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Scarce booklet looking back at nearly 70 years of man city history in the year after their promotion back into the 1st division, including profiles of the. This is a page run by leicester fans for leicester fans. The twoway one of the greatest underdog stories in sports history is smalltown leicester s bid for the championship of. How johan cruyff nearly signed for leicester city in 1981. These range from the very first pamphlet describing the history of leicester fosse, published in 1893, through to the plethora of books about the foxes generated by the club winning the premier league in 2016.
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