with the bookmakers that year, but under manager Claudio Ranieri they overcame the giants of English football to lift the title. The Foxes, who are a popular team with many…

A new season is so nearly upon us and there's nothing quite like pre-season hope, a time where fans of all clubs dare to dream. Modern football is often criticised for its predictability, with Europe's top leagues dominated by the very elite. The dawn of super-clubs and State-funded projects has made shocks rare, but not impossible. Could the…

The 2023/24 season is set to begin, and all up and down the English football pyramid, there is genuine excitement as teams tackle the goal of promotion further up the food chain. In the Championship, a lucrative spot in the Premier League is on the line as the 24 teams gear up to push for one of three spots in the English top flight. Further down…

Leicester and Liverpool clash in a pre-season match on Sunday. The Standard Chartered Singapore Trophy is on the line, with the Reds looking to defend the cup they won last summer with a 2-0 win over Crystal Palace. Betting sites unsurprisingly have Liverpool as the 4/7 favourites for the match, which kicks off at 10:00am BST at the Singapore…

As football fans await the start of the 2023-24 Championship campaign, here at SportsLens we assess which clubs are the bookies' favourites to win the title this season. With relegated Leicester City currently having the shortest Championship winner odds 2023-24. With the start of the 2023/24 Sky Bet Championship season just three weeks away, we…

Leicester City have been installed as the early favourites to win the Championship title next season and clinch an immediate return to the Premier League. City were relegated from the top flight on Sunday after a 2-1 victory over West Ham United at the King Power Stadium was not enough to save them from the drop. Everton beat Bournemouth 1-0 to…

Gary Lineker remains optimistic about his beloved Leicester after their relegation from the Premier League, insisting their fruitful spell in the top flight has been a'miracle'. Despite their 2-1 win over on the final day of the season, the Foxes finished 18th after Everton's win over Bournemouth. It ends an eight-year spell in the top flight for…

Only one Premier League fixture week remains, meaning the relegation battle will go right to the wire. Leicester City take on West Ham in a'must-win' clash, but what are the Leicester relegation odds of the Foxes finishing in the bottom three? With the clubs historic league title victory in 2016, the Foxes have become a household name in…

As the Premier League season reaches its climax, Everton, Leeds, and Leicester will have to wait until the final day to confirm their top-flight safety. But who will each team face in the crucial remaining fixture? The Toffee's are currently in the best position, as they sit 17th in the Premier League - two points above relegation. Sean Dyche's…

Most Premier League teams have just one game remaining this season and after Manchester City were crowned champions last weekend bookmakers have already started looking ahead to next term and have released their odds for the 2023/2024 Premier League winner market. Here at BettingOdds.com we've taken a look at the odds with the prices quoted below,…

The Premier League relegation battle has been one of the most exciting in years, with four teams locked in a desperate survival bid. Demotion to the Championship is not only a terrible thing for fans and players to experience, but it can lead to job losses and huge cuts to playing and non-playing staff. But three teams have to go, and with three…

JOAO CANCELO is on the verge of joining an exclusive group of players that have won TWO league titles in one season. The Portuguese defender started this season at Manchester City before leaving the club in January on a loan move to Bundesliga giants Bayern Munich. After Man City managed to reel in Arsenal they are now the favourites to win the…

Everton manager Sean Dyche stressed his players have to handle the high stakes which come with playing for the club, while Leicester boss Dean Smith has urged his side to make home advantage count ahead of the huge Monday Night Football clash between the two sides. Monday 1st May 7:00pm A 4-1 defeat at home to Newcastle means Everton head into…

Leicester City find themselves facing a major Premier League relegation battle in the final weeks of the 2022/23 campaign. The Foxes have slipped from playing in a UEFA Europa Conference League semifinal less than 12 months ago, to fighting for Premier League survival in 2023. Despite maintaining themselves as a Premier League force, following…

Exactly nine years ago, one of football's greatest transfers took place when a 22-year-old Riyad Mahrez joined Leicester City for a bargain £450000 from Ligue 2 side Le Havre. The Algerian would go on to help the Foxes defy the odds and lift an unprecedented Premier League title in 2016. Then, after a memorable four-year spell at the King…

Seven Nigerian football players are playing in the Premier League this season. The Premier League's Nigerian stars are making a name for themselves in the English top flight. All seven players will hope to be a part of Nigeria's upcoming Africa Cup of Nations squad. Before the AFCON tournament kicks off, the World Cup will take place in November…

It seems like only yesterday that Manchester City secured that comeback victory over Aston Villa to pip Liverpool to the 2021-22 Premier League title. However, the new season is already on the horizon. Due to the winter World Cup, the 2022-23 Premier League campaign is scheduled to kick off on August 5 - less than three months after the previous…

Ten years ago today, Jamie Vardy became the first £1million non-league footballer when he made the move from Fleetwood Town to Premier League hopefuls Leicester City. The Sheffield-born forward scored 34 goals for the The Cod Army during the 2011/12 season which earned him a life-changing switch to Nigel Pearson's Foxes. Vardy attracted interest…

Chelsea's 2-1 win over Palmeiras in the Club World Cup final means that the Blues have now won every trophy available since Roman Abramovich bought the club in 2003. The Russian billionaire has brought massive success to a club that had won just one top-flight title and five domestic cups in the 98 years before his arrival, and this latest triumph…

MANCHESTER CITY attacker Riyad Mahrez has revealed his "frustration" at not being able to leave Leicester earlier and join a "top team" like Arsenal in 2016. The Algerian won his second Premier League title last season, adding to his against-all-odds triumph with the Foxes back in the 2015/16 season. But the 28-year-old feels that he wasted two…

The last - and only - occasion when Leicester City won the Community Shield was in 1971, 45 years ago. Double winners Arsenal were unable to attend due to a lazily planned pre-season schedule meaning FA Cup runners-up Liverpool would face Second Division champions Leicester instead. Played at Filbert Street, the Foxes' former home, in front of a…

LONDON (Reuters) - At the start of the English football season last August, bookmakers in Britain were offering odds of 5000-1 against Leicester City winning the Premier League. 5000-1? Now, let's put that into perspective. The bookies offered odds 10 times more generous that the Loch Ness Monster would be discovered. Or more than twice as generous…

We'll start by looking at Newcastle's woes, and Carver, whose side sit five points above the drop zone after losing their last six games, offered to meet the disgruntled fans in question for a "cup of tea" recently, and let's hope that meeting has already taken place because he may need a few bodyguards with him if the Magpies lose here again. Yep,…