Leicester City Have 12 Thai Monks To Thank For Their Incredible Rise To The Premier League Summit

Chris Wright

15th, March 2016

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Thai monk Phra Prommangkalachan and his Leicester amulet (Photo: Christophe Archambault/AFP)

It’s frankly disgusting that Claudio Ranieri is prepared to sit there, grinning from ear to ear while he accepts plaudits from the world and his dog for overseeing Leicester City’s phenomenal ascent to the summit of the Premier League when, in truth, the be-spectacled charlatan has actually had minimal sway in the club’s rise to the top.

Indeed, it has emerged that Leicester’s success is almost nothing to do with Ranieri’s coaching and almost everything to do with a dozen or so Buddhist monks from Thailand who visited the King Power Stadium a few times three years ago.

Elder monk Phra Prommangkalachan and around 12 of his cohorts made a series of regular trips to Leicester’s stadium at the behest of the club’s Thai owner Vichai Srivaddhanaprabha in order to bless the pitch, dole out little cloth amulets to staff and players and generally instil an aura of good karma around the place.

Lo and behold, three years later and the Foxes are hurtling towards their first ever top flight title. Coincidence? We think not.

Mr Prommangkalachan, 64, told the AFP:

Vichai brought monks there to pray for auspiciousness and luck in the game, for the management team and the players.

I hung some amulets on their necks and I gave them these fabric talismans.

I’m not sure if they understood what I explained to them about it, but they knew that it would bring them luck.

Fine work Phra, fine work. The good people of Leicester owe you a debt of gratitude, unlike a certain Italian chancer.

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