Sunday Mirror

FOR YOU, VICHAI

Foxes Cup win dedicated to tragic owner

- BY SIMON MULLOCK

LEICESTER CITY hero Youri Tielemans dedicated his sensationa­l FA Cup Final winner to tragic club chairman Vichai Srivaddhan­aprabha.

The Belgian’s brilliant 25-yard drive sunk Chelsea as Brendan Rodgers’ men lifted the trophy for the first time in the club’s 137-year history.

And Tielemans paid tribute to Vichai, the billionair­e Thai businessma­n who was killed with four other people in a helicopter crash outside the King Power Stadium in October

2018.

Tielemans said: “I was looking up and I saw Aiyawatt Srivaddhan­aprabha, and I know his father would have been really

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CUp THAT Chairman Aiyawatt Srivaddhan­aprabha with boss Rodgers CLUb LeGeND Leicester’s brilliant FA Cup win was for Vichai Srivaddhan­aprabha

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