Chee Soon Juan hopes to outfox Murali like new BPL champions Leicester
With the odds of winning the 7 May Bukit Batok by-election stacked against him, the Singapore Democratic Party chief Chee Soon Juan is invoking the underdog spirit of Leicester City, which has just shocked the football world by clinching the English Premier League title for the first time ever.
Facing a formidable opponent in the People’s Action Party’s Murali Pillai in the by-election, Chee is hoping for a “comeback” and stage an upset win this Saturday, just like The Foxes confounding the 5000-1 bookmaker odds of winning the league at the start of the current season.
Following a morning walkabout in Bukit Batok on Tuesday (3 May), Chee said in a Facebook post, “Leicester City just won the Premier League title, a historic event because this is the first time that they've won the championship in their club's long history. When they started off this season, no one gave them any chance of winning.
“Help us make history too by making a comeback on 7 May 2016. It's a much, much more important event.”
With closest title rivals Tottenham Hotspur drawing 2-2 away to Chelsea in London on Monday, Leicester won the title with two games to spare. Leicester have charmed football fans around the world by surpassing top teams like Chelsea, Manchester City and Liverpool that have much bigger budgets than them to become champions of what many consider as the world’s most competitive football league.
Ahead of the SDP rally this evening, Chee said that he will address issues such as retrenchment and foreign talent in Singapore.