“I said to [the] owner and sporting director: ‘This will be a hard, hard season because this season achieved something more than is possible.’ They won the title in Spain, the UEFA Cup under Benitez and now it will be a very difficult season”.
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I think it was an fantastic moment for me because I’m not the youngest and there is another test now. I waited so long, but I am so happy.
As manager Claudio Ranieri led the fellow Italian and opera singer onto the pitch, the crowd erupted.
“The emotion was at the top, but it was fantastic”.
“No, I enjoy it”, he said. “There is something magic in Leicester.’ He chose this day and it was brilliant”.
Five-minutes in, Jamie Vardy well and truly opened his party with a goal we’ve come accustomed to from him this season.
Welsh midfielder Andy King, deputising for the suspended Danny Drinkwater, scored Leicester’s other goal, with substitute Kevin Mirallas replying late on for Everton.
Leicester celebrated the Premier League title in front of their fans and signed another win.
Leicester were 5,000-1 to be champions after avoiding relegation last season.
But despite that – and having endured a season of verbal abuse from some quarters, with pockets of fans demanding he goes – Wenger, 66, laughed off suggestions that at his age he might want to look at a different lifestyle.
“I don’t know next season what happens because this has been a magic season, but can you imagine if Leicester start well again – oof, what happens?”
“I had to hold back the tears, I held them back and lifted it up – it was the best feeling in the world”, said the centre-back. They reached 80 points today with the win against Everton.
As English champions, the Foxes will go straight into the group stages of the Champions League for the 2016-17 campaign.
“They said: ‘Now we bring you back to Valencia because everyone loves you.’ And I said: ‘Yes but you have help me'”.
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“If you come to any ground in the Premier League, especially the champions, you have to do the basics right and you have to start performances with a real concentration, a real focus, a real intensity and a real defensive awareness”, the Everton boss said.
