Leicester City's Premier League win makes many long shots more likely

Leicester City's unlikely victory in the English soccer Premier League has dramatically raised hopes for a number of other so-called long shots. At the start of the season, bookies offered odds of 5000-1 on a Leicester win. In fact, the odds on Leicester being demoted back to the lower Championship division were way tighter. By Christmas it became clear that Leicester was on course to confound the bookies and all the pundits - they duly won the league going away, with no other team in close. Odds even tighter than Leicester's unlikely victory include: Elvis Presley still being alive and Kim Kardashian becoming president.

In fact the Elvis Alive odds are much lower at a mere 2000-1. Jim McNemeny, a popular Elvis impersonator and lead singer of a local tribute band in Boise, Idaho rejoiced at the news. 'Me 'n the guys have long known that Elvis is not far away. If you think that it was only in August that Leicester was deemed a wash-out by the bookies, it's probably just a matter of weeks now before Elvis reveals himself. After all, he's only 81, that's not that old these days.' Many observers believe Elvis had no choice but to go incognito when things got the better of him in 1977. Says McNemeny, 'That old joke about, he's not dead, he's just having a break, is truer than most people realise.'

Kim Kardashian, who was recently portrayed as a teenager in the series The People vs OJ Simpson: American Crime Story, is exuberant: '2000-1 on me becoming President of the United States, that's like so over the top. Look at Donald Trump, he's at 3-1 now, look at Hillary, 1-3. Where were they a few years ago? Leicester's win is so paving the way for the unthinkable to be actually totally possible. I'm not seriously planning my campaign yet but somebody's gonna make some awesome money on me one day, probably in the 2020s. But if I like I can bide my time until the 30s or even the 40s.'

With the odds at a mere 500-1 on the 65-million year old Loch Ness monster being discovered, local hostelries in Inverness and Abriachan have already reported a big increase in bookings this summer as many punters have realised that Leicester's win has made a sighting more likely than ever.