Leicester City predictions: What the pundits said at the start of the season

It wasn't only the bookies left with egg on their faces following the Foxes' Premier League triumph

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Leicester City’s Italian manager Claudio Ranierei
(Image credit: Laurence Griffiths/Getty)

Premier League chief executive Richard Scudamore summed up Leicester City's astonishing title triumph yesterday by declaring the Foxes had "made mugs of all of us".

He was not wrong. The bookies are paying a heavy price for offering odds of 5,000-1 for Leicester to win the title, but the football pundits have also been left with egg on their faces.

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