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Foxes celebration:Captain Wes Morgan and manager Claudio Ranieri lift the Premier League Trophy.Credit:Getty Images

With Norwich losing 1-0 at home to Manchester United and Newcastle only able to draw 0-0 at doomed Aston Villa,the victory means Sunderland,with two games remaining,will be safe if they beat Everton on Wednesday.

Rafa Benitez's Newcastle,a point behind northeast neighbours Sunderland in 18th place having played a game more,would then be relegated along with Norwich who are second from bottom.

After the nerve-shredding drama at the other end of the table,Leicester were able to relax in the day's late game and revel in the triumph that has been making headlines all over the world.

Free pizzas and beer for the fans and a stirring rendition of Nessun Dorma by Italian tenor Andrea Bocelli in a Leicester shirt was the order of a surreal day before the Foxes showed no ill-effects from their week's heady celebrations since being crowned champions on Monday.

Leicester's victory gave them a 10-point lead at the top of the table with the champions having one game to go,at Ranieri's former club Chelsea next weekend.

United's win at Norwich,courtesy of Juan Mata's fifth goal against the Canaries,left them in fifth place,one point behind neighbours Manchester City who occupy the fourth Champions League qualification spot and face fellow contenders Arsenal on Sunday.

West Ham United's push to play Champions League football in their first season in the Olympic Stadium looked bleak following a surprising 4-1 hammering by Swansea City in their final Saturday afternoon game at the Boleyn Ground.

Sunderland manager Sam Allardyce was full of praise for former England marksman Defoe after a result that he felt demonstrated the depth of his side's character.

"You give Jermain Defoe a chance and generally he at least hits the target,"said Allardyce.

"We've crawled out of the bottom three by the number of goals he's scored. Without him I dread to think where we'd be as a team."

Twice Sunderland had to come from behind,first after Diego Costa had put Chelsea ahead and then,following Wahbi Khazri's equaliser,after Nemanja Matic had put the visitors 2-1 up on the stroke of halftime.

Three minutes after Fabio Borini's 67th-minute equaliser,Defoe,capitalising on a poor clearance from John Obi Mikel,smashed home the winner.

Terry received his marching orders deep into injury time for a second bookable offence,a decision Chelsea manager Guus Hiddink called"a little bit over the top".

Benitez sounded almost resigned to Newcastle's fate after their failure to dent a surprisingly resolute Villa rearguard.

"It was an opportunity to stay ahead of Sunderland and we couldn't do it,"said the Spaniard."We are disappointed."

Reuters