People actually believe the Champions League draw was fixed in favour of Leicester City

Remember that time when almost everyone loved Leicester City?

You should do. It was only a few months ago.

Pretty much every football fan in the world – with the exception of Spurs and Arsenal supporters – were willing Claudio Ranieri’s men on to a title success that nobody saw coming.

Having lifted the Premier League last May, Leicester sealed their place in the Champions League.

With the draw for its group stages taking place in Monaco on Thursday, it’s fair to say that The Foxes came out of it pretty well. They will be in Group G when the competition starts in September, along with 2004 winners FC Porto, Belgium’s Club Brugge and FC Copenhagen of Denmark.

Leicester were entered into the draw as one of its top seeds – allowing them to avoid the likes of Juventus, Barcelona, Real Madrid and Bayern Munich. This is due to a relatively new rule that was introduced by Uefa last year. It states that winners of Europe’s top associations will be placed directly into pot one. Previously, the top eight seeds were determined by the coefficients of the competing clubs.

Clearly unaware of the change in rules, many suggested that the draw had been ‘fixed’ in favour of Leicester – clearly not everyone’s second favourite team anymore.

https://twitter.com/markweekes/status/768863455940141056

https://twitter.com/andyforbes07/status/768862879781097476

Man City – group of death
Arsenal – finish second again
Leicester – a Europa league draw in the Champions League
Spurs – winnable

Fixed!!!

— City Scout (@city_scout) August 25, 2016

https://twitter.com/Charliemccord16/status/768857501521641472

https://twitter.com/Gregmoose/status/768853775947816960

Ok, who's fixed Leicester's CL draw??

— Andrew Youngman (@andrew_youngers) August 25, 2016

https://twitter.com/keexperez1/status/768853136152813568

Porto get Leicester ffs, even UCL groups being fixed for Leicester

— Alex (@AIexBarbaro) August 25, 2016

Looks like this has been fixed in an effort to have Leicester qualify. I hope Celtic gets that group….

— Ronald Campbell (@RonaldCampbell6) August 25, 2016

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