TWO Hampshire men have scooped thousands of pounds after Leicester won the Premier League title.

One punter had put a fiver on the Foxes beating the odds to lift the title and in total won £7,500 from his bet.

And this afternoon it has been revealed that a second man, Nick Rutter, has won £15,000 from a £10 bet.

Mr Rutter, from Bishops Waltham, placed his bet in September.

The first man, who has not been named, put the money on Claudio Ranieri’s team winning the Premier League after watching their first game of the season – a 4-2 victory of Sunderland.

By then the odds of the Blue’s winning had been slashed from 5,000-1 to 1,500-1.

The initial odds of made Leicester winning the title was as likely as Fifa deciding to hold the 2026 World Cup in Antarctica or the Loch Ness monster being discovered.

Many bookies were quoting odds of 5000/1 for Leicester City to win the Premier League back in August.

Nine months and an historic season later, and bookmakers predict the Foxes' title win will cost the industry between £10 and £20 million.

Ladbrokes sent its congratulations to 47 customers who had backed Leicester to win at 5000/1.

William Hill said 25 customers took those odds with the largest stake £20 from a customer in Manchester and the smallest 5p from a woman in Edinburgh.

Its biggest winner was a customer from Guildford, Surrey, who staked £75 when the odds were 1500/1 and will win £112,500.

But despite the bumper pay-day for those shrewd enough to have foreseen Claudio Ranieri's side beating the likes of Manchester City, Arsenal and Tottenham to the title, the bookies have said the era of longshot prices is not over.

Jessica Bridge from Ladbrokes said: ''This is the biggest sporting upset since David beat Goliath, and we can only doff our cap to the brave punters who had the foresight and confidence to part ways with their cash on the Leicester City fairytale ending happily ever after.''

She said Ladbrokes would be paying out £3 million to customers ''with a huge smile''.

''We've been in this game for 130 years and we've never seen anything like this, it's a story for the romantics and whilst it's going to cost us a few quid, we have to thank Claudio Ranieri and his team for upsetting the odds week in, week out over the last nine months,'' she added.

The bookies are offering the same 5000/1 odds on the 2026 World Cup being held on the coldest continent in the world, Nessie being found and aliens landing in the UK.

Shorter odds are being given on David Cameron becoming manager of Aston Villa (2500/1), any future movie on Leicester City or star striker Jamie Vardy winning an Oscar (1000/1) and Jose Mourinho to go on I'm A Celebrity...Get Me Out Of Here! (1000/1).

Ladbrokes said 47 punters took bets at 5000/1 on Leicester winning the title - with more than half having cashed out.

Among them was Foxes fan Jon Pryke who staked £20 and cashed out for nearly £30,000 in March.

Speaking at the time, he said: ''It's been a crazy season, I'd be silly not to take my money and run.

''£29,000 is a huge amount of money and I'd be silly ignore it. Not bad from £20.''

One punter who let his bet ride is Chelsea fan Ryan Wallis, who placed £4 on a Leicester title win at 2000/1 with Coral in mid-August.

He said: ''It's been a memorable ride this season following Leicester. They were playing really well at the start of the season so I thought they were worth having a few quid on given their long odds.''

Coral said Leicester's league triumph is the biggest sporting upset in history and they will pay out £3 million.

John Hill from the firm said he would be surprised to see ''too many'' 5000/1 prices at the start of the season.

He said: ''The big lesson the bookmakers will learn from this result though will be to react quicker to a team getting off to a flying start.

''Despite the Foxes starting the 2015/16 campaign well, you could still back them at four-figures in November.''

Mr Hill said the Foxes are currently 33/1 to win two league titles in a row but their fans' celebrations might be slightly dampened by the news Coral consider them more likely to get relegated than to be holding the Premier League trophy aloft next May.

He said: ''Although Leicester have been given much more respect in the outright betting for next season, they still have six clubs ahead of them in that market and their odds are shorter to be relegated.''

And a Champions League win? You can back Jamie Vardy and the team to dominate on the continent next season for 100/1.