Ranieri said: “Yes, the phone will be ringing, I know that”.
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Ranieri’s charming qualities were on regular display during Leicester City press conferences this season – everything from the most amiable of chuckles to big-picture life philosophies that will change your whole perspective, man.
The Dean of Leicester, the Very Revd David Monteith, said: “This is not a fairytale”. Savour it. Maybe now is too early to think what we have done.
While Leicester’s players assembled at the home of star striker Jamie Vardy to watch the Chelsea-Spurs game on television, Ranieri watched at home with his wife. “They deserved it, it may be a bit of a shock for the established clubs that they did so well”, Hiddink was quoted as saying by the Guardian.
Leicester City fans celebrate in the streets after their football club claimed its maiden English Premier League title.
Leicester were crowned Premier League champions on Monday night when the only club capable of catching them, Tottenham Hotspur, were held to a 2-2 draw by Chelsea. No, now I am a very old man and I can feel much better.
City will be presented with the trophy after the final home game of the season, against Everton, and it promises to be another wonderful occasion.
Hazard’s goal was nearly a year to the day since his strike won the title for Chelsea, which is 29 points behind Leicester. Chelsea’s collapse has been as astonishing as Leicester’s surge to the top of the standings it was bottom of last April.
They rushed to put a fiver each on the bet, but quickly became the butt of jokes at work when they discovered they had actually bet on the East Midlands team to win the Premier League title. No. I don’t think we can but we want to continue to build. When I came here, the project was to build a foundation and to fight for the Europa League in three to four years.
“For us it is important to stay in the 10th position around there and try to fight to go into Europe, ” Ranieri said at Leicester’s modest training ground.
“I’ve never known anything like it”, Vardy said.
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“First of all I want to congratulate Leicester, Ranieri, the players and the staff and of course the supporters. If you go away you don’t know what happens, here you are the king”. We want to do our best.
