Insight - Thai owners chase gold and glory after Leicester's remarkable run


A man looks at a Leicester City T-shirt inside a King Power duty free store in Bangkok, January 28, 2016. Picture taken January 28, 2016. REUTERS/Jorge Silva

BANGKOK (Reuters) - It took just 30 minutes for Leicester City's Thai billionaire owner to decide to buy the English soccer club in 2010. It now looks like an inspired investment.

The club was struggling in English soccer's second tier at the time. It has since won promotion to the premiership, and, remarkably, sits at the very top of the world's richest league with over half the season gone.

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