Leicester City Premier League celebrations – in pictures

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It was the biggest party Leicester City had ever hosted and it went off without a hitch as they celebrated winning the Premier League on Saturday.

Their game against Everton ended 3-1, with two goals for Jamie Vardy and another for veteran Andy King, but that was just the preamble to a party that lasted long into the night.

The atmosphere before the match was electric and the only time the raucous crowd was silenced was when opera singer Andrea Bocelli serenaded them ahead of kick-off.

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"All privileged enough to have been inside the King Power will never forget the events, the emotions," says Henry Winter of The Times. "As Andrea Bocelli sang Nessun Dorma and Time to Say Goodbye, grown men cried. Fathers hugged sons, sharing memories for a lifetime. A few fans began stripping to the waist, pogoing and doing the hokey cokey."

The football wasn't bad neither, he notes, and nor were the players: "Saturday's display spoke powerfully of their champion qualities."

Once Everton had been vanquished, there came what Stuart James of The Guardian describes as a "wonderful and surreal moment... when [Leicester captain] Wes Morgan and his 64-year-old manager thrust the Premier League trophy into the night sky to a backdrop of fireworks and tears".

But the party was not confined to the stadium. "Tens of thousands of fans piled onto the streets to celebrate their team's fairytale Premier League win after they finally lifted the trophy at home," reports the Daily Mail.

"It was a carnival atmosphere in the Midlands city as fans gathered outside the King Power stadium before kick-off, rallied by drums and the De Montford gospel choir in the 20 degree heat. Drunken revellers were seen scaling lampposts and landmarks and drinking in the streets well into the early hours."

However, some clearly didn't know when to call it a day. Leicester Royal Infirmary reported "an influx at its A&E department after Leicester City's Premier League title party", reports the BBC. There were twice as many patients on Saturday night and Sunday morning at the hospital, "with many suffering alcohol-related injuries".