Here's the big grand finale picture of Football Cubs that I never got round to last year - the exciting story of how Leicester City won the Premier League title against all expectation!

It's a well-known story by now - when the remains of King Richard III were re-buried in Leicester Cathedral, the fortunes of Leicester's football team took an immediate and dramatic upswing, ending with them winning the league for the first time in their history!

We're now half-way through the next season, and the magic seems to have worn off. Leicester are struggling this year, down in the bottom half of the Premier League table. But the Football Cubs have got together to perform a play, showing the world the true story behind Leicester's title win!

Richard was killed by his distant cousin Henry in 1485 (the royal family were always killing each other in the 1400s) and buried in a nearby friary in Leicester. Henry's son, Henry VIII, later fell out with the Catholic church in a big way and had the friary shut down and demolished. This probably upset the ghost of King Richard quite a lot.

Richard didn't really have any connection with Leicester, though - as far as I know, the only English king who did was the fictional King Lear, so I suspect Richard's reason for cursing the city was based mainly on professional jealousy. Shakespeare's play about Richard III not only made him out to be an evil, scheming, horribly deformed villain, it also wasn't as good as the one about King Lear! So it's no wonder Richard's ghost had a grudge against Leicester!

Leicester City football club was founded in 1884, at the height of popularity for the new professional football clubs springing up all over - the internet doesn't seem to know the names of the people whose idea it was, but I'm sure they wore cool bow ties. The club never quite managed to reach the top, coming second in the league in 1929, just a couple of months before the stock market crash that led to the great depression. They lost the FA Cup final four times without ever winning it, more than any other team in history.

But then, in 2011, a research project identified where Richard was probably buried, they discovered his skeleton, and it was re-buried in the cathedral. Richard forgave the city of Leicester, and helped their team win the league! Yaaaaay! ^.^


Starring:
King Richard III / Leicester City  shadowsirius
King Henry VII / Liverpool  sirius_babyhound
1485 friar / Norwich City tjfoxxxx
1485 friar / Manchester United  ironmania2003
King Henry VIII / Watford rabidbadger
1538 friar / Newcastle United babyfurpatchy
1538 friar / Chelsea  poochyena
King Lear / Arsenal  foxwolfie
William Shakespeare / Stoke City wiimaster306
1592 actor / West Ham United bruan_ham
1606 theatregoer / Bournemouth  hadesfox
1606 theatregoer / Southampton takinoue
1884 Leicester founder / Aston Villa  foxgold
1884 Leicester founder / Swansea City babykitty_sierra
1929 Leicester manager / Manchester City  lig
1969 Leicester manager / Tottenham Hotspur ursa-mina
2011 researcher / West Bromwich Albion gus-the-hedgehog
2011 archaeologist / Everton  coolsquirrel
2015 archbishop / Crystal Palace  lulshi
2016 Leicester manager / Sunderland kaffre


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