By Thai Newsroom Reporters
LEICESTER CITY have been literally relegated from the Premier League with last night’s home game gone kaput, completely shattering their flimsy hope of survival in the top tier of the English football system, and with the remaining matches of the ending 2024/2025 season being utterly meaningless to the Thai-owned Foxes.
A 0-1 defeat to Liverpool in last night’s home game was enough to send Leicester relegated from the Premier League to the Championship, the second tier of the English football hierarchy from where they had been automatically promoted to the top tier in previous season, regardless of any more points which the Foxes may make from next game until the final one of the 38-game season. Leicester’s catastrophic situation is undoubtedly prompting their Thai owner Aiyawatt Srivaddhanaprabha to decide what to do to hopefully help the Foxes jump onto the top flight again next season.
Despite all purely theoretical possibilities of Leicester snatching all 15 points at stake until the end of the current season in addition to a meagre 18 points which they have made so far, featuring four wins, six draws and 23 defeats, the Foxes would only secure a maximum of 33 points – three points shy of safety from the relegation zone, compared to the 17th-ranked West Ham United’s 36 points today which is enough to stay up in the top tier, regardless of results of the five remaining matches.
Many, if not most, of Leicester fans and supporters at King Power stadium had quietly anticipated the relegation of the Foxes since the last few months despite last-ditch, all-out efforts exercised by the players and manager Ruud van Nistelrooy week in, week out.
Van Nistelrooy, a former Manchester United striker, who replaced Steve Cooper as Leicester City manager last November has openly pledged to stay with the Foxes in whatever tier until his contract expires in 2027, it remains to be seen whether Aiyawatt may consider him to be more competent and promising for next season’s challenges than the current one.
For starters, the Dutch manager would likely recruit a few young, talented strikers to replace the 38-year-old Jamie Vardy and 33-year-old Jordan Ayew upon the start of next season in August, among other ways and means to strengthen the Fox squads and enhance their goal-scoring prowess.
Given the Premier League champions title in 2015/2016 season notwithstanding, all the Foxes people ranging from the players, regular fans and supporters to coaches, management and owner may finally conclude that playing the Premier League football is an ultimately relentless, uphill task week in, week out since the Foxes themselves and all other newly-promoted clubs have been relegated after a single, unsuccessful campaign in the top tier over the last couple of seasons.
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Top: Leicester City’s English defender #04 Conor Coady reacts on the pitch after the English Premier League football match between Leicester City and Liverpool at King Power Stadium in Leicester, central England on April 20, 2025. Photo: Darren Staples/AFP and published by Channels Television
First insert: Leicester City football club’s Thai owner Aiyawatt Srivaddhanaprabha. Photo: Sky News
Second insert: Leicester City’s Dutch manager Ruud van Nistelrooy (R) consoles Leicester City’s English midfielder #93 Jeremy Monga (L) on the pitch after the English Premier League football match between Leicester City and Liverpool at King Power Stadium in Leicester, central England on April 20, 2025. Photo: Darren Staples/AFP and published by Channels Television
Front Page: Leicester City’s English striker #09 Jamie Vardy leaves the pitch after the English Premier League football match between Leicester City and Liverpool at King Power Stadium in Leicester, central England on April 20, 2025. Photo: Darren Staples/AFP and published by Channels Television
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