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Acquiescence trumps apocalypse as Leicester’s demise is confirmed

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Leicester's return to the Championship was sealed on a pleasant spring afternoon in a game of almost no incident beyond the Trent Alexander-Arnold goal that took Liverpool to within three points of the title.

Leicester have been nowhere near good enough to stay up this season and relegation has seemed distinctly probable since they lost 3 -0 against Wolves three days before Christmas .

There were boos at the final whistle, and a banner unveiled complaining about two relegations in three years .

When Bobby De CordovaReid struck that last home goal, a 91st-minute equaliser against Brighton , 133 days ago , Bashar alAssad was just being toppled as leader of Syria . Gary O’Neil was still manager of Wolves and Russell Martin was still at Southampton . Joe Biden was still the US president and Saudi Arabia had n’t been confirmed formally as host of the 2034 World Cup . The world was a very different place then, but Leicester were doomed just as surely..