BANGKOK (Reuters) - As English football champions Leicester lifted their trophy in Britain's Midlands, more than 9,000 kilometres away on a sweltering night in Bangkok celebrating fans held aloft a blue banner that read "Leicester City - Thailand's team."
Some 1,500 supporters gathered to cheer the unlikely heroics of the team in an area the size of a football pitch outside the headquarters of King Power, the duty-free franchise that has made Leicester's owner Vichai Srivaddhanaprabha one of Thailand's richest men.
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