Soccer-Fan eyes large windfall if Leicester complete fairytale

Feb 8 (Reuters) - Leicester City fan Leigh Herbert will pocket a cool 25,000 pounds ($36,000) if his team complete their fairytale run and win the Premier League title. Herbert placed a five-pound bet on Claudio Ranieri's men to lift the trophy at the start of the season at odds of 5000/1. The Foxes are five points clear at the top with 13 games left following Saturday's 3-1 win at Manchester City and the 39-year-old carpenter feels he is on the verge of a "life-changing" win. Herbert, who placed the bet in August while on a camping holiday, has refused bookmaker William Hill's 3,200-pound cash-out offer. "I am going to hang in there, I believe in fairytales," he said. The bookmaker will have to pay out more than 2 million pounds if Leicester win the title, with the biggest potential windfall of 140,775 pounds going to a customer from Guildford. The victory over Manchester City caused Leicester's odds to win the league to be cut to 2/1, joint-favourites with third-placed Arsenal. ($1 = 0.6936 pounds) (Reporting by Simon Jennings in Bengaluru, editing by Ed Osmond)