&quot;Four big clubs -- Manchester United, Chelsea, <i>Manchester City and Arsenal</i> -- have won all the titles in the past 20 years&quot;, but they &quot;all had appalling seasons: Chelsea, [...] Manchester United [...] and Liverpool, <i>the other big club</i>, is seventh.&quot;<p>Er, so Man City and Arsenal are not &quot;big clubs&quot;, apparently. Nice &quot;submarine&quot; insult there.<p>EDIT: another gem: &quot;All teams have always counterattacked, but few have based their game so completely around it.&quot;<p>That&#x27;s utter drivel. Go read up on Italian teams of the 60s, which were pretty successful at doing exactly that. With all due respect to Claudio Ranieri, he&#x27;s not really close to the genius of Nereo Rocco or Helenio Herrera.<p>The innovation of Leicester City is that they used statistics to identify players who could fit this style better than the average, and they recruited a manager who knows how to manage this style of play better than the average. Whether this combination was an accident or not, I think it&#x27;s still open for debate -- they had a very successful run of games with the previous manager as well.