A couple of weeks back, Leicester City fans celebrated Leonardo Ulloa’s 89th-minute winner against Norwich so boisterously that they actually managed to register on the Richter scale.
We know this thanks to the fine work of the geology students at Leicester University, who saw a spike in their seismic readings at the precise moment Ulloa popped up to nab the winner at the King Power Stadium.
One of those aforementioned students, Richard Hoyle, forwarded his findings to The Sun:
A few days after we installed the equipment at the school and were analysing data collected, we noticed large peaks on the seismogram during football matches being held in the LCFC stadium nearby.
We concluded our equipment was actually measuring small earthquakes produced by the sudden energy release by the cheering Leicester fans celebrating at the moment a goal was scored.
The equipment was set up at Hazel Community Primary School, just 500 metres down the road from Leicester’s stadium.
The reverberations caused by the manic celebrations measured 0.3 on the Richter scale, which we’re reliably informed is somewhere akin to a hand grenade going off.
Anybody who has attended a match at the King Power will know full well that the whole ground has a tendency to rock in a fairly unsettling manner.
If the Foxes do go on to win the Premier League, they might want to think about using the prize money to have their foundations surveyed.