Leicester City cast net for Irish sponsors

Leicester City are keen to bring Irish companies on board as commercial partners as the club looks to build on its remarkable achievement of winning this year’s Premier League.

5,000-1 outsiders at the start of the season, Leicester’s title success — which will see them compete in next season’s Champions League — is widely regarded as one of the greatest surprises in the history of sport and has turned the previously unheralded midlands club into a global phenomenon.

Now, Leicester’s Cork-born commercial director Ian Flanagan — who was hired by the club’s Dublin-born chief executive Susan Whelan four years ago — has said that that he would like to see Irish companies added to their sponsorship portfolio.