Sports cars for Leicester’s title-winners

First it was pizzas. Now it’s topof-the-range sports cars.

A fleet of 19 BMW i8s - each worth around $135,000 - lined up outside Leicester’s stadium as a reward to the players for their Premier League-winning exploits last season.

Another bonus for producing the most improbable title suc- cess ever in English football.

Asked whether he would be getting a car bought for him, Leicester coach Claudio Ranieri smiled and said: “Some gifts are only for them? Not for me? I want to speak with my owner.”

The Italian rewarded his players for clean sheets by taking them out for pizza during last season. The bar has been raised considerably with the gift of a brand new car for each member of the title-winning squad.

It will set Leicester’s Thai owners back £2 million.

Leicester’s first game of its Premier League title defence is against Hull on 13 August.