THE Leicester story has something for everyone.

Romantics can enjoy the smashing of money’s stranglehold, nerds can delight in the Foxes’ use of data, the old-school can crow about how 4-4-2 and the 18th lowest possession in the league can work, while curmudgeons can mutter about a chairman who has spent £100 million giving a fairytale title to the 24th richest club in the world.

Leicester’s title is a thing of joy, a rare and beautiful freak, but what can Swindon learn from it?

After all, they did it, so why can’t we? It is an assumption that so often happens in football: correlation is mixed up with cause.

People seek to copy winners because they won, as if there is one right way; a universal truth which works regardless of nation or location.

But not everything can be transferred, and certainly not without understanding fully its core, context or character. Like Joey Beauchamp.

But, combined with Atlético Madrid’s successes, we’ll see a series of replica ‘direct’ teams.

Few will match either model because while Leicester have succeeded this time, there have been years and years of West Brom, Burnley, Wolves etc who haven’t. And Leicester themselves last season.

If the Foxes’ football is so ‘uncomplicated’, why have so many failed doing the same ‘basic’ things?

Success justifies everything. How many Town fans would be angry about a very small squad, a low amount of shots on target and a manager who lets his players have lots of time off, eat badly, and get drunk?

Leicester did all that. But it wasn’t their long balls, sports science or money that brought victory, not any more than it was their stripy grass or getting caught being racist.

The best lesson that Town could draw from Leicester is not to be like others, to play differently, to emphasise your strengths and hide your weakness.

Except the orthodoxy is very different in League One to the top flight. For Town, in a world full of direct teams with hard-running forwards, relying on their weak defence might not be the right lesson.

Yes, unlikely things can happen, but they remain unlikely.