It's official: Leicester City’s owner "Vichai Srivaddhanaprabha", died in the helicopter crash outside the club’s stadium on Saturday night

He was one of five people killed all on board the helicopter when the accident occurred around an hour after Leicester’s 1-1 draw at home to West Ham United. The Thai owner’s helicopter crashed near a car park by the south-east corner of the stadium shortly after taking off from the pitch.
Freelance photographer Ryan Brown, who was covering the game, saw the helicopter clear the King Power Stadium before it crashed.
He told BBC Radio Leicester: "The engine stopped and I turned round and it made a bit of a whirring noise, like a grinding noise.
"The helicopter just went silent, I turned round and it was just spinning, out of control. And then there was a big bang and then [a] big fireball.
Srivaddhanaprabha bought Leicester in August 2010 for £39million and under Mr Srivaddhanaprabha's ownership, the club won the Premier League in 2016.
The five people were on board the helicopter when the incident happened. While formal identification has not yet taken place, they are believed to be Leicester City Football Club chairman Vichai Srivaddhanaprabha, two members of his staff, Nursara Suknamai and Kaveporn Punpare, pilot Eric Swaffer and passenger Izabela Roza Lechowicz.
From Championship survival to Barclay Premier league Champion 👑
*Vichai Srivaddhanaprabha*, The man who helped mastermind one of the greatest sporting stories of any generation.
Leicester City and football will never forget him. He allowed football fans to dream again.

Leicester City owner Vichai Srivaddhanaprabha is feared dead after his helicopter crashed on Saturday night outside of the King Power Stadium.

The football family are with Srivaddhanaprabha's family and Leicester City in this tragic time😭😭
*Leicester City owner Vichai Srivaddhanaprabha is feared dead after his helicopter crashed on Saturday night outside of the King Power Stadium.*
The helicopter took off at around 8.45pm and nosedived in a ball of flames less than 200 yards away just seconds later. Eye-witnesses said the AW169 helicopter spiralled out of control in the air with an apparent problem with the tail fin.
A source close to the family disclosed that Srivaddhanaprabha was in his helicopter when it crashed.
Our thoughts and prayers are with everyone at Leicester City. 🙏🏽

Cristiano Ronaldo will return to Old Trafford as the starring sub-plot of a mouth-watering Champions Leagueclash between Manchester United and Juventus tonight.

Tonight , five and a half years later, Ronaldo will be back again. Now 33, with five Ballons d'Or and Champions League trophies to his name

👉🏼Tonight's fixtures
*Champions League - Group E*
19:55 AEK Athens vs Bayern Munich
22:00 Ajax vs Benfica
*Champions League - Group F*
22:00 Hoffenheim vs Lyon
22:00 Shakhtar Donetsk vs Manchester City
*Champions League - Group G*
22:00 Real Madrid vs Viktoria Plzen
22:00 Roma vs CSKA Moscow
*Champions League - Group H*
19:55 Young Boys vs Valencia
22:00 Manchester United vs Juventus

Messi still leads the way in the scoring charts, despite Barca's dire performance: 2016/17 UCL Top Scorers

Messi still leads the way in the scoring charts, despite Barca's dire performance:
2016/17 UCL Top Scorers
Position Player
1 Lionel Messi
2 Edinson Cavani
3 Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang
4 Robert Lewandowski
5 Sergio Aguero
6 Dries Mertens
7 Karim Benzema
8 Neymar
9 Mesut Ozil
10 Riyad Mahrez

Wayde van Niekerk has revealed how Usain Bolt gave him the belief to break the 400m world record.

Wayde van Niekerk has revealed how Usain Bolt gave him the belief to break the 400m world record
"I got to realise we are all human beings and that what's possible for him ( Usain Bolt ) is possible for me."
Jamaican legend Usain Bolt inspired Wayde van Niekerk to break Michael Johnson’s 400 metres world record.
The South African smashed the 17 year record time of 43.18 set by the American to write his name into the history books by recording 43.03.
That performance led to many believing the 24-year-old was the natural successor to Bolt as the poster boy of athletics.

DRAMATIC night yesterday in the UEFA Champions League as # ASMONACO earned a 3-1 win on the night to claim a come from behind victory over # ManchesterCity on away goals. Elsewhere a 0-0 draw enough for # AtléticoDeMadrid to advance past # Bayer04Leverkusen .

DRAMATIC night yesterday in the UEFA Champions League as #ASMONACO earned a 3-1 win on the night to claim a come from behind victory over #ManchesterCity on away goals. Elsewhere a 0-0 draw enough for #AtléticoDeMadrid to advance past
#Bayer04Leverkusen .
Uefa Champions League Quarter Finals
3 Spain
#Barcelona , #RealMadrid and #AtleticoMadrid
2 Germany
#BayernMunich , #BorussiaDortmund
1 England
#Leicester
1 Italy
#Juventus
1 France
#AsMonaco
The draw will take place on friday.

The UEFA Champions League fairytale continues for Leicester City Football Club ! They beat Sevilla FC 2-0 on the night and 3-2 on aggregate to book their place in the quarter-finals.

Kasper Schmeichel's penalty save sent Leicester City into the Champions League quarter-finals courtesy of a 2-0 win over Sevilla.
Leicester City's remarkable renaissance under Craig Shakespeare continued as Kasper Schmeichel's late penalty save preserved a 2-0 win over 10-man Sevilla and a place in the Champions League quarter-finals.
Wes Morgan's scrappy effort just prior to the half-hour put the Premier League champions ahead via the away-goals rule, before Marc Albrighton's low drive had them 3-2 up on aggregate.
KEY STATS:
- Leicester's victory means England have now had more different teams reach the Champions League quarter-final than any other nation (eight).
- The Foxes are the first English side to overcome a first leg defeat against Spanish opposition in the Champions League knock-out stages since Chelsea in 2005 (v Barcelona).
- Riyad Mahrez has been directly involved in six of Leicester's 10 Champions League goals this season (four goals and two assists).
- Kasper Schmeichel has saved both of his penalties in the Champions League this season, with both coming in each leg against Sevilla.
- Sevilla are the first team to miss a penalty in each leg of a Champions League knock-out round since Bayern Munich in 2013/14 (v Arsenal).
- The game’s opening goal was the 48th shot Sevilla had faced away from home in the Champions League this season, but the first goal they conceded.
- Wes Morgan became the first Jamaican player to score in a Champions League game.