NATHAN Dyer admits he’s gradually coming to terms with the “crazy’’ chain of events that have seen him go from an out-of-favour player to a Premier League champion in the space of a few months.

Trowbridge’s Dyer, 28, achieved a career-long ambition when he lifted the Premier League trophy alongside his Leicester City teammates after their 3-1 win over Everton last Saturday.

The former Trowbridge Town youth player celebrated the Foxes’ 5000-1 triumph with family members including his wife Laura and sons Shae and one-week-old Jordan plus dad Jonah, mum Jenny and sister Yasmin, father in law Geoff and Laura’s uncle John at the King Power Stadium.

While the celebrations have continued in the east Midlands, Dyer is reflecting on the astonishing turnaround in his fortunes from the start of the season, when his top-flight career appeared to be under threat.

A peripheral figure in the Swansea City team he had played for since 2009, the former St Laurence School pupil was snapped up on loan by Leicester boss Claudio Ranieri at the start of last September, setting in motion an incredible story for the winger which included scoring a crucial goal he knew little about and finding out he was a Premier League winner while in a maternity ward.

“It’s been mad,’’ Dyer told the Wiltshire Times this week.

“It’s been amazing to be part of it, to be part of history and a team that has broken the mould of teams who win the Premier League.

“The last couple of weeks have been crazy. Suddenly, when we go to training, or have been going out for a meal as a team, there has been security everywhere.

“The whole town (Leicester) has been going nuts and we’re just enjoying it.

“Saturday (the trophy presentation) was an incredible experience and to have my family and in laws there was a very special moment. My wife and son (Shae) came on to the pitch with me at the end.

“For every player the Premier League or the Champions’ League is something every player wants to win so to be someone who has done that is so special.

“I had a message from (Real Madrid’s) Gareth Bale (they are both former Southampton players) saying “even I haven’t won the Premier League’’ and there are many other famous players who haven’t won it, so to have that in my cabinet is very special.’’ Leicester’s players were snapped at striker Jamie Vardy’s house as Tottenham Hotspur’s 2-2 draw at Chelsea on May 2 confirmed them as champions - but Dyer revealed he had to make his excuses.

“I was meant to travel to Manchester with the squad (the day before) on the Sunday (Leicester drew 1-1 at Manchester United) but my wife went into labour (to give birth to younger son Jordan on April 30),’’ he explained.

“I was streaming that game and the Spurs game while I was in the hospital so I found out we’d won it there. The other guys were around at Jamie Vardy’s house, but I had to send my apologies.

“But it was a double celebration with Jordan being born. The phone has been going off non-stop ever since.’’ With Sunday’s Premier League swansong at Chelsea still to come, Dyer has made 14 league and cup appearances this season and, as if to underline the astonishing events of this campaign, even the one goal he scored was hugely significant - not that he realised it at the time.

Brought on as a substitute for his Foxes debut against Aston Villa on September 13, Dyer bravely headed the winner as City fought back from 2-0 down to win 3-2.

Dyer added: “The manager (Ranieri) said the other day that that game was a big turning point in the season. Everyone says that after that win, we just kicked on.

“I didn’t realise I had scored. There was a collision and I was knocked out for a couple of seconds so I didn’t hear the crowd or anything but the next thing I knew, the physio was telling me ‘you’ve scored.’’’

l Dyer on how Leicester did it and his own future in next week's Wiltshire Times