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Chris Dunlavy: Leicester City’s high-wire fall is lesson to all

On the day Leicester City’s victorious captain Kasper Schmeichel hoisted aloft the FA Cup in May 2021, Nottingham Forest had just finished 17th in the Championship.
Leicester City are back in the Championship this season following relegation from the Premier League PICTURE: Alamy

By Chris Dunlavy - A fresh take on football

On the day Leicester City’s victorious captain Kasper Schmeichel hoisted aloft the FA Cup in May 2021, Nottingham Forest had just finished 17th in the Championship.

For the Reds, the campaign had followed a depressingly familiar trajectory.
Exotic summer signings who’d flattered to deceive. Managerial turmoil. A relegation battle averted by attaining the bittersweet haven of mid-table mediocrity.
So it had been for much of a dismal decade; a decade in which neighbours Leicester had not only won a historic Premier League title but established thems...

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