‘We had to get a police escort to Jamie Vardy’s party’ – remembering Leicester’s 5,000-1 title winFigure caption, Wes Morgan and Marc Albrighton reflect on Leicester’s stunning title successByAndrew Aloia, BBC Sport, East Midlands and Natalie Jackson, BBC East Midlands TodayPublished49 minutes agoLeicester City had just been crowned Premier League champions when two Foxes players bizarrely found themselves together in a police custody suite.Marc Albrighton was the second to be ushered in and surprised to see title-winning team-mate Ben Chilwell smiling back at him.These were two players on lockdown for their own good, as efforts to get to team-mate Jamie Vardy’s place for the impromptu – and now famous – house party became too much of a risk as Foxes fans in their thousands crowded around the striker’s property.
“It seems a bit surreal,” Albrighton told BBC East Midlands Today as he recalled the hours that immediately followed confirmation of Leicester’s title win on 2 May 2016.
“I got my parents to try drop me at Jamie Vardy’s house and they had to drop me at the police station instead because there were too many fans outside his gate so I had to get a police escort in.
“I remember getting to the station and Ben Chilwell was sat in the custody room, because he obviously had been told to do the same thing.
“Then we were both sat in the back of this police car driving through to Vards’ house and you see all the fans banging on the the police car window and throwing scarves on the car.
“When stuff like that was happening, it’s how I imagine celebrities feel.”
