Triumph, tragedy and turmoil.
The previous decade at Leicester Metropolis has had all of it.
It began with a season that delivered probably the most unlikely – and beforehand unfathomable – Premier League title to King Energy Stadium in 2016.
Two years later, the stadium was additionally the positioning of the membership's most stunning tragedy, as proprietor and chairman Vichai Srivaddhanaprabha died alongside 4 different individuals in a helicopter crash exterior the bottom.
Now, in a season the place Leicester will mark the 10-year anniversary of their biggest sporting second – which Vichai was instrumental in creating – the membership finds itself again in England's second tier after a second relegation from the Premier League in three years.
And this time they've dropped into the Championship underneath a cloud of uncertainty, the specter of a factors penalty hanging over the membership for allegedly breaching spending guidelines once they have been promoted from the division as title winners simply over a yr in the past.
“It has been an emotional rollercoaster,” stated lifelong Foxes fan Kate Blakemore, a daily Leicester contributor for BBC Sport.
“We have had tragedy thrown in there with the passing of Vichai, and profitable the FA Cup will not be one thing I assumed I might see in my lifetime, not to mention the Premier League.
“We've had some superb highs this previous decade and but right here we're feeling fairly glum that we have now been relegated for the second time in three seasons and issues appear a bit bit unsettled on the membership.
“We're rounding out the last decade with a really totally different feeling to how we began it, and it is fairly powerful to take for the followers actually.”
The departure of talismanic striker Jamie Vardy, the final of Leicester's Premier League-title profitable facet, and the membership's failure to spend to bolster the squad this summer time, emphasises simply how this newest relegation marks the tip of a golden period for the Foxes.
