Leicester City Manager, Claudio Ranieri, can add a personal award to the wonderful success he has engineered in inspiring the Foxes to their first ever league title this season.
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The amiable Ranieri’s body of work as a coach over 30 years was completed by his club’s astonishing rise to the Premier League title having started the season as 5,000-1 outsiders to carry off the national title.
Claudio Ranieri insists Leicester City’s sensational Premier League success story is not as great an achievement as those achieved by the legendary Brian Clough at Nottingham Forest in the 1970s and 80s.
But while Leicester’s title win was one of the greatest sporting accomplishments in recent memory, Ranieri insisted that what Forest achieved nearly four decades ago was more impressive.
Boisterous fans at Leicester City’s final home game of the season caused “the biggest” tremors recorded at the ground, literally making the earth move. “Yet when they all went to [Jamie] Vardy’s house together on the day we won the title, they travelled and stayed in hotels just so that they could be together”. Despite the title triumph, Vardy called on his side to keep their winning mentality intact and focus on ending their season with a victory.
“I heard we are going to give Mercedes Benz, I don’t know where that’s from”.
He said: “I never met Bearzot but I’ve been told by people that they see his spirit in me and that fills me with pride”. I’ll buy them all!’ But there was no time to do that. Hopefully we can find them, get them to the academy and get them through.
“They were promoted to the Premier League a few years ago and they managed to survive the relegation battle and stayed up in the league in the last moment”, the former Japan global told Omnisport.
“It says something about the nature of football, it’s so tense and then we get four or five seconds of unexpected magic”, Denton said.
“We will try everything that we can to build the team and to secure the same group of players and add some quality”, Aiyawatt added.
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“I hope we get to their level in a few years”.
