The hiring of Claudio Ranieri as a replacement for popular manager Nigel Pearson was heavily criticized at the time – mainly because of Ranieri’s woeful recent reign as Greece coach – but gave the club arguably the most high-profile coach in its 132-year history. “Ole!” the jubilant Leicester players sang as they jumped up and down with their arms on each other’s shoulders inside Vardy’s house.
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Hazard himself then fired home a stunning equaliser into the top corner to earn a point for the west London club and secure Leicester City’s status as Premier League champions.
Scudamore said: “We don’t know what the future holds because we’ve all become completely hopeless at predicting anything, including the bookmakers and everybody else – because this one nobody saw coming”.
Thousands of fans descended on Leicester’s King Power Stadium on Monday night to celebrate the title win.
The league’s new domestic and global TV deals, starting from next season, are worth $12 billion over three years and are split fairly equitably between the 20 top-flight clubs.
He said there are plans to bring the Leicester City team out to Thailand for a visit during the offseason, even though a similar visit past year resulted in some youth team players involved in a scandal which contributed to the firing of manager Nigel Pearson.
Leicester boss Claudio Ranieri has dismissed suggestions he will be on a revenge mission when he returns to Chelsea as a Barclays Premier League champion.
Leicester City fans celebrate in the streets after their football club claimed its maiden English Premier League title.
Before Leicester, the last first-time champion of England was another modest east Midlands team, Nottingham Forest, back in 1978.
“When I came here the objective was to create a solid foundation and build together”, Ranieri told Sky Sports. Qualities we get to look forward to next season at Stamford Bridge!
The Foxes will receive the trophy on Saturday after their final home game of the season with Everton and Ranieri said it will be a crowning glory, along with one of his first jobs in football at Cagliari.
“I want to congratulate everyone connected to Leicester; players, staff, owners and fans”.
“But it’s a fantastic story, and I think the only people who aren’t happy about it are the bookies’ accountants”, he added.
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We get the feeling that the 55-year old’s body won’t quite be in that good shape, but it’s a decent mock up from his ex-missus none the less. “In a story worthy of The Boy’s Own Paper, the team from a relatively small and unglamorous town has come back from near disaster a year ago to overcome flashier, richer rivals”.
