A FAN with a special King Power of prediction hailed Leicester’s promotion 10 MONTHS before they did the trick this week – thanks to an incredible omen.
Huddersfield supporter Oliver Eaton’s June 2023 tweet explaining his Foxy feeling has now gone viral after City sealed an instant return to the Premier League.
Leeds’ 4-0 loss at QPR on Friday night ensured Leicester’s elevation from the Championship, three days after the Foxes beat Southampton 5-0.
Yet Eaton had already “congratulated” Enzo Maresca‘s men for their upcoming achievement last summer.
And it’s all down to a staggering stat involving his beloved Terriers!
The marketing executive revealed each of Town’s opening-day Championship opponents from the past three seasons went up the same campaign.
He posted: “Here is your reminder that whoever gets Huddersfield’s first home game has gone on to be promoted as Champions for the last three seasons.
“Norwich 20.21… Fulham 21.22… Burnley 22.23.”
And once a home match with the Foxes was scheduled for the August 12 curtain-raiser, Eaton added: “I guess it’s congratulations to Leicester City.”
True, his title prediction isn’t quite home and dry, as Ipswich have an outside chance of overhauling Maresca’s leaders.
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Nonetheless, fans on social media saluted Eaton for being so on the crystal ball – one saying “unbelievable stat that”.
But with Huddersfield doomed to relegation, one sad supporter posted: “Incredible coincidence! But it isn’t going to be the case next season.”
Meanwhile, ironically, Leicester revelled in their promotion joy with a prophecy of their own.
The Foxes trolled second-placed rivals Leeds by tweeting “I predict a riot”.
By Dave Kidd
WHEN Manchester United got lucky in their FA Cup semi-final, Antony’s first instinct was to goad heartbroken opponents Coventry. To rub their noses in the dirt.
Antony seems to be a vile individual but this isn’t really about Antony. Because Antony is merely a symptom of the hideous sickness within England’s top flight.
There is so much wrong.
After our elite clubs persuaded the FA to completely scrap Cup replays — which gave us Ronnie Radford and Ricky Villa and Ryan Giggs — without due recompense or reasoning with the rest of English football.
The previous day, after his Manchester City side had defeated Chelsea in the other FA Cup semi-final, Pep Guardiola whinged about the fixture scheduling of TV companies who effectively pay much of his £20m salary.
Up at Wolves, Guardiola’s friend and rival Mikel Arteta was playing the same sad song about fixture congestion, despite his Arsenal side having played two fewer games this season than Coventry — who don’t have £50m squad players to rotate with.
Chelsea, oh Chelsea. The one-time plaything of a Russian oligarch now owned by financially incontinent venture capitalists who have piddled £1billion on a squad of players who fight like weasels in a sack about who should bask in the personal glory of scoring the penalty that puts them 5-0 up against Everton.
