Claudio Ranieri has allayed any fears that he could quit Leicester in the summer by claiming he would happily retire at the club.
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Leicester are now seven points clear of second place Tottenham with five games of the season remaining.
Leicester’s surge of five wins on the trot has been on the strength of an air-tight defence that carries a club-record 490-minute shutout streak since Craig Gardner scored in the 50th minute for West Bromwich Albion in a 2-2 draw March 1.
“It is fantastic, Tottenham is also a good story, but of course West Ham is also a good story”, he said.
“I’m not a busy man at the moment”, Way told the Times. What can I do? I’m not a magician. “He works so hard and he’s a top lad around the dressing room”.
Last week Leicester, which entered the season hoping to avoid relegation, secured a top-four finish and now leads the table, prompting excitement from soccer fans around the world. “Leicester would be right to be wary of Slaven Bilic’s excellent side – but just three more wins seal the title”.
“Why be nervous? We concentrate”. This is a miracle.
“I remember at the start of the season Leicester were favourites to go down and I was favourite to get the sack”.
Leicester have kept seven clean sheets in their last eight Premier League matches at the King Power Stadium.
There is a degree of truth in this, the London side are still in the race to pip Manchester City to a Champions League spot.
“It is two matches and two matches is not the Champions League, I want to play six”.
“Now we have to be focused on the next thing”.
Even sixth-placed West Ham, who could yet finish in the Champions League positions, have to cede the spotlight to Leicester. “I don’t want to do something or say “we want to achieve that”. I love the music. From the dream arrives the reality.
Ranieri also referred to Kante as player having “a pack full of batteries” driving his displays.
But Albrighton, 26, has a simple answer, insisting Leicester are being driven by a wave of confidence that has grown stronger each week as they realise they are good enough to compete with the league’s best.
“The dressing room is buoyant, with Jamie Vardy playing practical jokes and Christian Fuchs and Robert Huth making people laugh”.
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Spurs, meanwhile, face a trip to the Britannia to face Stoke City on Monday night, before hosting West Brom at White Hart Lane. Neil Swarbrick will now oversee the game, with Friend refereeing Newcastle’s match with Manchester City on Tuesday.
