A Leicester City supporter is ready to buy a house after he was one of a number of fans to back the club despite their 5,000/1 odds to become English champions. But Tottenham’s draw means the Foxes now have an incontestable lead in the league with two games remaining.
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The Premier League is the 64-year-old’s first top-flight title in his managerial career and his mother has been receiving messages of congratulation from all over the world.
Leicester City’s incredible title success is “the most remarkable thing that has ever happened in football” and gives the smaller teams “a whole lot of hope”, according to Premier League executive chairman Richard Scudamore. “He told me they always trained as real professionals”, Renata said in an interview with the Italian newspaper La Repubblica.
“The boys were standing on furniture”, captain Wes Morgan said as he arrived at Leicester’s training.
Leicester was a 5000-1 long shot to win the league.
They had been tipped for the drop, considering they narrowly escaped relegation from the English Premier League last season.
Leicester haven’t even received the trophy yet, but Claudio Ranieri is already looking past the celebrations and toward next season.
He said: “When I was in Austria I watched what kind of group we had”. Relaxed until the second [Chelsea] goal. “But this is a moment you have to leave a little more (time) for and taste slowly like a good wine”.
Leicester City is the 16th side that Ranieri has managed but his mother believed he did not receive the credit he deserved for managing home club Roma between 2009-2011.
“I suggest to all my players stay one year more. I am the Thinkerman, not Tinkerman”, he added in reference to the old nickname he earned during his days in charge of Chelsea when squad rotation was one of his traits.
In the latest twist in a week that has seen Leicester players” lives turned upside down by unprecedented media attention, Bocelli will be the star pre-match attraction on Saturday while the club’s famous “Ice Kings’ team of the 1960s will also attend.
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The Gunners’ victory over Norwich last week has them in a very dominant position, but they will still be looking over their shoulders with a game to play, should they lose at the Etihad.
