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Leicester Cathedral flies flag for Foxes

by Aaron James

If Leicester City FC, known as the Foxes, beat Manchester United on the weekend it will win the Premier League for the first time in the club's history - after starting the season as 5000-1 outsiders.

The Foxes' feat will be one of the greatest underdog achievements in sporting history if they pull it off away at Manchester's Old Trafford stadium.

In support Leicester Cathedral is flying the club's flag and has also been bathed in blue light - the club's colour - during nights (below, top).

Leicester Cathedral staff and many others in the city have been wearing blue clothing before the match and other major buildings in the city have also been lit up in blue at night.

Chippies have also been producing blue battered sausages for customers.

Leicester City Council
Leicester City Council
Leicester City Council
Leicester City Council
Leicester city centre with striker Jamie Vardy
Leicester City Council
Leicester Museum

Very Revd David Monteith, the Dean of Leicester Cathedral, told Premier: "Here's a largely unknown, unsung football club that's been playing football for a very long time and now suddenly has the opportunity to do well.

"So it is a bit of a story of the underdog becoming centre-stage. That's a great story which has deep resonance with our Christian experience.

"They're playing genuinely as a team and they're a team of huge diversity.

"That also has resonance with me and my work in the cathedral in a diverse city of many cultures and many faiths where we're trying to create synergies between people and trying to get people to work together for the common good.

"The people in our community who we might identify as the underdog, this is a moment for us in the wider community in Leicester to be champions for them and make sure they come centre-stage."

Listen to Premier's Aaron James speaking to Very Revd David Monteith:

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