'We had to get a police escort to Jamie Vardy's party' - remembering Leicester's 5,000-1 title win

Leicester City had just been crowned Premier League champions when two Foxes players bizarrely found themselves together in a police custody suite. Marc Albrighton was the second to be ushered in and surprised to see title-winning team-mate Ben Chilwell smiling back at him. These were two players on lockdown for their own good, as efforts to get to team-mate Jamie Vardy's place for the impromptu – and now famous - house party became too much of a risk as Foxes fans in their thousands crowded around the striker's property.

"It seems a bit surreal," Albrighton told BBC East Midlands Today as he recalled the hours that immediately followed confirmation of Leicester's title win. "I got my parents to try drop me at Jamie Vardy's house and they had to drop me at the police station instead because there were too many fans outside his gate so I had to get a police escort in. "I remember getting to the station and Ben Chilwell was sat in the custody room, because he obviously had been told to do the same thing.

"Then we were both sat in the back of this police car driving through to Vards' house and you see all the fans banging on the the police car window and throwing scarves on the car. "When stuff like that was happening, it's how I imagine celebrities feel. " Relegation doesn't 'taint' memory of title win - Morgan Leicester relegated to League One after Hull draw Foxes' demise 'sad to see' says title-winning captain Morgan Listen to The Rise and Fall of Leicester City on BBC 5 Live The jubilant and chaotic scenes in Leicester on the night of 2 May 2016 - sparked when the Foxes' nearest rivals Tottenham failed to beat Chelsea in a title-deciding result - was an outpouring of delighted disbelief as the Foxes pulled off what remains one of the most famous underdog stories.

The reason it is known as the 5,000-1 title win is that the likelihood of the team that narrowly escaped relegation a year earlier - having only earned promotion back to the top flight after a decade-long absence just 12 months before that - was so far fetched that bookmakers wrote it off as just about impossible. "Ten years on and I don't think a day has gone by where it's not been mentioned," Albrighton said. "That shows the size of the achievement.