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In 1963, Leicester City sat top of Division One with just five games left

Picture the scene... Leicester are top of the English top flight with just five games to go. Tottenham are second, desperately chasing them. Except the year is not 2016, it's 1963.

53 years ago, the Foxes were in a remarkably similar situation to their current Premier League status, fighting to secure their first League title... but it didn't end well.

In a special one-off feature, Sky Sports looks back at that remarkable campaign, which saw Leicester finish disastrously, drawing one and losing four of their final five matches to slip to fourth place.

The team included a young Gordon Banks and Frank McLintock, who reveal that Leicester's style of play all those years ago mirrors that of the club's current crop.

The 2016 team will, of course, hope to finish more strongly than their Foxes counterparts, who also lost the FA Cup final to Manchester United in the same season.

In 1963, Leicester picked up the nickname 'The Ice Kings' after their impressive run of form during the so-called 'Big Freeze' - one of the worst winters in British history.

Banks and McLintock speak about how the whole city embraced their success, and how the players tampered with their studs to get a better grip on the icy surface before matches.

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