Disbelief hangs in air as Leicester suffer an avoidable relegation
The Guardian As the clock ticked past 80 minutes the King Power Stadium, with Leicester beating West Ham but hostage entirely to events at Goodison Park, it felt fitting that this should be one of those relegations sung to its rest by ghosts of other games, of goals unscored, energy waves, rumours, the Mexican wave of death.
Several times through those final 10 minutes the ground was gripped by sudden contortions of false joy, leaping, roaring sections of crowd lifted by news of fake survival, reality-lag, non-redemption. If Bournemouth score a non-goal and nobody tells the King Power it doesnt exist: is that non-goal still a goal? And who does Youri Tielemans sign for next season?
Leicester relegated from Premier League despite victory over West Ham
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Disbelief was a theme of the day. Even Leicesters impressively pointless 2-1 final-day victory seemed to fit the pattern. Generally teams go down because of identifiable causes. Lack of playing talent, cyclical downturn, black swan events. Sometimes, as they say in comforting American movies starring Morgan Freeman, it is just your time.
