Leicester City's champions tweet is 17th most retweeted Twitter post EVER - in less than three days

Published at :May 4, 2016 at 6:15 PM

Modified at :September 30, 2019 at 4:53 AM

The tweet, which was posted at full-time of the Chelsea-Tottenham match on Monday, has passed 400,000 retweets.

Leicester City. Champions of England. pic.twitter.com/WRwfysTn2N
— Leicester City (@LCFC) May 2, 2016

The tweet, which merely read "Leicester City Champions of England" has been retweeted over 400,000 times since it was posted on Monday evening. Ellen DeGeneres' Oscar selfie - where she lined up alongside Bradley Cooper, Lupita Nyong’o, Jennifer Lawrence, Brad Pitt, Kevin Spacey and more famous faces - has received over 3.3million retweets. [KH_RELATED_NEWS title="Related News"][/KH_RELATED_NEWS]

If only Bradley's arm was longer. Best photo ever. #oscars pic.twitter.com/C9U5NOtGap
— Ellen DeGeneres (@TheEllenShow) March 3, 2014