A football-mad group of academics from Thailand who flew over to study at De Montfort University Leicester (DMU) were thrilled to be able to take part in Leicester City's victory parade.
The visitors had been studying UK leadership and management skills to help further their careers back home when they learnt they would be in the city to experience the historic celebration.
Many of the group are self-confessed Foxes fans, having discovered the team through the club's main sponsor, King Power - the largest duty-free retailer in Thailand.
Earlier this month, Leicester City's Thai owners joined manager Claudio Ranieri and the players on open top buses which toured the streets of Leicester in front of nearly 250,000 jubilant supporters - including one particularly excited group of academics.
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Chaiya Noradechanunt works as a nurse back home in Thailand and said his friends and family heard about his experience with envy.
The 48-year-old said: "My little daughter loves football and plays at her school. Even she knows Leicester City now and she was excited to hear that I'd been at the parade.
"We have big celebrations like this for Thai badminton stars when they win and we had other big events when our boxers did well at the Olympics.
"But to be here as Leicester City won the Premier League is very special and we are so fortunate. The team did so well, coming back from last season.
"I feel it is the meditation skills they learned from Thai monks which helped them achieve such a calm and deep level of concentration on the pitch."
This is the fifth year of a DMU partnership which has seen health workers and lecturers from colleges across Thailand come to DMU to learn leadership and management from experts at the university.
During a four-week stay, the visitors have the opportunity to take cultural visits alongside their studies and this year the group had visited Bicester and Cambridge - along with the Foxes parade.
Mr Noradechanunt said: "We have loved coming to Leicester. There is such a contemporary style in the city and at De Montfort but mixed with historic, too. We come here and learn from a different culture and that's good."
Posted on Tuesday 31 May 2016