Leicester registered over 2.6 million tweets in less than one hour after their historic Barclays Premiership title win on Monday night, but the East Midland club are little known in the global social media, compared with the giants of English football.
While runner-up Tottenham Hotspurs, with two games to go have 1.49m followers on Twitter, Leicester have just 664,000.
Chelsea, the defending champion that did Leicester a great favour Monday night by virtually handing over the baton to them have 6.87m followers.
They joined the social media platform in March 2009
Arsenal have 7.42million followers and Manchester United lead with 7.57m
Manchester City have 3.23million followers, even though they joined Twitter in April 2008
Leicester also have a comparatively very low wage bill, compared with their giant rivals. According to an AFP infographics, as at June 2015, their annual wage bill was £48.2m.
Tottenham paid more than double at £110.5million.
Manchester City and Arsenal paid £193.8million and £192million respectively.
Chelsea and Manchester United have the most expensive assembly of footballers. While United’s annual wage bill stood at £203m, Chelsea paid £215m.
Some other revelations in the current league, Southampton and West Ham paid £59.5million and £69.5 million.