Unofficial Champions of England: Leicester City 3-0 Bradford City, 06/05/2000

Matt Elliott celebrates his first goal.

Bradford City cemented their position as English Champions with a 3-0 win over fellow relegation battlers Wimbledon.

Their next game was away at Filbert Street to play Leicester City. The Foxes were in a comfortable mid-table position and had already booked their place in next seasons UEFA cup after winning the League Cup against Tranmere Rovers.
So, they had nothing to play for. Except the Unofficial English Championship, of course.

Bradford held on for an hour but were then undone by 3 goals in nine minutes. Two headed goals from Matt Elliott and a third from Tony Cottee won Leicester their 6th Championship to go along with their League Cup.

Unofficial Champions of England: Leicester City 2-0 Newcastle United, 26/10/1996

Emile Heskey salutes the Leicester City fans after scoring the second goal

There was a danger that new Champions Newcastle United could get a bit full of themselves after the thrashing they gave Manchester United.

Six days on and with a narrow League Cup win over Oldham Athletic in between, The Toon Army was back in action at newly promoted Leicester City.
Under manager Martin O'Neill, Leicester were proving to be the seasons surprise package. They had been expected relegation battlers but were proving more than a match for the big boys.

The Foxes went ahead after 17 minutes when Newcastle keeper Pavel Srnicek could only palm a low cross into the path of Steve Claridge, who was delighted to sweep in the rebound.

Newcastle had their chances to equalise but the game was settled 10 minutes from time when young Leicester striker Emile Heskey found himself one on one with the goalkeeper and coolly took it round him to slot home.

Now two-time Champions Leicester City were having a ball in the top flight.

Unofficial Champions of England: Leicester City 2-1 Sunderland 01/01/1994

Julian Joachim makes it 2-0 to Leicester

Sunderland had barely three days to enjoy their time as Unofficial Champions of England before they were defending their title again.

On New Years day, the Rokerites travelled to promotion-hunting Leicester City at Filbert Street.
Veteran striker David Speedie opened the scoring with a cross-come-shot from the edge of the box.
Highly rated Julian Joachim weaved his way through the Sunderland defence to make it 2-0.

Sunderland did pull one back with a penalty from Phil Gray but it was too little, too late as Leicester took their place as Champions of England.

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