For so long Leicester looked set to be glorious gatecrashers again. In this match, as in the season, they played their way into a wonderful position, tantalisingly close to a qualification for the Champions League that would have ridiculed the presumed order of things in English football. But they could not hold on. They must settle for an agonising, laudable fifth-place finish.

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