Leicester City: Premier League title moments – a decade on

It was a dream then, it is a dream now – especially as Leicester prepare for League One.

Ten years ago the Foxes were preparing to defend their Premier League title and looking forward to Champions League football.

At 5,000-1, they had pulled off the most improbable, the most stunning, the most incredible feat to shock the world.

But now, after back-to-back relegations, those days seem almost as surreal as when they actually happened.

New manager Russell Martin will be expected to take the club back to the Championship at the first attempt, something that sounds nowhere near as impossible as what the Foxes previously managed.

A decade on, the ‘pinch-me’ moments live on for those who were there, and some have shared them with BBC Sport.

Spoiler: they might not be the ones you knew about.

Leicester had won the title without kicking a ball on 2 May 2016 when nearest challengers Tottenham Hotspur could only manage a 2-2 draw with Chelsea.

The next day, there was only one group of men the media wanted to speak to.

The trouble was they were hard to find.

Crowds gathered at the club’s former training ground at Belvoir Drive, a few miles outside the centre of Leicester.

Journalists and fans waited – one cameraman persuaded a neighbour to allow him in to film from their bathroom window as he aimed to get footage of the celebrating Foxes.

The media were finally instructed to head to King Power Stadium where the press room would be opened.

A five-minute drive took 30 minutes through revelling fans and it was a battle to get to there but, inside, the world’s media edged in, hoping to hear from those who made this miracle possible.

But only eight reporters would receive a secret invitation to head back to Belvoir Drive.

Quietly, one-by-one, the handpicked members of the British press who regularly covered the club, slipped out of the packed room and made their way back.

This time, they were let in and ushered into the family room, just to the right of reception.

When manager Claudio Ranieri walked in, he received an immediate, impromptu, standing ovation and shook hands with those who had watched the astounding season unfold.

The man the world wanted to speak to gave an engaging audience to a few writers for 45 minutes.