This week’s soccer questions: Wrexham’s future, and did we just see the biggest title shock in history?
We look at whether FC Thun’s championship victory rivals Leicester City’s in 2016, and what the future holds for Michael Carrick and two Hollywood stars
FC Thun fans celebrate the Swiss Super League championship title. Photograph: Alessandro Della Valle/EPA How does FC Thun’s Swiss title triumph compare to Leicester City 2016? A decade on from Leicester City’s still sensational Premier League title , the memory has been evoked by a team in Switzerland.
In some ways, FC Thun have exceeded the Foxes’ achievement because not even Leicester won the title immediately after promotion in the way the new Swiss champions did. Thun, hailing from a town of just 45,000 people, were predicted to struggle in the Swiss Super League this season. Many expected them to go straight back down to the second division.
Instead, Mauro Lustrinelli’s team embarked on an incredible run that deserves to be ranked alongside some of soccer’s great underdog tales. Lustrinelli played for Thun when they qualified for the Champions League in 2005, when, had it not been for a Dennis Bergkamp winner in stoppage time, the Swiss would have claimed a famous point at Arsenal. What unfolded this season, however, was even more memorable.
In their 128-year history, Thun had never won the Swiss title. Their net spend in the transfer market this season amounted to roughly €700,000 ($820,000). Thun’s captain, Marko Burki, isn’t even the most famous soccer player in his own family – former Switzerland goalkeeper Roman Burki is his older brother.
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