ON THIS DAY

Chelsea 2 Tottenham Hotspur 2 – Spurs let a two-goal lead slip in the Premier League match with the dropped points seeing Leicester City crowned as Premier Division champions. Yes, unfashionable Leicester, 5000-1 outsiders at the start of the season, are League champions for the first time in their history. They went on to finish the season 10 points clear of second-placed Arsenal although that margin isn’t really a true reflection of the title race. Leicester and Spurs were neck and neck going into the final few matches but while the Foxes were unbeaten in their last 12 matches Spurs didn’t manage a win in their last four, a run which saw them pipped to the runners-up up spot by their great rivals Arsenal. Leicester’s success was widely seen as the most unlikely triumph in the history of team sport but just nine months later the architect of that triumph – manager Claudio Ranieri – had been sacked. Such is life!

In one of the most memorable FA Cup Finals Blackpool beat Bolton Wanderers 4-3 at Wembley. It was know as the ‘Matthews Final’ as a 38-year-old Stanley Matthews at last won a club honour after previously being on the losing side in two FA Cup Finals - but it was close with Bolton being 3-1 up with less than 25 minutes remaining. The 'Mortensen Final' would have been a more appropriate title though with Matthews' team-mate Stan Mortensen scoring hat-trick. It was only the third hat-trick in an FA Cup Final - the first at Wembley with the other two coming in the finals of 1890 and 1894.