LONDON — Think the fairy tale of Leicester City could not be beaten this year?
Just weeks after the end of a Premier League season where the Leicester Foxes outran the rich and powerful to win England’s top league for the first time in their 132-year history, there came another compelling underdog story. A.F.C. Wimbledon, which was founded only 14 years ago, won promotion to the third tier of English soccer on Monday.
Suddenly, there is not one, but two potential Hollywood movies about little old England and its obsession with soccer. Among the 57,956 who watched Wimbledon beat Plymouth Argyle, 2-0, at Wembley Stadium on Monday to gain promotion was John Green, the American author whose book “The Fault in Our Stars” was turned into a low-budget movie estimated to have grossed more than $300 million worldwide.