Leicester City's Premier League success was foretold a century ago

Leicester City Football Club’s historic success in the Premier League was prophesied over 120 years ago - by Leicester fans in 1895.

The University of Leicester has found archive of the Leicester Fosse Club, who were the forerunners to the Leicester City Football Club.

In an 1895 edition of The Wyvern, a rare Leicester-based Victorian periodical published between 1891 and 1906, a Leicester fan wrote:

The Wyvern charts Fosse’s journey from a small non-league club, struggling to find a permanent ground and to attract decent crowds, to a high-performer in the Second Division of the Football League with an enthusiastic fan-base.

On Monday 16 May an open-top bus parade and ‘Vardy party’ in Victoria Park will mark the Foxes’ momentous achievement in becoming the champions of English football for the first time in the club’s 132 year history.