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Chris Horwedel talks with Jack Worswick about Leicester City's dramatic fall from Premier League champions to League One.

On this episode of The Beautiful Game: Unfiltered , Chris Horwedel talks with Jack Worswick of Last Word on Sports about one of the wildest collapses in modern English football: Leicester City’s fall from Premier League champions to League One. Jack explains his background as a Leicester supporter and writer, and how difficult it has become to cover the club analytically while also having an emotional connection to it. The conversation frames Leicester’s journey through the impossible 2015-16 Premier League title, the FA Cup win, European nights, and a Champions League quarterfinal run — followed by relegations, financial problems, supporter frustration, and a toxic atmosphere around the club. Chris and Jack dig into how Leicester’s miracle success changed expectations and pushed the club into a different transfer market. Jack points to the summer of 2021 as a major turning point, when Leicester stopped selling one key player per year and instead spent heavily on players like Patson Daka, Boubakary Soumaré, Jannik Vestergaard, and Ryan Bertrand. Those moves failed to deliver the next step, and without Champions League revenue, the financial damage began to stack up. The episode…

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