Leicester City — the biggest Cinderella story in soccer history — wins Premier League title after Tottenham blows a 2-0 lead to Chelsea

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Leicester City secured their improbable Premier League title on Monday after Chelsea came back from two goals down to tie Tottenham Hotspur 2-2 in a must-win game for Spurs.

The title — the first in Leicester’s 132-year history — is a stunning conclusion to a dream season for the team, whose odds to win the title were 5,000-1 before the season. In top European soccer, where the prestige clubs vastly outspend the smaller teams on a yearly basis, upsets of this nature almost never happen.

As SI’s Grant Wahl put it, Leicester City winning the Premier League is akin to a double-A baseball team somehow working its way up to the MLB and then winning the World Series.

Leicester has Chelsea to thank on Monday, as the Blues came back from 2-0 down in the second half against Tottenham in a testy affair at Stamford Bridge. Chasing Leicester with three games remaining in the season, Tottenham needed to beat Chelsea and win its remaining games, and hope Leicester managed only two points in the final three games. None of that mattered, ultimately, as Tottenham could not hold on to the late lead against Chelsea.

Eden Hazard was the villain against Tottenham, scoring the equalizer with a terrific top-corner finish in the 83rd minute:

Elsewhere in England, Leicester fans went wild at Hazard’s equalizer:

Chelsea fans, who had given up on their team months ago, were openly cheering for Leicester throughout the game:

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And when the final whistle sounded, Leicester City players watching at striker Jamie Vardy’s house went absolutely bonkers:

Hats off to Leicester City — we will almost certainly never see a Cinderella story quite like this in soccer again.